A huge shoutout to Young Lions Roar wrapping up National Poetry Month with us last Friday! They started the day visiting and working with our 5th and 6th graders on creative writing and poetry. We finished the day with a Poetry Showcase after school where 12 of our Lions shared poems in front of a […]
A special “Spoken Word” event will take place tonight, Wednesday, May 10th at 6:30 pm at Augustana College. There is a live performance by local spoken word artist, Aubrey Barnes. Poems from incarcerated students in the Augustana Prison Education Program will also be read.
We’re back with more Alternating Currents recommendations from The Echo! This time the picks are from local creative Aubrey Barnes (Aubs.) This year Alternating Currents is trickling into Downtown Rock Island and we’re incredibly excited to see one of those venues highlighted here! Here are his picks:
The Bishop Hill Creative Commons is hosting the second-annual Bishop Hill Book Fair on Saturday July 24th, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., where you can meet local authors in their natural habitat. Attendees can hear them speak and read from their recent work. Aspiring authors can attend workshops on cultivating the writer within. Books […]
Last year, spoken-word artist Aubrey Barnes and singer-songwriter Delores Westbrook-Tingle partnered to make a new song that summarizes what United Way of the Quad Cities is all about – “Together.” That inspiring song – which kicked off the July 2019 unveiling of United Way’s African-American Leadership Society (AALS) and was part of the September 2019 […]
