1. Central Arkansas Sphinx Foundation Hosts, “Basics 101: Irrigation” Workshop
2. Youth Advocate Resource Network (YARN) Presents Its Arkansas Author’s Children’s Book Festival
3. The Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. National Arts & Letters Commission Presents Its Delta Authors on Tour in the Southwest Region
4. Pyramid Art, Books, and Custom Framing Hosts Book Signing with Author and Pianist Samantha Ege – South Side Impresarios
| You’re Invited to Meet Author & Pianist Samantha Ege |
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| Discussion, Book Signing and Performance Sunday, April 13, 2025 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Please watch Facebook Live |
| ABOUT SOUTH SIDE IMPRESARIOS |
| Between the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local yet widely resonant Black classical music community entwined with Black civic life. Samantha Ege tells the stories of the Black women whose acumen and energy transformed Chicago’s South Side into a wellspring of music making. Ege focuses on composers like Florence Price, Nora Holt, and Margaret Bonds not as anomalies but as artists within an expansive cultural flowering. Overcoming racism and sexism, Black women practitioners instilled others with the skill and passion to make classical music while Race women like Maude Roberts George, Estella Bonds, Neota McCurdy Dyett, and Beulah Mitchell Hill built and fostered institutions central to the community. Ege takes readers inside the backgrounds, social lives, and female-led networks of the participants while shining a light on the scene’s audiences, supporters, and training grounds. What emerges is a history of Black women and classical music in Chicago and the still-vital influence of the world they created. A riveting counter to a history of silence, South Side Impresarios gives voice to an overlooked facet of the Black Chicago Renaissance. $24.95 (Paperback) |
4. [Registration Open]Arkansas Minority Health Commission Hosts Its 2025 State of Minority Health Convening
5. Ashley’s Kloset Hosts It Boots and Bling Fundraiser for Disability Awareness in Arkansas
6. ReMix Ideas and Pine Bluff Black Chamber of Commerce Host Pine Bluff AI Summit
