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August 2003 Programs & Events

Wide Open Mike with Norm Davis

• Featuring Southern California Poet Lawrence Berger
• Friday August 1, 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,” hosted by Norm Davis, local poet and editor of HazMat Review.

The Earl Cram Review Benefit Concert

• Friday August 8, 8 pm
• in the Verb Café at W&B
• All donations greatly appreciated.

The Earl Cram Review has generously offered to arrange and host this benefit concert to aid W&B, Rochester’s one and only non-profit literary center. You can help, too. Join us for an evening of music, poetry, and surrealistic games. All donations greatly appreciated. Money raised will help W&B continue to offer great literary and creative programming to children and adults in our community.

Senior Reading Group

• Tuesday August 12, 2–4 pm
• in the Verb Café at W&B
• Free and open to the public.

Share your writing with other senior readers and writers in a comfortable, supportive atmosphere. Hosted by Norm Davis.

Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered Open Mike

• Thursday August 14 ,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 everyone. Material will focus on (but is not limited to) LGBT lifestyles and issues. Hosted by Dennis Rosenbaum and published author and W&B instructor Patricia Roth Schwartz.

Finger Lakes Writing Workshops in Poetry & Prose

• August 11–August 15, 2003
• At the Gell Center of the Finger Lakes
• Instructors:
  • Poetry: Antonio Vallone [ bio] [ interview ]
  • Fiction: Dave Kress [ bio ]
• $375 members, $395 non-members includes meals

The Finger Lakes Workshop is one of our most popular and anticipated classes of the year. The week-long format helps students concentrate on their work for five intensive days of study. Meals provided. Overnight accommodations available in Naples. For more information contact Nick DiChario, , 585-473-2590 x101.

Workshop Reading

• Friday August 15, 7 pm
• in the Verb Café at W&B
• Free and open to the public.

A reading and book signing by students and teachers from the Finger Lakes Writing Workshops in Poetry & Prose.

Bukowski Open Mike Night

• Saturday August 16, 7:30 pm
• in the Verb Café at W&B
• Free and open to the public.

Celebrate the birthday of Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) by reading one of your favorite Bukowski poems and listening to others share theirs. Hosted (with a brief introduction) by East Irondequoit poet laureate Robert Drojarski.

W&B’s Screenplay Salon

• Thursday August 21, 6–9 pm
• in the Verb Café at W&B
• $10 members, $12 non-members for the series through September 2003
• Contact Karen vanMeenen for details. or 473-2590 x104

Each month join Democrat and Chronicle film critic Jack Garner for a discussion and screening of a critically acclaimed film.

The Year of Living Dangerously

Australian Peter Weir directs this excellent film set in the political maelstrom of 1965 Indonesia, starring Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver. 1983, rated PG.

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