Beginning at 6 p.m. on June 26, a special event will take place in Grice’s Recreation Center at 603 Gurley Street in Marion.
Poet Thomas Reginald Bridges and other authors and artisans will showcase their works during an event designed to enhance literacy, under the umbrella of Black Women Wearing Hats to church. Bridges, with Marion’s Christopher Davis, were highlighted during the Dillon-Marion Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. annual “Reading in the Park” on June 6 in the Historic Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church in Mullins.
Other participants included Pastor M.S. Jackson of Mt. Olive Seventh Day Adventist Church, Sorority members Harriet Williams, Yasmine Bethea, Lisa Seabrook and Fannie Mason. The Dillon-Marion Alumnae Chapter Delta Academy-Gem Step Team also performed. Bridges made himself available to autograph books for the people who purchased copies after the event.
Davis is a milliner who has been working to create a National Hall of Fame for Black Women Who Wear Hats to Church and a National Association of Black Women Who Wear Hats to Church. The primary objective is to raise readers in the Black community via enhancing literacy. Davis has partnered with the Dr. Arthenia Jackson Bates-Millican Foundation to ensure the success of his literary-arts foundation. Millican’s life and works span 87 years bridging the distinctions that often separate the intellectual from the natural and intuitive, the mind from the heart and the academic from the commonplace concerns of ordinary people.
Her work spanned poetry, narrative and discourse bridging reality into creativity while her heart embraced and bridged cultures, classes, time and place. She wrote from a life of rich diversity and is often compared with Paul Laurence Dunbar, Zora Neal Hurston and Dr. Edward Gaines. A documentary created by Millican’s family will be shown during the event at Grice’s Recreation Center.
Richard Jones, of Charlotte and President of the Foundation, will be there to share her works. Bridges and other guest authors will autograph their works after the program.
Dinner will be served, so RSVP to Davis at (843) 423-1684 or send him an e-mail at christophersoriginals@yahoo.com Davis said the event is not a racial or bias event and all are welcome to attend.
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