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What’s Happening at Writers & Books?
June 2008 Programs & Events
Book Publication Party: Discovering Patterns in Mathematics and Poetry
by Marcia Berkin & Anne C. Coon
Sunday, June 1, 2–4 p.m
Writers & Books
Free admission
You are invited to join a fascinating journey of discovery, as Marcia Birken and Anne C. Coon explore the intersecting patterns of mathematics and poetry — bringing the two fields together in a new way. Discovering Patterns in Mathematics and Poetry features centuries of creative work by mathematicians, poets, and artists, including Fibonacci, Albrecht Dürer, M. C. Escher, David Hilbert, Benoit Mandelbrot, William Shakespeare, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, E.E. Cummings, and many contemporary experimental poets. Original illustrations include digital photographs, mathematical and poetic models, and fractal imagery. First Fridays
Friday June 6 7:00 pm
Writers & Books
Along with other local galleries and performance spaces, W&B will be open on the first Friday evenings of each month Performance Space.hosting a series of readings and performances in our Verb Café and throughout the building.
Genesee Reading Series
Hosted by: Wanda Schubmehl
Featuring: David Michael Nixon & Ron Bailey
Tuesday, June 10 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 June 10 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, June 12, 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: Ted Lechman on Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank by Robert W. Fuller
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, June 19, 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.
25 & Under
Hosted by Sally Bittner Bonn
Tuesday June 24 at 7:00 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
Free toW&B members and students/ $3 general public
Twenty-five years ago W&B first opened its doors. To celebrate this milestone anniversary we present a 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.
Wide Open Mic
Hosted by: Norm Davis
Monday June 30 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.
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