2010      
Fri July 23  Greensboro, NC The Healing Passage/ Voices From The Water screening and dialog with the filmmaker at International Civil Rights Center and Museum 6:30 p.m. 134 So Elm St.(at Elm and Feb. 1 Place) 336/ 274-9199 www.sitinmovement.org
  Sat July 24
Greensboro, NC Book signing at Borders Books, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
3605 High Pt. Rd @ Holden 336/ 218-0662
 
  Fri July 30 Beaufort, SC Featured poet, Poetry and Pancakes literary series 8:30 p.m. at Teen Center of the Girls Club 1211 Harrington St.
 
  Wed  July 28 Columbia, SC
Book signing, Books-A-Million, 7 to 9 p.m.  164 Forum Dr. Columbia, 29229  (Hwy 20 to Clemson Rd.)  803/ 788-434
 
Fri/Sat
Aug 27th, 28th
Los Angeles THE EMMETT TILL PROJECT Highways Performance Space, in the 18th St. Arts Complex 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404 1/2 block N. of Olympic/ access from Olympic only.

Kevin Spicer produces this new group of performance works and visual arts commemorating the 55th anniversary of the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till. With performance artists Christopher Benson, Mark Broyard, David Crittendon, Jason Luckett, J.M. Morris, Paul Outlaw, S. Pearl Sharp, Kevin Spicer, Pat Taylor, and visual artists Alisa Adona,Lori-Antoinette, George Evans, Candace Hunter, Robert Lowden, Toni Scott and others.

Tickets and Reservations: 310/ 315-1459 www.highwaysperformance.org
 
Sept. 17-18-19 New York City RACCA's (Richard Allen Center for Culture and Art) Seaport Salon presents Stunningly Beautiful Black Girl -- I Can't Believe I'm Laughing About This!, a celebration of the career and cultural aactivism of S. Pearl Sharp. Includes screenings of Hollow Image, Mistrel Man, Central Avenue Live!, Picking Tribes and per-formances of S. Pearl's work by Vinie Burrows, Nora Cole and others. All events at Shooting Star Theater, 40 Peck Slip, NY, NY 10038 Ticket info: 917/ 239-6690 www.raccaseaportsalon.com
Sep 24-26 Vermont TLA - Tranformational Language and Arts Conference,
@ Goddard College www.TLA.org.
 
Friday 9/24/10, S. Pearl presents "Typing In The Dark: An Evening of Mixed-Media Poems."

Saturday, 9/25 she presents the workshop Reclaiming Your Ancestral Power.

  Fall   Premiere of "Redeemer," a short film by Erma Elzy Jones, starring S. Pearl, C.J. McBath, and Darryl Alan Reed.  
 
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No Accident

The road to Khan Younis
stretches across the stomped roots
of decapitated olive trees
a road new and wide
and for Israelis only.
Palestinians shoulder its divide and
wait for permission to cross.

Perhaps if there was an accident
a careening of
Israeli car with
Palestinian truck
at the Abu Holi checkpoint
just outside Gaza city

Perhaps a big accident and
people did what people do
in that moment
abandon the rules of civil war
They would, without speaking,
make a bandage from the woman’s
headscarf, find someone who doctors
lock shoulder to arm to
heave the vehicle from its tilt,
dangling off the
damned edge of occupation

Unseen by the tanks of the world
no one would tell
no one would forget
the moment when
the memorized litany of hate
was held at bay
a tourniquet bound tight by
human emergency

On the road to Khan Younis
where, oh
where is an accident
when we need one?


S. Pearl Sharp


c. 2002 S. Pearl Sharp / Poets Pay Rent, Too

            

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