Fatimah Asghar Poet, Screenwriter, Educator, Performer and Author Fatimah Asghar is a multi-talented writer, educator and performer. Her work has appeared in many journals, including POETRY Magazine, Gulf Coast, BuzzFeed Reader, The Margins, The Offing, Academy of American Poets and many others. Her work has been featured on news outlets that include PBS, NPR, Time, Teen Vogue and Huffington Post. In 2011 she created a spoken word poetry group in Bosnia and Herzegovina called REFLEKS while on a Fulbright studying theater in post-genocidal countries. Asghar is a member of the Dark Noise Collective, a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship recipient and a Kundiman Fellow. Her chapbook After came out on Yes Yes Books in fall 2015. She is the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of color and the writer of If They Come For Us (One World, August 2018), a collection of poems that explores the legacy of partition and orphanhood. Along with Safia Elhillo, she is the editor of Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket 2019), an anthology that celebrates Muslim writers who are also women, queer, gender nonconforming and/or trans. A Live Virtual Reading and Presentation, 1 p.m. https://bhcc.webex.com/bhcc/onstage/g.php?MTID=e4ae79bcb713f984efaca654c041a82a3 Password: Bunker To join by phone (audio only): Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada) 1-877-668-4493 Access code: 474 567 617

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The BHCC College Choir and Community Chorus will join together in concert. Selections will include Joel Thompson's “Seven Last Words of the Unarmed,” and “Glory!” from Selma, featuring one of BHCC's own rappers. Community Chorus will premiere “Lament for Ur” by John Jamison. This program will be presented in collaboration with Professor Gustavo Rosa and his students from the VMA program. Riikka Pietilainen-Caffrey, conductor; Leona Cheung and J.J. Thomchick, piano.