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Sisters – An Art Exhibit w/ Spoken Word, Live Music, & Candid Conversations About Women
Sisters – An Art Exhibit w/ Spoken Word, Live Music, & Candid Conversations About Women
June 7 @ 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Free
Sisters – An Art Exhibit w/ Spoken Word, Live Music, & Candid Conversations About Women
Wed, 6/7/23 @ 11:00AM - 6:00PM
The Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University, 2200 Fairmount Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401
Free
Atlantic City TOURS presents Sisters – An Art Exhibit w/ Spoken Word, Music Performances, & Candid Conversations about Women. The free event unveils 15 oil-to-canvas paintings by Visual Artist Lawani Sunday that were created to tell unique true stories of women to bring awareness to women’s issues in Atlantic City and around the world. The Exhibit also showcases over a dozen Atlantic City and surrounding area spoken word, visual, and music artists with themes for, by, or about women.
Conversations about the meaning, inspiration, application, cause, and impact of the artists’ works will begin daily at 3pm with Journalist Deborah Robinson, followed by spoken word and music performances. In addition to performances and talks, artists will be giving live-art demonstrations, such as learning painting techniques from Sunday, an international artist, lecturer, and professor. Presenting the event is Atlantic City TOURS. The company is new to Atlantic City but certainly not new to the event space, where they have 50+ years of experience creating and producing events, concerts, interviews, television shows, video productions, etc. The organization offers regular gatherings for residents and visitors that include live streaming, podcasts, panel discussions, receptions, lectures, and acoustic performances.
LAWANI SUNDAY is a Nigerian Visual Artist & Lecturer. His art deals with important social issues with a strong emphasis on the position of women in society. Transcending the depths of our souls and piercing the spiritual world, Sunday’s paintings tell stories that speak directly to humanity’s compassion and empathy.
DEBORAH ROBINSON is an award-winning journalist, author, producer, documentary filmmaker, and serial entrepreneur. Her strengths are investigative journalism, politics, spirituality, religion, and she has a niche for lifestyle interviews. She’s interviewed diverse newsmakers from David Duke to Louis Farrakhan and she’s sat one-on-one with celebrities and newsmakers from around the world.
Presenting the event is Atlantic City TOURS. The organization is new to Atlantic City but certainly not new to the event space, where they have 50+ years of experience creating and producing events, concerts, interviews, television shows, video productions, etc.
WEDNESDAY
11AM – Meet & Greet Nelson Johnson, author of Boardwalk Empire which inspired the HBO series of the same name, and the sequel The Northside: African Americans and the Creation of Atlantic City.
3PM – Skype conversation from Nigeria with Visual Artist Lawani Sunday about the meaning, inspiration, application, and cause for each art piece in the Sisters Exhibit.
4PM – Spoken Word & Poetry Performance & Conversation – Ameerah Shabazz-Bilal is an award-winning poet and the recipient of the Maria Mazziotti Gillan Literary Service Award, the 2022 recipient of the Every Kinda Lady – ‘Her Story’ award for poetry, and is a member of The Academy of American Poets. Ameerah has a unique talent for telling stories through poetry and Visual Arts. Ameerah Shabazz-Bilal is a Poet, Visual Artist, Teacher, Photographer, and the founder/facilitator of – “When Women Speak” and “When People Speak”. The Author/Illustrator of “Breathing Through Concrete” and “When Women Speak Anthology”.
5PM – Spoken Word & Poetry Performance & Conversation – R.Sen is a poet, spoken word artist, published author, and amateur music producer. She believes that we are all free to be who we wish to be and practices self-love and consciousness in her poetry.
THURSDAY
3PM – Skype conversation from Nigeria with Visual Artist Lawani Sunday about the meaning, inspiration, application, and cause for each art piece in the Sisters Exhibit.
4PM – Spoken Word Performance & Conversation – Felicia is a poet, author, writing coach, and workshop presenter. Felicia’s high energy poetry performances have been featured in classrooms and performance halls all over New Jersey.
5PM – Book Reading, Story Telling, & Poetry Performance & Conversation – Chimen Georgette Kouri is a writer whose work has been featured in Goat’s Milk Magazine, Blood Moon Poetry, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and more. She is the author of the chapbook Peach Milk and is currently writing two full-length poetry and prose collections, What Haunts Me the Most and The Old Dutchburn House, and her first novel, Miss America Is Burning.
FRIDAY
3PM – Skype conversation from Nigeria with Visual Artist Lawani Sunday about the meaning, inspiration, application, and cause for each art piece in the Sisters Exhibit.
4PM – Spoken Word, Poetry, & Music Performance & Conversation – Jamie Cowling is a published author of poetry, photographer, visual artist, singer-songwriter, and avid surfer. She writes what she feels and she feels a great many things all the time. When she’s lucky enough to transcribe the pieces – their energy – it comes from a sacred place. It is in these moments she lets go; in these moments she becomes ~ the heartbeat.
5PM – Book Reading & Spoken Word Performance & Conversation – Gwen Goolsby Tillery is an award winning and bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and counselor with a passion for empowering women to move from stuck to unstoppable and become everything that God created them be.
SATURDAY
3PM – Skype conversation from Nigeria with Visual Artist Lawani Sunday about the meaning, inspiration, application, and cause for each art piece in the Sisters Exhibit.
4PM – Poetry Performance & Conversation – ElleVintage is Jersey’s southern fire and poetic songstress. She has a passion for words and bringing them to life for a heart-warming experience.
5PM – Poetry Performance & Conversation – Lindsay Erin is published poet and dedicated English as a Second Language educator and student advocate. Her poetry has been published online and in print with Sensations Magazine, Hickory Playgrounds, and Vox Poetica. Her work was also published in the 2022 National Poetry Month Celebration Anthology, and When Women Speak. She’s performed her poetry at theaters, studios, and coffeehouses throughout NJ. Her poems have been called soul stirring, charged, and profound.
SUNDAY
3PM – Skype conversation from Nigeria with Visual Artist Lawani Sunday about the meaning, inspiration, application, and cause for each art piece in the Sisters Exhibit.
4PM – Poetry Performance & Conversation – Golden Sapphyre is a lover of all things creative, unique, breath-taking, and beautiful. She is a poet, storyteller, singer, songwriter, educator, mentor, and an unapologetic champion for creative souls as well as the proverbial underdog.
5PM – Soap Making Demonstration & Conversation – Michelle Robinson is a financial strategist with a very creative side. I help women and creatives manage their attitudes and habits around money so they can monetize their craft and get ahead.
Conversations about the meaning, inspiration, application, cause, and impact of the artists’ works will begin daily at 3pm with Journalist Deborah Robinson, followed by spoken word and music performances. In addition to performances and talks, artists will be giving live-art demonstrations, such as learning painting techniques from Sunday, an international artist, lecturer, and professor. Presenting the event is Atlantic City TOURS. The company is new to Atlantic City but certainly not new to the event space, where they have 50+ years of experience creating and producing events, concerts, interviews, television shows, video productions, etc. The organization offers regular gatherings for residents and visitors that include live streaming, podcasts, panel discussions, receptions, lectures, and acoustic performances.
LAWANI SUNDAY is a Nigerian Visual Artist & Lecturer. His art deals with important social issues with a strong emphasis on the position of women in society. Transcending the depths of our souls and piercing the spiritual world, Sunday’s paintings tell stories that speak directly to humanity’s compassion and empathy.
DEBORAH ROBINSON is an award-winning journalist, author, producer, documentary filmmaker, and serial entrepreneur. Her strengths are investigative journalism, politics, spirituality, religion, and she has a niche for lifestyle interviews. She’s interviewed diverse newsmakers from David Duke to Louis Farrakhan and she’s sat one-on-one with celebrities and newsmakers from around the world.
Presenting the event is Atlantic City TOURS. The organization is new to Atlantic City but certainly not new to the event space, where they have 50+ years of experience creating and producing events, concerts, interviews, television shows, video productions, etc.
WEDNESDAY
11AM – Meet & Greet Nelson Johnson, author of Boardwalk Empire which inspired the HBO series of the same name, and the sequel The Northside: African Americans and the Creation of Atlantic City.
3PM – Skype conversation from Nigeria with Visual Artist Lawani Sunday about the meaning, inspiration, application, and cause for each art piece in the Sisters Exhibit.
4PM – Spoken Word & Poetry Performance & Conversation – Ameerah Shabazz-Bilal is an award-winning poet and the recipient of the Maria Mazziotti Gillan Literary Service Award, the 2022 recipient of the Every Kinda Lady – ‘Her Story’ award for poetry, and is a member of The Academy of American Poets. Ameerah has a unique talent for telling stories through poetry and Visual Arts. Ameerah Shabazz-Bilal is a Poet, Visual Artist, Teacher, Photographer, and the founder/facilitator of – “When Women Speak” and “When People Speak”. The Author/Illustrator of “Breathing Through Concrete” and “When Women Speak Anthology”.
5PM – Spoken Word & Poetry Performance & Conversation – R.Sen is a poet, spoken word artist, published author, and amateur music producer. She believes that we are all free to be who we wish to be and practices self-love and consciousness in her poetry.
THURSDAY
3PM – Skype conversation from Nigeria with Visual Artist Lawani Sunday about the meaning, inspiration, application, and cause for each art piece in the Sisters Exhibit.
4PM – Spoken Word Performance & Conversation – Felicia is a poet, author, writing coach, and workshop presenter. Felicia’s high energy poetry performances have been featured in classrooms and performance halls all over New Jersey.
5PM – Book Reading, Story Telling, & Poetry Performance & Conversation – Chimen Georgette Kouri is a writer whose work has been featured in Goat’s Milk Magazine, Blood Moon Poetry, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and more. She is the author of the chapbook Peach Milk and is currently writing two full-length poetry and prose collections, What Haunts Me the Most and The Old Dutchburn House, and her first novel, Miss America Is Burning.
FRIDAY
3PM – Skype conversation from Nigeria with Visual Artist Lawani Sunday about the meaning, inspiration, application, and cause for each art piece in the Sisters Exhibit.
4PM – Spoken Word, Poetry, & Music Performance & Conversation – Jamie Cowling is a published author of poetry, photographer, visual artist, singer-songwriter, and avid surfer. She writes what she feels and she feels a great many things all the time. When she’s lucky enough to transcribe the pieces – their energy – it comes from a sacred place. It is in these moments she lets go; in these moments she becomes ~ the heartbeat.
5PM – Book Reading & Spoken Word Performance & Conversation – Gwen Goolsby Tillery is an award winning and bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and counselor with a passion for empowering women to move from stuck to unstoppable and become everything that God created them be.
SATURDAY
3PM – Skype conversation from Nigeria with Visual Artist Lawani Sunday about the meaning, inspiration, application, and cause for each art piece in the Sisters Exhibit.
4PM – Poetry Performance & Conversation – ElleVintage is Jersey’s southern fire and poetic songstress. She has a passion for words and bringing them to life for a heart-warming experience.
5PM – Poetry Performance & Conversation – Lindsay Erin is published poet and dedicated English as a Second Language educator and student advocate. Her poetry has been published online and in print with Sensations Magazine, Hickory Playgrounds, and Vox Poetica. Her work was also published in the 2022 National Poetry Month Celebration Anthology, and When Women Speak. She’s performed her poetry at theaters, studios, and coffeehouses throughout NJ. Her poems have been called soul stirring, charged, and profound.
SUNDAY
3PM – Skype conversation from Nigeria with Visual Artist Lawani Sunday about the meaning, inspiration, application, and cause for each art piece in the Sisters Exhibit.
4PM – Poetry Performance & Conversation – Golden Sapphyre is a lover of all things creative, unique, breath-taking, and beautiful. She is a poet, storyteller, singer, songwriter, educator, mentor, and an unapologetic champion for creative souls as well as the proverbial underdog.
5PM – Soap Making Demonstration & Conversation – Michelle Robinson is a financial strategist with a very creative side. I help women and creatives manage their attitudes and habits around money so they can monetize their craft and get ahead.
