Bedtime Story Conservatory 25 20/04/2020

Hey everyone,

Doesn't feel like a Monday, doesn't feel like it's April, doesn't feel like it's time for anything, to do anything, feels like we're all just floating, but hey, i'm glad we all are still on the same planet. Touch the ground, i'll be touching it too with my abnormally large feet. Love you.

Today's reading is 3 poems by Georgia Douglas Johnson, a poet and one of the earliest African-American female playwrights. She was a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural boom, predominantly based in Harlem, Manhattan, NYC, but also in other places, in the 1920's, in which African-American artists, writers and intellectuals developed the area into a centre for black culture. Johnson's house, in Washington D.C., became an important meeting place for writers of the Harlem Renaissance there.

Attached to the beginning and end of the recording is Louis Armstrong's recording of When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) 1929. Armstrong was also a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. 

Here is a link to the reading-

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1znK6n4SsAST7LasAcNALjtzbuq6CZFSV

Here is a link to previous readings-

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t4v042zpGgwI7KN6_ST_tAthqm63J22V

Warm wishes, and with love,

Sam