A conversation between musician and author Antionio Michael Downing and Kaylan Waterman, musician and host of Detroit’s Kumbuka, an annual remembrance of African Americans in the literary arts. Antonio Michael’s new book, Saga Boy; My Life of Blackness and Becoming, is being released in Canada this month and in the U.S. in September. Written, in part, in our own northern Michigan, Saga Boy tells the harrowing story of the 11-year old Antonio Michael’s displacement from the rainforest of Trinidad to the snowy wilderness of Canada when his beloved grandmother died and his subsequent metamorphosis.
Blackness & Becoming promises a captivating conversation between Downing and Waterman, as well as an opportunity for Q&A and audience comment.
Join event hosts the NMC Library and Title Track, on Saturday, Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. via zoom: nmc.zoom.us/j/