We Are Deeply Rooted – First Friday Event with PHS on the Plaza
5:00-8:00 p.m. Thomas Paine Plaza 1401 JFK Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19102
Join us on Friday, September 7 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. on Thomas Paine Plaza as we partner with the Philadelphia Horticulture Society at their Farm for the City installation for an evening of art and sharing. Hosted by Denise Valentine and featuring Afaq Mahmoud, art from our (DIS)PLACED series and #iAlphabet installation, and more. Celebrate the Then, Now, and Next of many immigrant communities through storytelling and visual art. Please join us for the evening!
Write Home Workshops led by Trapeta Mayson
Germantown-based poet and Liberian immigrant Trapeta B. Mayson hosted two poetry workshops at the Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Philadelphia Regional Library inviting participants to read and write poetry inspired by themes in An Immigrant Alphabet. Trapeta utilized music, poetry, and visual art to inspire creativity in both experienced and new writers prompting them to explore migrations— new beginnings, transitional periods, immigration, family histories, displacement and citizenship.
Poetry Workshops led by Frank Sherlock
Philadelphia Poet Laureate Frank Sherlock hosted two poetry workshops, one at Thomas Paine Plaza at An Immigrant Alphabet site, and another at Northeast High School focusing on themes within the installation. Each workshop explored ways in which memory, the present, and future are envisioned as elements of one experience of time that overlap and intertwine in messy and magical ways. Pictured here: Frank Sherlock reading his commissioned poem at Journeys Across Imaginary Lines - an event featuring work inspired by #iAlphabet.
