Project Space 2920 is proud stream #Blkgrrrl’s live reading of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God from 3:00pm - 4:00pm on Saturday, April 11, 2015. Don’t miss the Tall Art Girl Collective reading at 11:00am! _______________________________________________________________________
A digital #BlkGrrrl in an analogue world presents Zora, LIVE! Saturday, April 11, 7 p.m.. to 10 p.m. at Cielo Galleries/Studios located at 3201 Maple Street in South Central Los Angeles 90011. BlkGrrrl will be presenting a 12 hour reading of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God in conjunction with a retrospective Blk Grrrl Book Fair (BGBF) art show curated by Cielo’s Skira Martinez. The final three hours (7 p.m.- 10 p.m.) will be a formal event with an art show, conversation and cocktails from the 1930s and 1940s.. The retrospective art show will feature photographs by Slobodan Dimitrov and members of the public who documented the inaugural BGBF. Literary, art and social justice groups will be coming in from 10 a.m.- 10 p.m. on Saturday, April 11 to read portions of the novel. We will be reading from the 75th Edition. It can be purchased with our partners IMIX Books located in Espacio 1839 at 1839 East 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033 in the community of Boyle Heights. Pushing the boundaries of literary art #BlkGrrrl and Cielo Galleries/Studios has created a digital/analogue event that crosses cities, countries and time zones. “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. . . . I do not weep at the world -- I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.” ~ Zora Neale Hurston This will be a celebration of what they say can’t be done. The live streaming of the 12 hour reading will be shown via www.blkgrrrrlshow.com website and you will be able to drop in on live streaming events taking place in Inglewood, Eagle Rock, London, Toronto and South Central. It will be archived for later viewing. For updates of BlkGrrrl events please visit http://www.blkgrrrlshow.com/ or Twitter by using hashtag: #BlkGrrrl. For more information or if you’d like your location to be listed as a streaming venue please contact Teka-Lark Fleming at [email protected]. Requirements to be a venue. Open or closed to public Able to show one hour of the program. Able to digitally document via photograph two or people watching the stream and and the ability to get that photo to us within two days after the end of the event. BlkGrrrl is what freedom through cooperation looks like.
