Join
us at J.
P. Doyle's Restaurant & Public House following Sleepy Hollow's Second
Sunday Bazaar (Morse School Playground) for readings by Sophia Quintero
and Elisha Miranda followed by poetry, music and storytelling by David
Gonzalez.
Sofia
Quintero is a socially conscious entrepreneur and cultural activist devoted
to elevating the quality of entertainment both through her personal initiatives
and business ventures. Determined to write edgy yet intelligent novels for women
who love hip hop even when hip hop fails to love them in return, Sofía
wrote her debut novel Explicit Content under the pen name Black Artemis.
Booklist said of her debut, "Fans of Sister Souljah's The Coldest
Winter Ever (1999) will find this debut novel just as tantalizing. . ."
Since then she has penned two more Black Artemis novels (Picture Me Rollin'
and Burn) and has been praised by critics of all stripes for creating stories
that are both intelligent and entertaining. Sofia also writes contemporary women's
fiction under her real name. Her debut novella The More Things Change appears
in Friday Night Chicas, the first chick-lit anthology by and about Latinas.
Her novel Divas Don't Yield was published in March 2006 by One World/Random
House. She is also a contributing author to the anthologies Names I Call My
Sister, Juicy Mangos, Politics Noir and Dirty Girls: Erotica
for Women. In April 2010, Knopf will publish Sofia's first young adult novel,
Efrain's Secret, about a Latino boy in the South Bronx who goes to extremes
to realize his dream of going to an Ivy League college. www.sisteroutsider.biz/quintero.php
Elisha Miranda
is a Puerto Rican born and raised in the working-class "Mission" district of San
Francisco and living in New York City since 1998. Under the pen name E-Fierce
she wrote her debut novel, The Sista Hood: On the Mic (Atria Books), the
first book in a four part young adult series which is now on its second printing
and was recently optioned for the screen. She is currently in development with
her award-winning feature script Outside the Wall, about a Puerto Rican
graffiti artist struggling to be the next Frida Kahlo. Her essay, "Vieques, Puerto
Rico: A Baptism By Fire" was featured in the anthology The Fire This Time
(ed. Viven Labeton and Dawn Martin, Anchor Press, 2004) and her novella A Kiss
for Lares appeared in the Juicy Mangos anthology (ed. Michelle Herrera
Mulligan, Atria Books, 2007). www.sisteroutsider.biz/miranda.php
Playwright,
storyteller, musician, poet, and actor, David Gonzalez was nominated for
a 2006 Drama Desk Award for his original production The Frog Bride at Broadway’s
New Victory Theater. Mr. Gonzalez wrote Rise for Freedom!, an opera libretto
commissioned and produced by the Cincinnati Opera in 2007, and Mariel,
an Afro-Cuban musical which won the Macy’s “New Play Prize for Young Audiences”.
Mr. Gonzalez' poetry has been featured at Lincoln Center's Out-of-Doors Festival,
Bill Moyers' documentary Fooling with Words on PBS, and NPR's All Things
Considered. His poem, Oh Hudson, was commissioned by the Empire State
Plaza Performing Arts Center to commemorate the Quadricentennial of Hudson’s exploration,
and was performed alongside Governor David Paterson for the “Blessing of the Boats”
ceremony. He has created numerous theatrical productions including the critically
acclaimed ˇSofrito! with Larry Harlow and the Latin Legends Band. His many
works; Double Crossed: The Saga of the St. Louis, commissioned by the Smithsonian
Institution, As If The Past Were Listening, The Secret of the Ceiba
Tree, MytholoJazz, Finding North, and City of Dreams,
have been performed at many of the best performing arts centers, theaters, and
festivals in the US and abroad. David was a featured performer at the 2007 National
Storytelling Festival. Mr. Gonzalez received his doctorate in Music Therapy from
New York University's School of Education. Currently he is Artist-In-Residence
at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland where
he is working on Wounded Splendor, a multi-media theater piece about our
responsibility to the natural world. Visit David online at www.davidgonzalez.com.
Greenburgh
Poet Laureate Brenda
Connor-Bey will introduce the readers. Suggested donation is $5 ($3 for
HVWC members).
The
Sleepy Hollow Second Sunday Bazaar is held from 11 am to 4 pm, every second Sunday
from July to November in the Morse School playground on Beekman Avenue. It features
crafts, food, music, dancing, stories, and more, with international flavor and
local flair. Second Sunday is sponsored by The Sleepy Hollow Downtown Revitalization
Corporation. For more information, call 914-366-6825 or click here.
