Around the World in 80 Photos
Join Ebony Walden for an season of storytelling, poetry, travel, and converation inspired by her memoir Where I’m From: A Poetic Journey Across Five Continents.
Through vivid storytelling and visual imagery audiences journey across the world exploring identity, healing, courage, belonging, and transformation.
Come laugh, reflect, learn, and journey beyond borders.
SEPTEMBER
Tuesday, Sept 8 – Virtual
Virtual Book Launch Celebration
12:00–1:00 PM ET
Around the World in 80 Photos
A visual storytelling presentation featuring photographs and reflections from Ebony’s journey across five continents, followed by audience Q&A.
__
Wednesday, Sept 9 – Richmond, Va
CNTR – 313 W Broad St.
6:30 -8:30 PM
The Where I’m From Experience
An immersive multimedia evening blending poetry, storytelling, photography, and video centered on travel, memory, identity, and becoming.
__
Friday, Sept 11 – Charlottesville, VA
New Dominion Bookshop
7:00-8:00 PM
A bookstore reading and conversation exploring solo travel, poetry, transformation, and the search for home in collaboration with WriterHouse Charlottesville.
(Pre-order through New Dominion)
__
Friday, Sept 18 – Medium Day Craft Talk (Virtual)
8:00-8:30 AM
Beyond Aesthetics: How to Turn One Idea into an Ecosytem
Ebony shares her framework for transforming a single idea into an ecosystem of interconnected work using her book and documentary series as models.
__
Saturday, Sept 19 – Washington, DC
Politics and Prose @ Union Market
7:00 PM
A conversation on travel, Black identity and memory across borders with
Georgetown University Professor of African American Studies, Dr. Robert Patterson
(Pre-order through Politics and Prose)
__
Wednesday, Sept 23 – Long Island, NY
Uniondale Public Library
7:00 PM
Ebony returns to her hometown region for an evening of stories, poetry, photographs, and reflections from around the world.
__
Thursday, Sept 24 – Manhattan, NY
Private Salon hosted by Marci Alboher
6:00 PM
An intimate literary salon exploring reinvention, creativity, travel, and purpose.
Email Ebony for details.
__
Sunday, Sept 27 – Brooklyn, NY
Cafe con Libros
6:00-7:30 PM
Traveling While Black: Black Women on Travel, Identity & Becoming
In conversation with Brooklyn native Dr. Franny the Traveler, author of
Support Black Periodt: A Greenbook to Eliminate Your Ifs, Ands, or Buts and
poet Chet’la Sebree, author of Turn (W)here: A Geography of Home,
exploring Black womanhood, travel, identity, finding home and becoming across borders.
*THIS IS A BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKENDS EVENT
(Pre-order through Cafe con Libros)
OCTOBER Saturday, Oct 3 – Virtual
Wam Bam She Writes Press Story Slam
Substack
3:00 – 4:30 PM
Eleven memoirists will perform a 500 word excerpt or original piece connected to their book. It’ll be fun, dynamic and impactful. More details to come.
__
Tuesday, Oct 6 – Sacramento, CA
Cosumnes River College
12:00-1:30 PM
Borders and Belonging: Geography, Identity, and Transformation
What does it mean to cross borders and who gets to be transformed by the crossing? Ebony joins memoirists Georgine Hodgkinson and Bridey Thelen-Heidel on a panel exploring the relationship between physical place and personal identity Email Ebony for details.
__
Saturday, Oct 10 – Portland, OR
Hosted by Tony Garcia
A community-centered salon featuring stories, poetry, visuals, and reflections on travel and transformation. Email Ebony for details.
__
Tuesday, Oct 12 – Charlottesville, VA
Booked on Planning Book Summit
11:00-12:00 PM
Ebony will be a featured author interviewed at this 1.5 day gathering of urban planners, allied professionals, and book enthusiasts to hear from authors and publishers on literature related to the profession and the publishing process.
__
Friday, Oct 23 – Clarksdale, MS
Travelers Hotel Clarksdale
A dynamic conversation with cultural worker Leonette Henderson on Black identity,
freedom, travel and becoming.
Saturday, Oct 24 – Helena-West Helena, AR
Delta Dirt Distillery
A reading and talkback centered on stories exploring what it means to be
Traveling While Black across the world. More details to come.
__
Thursday, Oct 29 – Virtual
CoGenerate Webinar
1:00-1:30 PM
A dynamic conversation with journalist, storyteller, and media entrepreneur Ruby Jones exploring the intergenerational themes at the heart of Where I’m From: A Poetic Journey Across Five Continents. Together, they’ll discuss how relationships across generations deepen our understanding of identity, culture, service, and belonging, and why those connections matter more than ever in an increasingly divided world.
__
NOVEMBER Tuesday, Nov 3 – Richmond, Virginia
No. 303, 2nd Floor
7:00-8:30 PM
Black Women on Becoming: Exploring Identity, Belonging and Finding Home Within
An intimate exploration of becoming in conversation with Rev. Dr. Lacette Cross, author of Faithfully Free: A Womanist Journey on Sex, Faith and Becoming and Patricia Bradby Moore, author of Blackiness: Reflections on Race and Ethnicity from a Biracial Millennial.
__
Wednesday, Nov 11 – Chicago, IL
Women & Children First
7:00- 8:30 PM
In conversation with Deborah D. Douglas author of The U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler’s Guide to the People, Places, and Events That Made the Movement this event will explore Black diasporic travel, cultural memory, movement, and the impact of place on Black identity.
__
Thursday, Nov 12 – Evanston, IL
Zora’s Place
6:30-8:00 PM
In conversation with Cynthia Okechukwu. of Black Girls Read Chicago, this event will explore Black travel, cultural memory, storytelling, movement, and the transformative power of place.
__
Friday, Nov 13 – Detroit, MI
Source Booksellers
6:30 PM
Eating Around the World: Stories, Culture & Connection
An evening of stories and readings exploring food, memory, hospitality, and cultural connection across the diaspora.
__
Sunday, Nov 15 – Detroit, MI
Easy Peasy/Lowkey Cinema
5:00 PM
Black Food and Culture Across the Diaspora: Black Beyond Borders Screening
In collaboration with Chef Chi Walker this dynamic evening will feature a screening of Black Beyond Borders Season One: Dakar, Senegal, diasporic bites and conversation celebrating Black life across the African diaspora. Email Ebony for details.