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Dame
Adriena
June 1, 2008, CCCinco
Adriena was the featured poet at CCCinco's Annual Fashion
Show Extravaganza. CCCinco is a public charity based in
Louisville, Kentucky and benefiting people in need of
counseling, transportation, housing, employment, and prayer.
Visit http://cccinco.org to learn more.
May 6, 2008, St. Mathews Elementary
Adriena launched Creativity Cue, a one-hour writing and
publishing workshop designed to expose students and aspiring
young writers to the production process involved in book
publishing. Students' hands-on participation resulted in a short
anthology of sentences.
March 2008, The Soul Lounge
The Soul Lounge, hosted by jazz poet Mike Bishop and Julious
Wilkenson, welcomed Adriena to the microphone as a featured
poet. She painted pictures of mothers and babies slurping milk
from coconut shells, family matriarchs peeling tomatoes and
rolling dumpling dough out on kitchen counter tops, passing on
family recipes and legacies, tomboys falling in love with
peach tree canopies, and more.
This event was especially delightful because of the down
home atmosphere that permeated throughout the lounge—the
dim lights, the aromas of green tea and spiced chicken, the
melodic sounds of live jazz sensations that kept bodies rocking
in their seats, feet tapping the floor. Spoken word ricocheted
off the walls, songs sprung from ancient sorrows and a capella
voices, titillating duets serenaded the young and the wise, feet
shuffled, hips swayed, torsos undulated through an African
dance. Indeed, the very soul of the Soul Lounge dipped into the
consciousness of strangers and friends, inflamed thought,
soothed hearts, motivated the creators to continue embracing
their art.
February 29, 2008
Thanks to Synthia Shelby, Adriena was a featured poet for a
Living Waters Poetry event that took place at Zion Baptist
church in Louisville, Kentucky. The experience was soulful,
inspirational, and a great opportunity to reconnect with old
acquaintances.
February 26, 2008
Adriena was a featured fiction reader for a Tapas Tuesday
event that took place in Midway, Kentucky's Holly Hill Inn—a
cozy, two-story, "stone-and-brick" house filled with cherry
wood furnishings, hardwood floors, delicate chandeliers,
fancy antiques, and decadent red carpet. The site, which was
built in the early 1840s, is bursting with historical character
and is currently making its mark as one of Kentucky's most
delightful fine dining experiences—featuring a variety of
cuisines from around the world with a menu that changes
monthly.
From room, to room, to room, to room, Adriena moved through
the reading rotation, along with three other writers, her hopes
set on entertaining four attentive crowds with spicy excerpts
from her novel manuscript, topping the evening off with a fresh
slice of flash fiction.
This event was made possible by the hospitable crew at the
Holly Hill Inn and writer friends Chris Helvey and Gayle
Hanratty.
February 2, 2008
At this year's AWP Conference in New York, Adriena had the
opportunity to meet the amazing Haitian-American writer
Edwidge Danticat, whose work Adriena studied, analyzed,
admired, and cried over during her graduate studies at
Spalding University.
Adriena was the featured poet at CCCinco's Annual Fashion
Show Extravaganza. CCCinco is a public charity based in
Louisville, Kentucky and benefiting people in need of
counseling, transportation, housing, employment, and prayer.
Visit http://cccinco.org to learn more.
May 6, 2008, St. Mathews Elementary
Adriena launched Creativity Cue, a one-hour writing and
publishing workshop designed to expose students and aspiring
young writers to the production process involved in book
publishing. Students' hands-on participation resulted in a short
anthology of sentences.
March 2008, The Soul Lounge
The Soul Lounge, hosted by jazz poet Mike Bishop and Julious
Wilkenson, welcomed Adriena to the microphone as a featured
poet. She painted pictures of mothers and babies slurping milk
from coconut shells, family matriarchs peeling tomatoes and
rolling dumpling dough out on kitchen counter tops, passing on
family recipes and legacies, tomboys falling in love with
peach tree canopies, and more.
This event was especially delightful because of the down
home atmosphere that permeated throughout the lounge—the
dim lights, the aromas of green tea and spiced chicken, the
melodic sounds of live jazz sensations that kept bodies rocking
in their seats, feet tapping the floor. Spoken word ricocheted
off the walls, songs sprung from ancient sorrows and a capella
voices, titillating duets serenaded the young and the wise, feet
shuffled, hips swayed, torsos undulated through an African
dance. Indeed, the very soul of the Soul Lounge dipped into the
consciousness of strangers and friends, inflamed thought,
soothed hearts, motivated the creators to continue embracing
their art.
February 29, 2008
Thanks to Synthia Shelby, Adriena was a featured poet for a
Living Waters Poetry event that took place at Zion Baptist
church in Louisville, Kentucky. The experience was soulful,
inspirational, and a great opportunity to reconnect with old
acquaintances.
February 26, 2008
Adriena was a featured fiction reader for a Tapas Tuesday
event that took place in Midway, Kentucky's Holly Hill Inn—a
cozy, two-story, "stone-and-brick" house filled with cherry
wood furnishings, hardwood floors, delicate chandeliers,
fancy antiques, and decadent red carpet. The site, which was
built in the early 1840s, is bursting with historical character
and is currently making its mark as one of Kentucky's most
delightful fine dining experiences—featuring a variety of
cuisines from around the world with a menu that changes
monthly.
From room, to room, to room, to room, Adriena moved through
the reading rotation, along with three other writers, her hopes
set on entertaining four attentive crowds with spicy excerpts
from her novel manuscript, topping the evening off with a fresh
slice of flash fiction.
This event was made possible by the hospitable crew at the
Holly Hill Inn and writer friends Chris Helvey and Gayle
Hanratty.
February 2, 2008
At this year's AWP Conference in New York, Adriena had the
opportunity to meet the amazing Haitian-American writer
Edwidge Danticat, whose work Adriena studied, analyzed,
admired, and cried over during her graduate studies at
Spalding University.