Literary arts events can sound gatekept, snobbish and, to some, boring. But The Writer’s Garret plans to challenge this narrative with its five-day literary festival Dallas Is Lit!
The Writer's Garret in Oak Cliff will host 14 literary events for the five-day festival Dallas Is Lit!The Writer’s Garret
“In modern culture we place a lot of emphasis on writers, and writing a book, and getting your book onto a list, or your book winning awards," says Aaron C. Glover, executive director. "But for so much of human history, we didn’t actually have books. We were telling stories, and we were engaging language in different ways.”
This event is the first of its kind for The Writer’s Garret and offers a diverse array of programming. The Hear Me, See Me poetry performance takes place at 7 p.m. on May 12 and will be performed in English, Spanish and American Sign Language. Glover says, “40% of the population speaks Spanish [in Dallas], so why wouldn’t we have programming in Spanish?”
Similarly, Inner Moonlight, a monthly poetry series, will be a part of the festival. In honor of its fifth anniversary, the series will present some well-known names.Dallas Is Lit! will also present The Writer’s Garret’s first drag story time for kids. The Texas Senate committee also recently advanced legislation from Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, that would levy a fine of $10,000 on business owners who host sexually explicit drag performances in front of children.“I think it’s important that organizations, as they can, take their stand against that," Glover says."We are not a political organization by any stretch of the imagination.
“It relates to a broader conversation where you see people are trying to legislate language, or they’re trying to legislate what books certain kids have access to," he says."I think that’s indicative of how powerful these things are. … The possibility of the creative power of drag, that possibility of what language can give you, teach you, and open up for you, the possibility of what these ideas that are shared in books across time.
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