From 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. on June 14th, Sunday Best Curator Patricia Eakins will guest-host a reading by the 2011 NoMAA Literary Grantees. The reading is at Our Savior’s Atonement, 178 Bennett Avenue (at 189th Street). The readers are Dina Piera Di Donato Salazar, Christine Toy Johnson, Lola Koundakjian, Danielle Lazarin, Will MacAdams, and Amir Parsa. The event is free, and refreshments will be served at a reception after to honor the writers.
Veronica Liu, the director of WHFR, is creating a pop-up book store for the Art Stroll. It is called Word Up, and it is conceived as a multi-language community bookshop for Northern Manhattan. Word Up will be at 4157 Broadway @ 175 Street from June 17 - July 14. Store hours will be week days from four to nine and weekends from 12-4, with some adjustments for special events.
