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- Fram festival fast approaching - Evening Star
FRAMLINGHAM is staging its summer festival between June 20 and July 6. The event will include music, history, talks, theatre, poetry, film, craft workshops, and art and photographic exhibitions. For more information call 01728 723028 or visit www ...
- War criminals can be tried even after a hundred years - New Nation
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday said the trial of war criminals could take place even after a hundred years. But correct information and data were essential for holding the trial they said speaking at a roundtable, "Trial of war criminals of 1971 ...
- Five For Your Shelf - Esquire
Five For Your ShelfEsquire - 3 hours agoThese June 2001 picks include poetry, a deadly race and a different kind of picture book. THE PROVING GROUND (Little, Brown, $25) is first-time author G. ...
- At the library - Wicked Local Roslindale
At the libraryWicked Local Roslindale, MA - 16 hours agoOngoing poetry workshop: Since 1996, local poet Mary E. Joyce Waite has been guiding other aspiring poets during their Monday meetings at the West Roxbury ...
- Park Happenings: So what is an open mic anyway? - Chinook Observer (subscription)
Park Happenings: So what is an open mic anyway?Chinook Observer (subscription), WA - 1 hour agoPlainly put, an open mic is where anyone is welcome to read, recite or perform poetry, prose or music to an audience. Some artists create their work for ...
- Belgian Author Hugo Claus Dies at 78 - AOL
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Writer Hugo Claus - an artist, poet, playwright and novelist whose books painted a scathing picture of repression and hypocrisy in bourgeois Flanders - died Wednesday by euthanasia, his wife said. He was 78. Claus, who had ...
- Literary community lobbies for city to create poet laureate - Kingston Whig
By the end of the month, the city's arts and literary community will find out whether a proposal to create a poet laureate for Kingston will become a reality. And compared to the other major projects being bandied about, creating a poet laureate ...
- Children Services names Child and Family Awareness Month winners (West Side Leader)
FAIRLAWN — Summit County Children Services (SCCS) has announced the names of 22 local students selected as winners in the 2008 Child and Family Awareness Month Creative Contest.
- Gift to Help BYU Promote the Arts - RedOrbit
Gift to Help BYU Promote the ArtsRedOrbit, TX - 1 hour agoBy Elizabeth Stuart Deseret News PROVO -- History lessons brought to life through theater and poetry, social problems taught using painting and music, ...
- Ethiopia: In Need for a Few Friends (AllAfrica.com)
A millionaire somewhere in East Asia buys a chunk of forest land in the Amazon. It wouldn't be your ordinary transaction, though. The buyer vows not to cut even one tree. He will not own either the fauna or the flora in the true sense of the word. What then is the big deal in owning a forest?
- Hawn Memorial Library Summer Line Up in Clayton (WWNY - WNYF Watertown)
The American Arts and Crafts Movement in New York State Wed. July 30 @ 7PM The American Arts and Crafts Movement, or ‘mission,’ gained popularity as a decorative style beginning in 1900, and by 1920 had gone out of style. Arts and Crafts, however, was more than simply a decorative style: it was also a philosophy, an [...]
- Judgement Days - Cleveland Free Times
Cleveland Free TimesJudgement DaysCleveland Free Times, OH - 1 hour agoBy Michael Gill Cleveland's youth poetry slam team is tired of what everyone else thinks of them. You could hear this as they erupted last week at Playhouse ...
- At 80, Sam Hazo going strong (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Happy birthday to Samuel Hazo, who just turned 80 July 19 and is celebrating with a new poetry collection and novel this year. ...
- Book tells Lady Liberty's story through many voices Young Readers (The Plain Dealer)
She measures 111 feet tall, weighs 225 tons and sports a 4½-foot-long nose that is "massive but elegant." Meet Lady Liberty, up close and personal, in a stellar collaboration from noted history writer Doreen Rappaport and acclaimed illustrator Matt Tavares.
- Latitude: Highlights and music line-up - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
Latitude: Highlights and music line-upNorfolk Eastern Daily Press, UK - 7 hours agoWinner of the Forward Poetry prize who has made waves since the publication of his Look We Have Coming to Dover! His work describes the experience of the ...
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