Writing as a spiritual practice

 

We present 4 writers discussing writing as a spiritual practice, a presentation; of Canios Cultural Café.

 

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The complete discussion will be available here 

Celebrating Ireland

East Enders met to celebrate Ireland on March 19 at Canios Cultural Cafe.

 

Songs were sung, poems and stories read and all had a great time. 

Heard was ex New York City bar-keep and singer Peter Walsh.

Sigrid Meinel read Death Transfigured our Separation by John Donahue.

Actor Kate Mueth of the group Neo-Political Cowgirls read from

Rosemary Mahoney’s  "Whoredom in Kimmage The Private Lives of Irish Women”

 Finally Sag Harbor’s Terry Sullivan led the gathering in Gaelic song.

Here are some excerpts as broadcast

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The complete recording is here

Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement

 

First Broadcast date: Feb 23, 2011

We present Dr. Patricia Sullivan, professor of history and Afro-American Studies at the University of South Carolina, speaking about her book "Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement". 


The book was published in 2009 by The New Press on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.


Also we hear East Hampton architect Bill Chaleff reading Langston Hughes’ poem ‘Freedom’s Plow’ from Opportunity published in 1943.


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2022 Afro-American Writer Read - in

 

We celebrate Black History Month with the work of African-American Writers presented by members of the Sag Harbor community.

The reading in February 2022 was produced by the John Jermain Library, the Eastville Community Historical Society, and Canios Cultural Café, all of Sag Harbor.

Listen here: (revised)

More from the reading: 

Gloria Primm Brown reads The Burden of Race by Arthur Ashe

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