Junot Diaz Benefit for Columbia Medical Student Free Clinc: Nov 7, 2008
As a follow up to our October 8, 2008 posting on free and low-cost health care in New York City, our friends at Columbia Medical School sent us an announcement about Columbia Student Medical Outreach (CoSMO), a free clinic in operation since 2004. Their website is http://www.cosmoprimarycare.org.
The clinic operates on Saturday mornings in the UrgiCare Center, located on the corner of 166th Street and Audubon Ave in the northern tip of Manhattan. Patients who are interested in more information can obtain details on their website.
Junot Diaz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, will be joining CoSMO for a book reading and conversation on Friday, November 7th at 7:30pm. All proceeds from the reading will go toward prescription medications for CoSMO’s uninsured patients.
The night will also include free appetizers provided by Mamajuana restaurant, old school hip-hop sounds by DJ Strike (former tour DJ of De La Soul), and visual arts by the Sound of Art collective.
The fine print:
Junot Diaz: A Reading, A Conversation
Friday, November 7th at 7:30pm
Alumni Auditorium
William Black Research Building
650 W. 168th Street
New York, NY 10032
Tickets sold online: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/769922
$15 general, $10 with student ID
Some of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was originally published as a short story in the New Yorker Magazine. You can also hear Junot Diaz read excerpts from the book online.
Posted by Matt Anderson
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