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What’s Happening at Writers & Books?
June 2003 Programs & Events
Wide Open Mike with Norm Davis
- Friday, June 6, 7:30 pm
- in the Verb Café at W&B
- Open to the public; $2 donation appreciated
W&B is proud to sponsor Rochester’s longest running open mike program, “Wide Open Mike.” Join host Norm Davis, local poet and editor of HazMat Review, in the Verb Café, for poetry, prose, comedy, memoir, and other writing shared by our creative community.
 Regional Playwrights Festival
- Monday, June 9 & June 16
- Geva NextStage, 75 Woodbury Blvd [ map ]
- For showtimes and ticket information, call the Geva box office at 585-232-1363
Both full-length and one-act plays written by regional playwrights have been selected through a competitive process to be read by professional actors at Geva Theatre.
The purpose of this annual collaboration between W&B and Geva is to give promising regional writers a chance to hear their work out loud, and help them rewrite and develop their projects.
Join us for two evenings of great local plays.
Senior Reading Group
- Tuesday, June 10, 2–4 pm
- in the Verb Café at W&B
- Free and open to the public
Join other senior readers and writers in a comfortable, supportive atmosphere, and share your own poetry, prose, and other creative projects. Enjoy lively conversation and a friendly communal experience. Hosted by Norm Davis.
 Spinder’s Budapest
- Thursday, June 12, 7:30 pm
- in the Verb Café at W&B
- Admission $3 members, $6 general public
Stephen Spinder is an internationally recognized photographer. He has photographed Gothic spires, the Hungarian folklore of Transylvania, and, in his newest collection, Budapest Through My Lens: A Solitary Perspective, the neo-classic buildings and monuments of Budapest. Join Stephen in the Verb Café as he talks about his experiences in Budapest, his love affair with the Hungarian culture, and his breathtaking photography.
Women’s Voices
Join W&B for a publication party and reading of a special anthology of writing by women. Work generated for this anthology was part of a 12-session program — partially supported by a grant from the Rochester Area Community Foundation — that brought women together from all across the community, of various ages and backgrounds, to share their life experiences.
Italian-American Cultural Reading
- Friday, June 20, 7:30 pm
- in the Verb Café at W&B
- Admission $3 for members, $6 for the general public
Join us in the Verb Café for a reading by Italian-American authors, celebrating the publication of The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture.
This book is a feast of poetry, stories, and memoir by more than fifty women writers offering “loving celebrations and piercing critiques of every facet of Italian American culture.” The book is a beautiful hardcover edition and will be available for sale.
Several local women have work in the collection and will read at this event: Nancy Caronia, Rachel Guido DeVries, Janet Zandy, and Mary Russo Demetrick.
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered Open Mike
- Tuesday, June 24, 7 pm
- in the Verb Café at W&B
- Open to the public; $2 donation appreciated
The Wilde/Woolf Society presents an informal reading open to all writers, experienced or beginners. Material will focus on (but is not limited to) LGBT lifestyles and issues. Here’s your opportunity to share your creative writing in a friendly, supportive atmosphere. Hosted by Dennis Rosenbaum and published author and W&B instructor Patricia Roth Schwartz.
 W&B’s Screenplay Salon
- Thursday, June 26, 6–9 pm
- in the Verb Café at W&B
- Free to Screenplay Salon club members, $10 W&B members, or $12 general public.
- Contact Karen vanMeenen for details, or 585-473-2590, x104
Truman Capote’s 1966 novel In Cold Blood tells the story of the senseless 1959 slaying of four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. The novel was a best seller, and a year later Richard Brooks made a stark, haunting film, in which Robert Blake delivers what many critics believe is his finest and most chilling performance.
Capote, in writing what he called a “non-fiction novel,” moved to Kansas and established friendships with the convicted killers, the police investigators, and local residents.
Join Democrat and Chronicle critic Jack Garner for a screening and discussion about this controversial, classic American film.
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