Connecting Cultures Monday, March 1, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Cave Canem Foundation 20 Jay Street, Suite 310-A Brooklyn, NY 11201 FREE wine and cheese! In celebration of our 40th anniversary, Poets & Writers presents Connecting Cultures, our inaugural cross-cultural reading. Come and listen to the work of a diverse and talented group of writers from P&W-supported writing workshops from across the city. This event is presented in collaboration with the Boricuration Cultural Foundation, Cave Canem Foundation, NYPL/115th Branch, and TOPAZ Arts, Inc. See you there! Closest subways: F to York Street, A/C to High Street. Click here for map.

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Our Side presents the publication of their new chapbook

“A Home Calls My Name”

Monday November 2

7 pm

Little Theater, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center

31-10 Thomson Ave LIC, NYC 11101

Chapbooks will be available for donations of $5 to $10.

Free Admission

Directions: Take the 7 train to 33rd/Rawson or the EGVR trains to Queens Plaza

or visit http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/visit/ for more directions.

Featured readers will include Milena Abrahamyan, Claro de los Reyes, Tenaz H. Dubash, Beatriz A. Gil, Soniya Munshi, Deena Patel, K Sherbetdjian, Margarita Soto, Hannah Szteinbok, and facilitator Nancy Agabian.

Nancy Agabian is the author of Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter, a memoir on her Armenian American family history. Since 1994, she has been teaching community-based writing workshops in Los Angeles, New York and Yerevan, Armenia. A resident of Astoria, Queens, she teaches writing at LaGuardia Community College, Queens College, and the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.

The Our Side Workshop, during the summer of 2009, was made possible in part with funds from Poets and Writers, Inc., and by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. It took place at Topaz Arts in Woodside, Queens. Our Side now meets regularly at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center.

For more information, please contact nancyagabian@yahoo.com.

You are invited to
a reading of new work
from members of Our Side,
a Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop on Cultural Identity
led by Nancy Agabian
Sunday, August 16, 2009  at 1 pm
at Topaz Arts Center
(http://www.topazarts.org)
55-03 39th Avenue
Woodside, Queens
Subway: 7 train to 61 St. or the R, V, G trains to Northern Blvd.
Free admission
Seating is limited  Please rsvp at rsvp@topazarts.org

Readers: Milena Abrahamyan, Gilmarie Brioso, Vianey Camela, Claro de los Reyes, Tenaz H. Dubash, Beatriz A. Gil, Erin Ming Lee, Soniya Munshi, K Sherbetdjian, Margarita Soto,
Hannah Szteinbok, and Antonius Wiriadjaja.

During the summer of 2009, thirteen writers of all levels and with roots all over the world came together in Our Side to write about the worlds they live in, past and present.  After ten weeks of reading and discussing the work of contemporary writers, experimenting with writing exercises, and engaging in group feedback, they will read to the public the results of their work.   Their memoirs, narratives and personal essays will address issues of emigration, dislocation from homeland, assimilation to a new land, maintenance of cultural identity, and transnationalism.

The free public reading takes place at 1:00pm on Sunday, August 16, 2009, at TOPAZ ARTS, located at 55-03 39th Avenue in Woodside, Queens.