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READING SERIES The first program of the 2011 reading series features two distinguished young novelists, Shane Jones and Elisa Albert. A reception with the authors will follow the reading. Shane Jones is the author of the novella The Failure Six, a book of poems - A Cake Appeared, and the novel Light Boxes, which has been translated into seven languages and was named an NPR Book of the Year in 2010. He has been profiled in Nylon, Interview, BlackBook, and Bomb Magazine, and has had his poetry and fiction appear in more than a hundred literary journals. Penguin Books will release his next novel, Daniel Fights A Hurricane, in 2012. Shane blogs at www.ivomiticecubessowhat.tumblr.com and lives in Albany. Elisa Albert is the author of the novel The Book of Dahlia and the short story collection How This Night is Different, and the editor of Freud's Blind Spot: Writers on Siblings. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Five Chapters, Lilith, Post Road, Washington Square, and a bunch of Anthologies. www.elisaalbert.com. Both writers will be reading from new works-in-progress, and will be interested in conversation after the reading. Schedule: Saturday, July 30th, 8:00 PM General admission: Free Information: info@athensculturalcenter.org. * Elisa Albert will be reading in place of Blake Bulter who was initially scheduled to read. |
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PLAY READING SERIES In Sherry Kramer and Ann Haskell's play, 'Napolean's China', Claire is a mosaist who is breaking valuable antique china that has been in her family for generations and using it to make mosaic tables and vases. Next, she intends to break break the china Napoleon took to Elba, which belonged to her great, great,great, great, great, great, grandmother--Josephine. Naturally, the proposed destruction of Napoleon's historically significant dinnerware horrifies Shepard, the imperious historian who lives across the hall. Will Claire break the china? Will Shep break Claire's heart? A play about personal history, the way it shapes us, the way we hide in it and from it. Virginia Lupone is a full time mother and on the verge of completing her masters degree to teach secondary English. Robert Lupone is a professional actor, a co-artistic director of the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway theatre, MCC Theater, and has recently left his position as Director of the New School for Drama to become a full-time Athens resident. He is much too important to be in this production, and Virginia is just happy to smile with her braces off. Schedule: Saturday, August 20th, 8:00 PM General admission: Free Information: info@athensculturalcenter.org.
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READING SERIES The authors, both home childbirth advocates, read from their recent book, Home/Birth: a poemic. A reception with the authors will follow the reading. Arielle Greenberg is the author of the poetry collections My Kafka Century and Given and the chapbooks Shake Her and Farther Down: Songs
from the Allergy Trials. She is co-editor with Lara Glenum of
Gurlesque. She is an Associate Professor at Columbia College Chicago
and is the founder-moderator of the poet-moms listserv. Arielle served
on the board of the national nonprofit Citizens for Midwifery from
2008-2010, and has been a member of Illinois Families for Midwifery.
She ran a mother's support group, childbirth preparation classes and
did other outreach and office work for Morningstar Midwifery in Maine
and volunteered for the Maine Association of Certified Professional
Midwives; she was also a contributing editor for the chapter on
pregnancy loss for the revised edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Rachel Zucker is the author of Museum of Accidents, The Bad Wife
Handbook, The Last Clear Narrative, and Eating in the Underworld. She
has taught poetry and writing at Yale, Fordham, Columbia and New York
University and the 92nd Street Y. Rachel is a DONA-certified labor
doula who has attended births at home and in the hospital. She has
raised funds for the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services and
Choices in Childbirth and helped to organize the effort to pass the
Midwifery Modernization Act in New York City. She is currently
certifying as a childbirth educator through the Childbirth Education
Association of Metropolitan New York.
In addition to co-writing Home/Birth: a poemic, Arielle and Rachel have co-edited two anthologies together: Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days and Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections. Schedule: Saturday, October 1st, 8:00 PM General admission: Free Information: info@athensculturalcenter.org.
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READING SERIES Poets and visual artists present and discuss their work around the theme of "constructing worlds". Check back soon for the line-up of artists and poets. Schedule: November 12th, 8:00 PM General admission: Free Information: info@athensculturalcenter.org.
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