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November 2008 Programs & Events

Visiting Writers Series : Christopher Kennedy

Thurs. Nov. 6, 7 p.m.
$3 W&B members, $6 general public

Poet Christopher Kennedy Author of Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death.

First Fridays

Friday, November 7 6:00 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
Free

Along with other local galleries and performance spaces, W&B will be open on the first Friday evenings of each month hosting a series of readings and performances in our Verb Café and Performance Space.

Genesee Reading Series

Hosted by: Wanda Schubmehl
Featuring: Leah Zazulyer & Deanna Ferguson
Tuesday, November 11 7:30 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
$3W&B members, $6 general public

Now in its 23rd year, the Genesee Reading Series presents writers from the greater Genesee Valley region reading in the Verb Cafe. Learn more about our featured authors.

Senior Reading Group

Tuesday November 11 2:00 pm- 4:00p.m.
In the Verb Café at W&B
Free and open to the public

Share your writing with other seniors in a comfortable, supportive atmosphere at W&B.

The Bertrand Russell Society

Hosted by: Dr. David White
Thursday, November 13, at 7:00 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
Admission: Free to W&B Members; $3/General Public

This ongoing lecture series promises to enlighten and entertain. Monthly meetings are open to everyone, not just members of the Bertrand Russell Society.

This Month: Alfred Geier on Heraclitus and the Logos.

During the late 1920s and early 30s, Bertrand Russell, then a world-famous philosopher, did a series of three books for Horace Liveright, the New York publishing house which had invented the Modern Library and was well known for publishing controversial authors. Russell's books and the U.S. lecture tours he took at the same time were all great successes. Some of his ideas for reform of self, marriage, education and society are taken for granted today, others have been rejected, but the study of Russell's popular advocacy between the wars provides us with a unique portrait of what the American mind was seeing and thinking about during what came to be called the Jazz Age..

David White
Dr. White teaches philosophy at St. John Fisher College, is president of the New York State Philosophers Association, and is a founder of the Greater Rochester Russell Set.

For further information, call 415-5925 or e-mail: tmadigan@rochester.rr.com

Open History Reading Group

Hosted by: Steve Huff
Thursday, November 20, at 7:00 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
Free to W&B members, $3 general public

Join us for meetings of an open history-reading group. In these gatherings we choose historical topics rather than specific books, and then you choose a book on the subject that most interests you. The discussions are convivial, exciting, and informative.

Wide Open Mic

Hosted by: Norm Davis
Moday November 24 7:30 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
Free to W&B members, $3 general public

W&B is proud to sponsor Rochester's largest running open mike, hosted by Norm Davis, poet and editor of HazMat Review. Known for its eclectic mix. Wide Open Mike welcomes poets, performers, and writers of all kinds.

25 And Under

Hosted by: Sally Bittner Bonn
Tuesday November 25 7:00 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
Free to W&B members, $3 general public

More than a quarter century ago W&B first opened its doors. To celebrate that milestone anniversary we initiated a brand new monthly reading series featuring writers who are 25 and younger. Join us as we discover a new generation of writers for the next quarter century.

Shelly Font, poet, has been writing for as long as she can remember but didn’t get serious about her writing until eleventh grade. During her junior and senior years in high school, she was involved in the literary magazine and was also a reader at Creative Juices, an after school activity where students read poetry and perform songs. She graduated in 2008 from Victor High School and is now attending Finger Lakes Community College where she is enjoying her creative writing class.

Brian Guthrie, a student at MCC plans to transfer to the University of Pittsburgh. Most of his poetry is loosely based around experiences with, and observations of, the working class lifestyle. The first book he ever recalls reading was "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Siverstein. “I'd love to say that my motives for being drawn to poetry were pure, but when I was young, poems seemed easier to read than stories because they were shorter. And I had an awful attention span.” In high school and afterwards (while he worked for various factories in the area) he wrote mainly as an outlet. When he returned to college at the age of 23, he decided to pursue writing and poetry as a possible career path.

Laura Jones, from Italy and Gorham, NY, now lives in Rochester. She majored in sculpture at Pratt Institute and took two years off to work as a jeweler during which time she says she noticed a fleet of words sailing around her head just waiting to be arranged. Her encouraging professor of analytical writing at Monroe Community College suggested that she write poems, “So,” she says, “I've evolved to making word sculptures.”

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