Yonkers First Poet Laureate and Blue Door Art Center Poet-in-Residence, Golda Solomon, created and facilitates the following creative writing workshops and community outreach events/series, in part funded by Poets and Writers.
Playdates with Po’Jazz
Poetry and Jazz in performance and improvisation
Poet Laureate Community Outreach Series
Gerard Flynn, Ass’t Director BDAC exhibition and membership information
Partially funded by Poets &Writers
4th Sundays 2-4 PM
Free Admission and snacks
Featured house ensemble includes: Christopher Dean Sullivan- Jazz Griot/Bassist, David Lowe-Keyboard, Ayana Lowe-Vocalist with Golda Solomon on Word.
Guest musicians and poets Spring 2025 include: JD Parran-Reeds, Jason Kao Hwang-Violin/Viola, Rosemary George, Vocalist, Katori Walker and EJ Antonio-Poetry
Guest poets and musicians
Jam mic for poets and musicians
Audience is welcome to bring a Pot Luck and libation Art
Table for kids so parents may enjoy a lap free event
Artists welcome to set up their easel and create
Po’Jazz began in 1999 at the Hudson Valley Writers Center, for many years at The Cornelia Street Cafe, traveled to colleges and jazz clubs and is happily and creatively in residence at BDAC.
New Journal! Hello Hudson, the Hudson as Muse, the Hudson as Teacher
“Summer of 2023 provided an opportunity for the workshop series partially funded by Poets & Writers and with gracious thanks to Blue Door Art Center and Beczak Educational & Environmental Center and encouraged participants to focus on the Hudson River as both teacher and muse. July and August Saturday afternoons co-hosted by yours truly, Deborah Maier, Debbi Dolan, Katori Walker and Andrea Wolper gave writers and artist/writers an opportunity to focus all writing in poetry, prose and non-fiction and creations of art on water and the Hudson River, its history, its majesty. Ekphrastic prompts, poems written about the Hudson, newspaper articles, meditations- all were used to jump-start the writing. An amazing body of work emerged and it soon became evident that these pieces needed to be shared.”- golda solomon
