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Led by Celeste Mohammed (award-winning writer: Pleasantview | Ever Since We Small) Date: Monday Aug 18th, 2025 Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Duration: 120 mins Venue: Online via Zoom Cost: $125 Here, in the intimate tradition of the botánica, where candles cast passionate shadows and smoke coils from brass bowls, this generative workshop invites writers to regard the literary sex scene as something more than performance. Wielding pen as brush, we apply the techniques of the art world to capture impressions of sensuality that feel emotionally true and spiritually resonant. Here, sensuality is not a spectacle, but a residue, felt in breath, in pause, in what’s left unsaid. Writers will experiment with language that conjures rather than declares, gesture over anatomy, feeling over form. Together, we’ll write toward the charged space between the lines–toward the heat, the honey, the smoke. Come, write with us, and encounter the illusion of explicitness.
Led by Celeste Mohammed (award-winning writer: Pleasantview | Ever Since We Small) Date: Monday Aug 18th, 2025 Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Duration: 120 mins Venue: Online via Zoom Cost: $125 Here, in the intimate tradition of the botánica, where candles cast passionate shadows and smoke coils from brass bowls, this generative workshop invites writers to regard the literary sex scene as something more than performance. Wielding pen as brush, we apply the techniques of the art world to capture impressions of sensuality that feel emotionally true and spiritually resonant. Here, sensuality is not a spectacle, but a residue, felt in breath, in pause, in what’s left unsaid. Writers will experiment with language that conjures rather than declares, gesture over anatomy, feeling over form. Together, we’ll write toward the charged space between the lines–toward the heat, the honey, the smoke. Come, write with us, and encounter the illusion of explicitness.
$125.00+ Sales tax + $6.60 feeHOW TO BE UNMOTHERED: Readings to Launch ticket
Featuring Camille U. Adams in conversation with Niama Sandy Date: Wednesday Aug 20th, 2025 Time: 7:30pm - 8:30pm Venue: Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217 Presented in partnership with Greenlight Bookstores | Made possible by a BAC Support Local Arts Grant | In How to Be Unmothered, writer and cultural worker Camille U. Adams crafts a memoir-in-essays that traverses loss, migration, and the delicate work of self-remaking. It is a narrative of what it means to live without a mother figure, and how the act of unmothering – whether by death, estrangement, or silence – can become both wound and womb. Told with searing honesty and lyrical precision, Adams’s debut is a meditation on grief, lineage, and the rituals we create in the absence of the ones we longed for. This event continues the BCLF’s deep and ongoing excavation of Caribbean motherhood – a theme we have returned to in years past through poetry, fiction, and conversation. How to Be Unmothered furthers that exploration with grace, bravery, and emotional clarity. In conversation with multidisciplinary artist, curator, and cultural strategist Niama Sandy, Adams will reflect on the making of the book, the ancestral silences it confronts, and what it means to mother oneself into becoming. This gathering, ahead of the full bloom of the 2025 festival, is not only a celebration of a new work, but also a kind of vigil. An intimate communion with the stories that root and remake us. This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Featuring Camille U. Adams in conversation with Niama Sandy Date: Wednesday Aug 20th, 2025 Time: 7:30pm - 8:30pm Venue: Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217 Presented in partnership with Greenlight Bookstores | Made possible by a BAC Support Local Arts Grant | In How to Be Unmothered, writer and cultural worker Camille U. Adams crafts a memoir-in-essays that traverses loss, migration, and the delicate work of self-remaking. It is a narrative of what it means to live without a mother figure, and how the act of unmothering – whether by death, estrangement, or silence – can become both wound and womb. Told with searing honesty and lyrical precision, Adams’s debut is a meditation on grief, lineage, and the rituals we create in the absence of the ones we longed for. This event continues the BCLF’s deep and ongoing excavation of Caribbean motherhood – a theme we have returned to in years past through poetry, fiction, and conversation. How to Be Unmothered furthers that exploration with grace, bravery, and emotional clarity. In conversation with multidisciplinary artist, curator, and cultural strategist Niama Sandy, Adams will reflect on the making of the book, the ancestral silences it confronts, and what it means to mother oneself into becoming. This gathering, ahead of the full bloom of the 2025 festival, is not only a celebration of a new work, but also a kind of vigil. An intimate communion with the stories that root and remake us. This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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