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June 2008 Programs & Events

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

Visiting Writers Series

Wednesday, June 18
$4 W&B members, $6 general public
7 p.m., W&B

Marie Howe  Marie Howe’s newest collection is The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (Norton, 2008) A native of Rochester, she received a Guggenheim and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Her previous books are What the Living Do, and The Good Thief, which was selected by Margaret Atwood for the National Poetry Series. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

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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