Presented by Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth in collaboration with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Annual Modern Dance Festival in Fort Worth, TX is celebrating the legacy of Merce Cunningham this month in celebration of his 100th birthday. Within a 16-day window at The Modern, a variety of films,...
BEI Emeritus Fellow Regie Gibson will be joined by Massachusetts’ best poets at this year’s festival in Salem, MA. Here’s where you can find Gibson over the weekend: Friday, May 4 at 1:15pm Poetry of Place: Boston Hawthorne Hotel, Library Room 18 Washington Square W Boston’s distinctive narrative and always-present past, its cityscape of...
On Thursday, February 22, 2018, Iowa Poet Laureate and BEI Emeritus Fellow Mary Swander will read, discuss, and maybe share a banjo tune! Admission is free because this event is funded by Humanities Iowa. Come along from 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm at the Orpheum Theater Center, 220 E. Main St., Marshalltown, IA. If you are...
People’s Music Network Concert: 7:30 to 10 p.m. Jan. 26 First Parish Church 1446 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. Tickets: $11-$20. The People’s Music Network, a national community of musicians and activists dedicated to making music for positive social change in the world, will kick off its 2018 Winter Gathering with...
Readings and discussion about the immigrant experience are to take place at the Mesa Public Library’s Upstairs Rotunda. The readings will feature Los Alamos poet Jane Lin and BEI Fellow Lauren Camp, both of whose work is anthologized in the new book “Two-Countries – US Daughters & Sons of Immigrant Parents,” edited...
The inaugural Mass Cultural Council Institute will take place on March 17 at the DCU Center in Worcester. Its aim is to connect youths and their peers with city and town leadership from every corner of the Commonwealth. Our youth have tremendous capacity to be a visible and audible part...
BEI Senior Fellow, Annie Finch, will host an online course sharing her poetry composition expertise from Monday February 5 to Friday February 9, 2018. It can be tempting to think of rhythm, meter or form as a container; something outside and separate from a poem. But the best poems sing...
Rhode Island Black Storytellers hosts a unique event melding Shakespeare and hiphop with words and music featuring Emeritus fellow Regie Gibson and Marlon Carey, their band and others. This celebration takes place Sunday, 14th January 2018 04:00 PM – 06:00 PM at South Side Cultural Center, 393 Broad Street, Providence, RI. Email – info@ribsfest.org Website – www.ribsfest.org
This month, Wood County Park District programs’ EcoLit Book Group will discuss “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World,” nature essays by Linda Hogan. The meeting will take place on Jan. 11th from 7-9 p.m. at W.W. Knight Nature Preserve, 29530 White Road, Perrysburg in the Hankison Great Room. Discussion leader:...
Join BEI fellow Kathleen Sweeney, owner of The Center of Holistic Wellness in Mount Vernon, on Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 06:30pm for a workshop to realign your Soul Blueprint. An individual’s Spiritual DNA, or Soul Blueprint, holds our greatest gifts and abilities. This workshop explains how this Blueprint becomes contaminated...
On Sunday, July 2nd, from 7-10pm, Regie Gibson will be perfroming at The Center for the Arts at the Armory, along with three other artists, David Roth, Sarah Lee Guthrie, and Clave & Blues. The Art of the Protest Song Concert is a benefit for the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy...
On July 28th, from 7:00- 8:30pm, Regie Gibson will perform spoken word poetry at the Museum of African American History at the African Meeting house. The significance of this event is to shed light on the rich and important history of the African Meeting House, built in Boston in 1806 by...
From October 6th- 8th, BEI Senior Fellow Annie Finch will be hosting a writing workshop at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. This workshop uses language rhythms to channel unexplored aspects of the self, helping to access forgotten inner voices and bring our lives into balance. By the end of the session, participants...
As part of National Aboriginal Day, Louse Halfe will be speaking on behalf of The University of Saskatchewan at 9:30am. Following her speech, there will be a Walk for Reconciliation event and traditional games, dances and art at Wanuskewin Heritage Park. The event is a collective effort by the community...
On June 19th, starting at 7:30 LaTasha Diggs will be reading within a group of other poets at the Naropa University Summer Writing Program. The theme of the program is “New Weathers” and focuses on writing in the time of the Anthropocene, the newest and human caused geological era that...
On July 15th, 1pm-2:30PDT, Brenda Peterson will be speaking at the Book Passage Bookstore, in the Ferry Building. Peterson will of course be covering the topic of wolves, through discussing different parts of her book Wolf Nation. Peterson will speak alongside Amaroq Weiss, who has worked in wolf conservation for over...
BEI Fellow Taylor Brorby was recently featured on the Twin Cities literary calendar for his upcoming talk on fracking. “Award-winning essayist and poet who travels around the county speaking about hydraulic fracking presents “Coming Alive: Action & Civil Disobedience” and “Crude: Poems about Place, Energy and Politics.” 7 p.m. Thursday,...
This past friday, BEI Fellow Todd Davis read poetry, along with two other poets, and one local author at the Galaxy Bookshop in Hardwick, VT. All four authors were nature writers, with specific skills for capturing the physical and emotional landscapes of an area. The event was free and open...
On Friday, June 23rd, 12pm-1pm, BEI Emeritus Fellow Regie Gibson will be performing Spoken Word Poetry in the lower level of the African Meeting House at the Museum of African History. Gibson will be following a talk by National Park Ranger and education activist, Ryan McNabb. Nelson has performed in...
On June 5th, at 3pm, BEI Emeritus Fellow Regie Gibson participated in a discussion panel on the legacy of slavery in James Madison’s home, Montpelier. The discussion panel coincides with the opening of a new exhibit at the 76-acre home in Richmond Virginia, “The Mere Distinction of Color.” “The exhibit...