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Celebrate Juneteenth
The Midtown Scholar Bookstore hosts author, poet, and scholar Chet’la Sebree for a Mainstage conversation celebrating her new essay collection, TURN (W)HERE, with novelist and poet Clare Beams. This free program requests an RSVP and launches the bookstore’s Third Fridays author series. Sebree’s collection examines what home, inheritance, and belonging can mean as she moves through the world as a single, queer, Black, chronically ill American woman. She reflects on years of near-constant moves that began at eighteen, a love of travel tempered by the pull to establish roots, and a solo fertility journey that intensified questions of place and possibility. The essays weave intimate storytelling with lyrical reflection, research, and cultural critique, following journeys across states and abroad to consider how to build a life within a nation with a fraught relationship to its Black citizens. The work imagines new futures and suggests that home may be a set of circumstances that allows someone to become a fullest self. Sebree is the author of Blue Opening, longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, Field Study, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Mistress, selected by Cathy Park Hong for the New Issues Poetry Prize and nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Poetry. Her writing appears in anthologies including Four Hundred Souls and This Is the Honey. She is an assistant professor of English at George Washington University. Beams is the author of The Garden, The Illness Lesson, and the story collection We Show What We Have Learned, with recognition that includes a New York Times Editors’ Choice, the Bard Fiction Prize, longlists for major awards, and fellowships from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches in the Randolph MFA program. Parking is available in the bookstore’s lot behind the store and around the neighboring Broad Street Market. Metered street parking can be paid through the ParkMobile app.
Midtown Scholar Bookstore3RD IN THE BURG - JUNE
The June edition of 3rd in the Burg fills the café with activity, from browsing local handmade jewelry and crochet to meeting a local children's book author unveiling a new release and sitting for a tarot reading. The café will offer its full drink menu along with sweet treats. This will be the largest 3rd in the Burg at this location to date, with many local creatives sharing their work.
Zoomba
A free Zoomba dance fitness class at Bethesda Mission Community Center offers about 60 minutes of upbeat movement set to music, with an estimated 500 to 1,200 calorie burn. Donations are welcome.
Bethesda Mission Community CenterCumberland Honey Album Release Party
The Abbey Bar hosts an album release celebration from Cumberland Honey with support from Rivers. Advance tickets are $15, day-of pricing is $20, and a $75 VIP package includes general admission, early entry for a special acoustic performance by Cumberland Honey, a copy of the Sweet Talk album, and a Cumberland Honey T-shirt. This show is open to all ages, and guests under 21 must attend with a parent or guardian who is at least 25 years old. For every ticket sold, $1 will be donated to the Harrisburg High School Music Program.
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