Raw Live Black Ink

—we just got a popcorn machine—The Brother from Another Planet, starring Joe Morton as an extraterrestrial who has escaped to earth and is hiding in New York City. Picked up as homeless, he is deposited in Harlem. The sweet-natured and honest Brother looks like any other black man, except that he is mute and - although other characters in the film never see them - his feet each have three large toes. The Brother has telekinetic powers but, unable to speak, he struggles to express himself and adjust to his new surroundings, including a stint in the Job Corps at a video arcade in Manhattan.Following the film will be a discussion on the films aesthetics, place in history and the emotions evoked by the film. Wine and…POPCORN! i love you

—we just got a popcorn machine—

The Brother from Another Planet, starring Joe Morton as an extraterrestrial who has escaped to earth and is hiding in New York City. Picked up as homeless, he is deposited in Harlem. The sweet-natured and honest Brother looks like any other black man, except that he is mute and - although other characters in the film never see them - his feet each have three large toes. The Brother has telekinetic powers but, unable to speak, he struggles to express himself and adjust to his new surroundings, including a stint in the Job Corps at a video arcade in Manhattan.

Following the film will be a discussion on the films aesthetics, place in history and the emotions evoked by the film. 

Wine and…POPCORN! 

i love you

Tonight: Film screening at 720 Music, Clothing and Cafe, 4405 Butler St A Girl From Chicago—Oscar Micheaux 8:30 pm

Tonight:

Film screening at 720 Music, Clothing and Cafe, 4405 Butler St

A Girl From Chicago—Oscar Micheaux

8:30 pm

Tameka Cage-Conley

January 25th

810 Rebecca Ave, Wilkinsburg 

7pm-9pm $5

homemade wine, foods!

Join us for week two of our Raw Live Black Ink Poetry Series with Tameka Cage-Conley. 

Tameka Cage Conley is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and playwright. She completed her doctoral degree in English at Louisiana State University, where she was awarded the Distinguished Dissertation Award and the Huel Perkins Doctoral Fellowship. In 2010, she received the August Wilson Center Fellowship in Literary Arts. In 2011, she was awarded the Advancing the Black Arts Grant from the Heinz Endowments and the Pittsburgh Foundation, and was a participant in the Cave Canem Pittsburgh Workshop. Her first play, “Testimony,” debuted at the August Wilson Center in May 2011. She is completing her first novel.

Yona Harvey

January 18th

810 Rebecca Ave, Wilkinsburg

7pm-9pm $5

includes: poetry, food and wine

Yona Harvey’s first book, Hemming the Water, is forthcoming from Four Way Books. Her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies including jubilat, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, West Branch, and the Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (2nd ed).  She has taught literacy and creative writing in Japan and the U.S. She currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband and two children and teaches creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University.

auburn soilsun burnt soil covered in flowers, covered in flowersain’t nothin’ like blue skies covered in flowers, covered in flowersfertile is the land I till

auburn soil
sun burnt soil
covered in flowers, covered in flowers
ain’t nothin’ like blue skies
covered in flowers, covered in flowers

fertile is the land I till

What it is; RLBInk

Raw Live Black Ink (RLBInk); a three month “Gettin Up the Rent” series. With primary goals of entertainment and fund raising, RLBInk features a month of poetry at AM’s Place in Wilkinsburg (Wednesdays in January), a month of film at 720 Music Clothing and Cafe in Lawrenceville (Wednesdays in February) and a month of dance and music at pop up locations (Wednesdays in March).

RLBInk is a “get hype” series leading to a two day project, a history of black aesthetics; a brief sketch. Composed by two local artists, a history of black aesthetics; a brief sketch consists of an evening event on April 6th held at The New Hazlett Theater featuring live improv dance, layered voices over beat poetry, discussions on the black democratic ethos, and food and wine. The evening will be followed by a picnic the next afternoon, April 7th, at which local and distant artists will teach workshops preceding food and merriment.

Visit here for more detailed information.

Best,

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