2012
May
May 9, 7 pm
Poetry Meets Music: Sprituals, Rags & Strings
The Brooklyn Philharmonic Chamber Players team up with Cave Canem poet Tyehimba Jess in a concert that imagines the lives and stories of 19th-century African American classical musician Harry T. Burleigh and Antonín Dvořák, and the spinning out the legacy of this first link between African-American music and the symphonic tradition. Co-sponsored with the Brooklyn Philharmonic & the Brooklyn Public Library. Free & open to the public.
Dweck Center Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY
May 14, 6:30 pm
Writing across Cultures: A reading
Participants in Cave Canem's Spring New York City Workshop, Writing across Cultures, share poems honed in class. Instructor John Murillo hosts. Reception to follow. Wheelchair accessible.
Cave Canem
20 Jay Street, Suite 310-A
Brooklyn, NY