This very special event is free, but registration is required.
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Date: February 10, 2025
Time: 5 p.m. Reception; 6 p.m. Keynote Speech
Location: Cotuit Center for the Arts
Join us for an unforgettable evening with Claudia Rankine, award-winning author of Citizen: An American Lyric, with opening remarks by activist and writer, Marley Dias.
This is the keynote event for The Big Read Cape Cod, hosted by The Arts & Justice Collective. The Big Read is a six-month-long, community-wide reading initiative featuring programs and events inspired by award-winning poet Claudia Rankine's "Citizen: An American Lyric." NEA Big Read is a National Endowments for the Arts program in partnership with Arts Midwest.
Claudia Rankine’s powerful work blends poetry, prose, and non-fiction to explore race, identity, and social justice in America. Citizen shines a light on the everyday experiences of microaggressions and racism, creating space for dialogue and deeper understanding. Marley Dias is the founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks, a campaign that has collected and donated over 13,000 books featuring Black girls as the main characters. She is also the author of Marley Dias Gets It Done: And So Can You!
The Arts & Justice Collective is a group of non-profit and mission driven organizations (Amplify POC, Belonging Books and The Cordial Eye) based on Cape Cod, MA. They use their collective strengths, missions, and resources to empower each other and their community to create a culture of belonging for members of historically-excluded groups through art and social justice. Learn more at https://www.theartsandjusticecollective.com/thebigread.
