Audre Lorde: Dream of Europe – Reading Group #6
The Dream of Europe with Pamela Sneed
Sunday October 25, 2020
16:00-18:00 (CET)
For the sixth installment of our Audre Lorde: Dream of Europe reading group, we will be joined by artist Pamela Sneed, who will guide us through some of Audre Lorde's later poetry readings from 1990 through 1992 in Germany.
Pamela Sneed is a New York-based poet, writer, performer and visual artist, author of Funeral Diva, published with City Lights (San Francisco) in Fall 2020, as well as Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery, KONG and Other Works, Sweet Dreams and two chaplets, Gift by Belladonna and Black Panther. She is in the online faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)'s low-residency MFA teaching Human Rights and Writing Art and has also been a Visiting Artist at SAIC in the program for 4 consecutive years. She has performed at the Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Poetry Project , MCA, The High Line, New Museum and Toronto Biennale. She delivered the closing keynote for Artist, Designers, Citizens Conference/a North American component of the Venice Biennale at SAIC. She appears in Nikki Giovanni’s, The 100 Best African American Poems. In 2018, she was nominated for two PushCart Prizes in poetry.