At the Intersection: An Evening with Cole Arthur Riley
Cole Arthur Riley will spend the evening with us, speaking to our ache in her sharing of Black Liturgies.
Sunday, March 1 @ 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Kehrein Center for the Arts
5628 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60644 (Ward 29) - View on Google Maps
Where does a soul, weary of the performative, find refuge? At the intersection of Black History Month’s ending and Womxn’s History Month’s beginning! Join us as we seek to discover a communal response to this question. None-tired believer and mystic, Cole Arthur Riley will spend the evening with us, speaking to our ache in her sharing of Black Liturgies. As one seeking rest and revelation herself, Cole writes to remind us that stillness is not idleness, Blackness is not a burden, and sacredness has a pulse. We invite you to come and invoke a return to wholeness with us.
Cole Arthur Riley is writer, poet, and author of the instant New York Times bestsellers This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us (Penguin Random House, 2023) and Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human (Penguin Random House, 2024). Arthur Riley is also the creator of Black Liturgies, a space that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body; and a project of The Center for Dignity and Contemplation where she serves as Curator. Her writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. Arthur Riley lives in Ithaca, NY. Learn more at https://blueflowerarts.com/artist/cole-arthur-riley/