Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing, Racism, and Asian American Life

Stephen D. Hyers Theater, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, GREENSBORO

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Three Asian-American authors use their work to discuss the rise in violence toward Asian-Americans while exploring the complex joys and responsibilities of writing and identity. With MICHAEL CROLEY, H'RINA DeTROY, and THIEN-KIM LAM. Hosted […]

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Writing Toward Justice: Non-Fiction as a Call to Action

Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Journalists and writers from different backgrounds discuss the importance of engaging equity, criminal justice, and community. The press, and citizen journalists, provide witness on systemic issues impacting local communities.  A conversation with DR. BENJAMIN […]

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Whatever Wholeness Means: Poetry in an Age of Separation

Scuppernong Books 304 S Elm Street, Greensboro

**THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT** *All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* From three unique perspectives, these poets offer witness, vulnerability, and fierce attention to the troubled and yet still exquisite times. With CRYSTAL SIMONE SMITH, KAY ULANDAY BARRETT, and STUART DISCHELL. Hosted by MICHAEL […]

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Upon Her Shoulders: Native Women and the South

Greensboro History Museum 130 Summit Avenue, GREENSBORO

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* With a focus on southeast Native women, Beasley and Jacobs share stories from an anthology they edited on justice, spirit, and community. With DRS. CHERRY BEASLEY and MARY ANN JACOBS. Hosted by ROBIN MIURA. CHERRY BEASLEY, PhD, […]

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Exploring a Future, Changing the Past (Sci-fi/Fantasy)

Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Science Fiction and fantasy explore new worlds; some are light years away or hundreds of years in the future, some are new perspectives on our shared past. They can be intimate stories of a […]

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Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing

Stephen D. Hyers Theater, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, GREENSBORO

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* With ELISHEBA HAQQ and MEGAN CULHANE GALBRAITH. Hosted by LEE ZACHARIAS. You May also be interested in:  • Memoir Plus: A Conversation on Hybrid Memoir • $ WORKSHOP Down the Rabbit Hole of Your Own Life: A Creative […]

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A Conversation on Publishing for People of Color

Scuppernong Books 304 S Elm Street, Greensboro

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* With CRYSTAL SIMONE SMITH and ASHLEY LUMPKIN. You may also be interested in: •  Whatever Wholeness Means: Poetry in an Age of Separation CRYSTAL SIMONE SMITH is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Routes Home, Finishing Line […]

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Everywhere We Belong

Greensboro History Museum 130 Summit Avenue, GREENSBORO

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Three award-winning Black authors bring their unique voices to bear on what it means to be black and male in 21st Century America. Whether writing about unknown facets of the Civil War, a father’s […]

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Afternoon Delight

Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Say goodbye to your mom's harlequin bodice rippers, romance has gotten a makeover! From sleek new cover designs you actually want on your shelf (so long, busty corsets!) to rethinking what romance storytelling can […]

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The Truth about Disability: What We Don’t Talk About

Stephen D. Hyers Theater, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, GREENSBORO

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Around 20% of Americans live with a disability, but for many disability remains a taboo subject. Too often, the complex experiences of the disabled are reduced to pity or inspiration. On this panel, three […]

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$ WORKSHOP Down the Rabbit Hole of Your Own Life: A Creative Writing Lab with Laurie Stone

Tannenbaum-Sternberger Room, Greensboro Public Library, Central Branch 219 N Church Street, Greensboro

In this one-session workshop/lab, writers will create a piece of creative writing prompted by a recent experience that may not at first seem dramatic. Writers will work to create a narrative voice that speaks directly to the reader. This voice layers time frames (I felt then, I feel now), and makes something ordinary seem strange […]

$30.00

County of Terror: Alamance in the 19th Century

Greensboro History Museum 130 Summit Avenue, GREENSBORO

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* You may also be interested in: • An Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones • Images of Justice and Power • Truth Tellers documentary presentation •A Conversation on Publishing for People of Color • Whatever Wholeness […]

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King of the Blues

Stephen D. Hyers Theater, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, GREENSBORO

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Greensboro Bound partners with the Carolina Blues Festival to bring an engaging conversation with DANIEL de VISÉ on the life and legacy of B. B. King. De Vise, whose previous book, Andy and Don: […]

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A Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones

Harrison Auditorium, NC A&T 1009 Bluford Street, Greenbsoro

**THIS EVENT IS SOLD-OUT**   *All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* A Conversation with NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES is the culminating event in the History Of Redlining In East Greensboro: Conversations About Our City's Past And Present series. This keynote event for the F.D. Bluford Library […]

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