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LITFILM
A BPL Film Festival About Writers
March 18–24, 2019
Get an inside look at the private lives and
artistic processes of some of the world’s
greatest literary figures. Now in its second
year, LitFilm will feature inspiring
documentaries and feature films on Maya
Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Pablo Neruda,
Lorraine Hansberry, Wole Soyinka, Pete
Hamill and Jimmy Breslin, Samuel Beckett,
Larry Kramer, and many others.
Free. RSVP required: bklynlibrary.org/event-series/litfilm
Brooklyn Public Library, Dweck Center,
10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
LitFilm is made possible with support from HBO and Women.nyc.
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Mothers of the revolution
Reading highlights black women in civil-rights fi ght
By Julianne McShane
Brooklyn Paper
Call them women of their
words.
The voices of the black women
who led the civil rights movement of
the 1960s will ring out at the Weeksville
Heritage Center in Crown
Heights on March 16. The reading
event “The Black Woman: She Does
Exist,” co-sponsored by the National
Black Theatre and the historic Center,
pays tribute to the often-overlooked
women who pressed for progress during
a pivotal period of history, said
the show’s director.
“Knowing that the ’60s were such
a time of social revolution, we wanted
to look at, who are the mothers of that
revolution? The mothers are never
given homage or acknowledgement,
especially the black women,” said
Jonathan McCrory.
The show features four pieces written
by black women in the 1960s, each
dealing with the stereotypes, prejudice,
and resistance the authors faced.
And all of the works rings true nearly
six decades after they were written,
said the show’s co-curator.
“What surprised me most about
reading these women thinkers from
the ’60s is the outlook that they had,”
said ChelseaDee Harrison, who lives
in Cypress Hills. “It’s going to amaze
people to see how relevant the conversations
The event takes its name from the
first reading, a 1967 essay published
Dwight Carter
Revolutionary woman: The 1967 essay “The Black Woman: She
Does Exist,” written by Dr. Barbara Teer, founder of the National
Black Theater, provides the title of a reading event in Crown
Heights on March 16.
in the New York Times by National
Black Theatre founder Dr. Barbara
Teer about the stereotypes facing
black actresses. Other historic readings
will include an article on preservation
by the first director of the
Weeksville Society, Dr. Joan Maynard;
activist Ella Baker’s “Address at
the Hattiesburg Freedom Day Rally,”
which she read at a 1964 protest in
READING
“The Black Woman: She Does
Exist” at the Weeksville Heritage
Center (158 Buffalo Ave. at St.
Marks Avenue in Crown Heights,
www.weeksvi l lesociet y.org).
March 16 at 6 pm. $10.
Mississippi against voter suppression;
and a manifesto by anonymous
members of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee decrying
the poor treatment of women in the
civil rights movement.
The event will also feature a trio
of younger black women giving a
modern response to those readings,
with a re-imagined “to be or not to
be” speech highlighting black female
tropes, a poem discussing the #Me-
Too movement, and a monologue
— performed by Harrison — about
Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating
the abolition of slavery across the
United States.
A final discussion between the performers
and the audience will close
out the evening, and hopefully help
build links among the crowd, said
Harrison.
“Jonathan and I were interested in
an inter-generational conversation,
and we wanted to bring that into the
audience,” she said. “There are going
to be a lot of age ranges in the audience,
and hopefully this post-show
conversation will get them to talk to
each other and realize that we do need
to have this link across time.”
Comic can do!
Class will teach anyone to draw
By Aidan Graham
Brooklyn Paper
It is more than a panel discussion!
A new cartooning workshop
will teach aspiring illustrators how
to turn their ideas into complete
comic books, at the Brooklyn Public
Library on March 23. The class
is designed to provide support to artists
of all experience levels, according
to its curator.
“We want to lower the barrier to
entry for cartoonists who maybe don’t
have the money, or don’t know where
to start. But also, we want to allow
cartoonists to meet other cartoonist,
editors, and publishers,” said Leigh
Hurwitz, an outreach coordinator at
the library.
“Everything is Comics: How to
Make Anything You Want” is the latest
installment in the monthly “Cool
Laura Lannes, who drew this image,
Laura Lannes
will lead a class on comics
at the Brooklyn Public Library.
Work x Interesting People” comics
workshop series at the Brooklyn Public
Library’s Central branch, which
will continue through June.
A professional illustrator,who has
contributed to the New York Times
and Entertainment Weekly, will
lead the upcoming workshop. She
said she hopes to teach cartoonists
of all stripes to experiment with new
techniques.
“I think comics can be anything
the artist wants. A lot of the so-called
‘rules’ of comics strike me as gatekeeping,”
said Laura Lannes. “I would
love for anyone who attends my workshop
to take home that however they
want to make comics, that is the correct
way to do it for them.”
“Everything is Comics” workshop
at the Brooklyn Public Library
Central Library, Trustees Room 10
Grand Army Plaza at Atlantic Avenue
in Prospect Heights, (718) 230–2100,
www.bklynlibrary.org. March 23 at 1
pm. Free.
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