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May 2008 Programs & Events

The Bertrand Russell Society

Hosted by: Dr. David White
Thursday, May 8, 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: John Zeis on Theology, Falsification and Anthony Flew

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

Genesee Reading Series

Hosted by: Wanda Schubmehl
Featuring: Julie Damerell & Wynne McClure
Tuesday May 13 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 May 13 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.

Making Word Work for You Seminar

Writers & Books and Communication Central are co-sponsoring this exciting Seminar aimed at freelance writers and editors. Nationally recognized Word expert Hilary Powers will share her secrets of the trade. Click here for more information.

Open History Reading Group

Hosted by: Steve Huff
Thursday, May 15, 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.

Jack London.

A celebration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of Jack London’s iconoclastic novel, The Iron Heel, a work that influenced such later futuristic works as 1984 and It Can’t Happen Here.

Visiting Writers Series

Wednesday, May 21
$4 W&B members, $6 general public
7 p.m., W&B

Anne Panning Anne Panning is the author of Super America, (U. Georgia Press, 2007) Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is an associate professor of English at the State University of New York-Brockport, where she also co-directs the Writers Forum. She is the author of a previous collection of stories, The Price of Eggs. Her creative nonfiction and short stories have appeared in such publications as the Beloit Fiction Journal, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review and elsewhere.

Wide Open Mic

Hosted by: Norm Davis
Monday May 26 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: Rochester's Young Writers Read

Hosted by Sally Bittner Bonn
Tuesday May 27 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.

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