The Community Word Project
dal 14/4/2002 al 15/4/2002
Segnalato da
Christo & Jeanne-Claude
Susan Breen
Bridget Riley
Crash
Eve Andree Laramee
Amy Osborn
Rick Moody
14/4/2002
The Community Word Project
National Arts Club, New York
The Community Word Project, a not-for-profit arts in education literacy program, is throwing its second annual benefit in honor of the voices and visions of under served New York City youth. A silent auction will feature original artwork created by some of New York City's finest artists...
WHAT: The Community Word Project, a not-for-profit arts in education literacy
program, is throwing its second annual benefit in honor of the voices and
visions of under served New York City youth. A silent auction will feature
original artwork created by some of New York City's finest artists and inspired
by the poetry of the young beneficiaries of Community~Word. There will be
light hors d'oeuvres and an open wine bar. Tickets are $100 and 100% tax
deductible. All proceeds go to the Community~Word Project.
WHO: A reading by poets Mark Doty, Grace Schulman, Ernesto Quinonez and
CWP students. Performers will open the evening reading a poem written by
a group of Community~Word students. Artwork by Christo & Jeanne-Claude,
Susan Breen, Bridget Riley, Crash, Eve Andree Laramee, Amy Osborn & Rick
Moody.
Mark Doty is the author of five books of poems, including Sweet Machine
Atlantis, which received the Ambassador Book Award, the Bingham Poetry Prize,
and a Lambda Literary Award; My Alexandria, won the National Poetry Series,
the National Book Critics Circle Award and Britain's T. S. Eliot Prize,
and was also a National Book Award finalist.
Grace Schulman's collections include For that Day Only, Hemisphere's and
Burn Down the Icons. She is Poetry Editor of The Nation and Professor at
Baruch College, C.U.N.Y.
Ernesto Quiñonez was named a "Writer on the Verge" by the Village Voice
for his critically acclaimed novel, Bodega Dreams.
WHEN: Monday, April 15, 2002 from 6:30 - 9:00 PM
WHERE: The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC
CONTACT: For more information or to arrange advance interviews with students,
or attend the gala please contact The Community~Word Project at 212.539.3738.
Email: bridge@communitywordproject.org.
Website:
http://www.communitywordproject.org
NOTES: The mission of the Community~Word Project, founded in 1997, is to
develop and expand literacy, leadership and communication skills, and to
foster the self-esteem of New York City's youth through the introduction
of collaborative creative writing and visual arts in under-funded public
schools and community centers.