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March 2009 Programs & Events

Visiting Writers Series:Roy Kesey and Sarah Freligh

Thursday, March 5 7:00 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
$3W&B members, $6 general public

In this exciting, multi-genre series, Writers & Books brings up and coming writers to Rochester for exciting Thursday night readings, pairing them with a local writer who is also an up-and-comer.

Roy Kesey, Fiction writer, author of Nothing in the World, and All Over, reading with Sarah Freligh, who will be reading from new fiction work.

First Fridays: Senior Reading

Friday, March 6 6:30 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
$5 suggested donation

Writers & Books is proud to host a Senior Reading for its First Friday event on March 6th, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. This will be an Open Mic sampler for those of you who are new to Writers & Books. It'll begin with socializing for 15 minutes, then have people share their writing in our Verb Café followed by light refreshments. It will conclude by 9:00 p.m.

This event is free and open to the public. If you are over 55 years of age and would like to share your poem, prose or play a tune on your guitar and sing a song please come! We especially welcome those who are involved in our monthly senior reading group and that participate in our monthly Open Mic.

If you are interested in reading, we're taking up to 15 readers. Please contact Kathy Pottetti at 473-2590 x 103 and leave your name and phone #.

Norm Davis and Kathy Pottetti will host this event.

Genesee Reading Series

Hosted by: Wanda Schubmehl
Featuring: Peter Conners and Mary Lynn Broe
Tuesday, March 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 March 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, March 12, at 7:00 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
Admission: Free to W&B Members; $3/General Public

The Bertrand Russell Society was formed shortly after Russell’s death in 1970. Russell was born in 1872 and worked in fields such as mathematical logic; philosophy; social, religious, and educational reform; anti-war protests and politics. An accomplished writer, Russell received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. This ongoing lecture series promises to enlighten and entertain. Monthly meetings are open to everyone, not just to members of the society.

This Month: Tim Madigan on “Russell’s Evasion of Evolution”

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

Valley Manor Book Group Discussions

Thursday, March 12, 10:30 a.m.–noon.
Free and open to the public.
Registrants must call Valley Manor at 442-6450 for reservations.

Atonement, by Ian McEwan

25 And Under

Hosted by: Sally Bittner Bonn
Tuesday March 17 7:00 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
Free to W&B members, $3 general public

More than a quarter century ago W&B first opened its doors. To celebrate that milestone anniversary we initiated a brand 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.

Open History Reading Group

Hosted by: Steve Huff
Thursday, March 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.

Visiting Writers Series: Bill Kauffman

Thursday, March 26 7:00 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
$3W&B members, $6 general public

In this exciting, multi-genre series, Writers & Books brings up and coming writers to Rochester for exciting Thursday night readings, pairing them with a local writer who is also an up-and-comer.

The iconoclastic Bill Kauffman will read from his recent books, Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette, and Look Homeward America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals, named one of the best books of 2006 by the American Library Association.

Wide Open Mic

Hosted by: Norm Davis
Monday March 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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