Alexis Pauline Gumbs

But Then You Read Lorde

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Saturday, Apr 4 from 11 am to 4 pm

Alexis De Veaux will be a featured reader at the event.

But Then You Read Lorde is a multidisciplinary day-long program celebrating the breadth of work and influence of Audre Lorde, hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival Is A Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. This program brings together a dynamic group of writers, artists, cultural producers, and scholars to read primarily from Lorde’s poetry, activating her work as a living, shared practice. Across the day, audiences are invited to listen, reflect, and engage with themes of love, power, identity, and liberation that remain as urgent today as ever.

Photo: Audre Lorde, Alexis De Veaux, Gloria Joseph, Nancy Morejon, Toni Cade Bambara, Jayne Cortez, person unknown and Virta Mae Grosvenor. circa 1985 Cuba.

Writing New Worlds

Writing New Worlds a conversation between Alexis De Veaux, Walidah Imarisha and Alexis Pauline Gumbs on legacy, possibility, and the role of writers in making the future we deserve intriguing, imaginable and irresistible. This conversation was a plenary event at the Allied Media Conference, July 23rd to July 26th 2020.

“The conversation between countergenerational artists was an extraordinary defining moment during this time of global pandemics. I was deeply honored to share it with Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Walidah Imarisha”

Artistic Intimacies: A Salon

 

Artistic Intimacies is a Salon that seeks to be in conversation with notions of intimacy at a time when external technologies counter human connections.  Artistic Intimacies began in 2014 in Brooklyn as a contemporary iteration of the Flamboyant Ladies Theatre Company Salons which were co-hosted by Gwendolen Hardwick and Alexis De Veaux in 1980s Brooklyn.

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