Writing Hidden Histories of St. Louis

Name: Writing Hidden Histories of St. Louis
Start: 2021-07-10T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2021-07-10T20:30:00-05:00

Saturday, July 10, 2021 7 PM to 8:30 PM

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This event is part of the Free Public Programs series presented by WashU's Summer Writers Institute.

About the Webinar

Four noted writers passionate about the St. Louis region share their process and insights from recent projects: journalist Sylvester Brown, Jr., memoirist Vivian Gibson, scholar/curator Jasmine Mahmoud, and poet/educator Treasure Shields Redmond. Exploring hidden, forgotten, or still unfolding stories, what challenges has each writer faced? What kinds of creative approaches do writers use to fill in gaps, to bring readers into important but neglected, often painful histories? What techniques of attention, documentation, and imagination can help us capture the history we are living through right now?

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Event Details

Event Type

Lectures & Presentations

Topic

Arts & Culture

Website

https://summerwriters.wustl.edu/calen...

Department

American Culture Studies, School of Continuing & Professional Studies

Hashtag

#paneldiscussion

Event Contact

Sylvia Sukop | ssukop@wustl.edu

Speaker Information

Sylvester Brown Jr. is a former award-winning columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Prior to that, he published Take Five Magazine for 15 years. In 2020, he was awarded the Deaconess Foundation Fellowship to chronicle the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of Black St. Louisans for the St. Louis American newspaper.

Vivian Gibson was raised on Bernard Street in Mill Creek Valley, 454 acres in downtown St. Louis which comprised the nation’s largest urban-renewal project beginning in 1959. She started writing short stories about her childhood memories of the dying community after retiring at age 66. Her memoir, The Last Children of Mill Creek (Belt Publishing, 2020), published when she was 70.

Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud is a curator, arts advocate, and historian of art and performance. In 2020, she curated Abstractions of Black Citizenship: African American Art from Saint Louis at Hedeeen Gallery (Seattle) centering works by five Black artists.

Treasure Shields Redmond, a Mississippi native, is a published poet, master educator, community arts organizer, and successful entrepreneur. She was raised in the federal housing projects, and went on to be signed to M.C. Hammer’s label as a hip hop artist, and writer.