I’m really proud and excited that Our Side is reading. It’s been a privilege to work with everyone in this amazing and talented group. Please come to our reading to hear moving stories and new ideas on cultural identity:
During the summer of 2009, thirteen writers of all levels and with roots all over the world came together in Our Side to write about the worlds they live in, past and present. After ten weeks of reading and discussing the work of contemporary writers, experimenting with writing exercises, and engaging in group feedback, they will read to the public the results of their work. Their memoirs, narratives and personal essays will address issues of emigration, dislocation from homeland, assimilation to a new land, maintenance of cultural identity, and transnationalism.
The free public reading takes place at 1:00pm on Sunday, August 16, 2009, at TOPAZ ARTS, located at 55-03 39th Avenue in Woodside, Queens.
Subway directions: #7 train to 61 St. or the R, V, G trains to Northern Blvd.
Details and directions are available at www.topazarts.org.