HTBAF – I HAVE A NEW ATTITUDE/PERSPECTIVE – JUNE 2021

Friday, June 25th, 8pm

This is a hybrid event.
RSVP if you like to be there in person.
Or use the ZOOM link (Meeting ID: 852 5595 4186) for virtual participation.

I Have a New Attitude/Perspective

Storytellers will tell us about a time they saw someone in a whole new way. They will tell us what changed and why?

STORYTELLERS:

Ysabella Hincapie-Gara-born in Pereira, Colombia SA.-is a married mother of 35-year-old twin sons Phillip and Antoine. She is a retired NYC DOE educator and currently an Adjunct Professor at Lehman College. Ysabella’s Artwork has been exhibited in the USA and Canada. She represents her ideas in stone, bronze, wood, raku, oil painting, collage, drawings, photography, and installations.
Her studies in Marine Biology, Art, Education and Speech-Language-Hearing Disorders led her to an adventurous and fascinating life. Ysabella loves to garden, cook, travel, and swim.

Alexandria Nicole Hooks (Ms. Hooks) originally from Elmont, Long Island, N.Y. currently resides in The Bronx, New York.  She graduated from the oldest Historically Black University (HBCU) in the South, Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C. in 2011. She holds a B.A. in English, with a concentration in Education. Alexandria has taught middle school full-time for 5 years, but has been in the education sector, Youth Development since 2008. Currently, she teaches High School Special Education in Harlem and is in the process of continuing her graduate studies.
For the past 3 years, Miss Hooks has taught English Language Arts (ELA), Special Education, and History in Brooklyn at Brooklyn Ascend Middle School, Reading at KIPP Amp Middle School, and prior to that she was a Citizen Schools Teaching Fellow \ at Bronx Writing Academy and Renaissance School of Arts in East Harlem.
She loves poetry, enjoys singing, traveling, photographing nature and attending cultural events.
One of her favorite quotes is by Dr. Maya Angelou “Let nothing or no one dim the light that shines within.”

Saul Isler has authored four novels, The Cave at Devils Elbow and the mystery trilogy: Babe Ruth Is Missing; Shakespeare Is Missing; Jesus Is Missing (unfinished). This is his third book of short stories, preceded by The Man in the Parking Lot and The Blue Shoes. He has also written two editions of a humorous treatise on the solving of acrostic puzzles, The Majestic Acrostic and
The Majestic Acrostic II. He’s been an ad man, journalist, newspaper columnist, restaurant reviewer and host of “Dining Out” on Radio Sausalito. His work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Onion and in two anthologies, NPR’s I Thought My Father Was God and The Left Coast Writers’ Hot Flashes II. Represented by Pocamug Press, he is a Cleveland native and lives in Santa Monica, California where he may be reached at saulisler@gmail.com.

Anthony King Stonier: