Excerpt from "Life is Fine" by Langston Hughes
Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine!
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We want everyone to stay safe and healthy! So please note these precautions:
1) Please be ready to show proof of full Covid-19 vaccination status or a recent (within 48 hours) negative Covid-19 test result upon arrival. If you do not have proof of vaccination or a recent negative test, we will have tests available and will be happy to assist you in taking a test (this is about a 15 minute process);
2) Attendees must wear masks at all times during the event;
3) Consumption of food is not permitted in the building.
Why Langston Hughes?
The Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading (LHCPR) shares the works of Langston Hughes, specifically, because of the poet's proven ability to scrutinize, illuminate and engage critical thought around prevailing structures and realities. With work centering creative survival, development, self actualization, individuality and political mobilization, Hughes work becomes a natural conduit for engaged conversation and deep consideration. The sophistication of the poetry produced by Hughes is of a quality and breath that it easily engages both new- and ‘old’ comers. Similarly, the works create communal conjurings of improved futures and thought patterns that lend themselves to the learning, opening, and widening of minds. The LHCPR utilizes this work to create community, facilitate pedagogies empowering free will, independent thinking, and empathy.
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Community Reflections
"Even though we tend to express ourselves primarily through physical movement, for us, Langston's legacy is a movement in itself. His poetry is in lineage with our ancestral tradition of expression, truth telling, deep feeling and dismantling. The Haus of Glitter would not exist without Langston Hughes."
the Glitter Goddess Collective
Partner Organization
Past and Upcoming Events
Time is TBDLocation is TBD
Sun, Feb 05Providence Public Library
Sun, Apr 24Providence Public Library (PPL)Apr 24, 2022, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDTProvidence Public Library (PPL), 150 Empire St, Providence, RI 02903, USALibrary Doors open at 12:45 PM Our hopes for this event will include in-person Readers, live musicians and the all-important condition of “community gathering”. As always, we look forward to the inclusion of intergenerational readers, performance artists, folks from the community, and a strong presence of youth readers.
Sun, Feb 06Virtual
Sun, Feb 07Virtual
Fri, Feb 28Goff Middle School
Sun, Feb 02Providence Career & Technical Academy
Sun, Feb 03Providence Career & Technical Academy
Fri, Feb 01Southside Cultural Center of RI (SCCRI)
Sun, Feb 04Providence Public Library
Fri, Feb 02Southside Cultural Center of RI (SCCRI)
Sun, Feb 05RISD Museum