Latest in a series of posts on the Arts in Bethlehem 
In this post-GeorgeFloyd era of national reckoning with race, our local area has been rich in resources regarding the Black experience in America. One thinks of the Bethlehem Area Public Library programs and resources, the Northampton County Community College “Peace and Social Justice” conference, the “Race & Space in the Lehigh Valley Discussion Series” by the Lehigh Valley Engaged Humanities Consortium, among other things. Are we taking advantage of the opportunities?
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“Touchstone Theatre is a Bethlehem Treasure”
Saturday, October 24, 2:00p
“To be black in America right now is a wound. Nothing seems to exactly describe the pain in my lower back, my chest, blooming between my lungs, hanging so, so heavy in my heart. My grief is miles deep, ancestral deep.”
-Kristina Haynes, Basement Poetry
Join the artists and partners of Basement Poetry for an afternoon of poetry performances about the triumphs and traumas of the Black American experience in 2020. Bring a blanket, sweater, and your support of Black lives! Register here.
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