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December 2007 Programs & Events

The Coldest Winter by David Halberstan

Wednesday December 5 7:00 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
Free and open to the public

30 minute screening will be followed by a penel discussion. The A Lift Bridge Book Shop literary event.

Genesee Reading Series

Hosted by: Wanda Schubmehl
Featuring: Barbara Dimmick & Vincent Golphin
Tuesday December 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 December 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.

Publication Party for Uncensored Songs for Sam Abrams

December 12, 2007, 7 p.m
In the Verb Café at W&B
Free and open to the public, contributions gratefully accepted.

Publication Party for Uncensored Songs for Sam Abrams, published by Spuyten Duyvil Press. There will be readings by Sam Abrams and by other poets. This collection is a tribute to Sam on his retirement from teaching at RIT.

The Bertrand Russell Society

Hosted by: Dr. David White
Thursday, December 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.

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

Wide Open Mic

Hosted by: Norm Davis
Monday Devember 17 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 & Under

Hosted by Sally Bittner Bonn
Tuesday December 18 at 7:00 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
Free toW&B members and students/ $3 general public

12 & Under:
Please join us at Writers & Books on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 7 p.m. for a reading by younger writers. Anyone who is interested in reading as part of the event should contact Writers and Books as soon as possible.

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.

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