Join A Book Club & Writing Workshop!

Urban Health Plan has partnered with the Literary Freedom Project to present an engaging book club & writing workshop focusing on Melissa Coss Aquino's bestseller Carmen and Grace.

THURSDAYS: July 11, 18, 25, August 1, & 8, 5-6:30pm
El Nuevo San Juan Health Center
1065 Southern Boulevard, Bronx
Scarlet Gomez, facilitator

LIVE EVENT
Thursday, August 8, 5pm, Melissa Coss Aquino will join the conversation.

Melissa Coss Aquino is a Puerto Rican writer from the Bronx. She received her MFA from The City College of New York, CUNY, and her Ph.D. from The Graduate Center, CUNY in English. She currently works as an Associate Professor in the English department at Bronx Community College, CUNY.

Inspired by the Bronx-based novel Carmen and Grace by Melissa Coss-Aquino, a Bronx native, the workshop and book club will prioritize wellness by promoting reading and creativity and encourage community participants to explore their cultures and histories while building on the narratives featured in the reading selections.

Carmen and Grace is an emotional coming-of-age drama about two cousins from the Bronx lured into the drug trade at a young age and the ties that bind them as one seeks power and the other a way out.

You can also register by contacting
Andrea Sofia Matos, Arts & Wellness Coordinator
Call 347.313.2717
Email arts@urbanhealthplan.org
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Urban Health Plan (UHP), a system of Federally Qualified Health Centers, is leading an exciting, one-of-a-kind Arts and Wellness initiative that aims to improve the health and well-being of patients through the power of art! Within the walls of their health centers and through provider prescriptions to art and wellness experiences in the neighborhoods where patients live, the goal of UHP’s Arts For EveryBody program is to revitalize their communities by bringing joy, unity, and hope back into people's lives.