MLC provides a platform for literature-based
creative thinking and knowledge sharing. Each year we invite
educators, community and arts organizations, and artists to
participate in various professional-development workshops.
The festival also showcases panel discussions, films, and live
performances. Prior to 2009 this event was known as the
Re:Verse Literary Conference
This year
we celebrate the 85th anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X and
the 45 anniversary of the publishing of The Autobiography of Malcolm
X.
Hostos Community
CollegeBronx,
NY
The Mosaic Literary Conference presents creative ways for keeping
books and reading valuable sources of knowledge and creativity. This
day of professional-development workshops will help educators
incorporate literature into existing curricula to further explore
course work that focuses on cultures, history, and social studies.
Hostos Community College Bronx, NY
Re:Verse
Festival 2008 Saturday, October 25 Re:Verse Literary Conference & Festival calls for educators
to foster the role literature plays in the lives of students
and youth. The conference seeks to rebuild the audience for
literature as a means for understanding culture, history,
and social studies. Re:Verse celebrates the diversity of
thought literature fosters. Location: Hostos Community College, Bronx NY Click here
for conference highlights
Reverse Festival 2004
Saturday, October 2 A screening of the PBS documentary
I’ll Make Me A World, which features
Gwendolyn Brooks
Panel: Digitizing Words Using digital media to express yourself Troy Johnson, AALBC.com; DuEwa Frazier, poet and publisher; James Lisbon, AMag founder; Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, poet and blogger
Poetry readings and open mic Samiya Bashir, R. Erica Doyle, and Cheryl Boyce Taylor
Reverse Festival 2003
Saturday, September 20 Reverse Festival 2003: Flix, Flow & Freestyle launched
the inaugural festival with a strong line-up of some of the smartest
wordsmiths–legends from the birth of spoken word to the current group of
torchbearers; an open mic session; a panel on independent media and publishing;
and film screenings that include a documentary on the life of a seminal poet.
Panel: Vocal Cords: Independent Publishing in a Dependent Age focuses on the
urgency and importance of independent media and publishing. Lisa Moore, Red Bone
Press; Annette Atim Otim, Indigo Magazine; Glenda Johnson, The Citizen;
and Carolyn Butts, African Voices.
Film screening: A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
Poetry Reading: Samiya Bashir, Roger Bonair Agard, Willie Perdomo, and
Victoria Sammartino
The Literary Freedom Project is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt
not-for-profit arts organization that supports the literary arts through
education, creative thinking, and new media.
The Literary Freedom Project is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt
not-for-profit arts organization that supports the literary arts through
education, creative thinking, and new media.