AND THE WOMEN GATHER LITERARY EVENT, APRIL 27, 2024
Moderator
LORNA OWENS
Lorna Owens is the Founder of Footprints Foundation working with governments to reduce maternal and infant mortality in the D.R. Congo, Jamaica,Ethiopia a, Somaliland and USA .
Owens is a former Midwife, Registered Nurse, and also Legal Commentator for Nancy Grace ,HLN and Tru TV In Session, Gender Expert, International Speaker, Executive/ Life Coach and Author who has traveled to over 20 countries teaching and coaching Women's Groups and Organizations and Ministries of Health.
She has appeared on NBC, TBN, and TV in Jamaica, Cayman Island, Bermuda and Curacao. The Miami Herald called her a Pioneer and the Mother of Reinvention; Advance for Nurses says she wows her Audiences.
Owens hold a Certificate in the Science of Wellbeing from Yale University.Also a Certificate in Everyday Chinese Medicine from Chinese University of Hong Kong and Certificate in Mindfulness from Rice University.
Lorna Owens is An Entertainment and Criminal Law Attorney .
Lorna Owens is CEO of Desert Sage Lifestyle Wellness Purveyors of Fine Teas, natural body wash and lotion.
Through Desert Sage Lifestyle Wellness Owens offers month online wellness workshops and Individual Wellness Coaching.
She is the author of My Journey with Food in the Time of Coonavirus, Daily Sustenance and Everyday Grace Everyday Miracle living the life you were born to live.
This Business of Publishing.
Hey you all I have decided to throw this extra feature in the mix.
Dreaming of becoming a published author?
I will be walking you all through the process right from stage.
I am the author of three books. Everyday Grace Everyday Miracle Living the Life you were Born to Live -over 15k copies sold.
Daily Sustenance and My Journey with Food.
Let me walk you through how to self publish, how to position your book in the marketplace and most importantly how to sell lots of books.
Performer
Carol Swarbrick-Dries, internationally known stage and television actress to perform “Ms. Lillian Speaks” at And the Women Gather Literary Jazz Event.
Carol Swarbrick Dries
Broadway: SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM, 42ND STREET, WHOOPEE! (revival ) and GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (revival). Nationally: Leads MAME, HELLO DOLLY!, SWEENEY TODD, WHITE CHRISTMAS.
Television: “The Jeffersons”, “Night Court”, “Murder, She Wrote”, “Columbo”, “General Hospital” and “The Young and The Restless”, “Three Busy Debras” Season 1, episode "Barbra"
Films: “Big Business” “Man Trouble” “Like Father/Like Son”, Dolly Parton’s “Christmas on the Square"
Along with husband, Jim Dries, she wrote MORE THAN A PRESIDENT’S MOTHER The Lillian Carter Story: Best Biographical Play Award in 2016, NYC! Made into a docudrama, “Miss Lillian: More Than a President’s Mother” now streaming
AUTHORS
Shana Smith
Shana Smith was born in Hilo, Hawaii and moved to Gainesville, Florida with her parents and sister as a teenager. She attended the University of Florida and Eckerd College, receiving a Master’s degree and Ph.D. candidacy in Biological Oceanography from the University of South Florida. She has lived for most of her adult life between her “two hometowns” of St. Petersburg and Gainesville, Florida.
For the past twenty-five years, she has been known to many across the state of Florida and the U.S. as the children’s musical persona “Shana Banana” (www.ShanaBanana.com), winning national awards from Parent’s Choice, iParenting, NAPPA, and Just Plain Folks, and receiving two first-round Grammy nominations.
Shana’s first book, “Meditation for Moms and Dads: 108 Tips for Mindful Parents and Caregivers,” was the result of navigating Zen practice while raising her two children. “Islands of Cedars” is her first novel, directly inspired by her love of wild Florida and her wish to celebrate its best qualities while mindfully bringing awareness to current environmental threats, racial inequity, and a need for balanced history. She currently working on her next historical fiction novel, based in Micanopy, Florida.
Islands of Cedars
By Shana Smith
January 1, 1923 – Rosewood Florida, a thriving African-American community in the Jim Crow South, was torched to oblivion by the infamous spark of one white woman’s lie. Six innocent victims and untold gallons of blood and tears were left in the wake of the week-long racist rampage that followed. Terrorized families were left homeless and on the run. Exactly one hundred years later, another spark has begun to burn: Hope. Here in the still wild heart of remote northwest Florida, race and ecology intersect in the small Gulf coast town of Cedar Key, where the past, present, and future of our relationships with each other and the planet converge. With hundreds of souls still without a resting place in both Rosewood and Cedar Key, the first victim of the Rosewood massacre, Sam Carter, is determined to find a way Home with help from the Native ancestors. Meanwhile, three descendants–Sam’s great-grandson, the great-great-granddaughter of Seminole Indian matriarch Polly Emateloye Parker, and the son of the leader of a local Ku Klux Klan group–form an unlikely alliance as they learn to open their hearts and minds to increasing signals from ghosts of the past. By heeding nature, spirit, and their own sense of instinctive connection, they all work together to begin to change the patterns of history.
AWARD WINNING AUTHOR AND ARTIST.
Charles Eady.
Artist Biography
Charles Eady, a mixed-media artist born in South Carolina and currently based in Ocala, Florida, graduated from Claflin University with a BA in Art Education.
An award-winning contemporary artist and author, Eady’s artwork is inspired by and remains focused on the history of free Blacks in the South prior to the Civil War. His painting depicting an early Black jockey titled American Jockey is on permanent display at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, Fl. Eady’s painting, titled Anna and named after a character in his book, Hidden Freedom, won the Grand Prize at the 2021 ArtFields in Lake City, South Carolina.
Through his artwork, Eady strives to disrupt mainstream images of history in the early South with hopes to improve social discord.
Eady was featured in a solo exhibit at the Appleton Museum of Art.
FEATURED CHEF
NORA DE LA VEGA
De La Vega Restaurant, DeLand.
Proud of her Latino heritage, Chef Nora combines tradition and innovation in her creations. Her dishes are definitely an artwork that mix and complement perfectly with ones hanging on our walls.
More about the special bowls we are preparing for your dining inside the theater.
Performer: Shine and The Shakers.
Opening Cocktail Party- Friday April 27,2024 @6pm
Desert Sage Store 101 Artisan Alley.
Become a Table Host:
Leah Miles
Alliance Community (Kristi Tyrell)
City Sanctuary Church
Myra Solomon
Judi Eady
Allison Smith Esq
● Advanced entry to the event
● Meet & Greet with a Speaker/Presenter before the event
● Reserved premier seating for ten guests
● Complimentary champagne toast for you and your guests
● Exclusive hostess gift provided by Desert Sage
● One entry to the grand prize (chance drawing)
● Name recognition from the stage at the event
● Name included in all press releases
● Name included in social media promoting the event
● Name recognition on all signage for the event
● Name recognition on all collateral for the event
● Preferred seating and invitations to other events surrounding And The Women Gather
LUNCH OPTION
Latin Bowl
Guests will have a choice of Chicken or Jackfruit. Each platter is served with rice, beans, small side salad, and sweet plantains.
Drink Station
Drink Station with Dispensers of: Water Hibiscus Tea Butterfly Pea Tea. For Holder of Lunch Tickets ONLY.
SPONSOR
Dr. Dana Cooper, Alvarez Chiropractic
Dr. Cooper provides are variety of holistic services including:
Functional Medicine
Nutrition
Chiropractic
and
Health Education
Book Store
Muse Bookshop-DeLand
Saturday April 27, 2024
Time 10 am-2pm
Athens Theater DeLand
Get your tickets here:
Special Rates at the Courtyard Marriott.
Help Save a Life
We need to raise $5000 to train one midwife at Wisconsin International University, Ghana
SATURDAY NIGHT WE GO TO SEE RENT AT THE ATHENS THEATER
Reservations
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Rent on Saturday April 27, 2024 at 7:30 PM in Athens Theatre
30 Preferred reservations (Balcony Center: CC101, CC102, CC103, CC104, CC105, CC106, CC107, CC108, CC109, CC110, CC111, CC112, CC113, CC114, CC115, DD101, DD102, DD103, DD104, DD105, DD106, DD107, DD108, DD109, DD110, DD111, DD112, DD113, DD114, DD115) at $35.00 each
5 Preferred + reservations (Balcony Left: AA1 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), AA3 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), BB1 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), BB3 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), BB5 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1)) at $41.00 each
5 Preferred + reservations (Balcony Right: AA2 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), AA4 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), BB2 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), BB4 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), BB6 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1)) at $41.00 each
12 Preferred + reservations (Boxes: Left 1 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), Left 3 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), Left 5 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), Left 7 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), Left 9 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), Left 11 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), Right 2 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), Right 4 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), Right 6 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), Right 8 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), Right 10 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1), Right 12 (Please call the Box Office to purchase at 386-736-1500 option 1)) at $41.00 each
These tickets have been reserved until 00:00 on Thursday 11 April 2024
