Tag: music

• 2025 Lenten Artists Salon Series

  Simone Monique Barnes hosts an annual gathering of artists and creative thinkers for virtual living room-style conversations, in the tradition of the Harlem Renaissance. This seven-week salon series of artist-led, artist-centered conversations uses a mix of art, music, poetry, dance, essays, film, current events, and/or spiritual texts as springboards for dialogue and community. Salons are…

  Simone Monique Barnes

  March 21, 2025

  General

  art, artist-salons, artists, dance, literature, music, Poetry

• Sometimes it snows in April

  I grew up in the northeast, where life is lived in four seasons. There’s summer, when it is hot and humid, sunny, and bright, equally tiring and energizing. There’s fall, with crisp air, apple picking, and landscapes adorned by trees of both evergreen and ever changing colors of leaves. There’s winter, when the joys of…

  Simone Monique Barnes

  April 22, 2021

  Americana, Arts, Black History and Culture, Literary Arts, Performing Arts, Sermons, Simone Monique Barnes

  Emotions, Feelings, Grief, Lyrics, music, Pandemic, Poetry, Prince, racism, Snow, Spring

• Giving Thanks For Heavy D

  Thanksgiving is a day for reminiscing and being thankful for bounteous harvests, for friends, for family, for blessings, for being alive. We’re even thankful for television moments that bring us together, making us laugh, celebrate, and reminisce. Perhaps for you the holiday invokes Theo and Heathcliff Huxtable carving a turkey in faux Julia Child voice.…

  Simone Monique Barnes

  November 25, 2011

  Arts, Black History and Culture, Cultural Integrity, Nation Building, Performing Arts

  Heavy D, hip-hop, music