Tuesday, March 5, 2013

PAST: READING: Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Commemorative Reading at Busboys and Poets 14th & V St NW this WED, March 5th from 6:00pm - 8:30pm, Free

Wednesday, March 5th
6:00pm - 8:30pm
Free
Light refreshments provided by Busboys and Poets.

With: Zein El-Amine, Sarah Browning, Elana Casey, Mariam Coker, Ethelbert Miller, Mousa Al Naseri, Nahid Navab, Casey Smith, Susan Tichand others.

Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here is a book arts and cultural festival planned for January through March, 2016 in the DC, area. Exhibits, programs, and events will commemorate the 2007 bombing of Baghdad's historic bookselling street, celebrating the free exchange of ideas and knowledge and standing in solidarity with the people of Iraq and everywhere that free expression is threatened.

Co-sponsored by Busboys and Poets, Split This Rock, George Mason University School of Art, and the Corcoran School of Art + Design. Poster was designed by the al-Mutanabbi Street Book Artist, Despina Meimaroglou, Athens, Greece.

Busboys and Poets
14th & V St NW
Metro: U St or take the Woodley-McPherson Circulator bus route, or any bus along 14th St, to U St

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