OPENING FESTIVAL SESSION Praising the Mouth That Speaks: A spine for the world to listen. Turn up the volume. Chesapeake Shakespeare Company 7 S Calvert Street Baltimore, MD 21202 PARKING Garages: The Lombard Garage lot (204 East Lombard Street, Baltimore, 21202) or Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel Parking (202 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD, 21202) Street…
Shut Up & ‘Speak’: Ways to shut down the noise and write your next best thing A MASTER CLASS WITH JAMI ATTENBERG Greedy Reads – Remington 320 W 29th Street Baltimore, MD 21211 ______________ Registration is required. Please register here: https://citylitproject.salsalabs.org/clf24master ______________ What does it take to lead a creative life every day? New York…
One-on-One 30-Minute Editorial Critique Sessions with Rebekah Kirkman (Creative Nonfiction), Bret McCabe (Creative Nonfiction), Kathy Flann (Fiction, Creative, Nonfiction), Lisa Snowden (Journalism), Chelsea Lemon Fetzer (Poetry, Fiction), Rosalia Scalia (Fiction), and DuEwa Frazier (Experimantal, Afro-futurism) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Governor Member Lounge (upper right from the lobby entrance) PARKING…
Echoes Across Eras: Poetry Time Travel with Baltimore’s Chicory Magazine 10:00 am - 11:15 am Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Lobby Stage PARKING https://www.bsomusic.org/visit-joseph-meyerhoff-hall/ ______________ Embark on a poetic journey through time with the Chicory Revitalization Project. Delve into Baltimore’s literary, poetic, and activist past, present, and future through the lens of Chicory, a Baltimore Black…
Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance presents 2024 BAKER ARTISTS - Literary Finalists at the CityLit Festival 10:00 am - 11:00 am Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Auditorium PARKING https://www.bsomusic.org/visit-joseph-meyerhoff-hall/ ______________ Working with the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund established the Baker Artist Awards in 2008 to support artists and promote Greater…
Creating Living Archives: On Contemporary Trans Poetics 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Lobby Stage PARKING https://www.bsomusic.org/visit-joseph-meyerhoff-hall/ ______________ Creating Living Archives is a poetry reading and panel discussion that centers the works of queer and trans-Asian diasporic poets curated by LAWRENCE-MINH BUI DAVIS. Held in a time of major anti-trans legislation and…
The ‘STATE’ OF BALTIMORE When a Means to Information is Threatened: Documenting and Preserving History to Avert a Culture of Silence 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Auditorium PARKING https://www.bsomusic.org/visit-joseph-meyerhoff-hall/ ______________ This year’s ‘State’ of Baltimore invites media outlets to discuss the importance of their work in an age of uncertainty, where…
Writing While Aging: We're not Done Yet The Writer's Room with Marita Golden and Kendra Kopelke 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Zamoiski Room PARKING https://www.bsomusic.org/visit-joseph-meyerhoff-hall/ ______________ One of the factors of silencing is how the publishing industry views and treats older writers, and how senior authors imbued with worlds of wisdom…
Palestinian American Writers Speak On Rememberance: When Words Become Our Strength 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Auditorium ______________ For many Palestinian American poets, memoirists, and novelists, writing is a turbulent process, one met with obstacles, including censorship and a publishing industry that often seems closed to their voices. Six award-winning Palestinian…
This Is How We Do It: Black Writers give up the goods on writing, publishing, and all literary things 90-MINUTE CRAFT INTENSIVE 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Lobby Stage ______________ Contributors of Hurston-Wright Foundation’s How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill edited by Jericho Brown and Darlene…
This Is The Honey Poets: “A Jubilee of a People Dreaming Wildly” with KWAME ALEXANDER 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Auditorium PARKING https://www.bsomusic.org/visit-joseph-meyerhoff-hall/ ______________ After a day of robust discussions, poet, educator, producer and #1 New York Times bestselling author KWAME ALEXANDER joins the 21st CityLit Festival in its 20th year…
The Art of Reinvention: How to Chase Success but Not Lose Yourself Mateo Askaripor in conversation with D. Watkins 3:30 am - 5:00 pm Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Lobby Stage PARKING https://www.bsomusic.org/visit-joseph-meyerhoff-hall/ ______________ New York Times bestselling novelist MATEO ASKARIPOUR, whose debut novel, an immediate bestseller, Black Buck, is a cautionary tale that reads like…
Literary Artists: Artificial Intelligence and Authentic Innovation The Writer's Room with Marita Golden and Kendra Kopelke 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Zamoiski Room PARKING https://www.bsomusic.org/visit-joseph-meyerhoff-hall/ ______________ *THE WRITER’S ROOM*, which debuted at the virtual 2021 CityLit Festival, is designed to engage participants face-to-face with authors in an informal conversation about the…
Who We Become: Don't Be Afraid Festival Finale Featuring Musical Guest Be Steadwell 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Lobby Stage PARKING https://www.bsomusic.org/visit-joseph-meyerhoff-hall/ ______________ The festival finale spotlights Be Steadwell with roots in jazz, acapella, and folk in Who We Become. Don’t Be Afraid. Be is a queer pop composer and storyteller…