All Access Café: A program featuring differently-abled artists

New this year, the All Access Café is a unique series of readings and performances that features differently-abled artists and is ASL-accessible through Deaf Can, Inc. It's sponsored by the Detroit Writer's Guild, the Knight Foundation, Poets & Writers, the Detroit Public Library, Wayne State University and Third Man Records.  In this episode, you'll hear performances from several artists: Ali McManus, a singer, songwriter and motivational speaker  Mark Levin, a poet, musician and production assistant who is deaf. Mark has long been a prolific Slam poet and disabilities activist in his native Chicago and more recently in DetroitDiane DeCillis, a poet. Her collection, Strings Attached, has been honored as a Michigan Notable Book for 2015, won The 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award for poetry, and was a finalist for the Forward Indie Fab Book Award for poetryMona Jean Cedar, a poet, ASL Slam Interpreter, and Disabilities Activist. Her organization Pas d’ASL was designed for one being’s adventure in the evolution and expression of self through dance, sign language and poetryJan Krist an American singer-songwriter from Detroit, a former New Folk Finalist at the Kerville Music Festival, and a founding member of the Yellow Room Gang, a songwriting collective in South-East MichiganFor more information on the artists or the All Access Café, check out the following links: https://www.alimcmanus.comhttps://dianedecillis.com/http://circuitryandpoetry.com/aboutus/AboutUsMonaBio.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/Jan-Krist-Music-and-Art-200018087253052/