The Power of Style with Robin Givhan, A'Lelia Bundles, and Maureen Orth May 16, 2008

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post fashion journalist ROBIN GIVHAN, Vanity Fair writer MAUREEN ORTH, and A'LELIA BUNDLES(author of ON HER OWN GROUND..., a biography of her great grandmother Madam C.J. Walker) talk about the power of style from the glittering artists salons of Harlem Renaissance philanthropist and socialite A’Lelia Walker to Washington’s political power brokers and its new rising stars.

This program is FREE and open to the general public as part of The Big Read - D.C. and the city read of THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Big Read - D.C. is presented by the Humanities Council of Washington, DC and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Visit www.wdchumanities.org.

Sponsors for The Big Read - D.C. include the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, The Washington Post, Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), Coca-Cola Mid-Atlantic, The Potomac Chapter of The Links, Inc., Busboys and Poets, and Comcast.

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Arts Midwest. Visit www.neabigread.org.Tickets: http://www.wdchumanities.org/bigread

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