Amplify US!

The Marjorie Praisner Library

Aniyah Smith, 2018 D.C. Youth Poet Laureate. Community performers will share poems and stories about gender, womanhood and, brotherhood. Audience discussion will follow.

Thursday, May 17 at 7:30pm

The Gaithersburg Library

Regie Cabico, producer of Capturing Fire: An International Queer Poetry Slam. Community performers share poems and stories about local history and immigrant experiences audience discussion follows.

Sunday, May 20 at 3:30pm

The Silver Spring Library

Diane Macklin, the featured performer, is a nationally acclaimed storyteller in the Griot Tradition. Community performers will share poems and stories about youth and immigrant experiences audience discussion follows.

Tuesday, May 22 at 7:30pm

The Strathmore Mansion

This performance is the culmination of a series of workshops entitled Amplify US! Using the Arts to Bridge the Racial Divide. In the workshops, community members learned how to tell their personal stories through spoken word (storytelling and poetry) and visual arts (photography and video). At the library performances, workshop participants, many from different countries and backgrounds, will perform their pieces alongside professional storytellers.

Sunday, June 24 at 4pm