“So Over The Moon,” a play created and performed on Dartmouth College Radio by Sophia Kinne, Dartmouth '20.
Contact: Dartmouth College Dept of Theater
AVA Gallery’s quarterly story-telling series, The MudZoom, is looking for storytellers who can tell a good story related to the theme “Pulling Together.”
Storytellers of all ages and from all towns in the Upper Valley are invited to submit stories. Selected storytellers will be awarded an AVA membership. Stories are limited to no more than 10 minutes, must be true and autobiographical, and must be told live (not read).
To submit a story, send a summary of your true, personal story in fewer than 300 words by May 22. Selected storytellers will be expected to attend a rehearsal held on the afternoon of Sunday, May 31, via Zoom.
Contact: AVA Gallery
Live storytelling at the AVA Gallery and Art Center. The evening’s theme, “The Worst Advice,” will be brought to life as individuals share personal accounts of their experiences.
Note: This event was originally scheduled to happen on March 12, 2020. Anyone who purchased tickets for the March 12th date has a ticket for the next live Mudroom (date to be determined) as well as the virtual Mudroom on April 16. The link to the online Mudroom event will automatically be emailed to you. If you purchased guest tickets, simply forward the link to anyone in a different household.
Cost: By donation. If you do not have a ticket, visit the Mudroom page anytime after 6:00 pm on April 16 for the link.
Contact: AVA Gallery
Author and illustrator Nora Krug (Belonging) talks with celebrated cartoonist Jason Lutes (Berlin) about her acclaimed graphic novel and her exploration of what it means to be a German of her generation.
This event will be held ONLINE only.
Contact: Leslie Center for the Humanities
Join writer Katherine Gibbel in this workshop series for poets of all experiences. In this class you will experiment with new poetic forms and techniques. Over the course of five weeks we will strengthen our work and take risks in our writing. Through a combination of in-class writing exercises, workshops, and discussion of outside poems, we will develop reading and writing practices that will make us more attentive, generative, and generous poets. Participants will be expected to read three short poems and hand in one new poem each week. This poetry workshop welcomes poets of all experiences. Please bring something to write with and paper.
Note: This workshop meets weekly through April 7.
Cost: $100
Registration: Register online
Contact: Artistree
Lerone A. Martin, Associate Professor in Religion and Politics at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, will present a lecture titled, “America’s Bishop: J. Edgar Hoover and the Shaping of American Religion.“
Martin is the author of the award-winning Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Making of Modern African American Religion (New York University Press, 2014), which tracks the role of the phonograph in the shaping of African American religion, culture, and politics during the first half of the twentieth century. He is writing a book on the relationship between religion, the FBI, and national security in American history to be published by Princeton University Press.
Contact: Leslie Center of the Humanities
Lenice Cicchini: The Last Will and Testament of Palmira Sei
Contact: Bradford Public Library
Join your fellow creative writers for a Poetry Open Mic Night at the BALE Commons on the first Sunday of each month and express yourself in whatever form, style or verse. Share your latest musings and ponderings, listen to the work of others, and snap the night away. This is an all-inclusive community space. All are welcome. See you there!
Registration: Register online
Contact: BALE
Why do some teens hide who they are? What eventually forces them to shake off the masks they’ve created to “fit in,” and choose instead to speak up and embrace their true selves? Join YA novelists Maria Padian, author of How to Build a Heart, and Susan Kaplan Carlton, author of In the Neighborhood of True, for a conversation about creating characters who face tough choices—about grief, family, identity and belonging—and come out the other side braver and better.
Purchase Maria or Susan's book and get a $2 Georgia Peach Sangria or mocktail.
Contact: Still North Books & Bar
Maria Padian: How to Build a Heart
Susan Kaplan Carlton: In the Neighborhood of True
We think of intelligence as being a brain-supported evolutionary asset. Large or small, brains have neurons connected by synapses. It is this interconnectivity—or so it is believed—that engenders intelligence. But is this too narrow a definition of intelligence? Could plants and ecosystems display some form of alternative intelligent behavior? If so, can (and should) it be studied using traditional scientific methods?
Join 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction Richard Powers (The Overstory) and evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano (University of Sydney and ICE@Dartmouth Fellow, and author of Thus Spoke the Plant) for a truly mind-expanding conversation that is sure to reset the way you think about the nature of intelligence, plant behavior, and our place within Nature. Moderated by ICE@Dartmouth Director Marcelo Gleiser.
Registration: This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Contact: Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth
The River Junction Writers debut their first collection of short stories and novel excerpts in Short Tall Tales. This collection encompasses previously-published stories, including one nominated for the Pushcart Prize, along with works never before in print. The River Junction Writers are: Lis Barfield, S.J. Cahill, Chris Collins, Alison Hine, Judith Janoo, and Virginia Ramus.
Contact: Latham Library
Polina Barskova is the author of eight books of poetry and one book of prose in Russian. Three books of her poetry in English translation were published recently: This Lamentable City (Tupelo Press), Zoo in Winter (Melville House Press), Relocations (Zephyr Press).
Contact: Leslie Center for the Humanities
Join storytellers for Still North Book & Bar’s very first Story Night! The theme is “New Beginnings”. Each story should be 5 to 7 minutes long.
Practice session: February 16, 10 am to noon. We would like to meet all storytellers in advance to hear what you plan to share, and to support you in practicing/delivering/refining your story. For the practice AND event, please feel free to bring kids/babies - we're happy to entertain them while you're entertaining us. The practice session will be held in room 158 at Baker Library in Hanover, New Hampshire. (Enter the main entrance, turn left, walk to the end of the lobby, turn right and go up the stairs, room is at the top of the stairs).
Contact:
Artist Gina Adams will perform a reading from the Treaty with the Chippewa 1867 Broken Treaty Quilt in front her of "Ancestor Beadwork Prism" works.
Contact: Hood Museum of Art
Artist Gina Adams is hosting a performative community art project in the museum’s Russo Atrium. She will invited attendees to cut letters from treaties to revisit the historically broken treaties between the U.S. government and Native American communities, including the Treaty of Wyandot 1785, which she worked on as a Dartmouth artist-in-residence. The cut letters will be placed on the window of the museum’s entrance so museum-goers can see and read the text.
Gina will perform a reading from the Treaty with the Chippewa 1867 Broken Treaty Quilt in front her of "Ancestor Beadwork Prism" works from 6:00 to 7:00 pm.
Contact: Hood Museum of Art
Matthea Harvey: If the Tabloids are True What are You?
Matthew Olzmann: Contradictions in the Design
Contact: Still North Books & Bar
Eddie S. Glaude Jr., chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of Begin Again: James Baldwin's America will present a lecture titled, “The Third American Founding: Re-imagining America After Donald Trump."
Contact: Leslie Center for Humanities
Join Matvei Yankelevich of Ugly Duckling Presse for a fun workshop where paper folding and writing happen at the same time to create books you never imagined. All materials will be supplied—you’ll just need to bring your imagination!
Contact: Dartmouth College Book Arts Workshop
Peter Brannen, award-winning science journalist and author of The Ends of the World: Volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand earth's past mass extinctions, will present his lecture, "Putting the Anthropocene in Context: Global Catastrophes in Deep Time."
This event will be held in Haldeman Hall 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall) on the Dartmouth College campus.
Contact: Dartmouth College
William Cheng: Loving Music Till It Hurts
Contact: Leslie Center for the Humanities
Join the Dartmouth Library Book Arts Workshop and Matvei Yankelevich of Ugly Duckling Presse for a talk about small presses and their future.
Ugly Duckling Presse began its life as a xeroxed zine and slowly transformed into a Brooklyn-based nonprofit small press led by a volunteer collective that has brought out more than 250 titles to date. Throughout its history, UDP has favored emerging, international, and “forgotten” writers, and its books, chapbooks, artist’s books, broadsides, and periodicals often contain handmade and letterpress elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking.
Contact: Dartmouth College Book Arts Workshop
Marian Hirsch and Leo Spitzer, authors of School Photos in Liquid Time, explore the ideological and political work of school photos in times of political turmoil and transformation, including examples from US boarding schools for Native American children and from Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust. They will also discuss the afterlives of these vernacular images in the work of artists who have reframed them in their installations.
Contact: Hood Museum of Art
JAG Productions is dedicated to the production of fourth annual festival of new works, JAGfest 4.0, will take place February 7-9. Playwrights Isaiah Hines, Jeremy O’ Brian, Johnny G. Lloyd, Sheldon Shaw, and Keelay Gipson, and JAG Producing Artistic Director Jarvis Green, will share their perspectives as artists of color working in the theater industry and discussing the practical daily challenges of building a career and a life as a creative artist in today’s world. The discussion will be moderated by playwright Kirya Traber.
A cash bar and light snacks will be available (complimentary drink tickets for attending Dartmouth students 21 and older).
Registration: RSVPs are not required, but they are helpful. To RSVP, email .
Contact: Leslie Center for the Humanities
Isabella Hammad: The Parisian
This event will be held in Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall) on the Dartmouth College campus.
Contact: Dartmouth College
If you have a poem or several poems that are aching to be printed, the Book Arts Workshop can help you print them. Using the traditional letterpress process of movable type, you will receive instruction in type setting, paper selection, press work, and if more than one page, book binding.
We will meet for one session, but plan on coming in during an open studio to finish up printing your haikus.
This workshop will meet in Book Arts Room 25 in the Baker-Berry Library on the Dartmouth College Campus.
Registration: Registration opens on January 21, 2020, at 6:30 pm.
Contact: Dartmouth College Book Arts Workshop
Sarah Gambito: Loves You
Contact: Dartmouth College
These folded structures are great for creating quick books and zines. We’ll explore a variety of folds and cuts to make books with less or more pages. We’ll also use a variety of printing, collage, rubber stamp, stencil, and photocopy transfer techniques to get your text and images onto your pages.
Registration: Registration opens January 13, 2020 at 5:30 pm
Contact: Dartmouth College Book Arts Workshop
Live storytelling at the AVA Gallery and Art Center. This quarter's theme, "Family Ties," will be brought to life as five or six pre-selected individuals share personal accounts of what this theme means to them.
Doors open at 630 pm. Storytelling begins at 7:00 pm.
Cost: Advance tickets are available online: $7.50 for members; $10 for non-members; tickets at the door are $20.00 and sold as space permits. Tickets for the general public will be available on May 13.
Contact: AVA Gallery
Maurice S. Crandall: These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912
Contact: Peabody Library
Terry Tempest Williams: Erosion
Free and open to the public. Reservations are not needed as this event will take place in the Norwich Congregational Church.
Contact: The Norwich Bookstore
Dean Whitlock: The Arrow Rune
Contact: Latham Library