An Arts & Activism conference will be held this Saturday all day, and Sunday morning, at 306 W. Franklin Street (in the old Congress Hotel, Marble Bar building), with registration opening at 9:30 AM on Saturday.

It is co-sponsored by the Baltimore Ethical Society and Maryland State Poetry & Literary Society.

Saturday's workshops will dovetail into an open mike, co-hosted by Karla Mancero, Brain E. Langston, Karen Elliot, and others: from 7:30 PM to 10PM. A Sunday panel discussion on Art & Activism from 10:30-noon will close the event and coincide with the regular meeting of the Baltimore Ethical Society. Each workshop costs a $5 donation and reservations can be made at president[NOSPAM]@baltimoreethicalsociety.org; or simply at the door on Saturday, Oct. 16.

The schedule of events that follows is abbreviated, but the Saturday daylong event includes workshops commencing at 10:30AM, 1PM, and 2:45 PM, with two to three options during each time slot.

Abbreviated Schedule of Events:
10:30 AM
DUY / Self-Publishing Workshop led by Carol Mays and Gary Blanchard

Publicity 101 with Dawn Culbertson

1PM - 2:30PM
Poets' Ink Workshop led by Dennis Barnes
Poets' Ink editor Dennis Barnes will look at 2-3 poems by all workshop attendees, and likely choose
one for the Poets Ink broadside, which is published by the Maryland State Poetry & Literary Society. Bring poems to participate.

Creativity for Survival Workshop with Linda Joy Burke

2:45--4PM
Poetry for Change Workshop with Karla Mancero and Brian E. Langston

Activist Drama and Spoken Word with "Ad-Lib"

5PM
A Movie, "The Next Industrial Revolution" by local filmmaker Shelley Morhaim

7:30-10PM Open Mike

Sunday 10:30-noon: Panel Discussion on Arts and Activism featuring UMBC Visual Arts professor Guenet Abraham, Naropa Institute graduate and anthology editor Matt Hohner; and Poems Against War magazine editor Gregg Mosson.