NAROWSBURG — The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA) "Written Word, Spoken Word" literary series continues its Sunday afternoon reading series on Sunday, March 19 with a performance by Olivia Armstrong, a Monticello poet, dancer, performance artist and motivational speaker.

Armstrong is founder and director of Armstrong Winners Enterprises, which runs the Rainbow Healing Dance Center in Monticello. The center offers an alternative method of healing through dance by raising the chi, or universal life force, and by directing healing energy. Rainbow healing dance techniques are designed, says Armstrong, "to rejuvenate, relax and revitalize the body, creating a more youthful appearance and clarity of mind."

In addition to healing dance, Armstrong Winners Enterprises offers poetry workshops and has created poetry and dance performances on a number of topics, including "Single Parents," "The Truth About Racism" and "You’re Never Too Old."

Armstrong has formal training in both social welfare and African dance, and has conducted workshops and held performances in churches, elementary schools, universities, correctional facilities, art galleries and senior centers. She has performed dramatized readings and dances in Africa, the Virgin Islands, Bahamas and the Jamaican West Indies. Armstrong is the 1997 recipient of the National Poetry Video Festival Award and has published several books, including "Words of Wisdom," "Weathering the Storm," "A Message to the Children of the World" and "Life Journey." She performed this summer at the OUTLOUD Festival in Grahamsville.

The performance will be held at 2:00 p.m. on the second floor of the Arts Alliance in Narrowsburg. A $3 donation is requested. A reception will follow the performance, providing an opportunity to meet and speak with Armstrong.

"Written Word, Spoken Word" is planning to cap off its literary series with an evening reading by renowned writer and fly fisherman Austin McK. Francis, author of "Land of Little Rivers." Francis will read and discuss his work on Saturday, April 8 at 7:00 p.m.

This series is made possible in part with public funds from the Literature Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and was curated by Mary Greene. For more information call DVAA at 914/252-7576.