- The Live Ladies of Literature: Adra L. Young & Tracy E. Christian
Zoom zoom up I-94 freeway off the ramp onto service drive over to Woodward turn at red light past David Whitney Mansion at Forest to Cass past Twingo’s Euro Café and Cass Café and Marwil’s and Barnes and Noble on towards Ferry Street to get South End photographer Tyler to drink a bucket of beers before heading to Virgil H. Carr Cultural Arts Center for a “twilight evening” with Tracy E. Christian and Adra L. Young and a much-hyped presentation of “The Live Ladies of Literature: The Mocha Monologues From The Inside Showing Out, Male Edition.”
Chilling weather and deep snow did not stop the show. Detroit’s art community came out to show solidarity and support. An eclectic collection of musicians, poets and writers intermingled with bright lights, merchant vendors and pepper-jack cheese trays while a Cincinnati artist named “Wisdom” served pink bubbly wine to dilettante crowds and thirsty paparazzi. Dr. Janice K. Connor gave extemporaneous mini-lectures on faith and God and the virtues of Timothy 1:7, hoping to persuade anyone listening to purchase her new book, Propelling Faith. Comic and playwright, Heather J. Henderson chatted with authors Monique Mensah and Cheryl Lynn Pope while filmmaker Lenderrick Jones snapped BlackBerry Curve shots of Kimle Mitchell and Trinity Film Coalition founder’s Janaya Black, Rockey Black and Marshalle Montgomery. Over by the cash-bar I stood with entrepreneur Ken Bryant and his younger brother Aaron, discussing a documentary project on Detroit history. FocusOne Entertainment filmed the spectacles while artist and story-teller Sandra Epps painted faces and henna tattoos at a distant vendors-table….(continue)
