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October 2018
Ojai Storytelling Festival
Southern Voices Blending blues and gospel songs with poetry and spoken word, Peace Center Poet-in-Residence Glenis Redmond and award-winning singer-historian Scott Ainslie take us on a tour of the South. Southern Voices weaves together our rich histories and diverse personal stories to showcase the influences and character of the Southeast United States. Glenis Redmond performs her original poetry with passion and conviction. She tells stories with her poems — from her life, her family, her African-American heritage — teaching audiences, young…
Find out more »November 2018
Maui Arts & Cultural Center
Glenis will conduct a PD for teachers in Maui, Hi. The focus will be on Performance Poetry.
Find out more »February 2019
League Academy
Glenis will conduct an Informance (Informal Performance and Craft talk) for 8th Grade.
Find out more »Brown Girl Dreaming Book Discussion
I will lead a book discussion on Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, author will not appear at this session. Book Discussions unpack literary works connected to select performances presented at the Peace Center. These FREE events explore the story, characters, and themes that come to life on stage through open discussion and facilitated discovery. Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and the Newbery Honor, Brown Girl Dreaming recounts Woodson’s childhood in the 1960s and 1970s.…
Find out more »Black History Performance
Informance for Seniors at Pleasant Valley
Find out more »Listening Project Live
Come hear the dynamic voices of Asheville youth in the Listening Project Live: Youth Voices on Race, Gentrification and Home. Last year, Listening Project student participants told ACSF that they want to talk about race. Students are uncomfortable with the disparities they see everyday in their classrooms and community, and they want to be part of the solution. Poet and MTV Cultural Critic, Hanif Abdurraqib, and Poet, Teaching Artist and Imagination Activist, Glenis Redmond, will moderate this powerful evening of…
Find out more »March 2019
State Theatre Residency
POETRY IN THE COMMUNITY State Theatre New Jersey’s signature residency program features poet Glenis Redmond. The annual residency has taken her to over 130 sites throughout New Jersey—including schools, senior centers, libraries, residential treatment facilities, correctional institutions, corporate offices—and touched the lives of more than 16,000 people. Glenis shares her deeply personal poetry in informances and performances for groups both large and small. She also leads writing workshops that showcase her unique gift for teaching and inspiring others to write.…
Find out more »April 2020
AVL Wordfest
AVL Wordfest 2020 is lovingly devoted to the healing of festival co-founder and dear friend, Glenis Redmond. Glenis was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in the late summer of 2019 and is currently moving through the healing process on multiple levels. ASHEVILLE WORDFEST has always been a festival of healing— healing of community, healing of city, healing of the split between self and soul. So, why not the healing of cancer, too? Who knows what community, love, and poetry can do…
Find out more »May 2020
Mountain West Arts Conference
In Utah at the Mountain West Arts Conference Glenis Redmond will give Keynote a one hour address in the afternoon that talks to the importance of the arts and reminds our attendees that the work they do is important.
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