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Published: February 2, 2012
A constellation of events celebrating readers, writers, and book-lovers throughout the Finger Lakes!
This spring, the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County is organizing "Spring Writes," the 2011 Finger Lakes Literary Festival. Events for writers, readers, and book-lovers are occuring all over town at locations like the Tompkins County Public Library, Buffalo Street Books, Finger Lakes Wine Center, the Friends of the Library Book Sale, the Kitchen Theatre and more!
Each of the 6 workshops cost $10 to attend (pre-register after April 19 by visiting or calling Ticket Center Ithaca, 273-4497)
ALL OTHER EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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Detailed listings on Friday, May 6th |
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| 5PM | Recording
of WSKG's Off the Page |
Finger
Lakes Wine Center |
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5:00
PM - 9:00 PM |
Arcades
Project: a small press and art fair |
The
Commons |
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8PM |
Staged
Readings: Wolf's Mouth Theatre
Collective |
Community
School of Music and Arts |
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9:30PM |
Writer's
Night: An open mic for Poetry &
Prose |
The
Shop |
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Saturday, May 7th |
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7
AM |
Troubadours from Ithaca Shakespeare Company |
Friends
of the Library Book Sale |
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10
AM - 12 PM TWO CONCURRENT EVENTS |
Panel
Discussion: Book
Publishing |
Workshop: Poetry
Writing with Andrei Guruianu |
Borg-Warner
Rooms at Tompkins County Public Library |
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12:30
PM -2:30 PM TWO CONCURRENT EVENTS |
Workshop: Combining Visual Art and the Written Word |
Workshop: Memoir
Writing with Michael Czarnecki |
Borg-Warner
Rooms at TCPL |
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12:30
PM - 2:30 PM |
Workshop: Songwriting
with Mary Brett Lorson |
CAP
ArtSpace |
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3
PM - 5 PM TWO CONCURRENT EVENTS |
Panel
Discussion:
Publishing Pointers for Essayists &
Journalists |
Workshop: Embodied Playwriting with Kira Lallas |
Borg-Warner
Room at TCPL |
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3PM
- 5PM |
Author
Panel: Sci-Fi & Sci-Fact |
Buffalo
Street Books |
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3
PM - 5 PM |
Workshop: WATER
STORIES, Creative Writing with Irene Zahava |
CAP
ArtSpace |
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5
PM - 7 PM |
Writer's
Cafe: Readings from local authors |
Felicia's
Atomic Lounge |
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Sunday, May 8th |
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1PM |
Literary Tea: Short Plays by Natalie deCombray |
TCPL |
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2PM |
Literary
Coffee House: with Brian Hall, Jay Leeming, & Stewart O'Nan |
TCPL |
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2PM |
Crafts for Kids: Character Creation with illustrator Johanna VanderSterre |
Barnes & Noble |
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3PM |
Author Panel: "Books that Inspire Us" with members of the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators |
Barnes & Noble |
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4PM |
Works
in Progress Reading |
Buffalo
Street Books |
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7:30
PM |
Far
from Home Immigrant poets read with Ithaca City of Asylum and Tompkins County Poets Laureate |
Kitchen
Theatre |
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More events being added soon!
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