August-LITERARY READINGS AND EVENTS

Intermedia Arts
LITERARY READINGS AND EVENTS
August 2008

The Carol Connolly Reading Series
Readings at Banfill-Locke
Friday, August 8, 2008
7:30 PM at Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts
6666 E River Rd, Fridley
Hosted by Anna George Meek
Free
Featuring:
THE NORTHWORDS READERS. Since 2003, the NorthWords Writing Group has been meeting regularly on the fourth Saturday of each month at the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts in Fridley. A diverse group of artists writing across genres, the group includes poets, a mystery writer, children’s novelists, fiction writers, essayists, and a playwright. Work by group members has appeared in publications such as Dust and Fire, Minnesota Parent, The National Catholic Reporter, Sidewalks, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Reading: June Anderson, Dale Butler, Lynn Fisher, Shirley Franklin, Mary Henderson, Joan Jordahl, Ginny Jorgenson, Clem J. Nagel, Peter Stein, Zilla Sherritt Way, and Kay Welsch.

The Carol Connolly Reading Series, presented by Intermedia Arts, celebrates the rich diversity of voices that make up the Twin Cities community of writers, readers, and their audiences, offering public readings by both emerging and established local writers and poets. Funds for this activity are provided by the COMPAS Community Art Program through a grant from the McKnight Foundation. The Carol Connolly Reading Series is sponsored in part by The Banfill-Lock Center for the Arts, DreamHaven Books, Patrick’s Cabaret, SF Minnesota, and the University Club of Saint Paul.

For more information, call 612-871-4444 or visit www.intermediaarts.org.

Young Writers Read!
A Celebration of Young Writers
Monday, August 18th, 2008
6PM at Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave S, Mpls MN 55408
Admission by Donation
Featuring:
LILLIE BENOWITZ
DANIELLE BROWN
EMELY CHAVEZ
JUSTIN DAUPHINAIS
NICHOLAS DEGARMO
ANNA FRYZELL
ROGER GLOVER
OLIVIA HURD
ELHAM IBRAHIM
ANNIE KETCHAM
CAILIN KROWN
MAI KHA LOR
SOPHIA MYERS-KELLEY
ELSA NORDBERG
MARIAH OXLEY
LILY STREHHLOW

Join us for a community-wide celebration of the artistic talent and accomplishment of young writers. Wings is an innovative mentoring program designed for avid young writers, ages 8-18. Youth are matched with artistic mentors from the local literary community and the creative writing MFA and PhD programs of Hamline University and the University of Minnesota. Each Wings session culminates in a public reading and reception in which mentees read work created during the program and mentors read from their own body of writing. Young Writers Read! Featuring summer 2008 Wings participants.

The Carol Connolly Reading Series
Readings by Writers
Benefit Reading for Peace Island
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
7:30 PM at the historic University Club of St Paul
420 Summit Ave, St Paul
Hosted by Carol Connolly
Free and open to the public
Peace Island includes a conference at Concordia and an event on Harriet Island, both of which are sponsored by the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers, and will occur parallel with the Republican National Convention here in Saint Paul. See www.PeaceIsland.us.
Featuring:
CASS DALGLISH, poet, will be reading from her new book, Humming the Blues.
PHEBE HANSON, poet, whose books include Why Still Dance.
SUSU JEFFREY is a poet and a lead Peace Island organizer.
FRANK KRONCKE is a writer and one of the heroic Minnesota 8.
LORNA LANDVIK, novelist, joined a cross country Walk for Peace in 1986. Her eighth novel, Tis the Season!, is due for October release.
FREYA MANFRED, poet, whose beautiful new book is Swimming with a Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle.
ROY McBRIDE, poet, has been part of the scene for over 30 years. His CD Traffic, created with piano man Willie Murphy, is set for imminent release.
JOHN MILTON is an acclaimed author, whose new Time to Choose was just released.
COLEEN ROWLEY
THOMAS R. SMITH, poet, whose books include The Dark Indigo Current.
BILL TILTON is a lawyer and one the heroic Minnesota 8.

Readings last one hour, never more.
MEMBERS and NON-MEMBERS welcome for these events.
5:00 Dinner—OPTIONAL—reservations necessary
Some University Club reading sites are handicapped accessible; please inquire in advance. www.universityclubofstpaul.com 651-222-1751
Funds for this activity are provided by the COMPAS Community Art Program through a grant from the McKnight Foundation. The Carol Connolly Reading Series is sponsored in part by The Banfill-Lock Center for the Arts, DreamHaven Books, Patrick’s Cabaret, SF Minnesota, and the University Club of Saint Paul.
For more information, call 612-874-2815 or visit www.intermediaarts.org.

The Carol Connolly Reading Series, presented by Intermedia Arts, celebrates the rich diversity of voices that make up the Twin Cities community of writers, readers, and their audiences, offering public readings by both emerging and established local writers and poets. Funds for this activity are provided by the COMPAS Community Art Program through a grant from the McKnight Foundation. The Carol Connolly Reading Series is sponsored in part by The Banfill-Lock Center for the Arts, DreamHaven Books, Patrick’s Cabaret, SF Minnesota, and the University Club of Saint Paul.

For more information, call 612-871-4444 or visit www.intermediaarts.org.

The Carol Connolly Reading Series
Speculations
Monday, August 25, 2008
6:30 PM at DreamHaven Books
912 W Lake St, Minneapolis
Hosted by Eric Heideman
Free
Featuring:
HADDAYR COPLEY-WOODS is an ad copywriter living in Minneapolis with work in places such as Strange Horizons, Ideomancer, and Best American Erotica. A fantasy and nonfiction writer, she is working on a book about raising a child with Asperger and Tourette’s syndromes. Find more of her stories and essays at www.haddayr.com.

The Carol Connolly Reading Series, presented by Intermedia Arts, celebrates the rich diversity of voices that make up the Twin Cities community of writers, readers, and their audiences, offering public readings by both emerging and established local writers and poets. Funds for this activity are provided by the COMPAS Community Art Program through a grant from the McKnight Foundation. The Carol Connolly Reading Series is sponsored in part by The Banfill-Lock Center for the Arts, DreamHaven Books, Patrick’s Cabaret, SF Minnesota, and the University Club of Saint Paul.

For more information, call 612-871-4444 or visit www.intermediaarts.org.

The Carol Connolly Reading Series
GLBT Reading Series
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
7:00 PM at Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis
Hosted by John Medeiros and Andrea Jenkins
Free
Featuring:
CATHERINE LUNDOFF’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in over 60 publications including So Fey: Queer Faery Stories, Time Well Bent: GLBT Alternate History, Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures, Farrago’s Wainscot, Khimairal Ink, Caught Looking, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 6, Stirring Up a Storm, Sex and Candy, Amazons, Best Lesbian Bondage Erotica, Lust for Life and Best Lesbian Erotica 2008. She is the author of two collections of lesbian erotica: the Lambda Award nominated Crave: Tales of Lust, Love and Longing (Lethe Press, 2007) and Night’s Kiss (Torquere Press, 2005). Most recently, she edited the fantasy and horror anthology Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories (Lethe Press, 2008). Her website can be found at http://www.visi.com/~clundoff.

JONATHAN ODELL is the author of the acclaimed novel The View from Delphi, which deals with the struggle for equality in pre-civil rights Mississippi, his home state. His short stories and essays have appeared in Stories from the Blue Moon Café (Macadam/Cage 2004), Men Like That (University of Chicago Press, 2001), Letters of the Twentieth Century (Dial Press, 1999), Breaking Silence (Xanthus Press, 1996), Speakeasy Literary Magazine, and the Savannah Literary Journal. The View from Delphi was the 2005 spring section for “Talking Volumes,” the joint book club for Minnesota Public Radio, the Star Tribune and the Loft Literary Center. Odell was born in Mississippi in 1951, grew up in the Jim Crow South and became involved in the civil rights movement in college. He holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology and has been active in human resource development for over 30 years, including holding the position of Vice President of Human Resources for a Minneapolis based corporation and later founding his own consulting companies. In 2003, along with Minneapolis civil rights leader and city councilperson Don Samuels, Odell co-founded the Institute for Authentic Dialogue to spark conversations across race. He has appeared before thousands of business executives, clergy, community and government leaders, and educators, teaching the skills for authentic dialogue through sharing his own race story. Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, and Minnesota Public Radio have all done feature stories on the work Odell is doing in race relations. He has appeared on radio and T.V. across the country and is a regular commentator for Minnesota Public Radio as well as a writing instructor at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. Odell is represented by Writers House LLC. His new novel, The Last Safe Place, is completed and with his agent.

The Carol Connolly Reading Series, presented by Intermedia Arts, celebrates the rich diversity of voices that make up the Twin Cities community of writers, readers, and their audiences, offering public readings by both emerging and established local writers and poets. Funds for this activity are provided by the COMPAS Community Art Program through a grant from the McKnight Foundation. The Carol Connolly Reading Series is sponsored in part by The Banfill-Lock Center for the Arts, DreamHaven Books, Patrick’s Cabaret, SF Minnesota, and the University Club of Saint Paul.

For more information, call 612-871-4444 or visit www.intermediaarts.org.

ABOUT THE CAROL CONNOLLY READING SERIES
The Carol Connolly Reading Series is Minnesota’s first and only ongoing series of public literary readings whose mission it is to provide a platform for writers historically excluded from traditional literary settings. It is vital that communities facing inequality of economic resources and under-representation in the arts have a place where their voices can be heard; where their stories can be told. The Carol Connolly Reading Series is that place in the Twin Cities’ literary community.

Each month, The Carol Connolly Reading Series, creates a safe space for GLBT writers and audiences to explore the day-to-day material of life without internal or external censorship; we allow writers of color to come together in celebration and support of one another; we re-define “literary art” by embracing genre writers in our Speculations reading; we provide powerful literary experiences to people with limited geographic access to the arts, and we build and strengthen the ties between all of these communities by not only linking them to one another, but also to the mainstream, traditional literary reading we hold at the University Club in Saint Paul, promoting broad cross-cultural communication and understanding among artists, audiences, neighborhoods and communities.

ABOUT INTERMEDIA ARTS
Intermedia Arts is Minnesota’s premier multidisciplinary, multicultural arts organization. We engage the power of the arts to increase connections and build community between people from different social, economic and ethnic groups. Our mission is to be a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art. Our arts programs inspire people to make changes in their lives and communities. By stimulating broader civic dialogue and by giving voice to the issues and experiences of underrepresented communities, we contribute to a stronger, healthier society.

Intermedia Arts is a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art.
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