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AMIRI BARAKA in DC JAN 11, 2008 @ ALL SOULS

OR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 1, 2008

Contact:
Kenneth Carroll, Executive Director
DC WritersCorps
202 332-2848
202 332-5455
Kenny@dcwriterscorps.org
www.dcwriterscorps.org


DC WritersCorps Presents Award-winning Author Activist
Amiri Baraka - "Role of the Writer in an Era of Terrorism"

Friday, January 11, 2008, 6:30 PM
All Souls Church
16th and Harvard Streets, NW
Washington, DC, 20009
(Columbia Heights Metro)

DC WritersCorps presents the most influential living Black writer, Amiri Baraka, to kick off its quarterly fundraisinig efforts. Amiri Baraka will read, sign books, and discuss the role of the writer in fostering social, political and economic justice. The author of over 30 books, an award winning poet and playwright, and the former New Jersey Poet Laureate, Amiri Baraka will make available and sign a limited number of his groundbreaking book of poetry, “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note.”

Also featured on the program will be Liani Mataka, youth poets from DC WritersCorps schools and the 2kNation programs, and adult writing instructors.

The program will be held at the historic All Souls Church at 16th & Harvard Streets, NW, and all proceeds will benefit DC WritersCorps programs for DC youth. General admission is $25, $10 for students.

DC WritersCorps is a 501c3 that has been serving DC youth in after school writing programs since 1995, our mission is to use literature to strengthen literacy skills and to provide youth with a lifelong tool for learning and success.

DC WritersCorps, Inc.
2437 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
202 332-2848/202 332-5455fx

http://www.dcwriterscorps.org

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Millennium Arts Salon presents....

Host: Millennium Arts Salon
Location:
10/19: Parish Gallery Georgetown 1054 31st Street, NW, Washington, DC
and
10/20: Busboys & Poets @ 14th & V NW

When: Friday, October 19, 6:00pm
Phone: 301 650 2073
Dear Friends of Millennium Arts Salon,

Please join us as we kickoff the 2007-2008 Millennium Arts season with a weekend Celebration of Film entitled Movin "Pictures". Our Friday and Saturday lineup of events is as follows: Click here to read more

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visual artist and poet. Krista Franklin