Write Action will be marching in the parade on June 7th, and invites all members and writers in the community to join in – in keeping with the weekend theme of “living green” and agriculture, we are suggesting participants represent in some way (even if just wearing a card with title) a fiction or nonfiction work that has agriculture, ecology, working the land, living with the land, as a central theme. The march lines up at the juncture of Flat and Elm streets and ends at the Common. It starts around 10 a.m. Be part of a great town event!
Write Action will also have a table at the Retreat grounds (after all a cow is our logo!). As part of our presence, we are inviting WA subscribers to donate a copy of a book or books you’ve published for a display and sale. Proceeds would go to Write Action if a book sells, but mostly it’s to show off what a vibrant writers’ community we have here.
Also, writers are invited to bring something to read…we’ll have a little platform to stand on, maybe a mic. You’ll have a big audience, ready-made. But lots of other competing distractions (depending on where we are asked to set up), so be prepared to shout and make a spectacle of yourself!
And lastly on Sunday of SOTH weekend, WA hosts the poetry/jazz “Cool-laboration” workshop and evening reading. Some scholarship help will be available. For all of the above, you may respond to this email, or call 254-9595.
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Write Action announces the receipt of a grant from the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts to fund a day-long workshop that will focus on the interplay of poetry and jazz.
Participants will spend the day, scheduled for Sunday, June 8th, with jazz pianist, teacher and Vermont Jazz Center director Eugene Uman, assisted by bass player Jamie MacDonald, drummer Claire Arenius, and renowned local poet/teacher Verandah Porche. Uman and Porche have worked together over the years on personal collaborative ventures, as well as at the Governor’s Institute leading high school age students in poetry/jazz collaborations.
Participants will work with already written poems, and have a chance to try them out in a jazz idiom, musicians and poets working off each other. There will be time for working on the poem to create a final version. Sunday evening the group will have the opportunity to share the fruits of the day in a reading/jazz performance.
The tuition for the day long workshop is on a sliding scale of $75 to $125. The workshop will go from 10-5, with an hour’s lunch break; the evening reading will commence at 7 p.m.
Both the workshop and performance will take place at Cotton Mill Hill, home of the Vermont Jazz Center, and a handicapped accessible venue.
There will be a maximum of ten participants selected on a first-come, first serve basis. Interested writers are asked to leave their name with Verandah Porche at 254-2442 or Write Action board member Arlene Distler at 254-9595. You may also leave your name with Eric at WriteAction2004@aol.com. Pre-registration is required, with $25 holding a place.
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