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December 2008 Programs & Events

First Fridays

Friday, December 5 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.

Senior Reading Group

Tuesday December 9 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, December 11, 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: Thomas Flynn on “Confessions of an Encyclopedist.”

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 forpublishing 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

2 Pages/2 Voices Winners Announced

December 15, at 8:00 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
Free to W&B members, $3 general public

Al’s Stand, by Wendy Low
Flowers for Amy, by Allan Howe
Station Break, by Kelly Yoho
Multiplex, by Robert Hutter
Dr. Chee, by Garrett Hughes
Unauthorized Burrito, by Maria de la Cruz and Karl Obine
Timing is Everything, by Ted Wenskus
Name Game, by Henry Williams
Tomorrow, by Lindsay Infantino
Long-Term Relationships, by Terry Lehr

Open History Reading Group

Hosted by: Steve Huff
Thursday, December 18, 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.
 

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