& FEATURED POET MATTHEW J. SPIRENG, LOMONTVILLE, NY. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE.
- MAY 2, 2009, 10:30 - 12 NOON
CULTURAL SPELLING BEE CO-SPONSORED BY ROXBURY ARTS GROUP & BRIGHT HILL 4TH - 8TH GRADE WINNERS OF 8 OTSEGO SCHOOL CULTURAL SPELLING BEES COMPETE IN BRIGHT HILL’S NEW LIBRARY WING.
WORD & IMAGE GALLERY PRINTS & ARTIST’S BOOKS BY WENDY FERNSTRUM, MINNEAPOLIS, MN. OPENING, FREE.
WORD & IMAGE GALLERY PRINTS & ARTIST’S BOOKS BY WENDY FERNSTRUM, MINNEAPOLIS, MN. Wendy Fernstrum is the recipient of a Jerome Foundation/Minnesota Center for Book Arts fellowship in 1996 and a Minnesota State Arts Board grant in 2008. She writes, designs, and prints artist’s books under the press name of Fernwerks. She was artist-in-residence at MCBA in 2005. She received an MFA in creative writing at the University of Minnesota in 2003 and a BA from the University of Michigan; she resides in Marine on St. Croix, MN. Her work, which has been included in Bright Hill’s Book Arts Juried Exhibits, is exhibited and collected nationally; the work has been shown in group shows at the UC San Diego Geisel Library, the Hoffman Gallery at the Oregon College of Art & Craft, the University of Southern California, and others, and in sola shows at Arcola Mills, Stillwater, MN; The Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI; Open Book, Minneapolis, MN, and Normandale Comm. College, Bloomington, MN. Collections that include her books are the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, University of Washington, Seattle; Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and others. MON.-TUES., 10 AM - 4 PM; WED., 9 AM - NOON, & BY APPT. FREE.
MAY 8, 2009, 8:45 AM-2:30 PM SHARE THE WORDS 13TH ANNUAL HIGH-SCHOOL POETRY COMPETITION - POETS FROM REGIONAL SCHOOLS COMPETE AT BRIGHT HILL LIBRARY. DONATION
WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED POET BETTY ABERLIN, WALTON, NY. & FEATURED WRITER WILLIAM B. PATRICK, TROY, NY. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE.
- MAY 16, 2009: 10 AM - ALL DAY
THE BIG READ MARATHON READING OF MARK TWAIN’S "TOM SAWYER," FOLLOWED BY DISH-TO-PASS DINNER OF SOUTHERN DISHES. ALL AT BRIGHT HILL. ADMISSION FREE. ALL INVITED TO SIGN UP TO READ.
WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED POET DJELLOUL MARBROOK, GERMANTOWN, NY. & FEATURED POET PHILIP MILLER, MT. UNION, PA. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE.
WORD & IMAGE GALLERY PRINTS & ARTIST’S BOOKS EXHIBIT BY FRANCES WATSON, SAN DIEGO, CA. OPENING. FREE.
JUNE 8 -26, 2009 (SEE HOURS)
WORD & IMAGE GALLERY PRINTS & ARTIST’S BOOKS EXHIBIT BY FRANCES WATSON, SAN DIEGO, CA. Frances Watson grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from the University of Southern California with a BFA. After moving to Houston, she continued her painting at the Museumof Art. Later, she moved to Boston where her work was included in many exhibits, and she was active in the art community. Gradually she became a printmaker and maker of artist’s books. When she moved back to California, she became one of the founding members of the San Diego Book Arts. Her books have appeared in exhibits on the East and West Coasts, including Space Place Life, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY; Paper in Particular, Columbia University, Columbia, MO; 6th Biennial Artists Books Exhibition, Athenaeum Library of Music and Art, La Jolla, CA; and Bright Hill’s National Juried Book Exhibit; and have been included in many private and university collections, among them Trinity College, Watkinson Library, Hartford, CN; Dartmouth College, Stone Art Library, Hanover, NH; University of Indiana Fine Arts Library, IN; and others. MON.-TUES., 10 AM - 4 PM; WED., 9 AM - NOON, & BY APPT. FREE.
ADULT WRITING WORKSHOP LED BY JOE WEIL & LIZ ROSENBERG, BINGHAMTON, NY. $15, FOLLOWED BY DISH-TO-PASS DINNER.
WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED POET LIZ ROSENBERG, BINGHAMTON, NY.& FEATURED POET JOE WEIL, BINGHAMTON, NY. $3 ADMISSION, UNDER 18, FREE.
WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED WRITER MARJORIE B. KELLOGG, SIDNEY CENTER, NY. Marjorie B. Kellogg & POET LUCYNA PROSTKO, CORINTH, NY. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE.
- JUNE 29-JULY 3, 9 AM-2:30 PM
WORD THURSDAYS SUMMER LITERARY WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS: FIRST SESSION. AGES 5-14. FEE: $25, FIVE DAYS;
- JULY 4 & 5, 2009 10 AM-5 PM
STAGECOACH RUN TWO-DAY OPENING: WORD & IMAGE GALLERY MIXED MEDIA GROUP FUNDRAISING EXHIBIT & SILENT AUCTION.
- JULY 4-25, 2009 (SEE HOURS)
STAGECOACH RUN TWO-DAY OPENING: WORD & IMAGE GALLERY MIXED MEDIA GROUP FUNDRAISING EXHIBIT & SILENT AUCTION FEATURING ART BY PHOTOGRAPHERS ERNEST M. FISHMAN, PRINTMAKERS BERTHA ROGERS, DAN WELDEN, & MANY MORE. TUES. - FRI., 10 AM - 4 PM, SAT., BY APPT. FREE. JULY 25, CLOSING RECEPTION FOR ARTISTS & FINAL AUCTION, 3 -5 PM
WORD THURSDAYS, OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED POET ELENA ALEXANDER, NYC. & FEATURED POET RACHEL CONTRENI FLYNN, MUNDELEIN, IL. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE.
JULIAN FLEISHER SINGING ARLEN - TO BENEFIT BRIGHT HILL LITERARY CENTER, FOLLOWED BY DESSERTS. CALL 607-829-5055 FOR PRICE & RESERVATIONS.
WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED POET KAREN FABIANE, SCHENECTADY, NY. & FEATURED POET MELISSA CHRISTINE GOODRUM, NYC. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE.
WORD & IMAGE GALLERY EXHIBIT NEW YORKER CARTOONS & GRAPHIC NOVELS BY DAVID BORCHART, NYC. OPENING. FREE.
- AUGUST 2-28, 2009 (SEE HRS)
WORD & IMAGE GALLERY EXHIBIT NEW YORKER CARTOONS & GRAPHIC NOVELS BY DAVID BORCHART, BROOKLYN, NY. David Borchart is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Brooklyn. His most recent cartoons can be seen in the New Yorker or at www.cartoonbank.com. In 2002 he received a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship in fiction for the graphic novel "A Prisoner of Ghoul Island," which appeared weekly in the New Orleans Gambit, The Miami New Times and San Francisco's East Bay Express (and can now be seen online at www.ghoulsiland.com). He is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony, where much of "Ghoul Island" was written. His cartoons have also appeared in Time Magazine, the Seattle Stranger, American Book Jam (Tokyo), the Brooklyn Free Press and Lungfull!. His cartoon/poetry collaborations with Sharon Mesmer have appeared in the Poetry Project Newsletter, Hanging Loose, and Lungfull!. TUES.-FRI., 10 AM - 4 PM; SAT., BY APPT. FREE.
WORD THURSDAYS SUMMER LITERARY WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS, SECOND SESSION. AGES 5-14. FEE: $25.
WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED POET & PLAYRIGHT MELANIE MARIA GOODREAUX, NYC. & WRITER RAYMOND J. STEINER, SAUGERTIES, NY. T TBA. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE.
- AUGUST 17-21, 9 AM-2:30 PM
WORD THURSDAYS SUMMER LITERARY WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS. AGES 10-18. FEE: $25, FIVE SESSIONS.
WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED WRITER DOROTHY BLOOM, ONEONTA, NY. Dorothy Bloom began her lifetime of reading and writing in her old home town of Minneapolis, MN, and honed her skills at the University of Minnesota with her creative writing teacher Anna Phelan. For Dorothy, writing was the tool for systematically uncovering the many mysteries dogging her steps and those of her fellow human beings. Dorothy has lived in Oneonta since 1960; she now lives in Oneonta with her daughter's family and studies her grandchildren for continued evidence of the beauty and difficulty and humor of human relationships. & FEATURED WRITER RON DELUCA, HANCOCK NY.Ron Deluca retired after forty-four years in the advertising business. His experience includes art director, writer, creative director, operating officer, president. He wrote his first stories in college and put them in a shoe box after his handful of rejections and becoming pitifully addicted to eating. He wrote much of and supervised all of the creative work for two resurrections of Chrysler and the enthronement of lee Iacocca. After retirement he wrote a book on his experiences in the business which became so focused on Lee Iacocca it was old news and never published. Since then he has taken up writing his personal stories again. One story, “Stone Man Willy,” was published in a Bright Hill Press anthology, and subsequently republished by Stockport Press with four other stories. He writes to pass on what he remembers and understands of life, love and death. Ron is a graduate of Pratt Institute, Syracuse University, and the New School University of New York City.
TBA. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE.
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2009, 3-5 PM
WORD & IMAGE GALLERY EXHIBIT PRINTS & ARTIST’S BOOKS BY AIMEE LEE, HASTINGS ON HUDSON, NY. OPENING. FREE
- SEPT. 6-25, 2009 (SEE HOURS)
WORD & IMAGE GALLERY EXHIBIT PRINTS & ARTIST’S BOOKS BY AIMEE LEE, HASTINGS ON HUDSON, NY. MON.-TUES. 10 AM - 4 PM, WED., 9 AM-NOON; SAT., BY APPT.
WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FEATURED POET DONALD LEV, HIGH FALLS, NY. & FEATURED POET PHILIP MEMMER, SYRACUSE, NY. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE.
WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FEATURED POET Sharon Ruetenik, DELHI, NY & FEATURED POET DANIEL WATERS, WEST TISBURY, MA. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE.
WORD & IMAGE GALLERY EXHIBIT BOOK DYAMICS BY ED HUTCHINS, MT. VERNON, NY. OPENING. FREE.
- OCT. 4-31, 2009 (SEE HOURS)
WORD & IMAGE GALLERY EXHIBIT BOOK DYNAMICS BY ED HUTCHINS, MOUNT VERNON, NY. Ed Hutchins has taught, lectured, curated shows, directed book arts programs and created many editioned books while traveling across the U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico. Since 1989 he has been the proprietor of Editions, a workshop for producing artist book multiples. He was the director of the Book Arts Jamboree in 1998 and 1999, founded Book Central in 1998, and ran it until it was sold in 2000, and, along with Carolyn Chadwick, was co-organizer of the New York BookFest in 2004 and 2005. He organized and curated "Stand and Deliver: Engineering Sculpture Into a Book Format," that traveled to five venues in USA during 2004-05. Recently, he returned from a four-week teaching trip Down Under that included programs in Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, and Auckland (NZ). He is currently fascinated with unfolding, pop-up, collapsing, and exploding story boxes, creating artist’s books that spring to life in delightful and unexpected ways. Combining eclectic materials and ingenious formats with unusual printing techniques and advanced paper engineering, his hand-made books blow apart the traditions of the bindery, while infusing traditional forms with new meaning. Hutchins' inventions and variations expand the boundaries of bookmaking in unimagined, and not soon forgotten, directions. MON.- TUES., 10 AM - 4 PM., WED. 9 AM - NOON. SAT., BY APPT. FREE.
WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED FEATURED POET SUZANNE CLEARY, SUFFERN, NY. & FEATURED WRITER DIANE GALUSHA, MARGARETVILLE, NY . $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE.
WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FEATURED POET ROBERTA GOULD, WEST HURLEY, NY. & FEATURED POET JANET HAMILL, WARWICK, NY. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE.
WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED POET & WRITER ANNIE SAUTER, ONEONTA, NY & WRITER THOMAS TRAVISANO, ONEONTA, NY. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE.