SUNDAY EVENTS!

Come along for a playful, interactive, musical and fantastical hour of imagination and song!

Toni Tipton-Martin (The Jemima Code, Jubilee) and Simone Phillips of Charm City Table discuss Toni's career, what dishes, restaurants, and chefs they're loving; and where they see the Baltimore food scene heading.

R. Eric Thomas introduces his debut YA novel, Kings of B'More. Two Black queer best friends face their last day together with an epic journey through Baltimore. Thomas is a television writer, playwright, and author of Here for It, Or How to Save Your Soul in America. Thomas. He will be in conversation with Lane Clarke, author of the upcoming Love Times Infinity.

What is the future of journalism in Baltimore? Former editor of the Baltimore City Paper Brandon Soderberg (I Got A Monster) talks to Dharna Noor (Boston Globe) and Lisa Snowden (Baltimore Beat).

Writer and activist Sefu Chikelu talks with local memoirists Dr. Lawrence Jackson (Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore) and Baynard Woods (Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness) about complicated histories, family legacies, and grappling with race in Baltimore and America.

The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in Amerca by Dr. Lawrence Brown has had an impact far beyond the bookstore. Dr. Brown will chat with members of the community who were inspired by the book, and are continuing the work. With Myeasha Taylor and Skher Brown of the Black Butterfly Farm Academy at the Farm Alliance of Baltimore.

DewMore Baltimore is a community-based organization dedicated to using art and community organizing as tools to increase community engagement in the greater Baltimore Community. We're pleased to host four of their youth poets in a showcase to close out the festival.