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CONFERENCES

The Mosaic Literary Conference is a community event that provides a platform for literature-based creative thinking and knowledge sharing. Each year, we invite educators, parents, and community and arts organizations to participate in a series of programs that build social engagement and develop education strategies.

2023: No conference held

MOSAIC LITERARY CONFERENCE: QUEER
November 20, 2021
Virtual

MOSAIC LITERARY CONFERENCE: ANOTHER COUNTRY
November 18, 2019
Bronx Museum of the Arts 1040 Grand Concourse Bronx NY

MOSAIC LITERARY CONFERENCE: #MeToo
November 17, 2018
Bronx Museum of the Arts 1040 Grand Concourse Bronx NY

MOSAIC LITERARY CONFERENCE: BLACK DOCUMENTS
November 25, 2017
Bronx Museum of the Arts 1040 Grand Concourse Bronx NY

The Mosaic Literary Conference explored historical and contemporary presentations of black identity in literature, media, and photography; and how self-affirming imagery and text can counter negative stereotypes. To this end, the conference also presented photography exhibits Jamel Shabazz: Black Documents and Black Documents: Freedom.

 
 

MOSAIC LITERARY CONFERENCE: JAMES BALDWIN
November 19, 2016
Bronx Museum of the Arts 1040 Grand Concourse Bronx NY

MOSAIC LITERARY CONFERENCE: BLACK LIVES MATTER

November 21, 2015
Bronx Museum of the Arts 1040 Grand Concourse Bronx NY

MLC2015, focused on the #BlackLivesMatter teachable moments, social and artistic movements that have risen out of Ferguson, MO, Baltimore, MD. and other police and community actions.

MOSAIC LITERARY CONFERENCE: DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS

November 15, 2014
Bronx Museum of the Arts 1040 Grand Concourse Bronx NY

MLC2014 was dedicated to the life of poet and activist Piri Thomas.
Over thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood.  Free Event. 

2013 No conference held

MOSAIC LITERARY CONFERENCE
November 19, 2012
Hostos Community College, Bronx NY

2011 No conference held

MOSAIC LITERARY CONFERENCE
November 5 & 6, 2010
Hostos Community College Bronx, NY

This year we celebrate the 85th anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X and the 45 anniversary of the publishing of The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

MOSAIC LITERARY CONFERENCE
November 7, 2009
Hostos Community College Bronx, NY

Re:Verse Festival 2008
Saturday, October 25
Hostos Community College Bronx, NY

2007 No festival held

Re:Verse Festival 2006
Friday & Saturday, November 10 & 11
Bronx Museum of the Arts

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10, 6-8PM
Film presentation
Youth will be served, and their films showcased as we discover the creative energies that are being developed by local youth filmmakers. The Bronx Museum’s Media Lab and Ghetto Film School’s youth media organizations will each present several short films made by each program’s dynamic young filmmakers.

2005 No festival held

Re:Verse Festival 2004
Saturday, October 2
Bronx Museum of the Arts

A screening of the PBS documentary I’ll Make Me A World, which features Gwendolyn Brooks

Panel
Digitizing Words: Using Digital Media to Express Yourself
Troy Johnson, AALBC.com; DuEwa Frazier, poet and publisher; James Lisbon, AMag founder; Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, poet and blogger

Poetry readings and open mic
Samiya Bashir, R. Erica Doyle, and Cheryl Boyce Taylor

Reverse Festival 2003
Saturday, September 20
Bronx Museum of the Arts

Reverse Festival 2003: Flix, Flow & Freestyle launched the inaugural festival with a strong line-up of some of the smartest wordsmiths–legends from the birth of spoken word to the current group of torchbearers; an open mic session; a panel on independent media and publishing; and film screenings that include a documentary on the life of a seminal poet.

Panel
Vocal Cords: Independent Publishing in a Dependent Age focuses on the urgency and importance of independent media and publishing.
Lisa Moore, Red Bone Press; Annette Atim Otim, Indigo Magazine; Glenda Johnson, The Citizen; and Carolyn Butts, African Voices.

Film screening
A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde

Poetry Reading
Samiya Bashir, Roger Bonair Agard, Willie Perdomo, and Victoria Sammartino