HTBAF – Love in a Pandemic
Friday, February 26th, 8pm
ON ZOOM
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88105551705
Meeting ID: 881 0555 1705
What kinds of love have you experienced during the pandemic? If we’re lucky, we find love in many ways from multiple sources. Storytellers will share their pandemic “love stories”.
STORYTELLERS:
Golda Solomon
Poet, Performer, Artist, Educator and Mom, Adjunct Associate Professor at Manhattan College and The Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY). She is founder and co-host of ArtSpeak/From Page to Performance, ekphrastic writing workshops at Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers N.Y. and Poet-in-Residence.
Solomon hosts and produces Po’Jazz events (Poetry in Partnership with Jazz). Po’ Jazz has performed at the Cornelia Street Café, the Hudson Valley Writer’s Center and the Bahai Center among other venues. Golda is supporter and mentor to women writers, emerging poets, performers, and musicians. Her poetry collections include Flatbush Cowboy and Medicine Woman of Jazz. She is published in numerous anthologies and journals, The Mom Egg Revue, About Place Journal, Sacred Visions, Blind Beggar Press, and other journals. Solomon is currently working on her memoir: Found & Lost In Brooklyn: Blues and Black Ink
Golda continues to perform in the Tri-state area with musicians as a founder and member of The Jazz & Poetry Choir Collective. Solomon believes: We are all Artists! We are all Writers! We are all Poets!
Megan Culhane Galbraith
I’m a writer and visual artist who runs The Dollhouse. I’m also an adoptee. My debut memoir-in-essays, The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child’s Memory Book, is available to preorder and will be published in May 2021. My work was Notable in Best American Essays 2017 and has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. My writing and art is published or forthcoming in Tupelo Quarterly, About Place Journal, Hobart, Longreads Editors’ Picks, Hotel Amerika, Catapult, and Redivider, among others. I am the Associate Director of the Bennington Writing Seminars, and the founding director of the Governor’s Institutes of Vermont Young Writers Institute. You may find my work at www.megangalbraith.com and follow me on Twitter @megangalbraith and on Instagram @m.galbraith and @the.d0llh0use
Steven Hart
Since 1986, Steven Hart has been developing leaders in global companies through his instructional design, facilitation, and consulting and coaching practice. He sees to it that his programs function as individual and organizational turning points, helping professionals deepen, enliven, and commit to the quality of their influence and impact. His years in practice have only fueled his eagerness as a consultant and student of language and conversation.
Hart’s unique facilitation style emerges out of his diverse development story: from advertising to family therapy, from nature-based personal growth programs to theatre, and from his own entrepreneurship to international living and work.
His business experience includes ten years in commercial broadcast talent management with three top New York agencies. He was then director of business affairs at an award-winning film and television production company.
Born in Denver, and raised throughout North America, Europe, and the Middle East, after many years in New York City, Steven Hart lives in Chestnut Ridge, New York.
Michael Stern
Michael Stern was born in Manhattan, New York. This year Michael’s January 6th birthday took on new meaning because of the Insurgence on the US Capitol.
Born into an elite Jewish Modern Orthodox family, he considers his cultural exposure a blessing. Exploring and experiencing Manhattan’s museums, concerts, and galleries, led him to the world of fashion and entertainment, and captured his heart’s purpose.
Michael was 14 years old when the Stonewall riots, the uprising of the LGBT community and the birth of the modern environmental movement, began in New York City. Both these movements rang true to him and he soon became a teen activist.
His life has had some interesting milestones, attending the opening of Studio 54 in 1977, becoming a design assistant, building an international career as an entertainment event designer for billionaires, oligarchs, global players and scores of other “beautiful people”.
After moving to Tel Aviv, Israel, to find his spiritual, biblical roots, marrying and divorcing two Israeli women, becoming the “Happy Father” of three children (now adults), Michael returned to the US. He continued his spiritual inquiry, studied the Kabbalah, became a death doula, and completed his certification to teach Kundalini yoga.
