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March ‘SUNDAY READINGS
by the RIVER’ at 4 p.m.

March Theme---Celebrating Connecticut Authors
**sign-up on first-come basis—4 authors/Sunday.
Call Jan Owens 860-677-9662

March 7th, 2010 Open Mic will follow each time
March 14th, 2010
March 21st, 2010
March 28th, 2010
ADMISSION: $10.00/session - Free for Open Mic participants

WORKSHOPS

 CHILDREN’S WRITING WORKSHOP
SIX one hour sessions--
Saturday Mornings—10:00-11:00 a.m.
Feb. 13, 20, 27th and March 6, 13, 20, 2010

 Fee: $90.00—due with application
Instructor: Jan Owens, owner of Millrace Books and executive-director of FRLAC Masters degree in library science with concentration in children’s literature.

Brain Exercise Workshops

Inst. Patti Said--dir. NECC

Dates & Time: Tuesday &Thursdays - Feb. 16th, 18th, 23rd , 25th - 1:30-2:30 p.m.

New England Cognitive Center’s Mind Sharpener Program

*strengthen memory, concentration and attention

*stimulate new brain areas

Application Fee:--$100.00  FRLAC founders-$80.00

More info. 860-677-9662

MEMORIZATION WORKSHOP
Date: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
2- hour session 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Louise E. Loomis, Founding director of the New England Cognitive Center-teacher, lecturer and author.
Learn the techniques that will help you remember dates, names and recitations-
skills that will endear you to friends, enhance your writing and add to your business success.
Fee: $ 50.00.

POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP
Stirring Dull Roots--an April Poetry Workshop led by Nancy Anne Miller *
Sunday, April 18th & 25th 2:00-4:00 p.m.
With nature as guide, we’ll access memory
and desire to write new poems for Spring. **Ms. Miller has a MLitt in Creative Writing from the Univ. of Glasgow.
$100.00 -two, 2 hr. sessions-cks. To FRLAC
Sign up & course syllabus at the center.

SUNDAYS by the RIVER

February SUNDAY ‘READINGS by the RIVER’ at 4 p.m.

Readings from works that speak to February’s theme WORDS OF LOVE

February 7th, 2010 Readings from THE LOVE POEMS OF RUMI with introduction by Deepak Chopra. Open mic will follow.

February 14th, 2010 Readings from WORKS OF LOVE by the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. Open mic will follow

February 21st,2010 Donna F. Ferber, author of FROM EX-WIFE

To EXCEPTIONAL LIFE, will present her new book, PROFILECTICS which speaks to the importance of WORDS in Baby Boomer Single’s understanding of and search for love. Open mic will follow.

February 28th, 2010 Readings from DEATH AND RAPTURE IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM by Norah Pollard with words of praise from Rennie McQuilkin. Open mic will follow.

Admission: $10.00/session-20% discount for FRLAC founders & students. Free for Open Mike participants.

Special Events


         

OTHER EVENTS

SERVICES

MANUSCRIPT  READING AND  ASSESSMENT SERVICE  
sponsored by the Farmington River Literary Arts Center
Offering personal and competent reading of unpublished manuscripts that will assist the writer in story and character development as well as overall structure and descriptive language.
Fees: Based on length and genre:

  • Short story-approx. ten pages--$50.00
  • One page poem---------------------$25.00
  • One-act play-approx. 15 pages--$70.00

Instructor:  Ted Guhl carries degrees from CCSU, American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Wesleyan; has taught English for 35 years and published poetry, fiction and drama.