ORGANIZER: Charles Fishman
CONTACT: carolus@optimum.net
2016 VHS Readings & Other Events
- F April 1, 3:30 pm – Lucie Smoker, coordinator – Scissortail Creative Writing Festival – East Central University, Ada, Oklahoma – completed
- St April 9, check time – Gayle Lauradunn, coordinator – Bookworks: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque,NM, (505) 344-8139 – completed
- St April 9, 6 pm – Smita Sahay: Pen@Prithvi – Mumbai – completed
- M April 11, 5:30 pm – Smita Sahay – KitabKhana, Fort, Mumbai – completed
- St April 16, 6 pm – Smita Sahay – Gyan Adab, Kalyani Nagar, Pune, India – completed
- S April 17, 4 pm – Karen Levine, Director; Charles Fishman, coordinator: LI Writers House – 46 Green St, Huntington, NY 11743, 631-421-3630 – completed
- S April 17, check time – Lucy Smoker: FullCircle Books, Oklahoma City, OK – completed
- W-Th April 20-21. 3 events ( W 12 noon & 7 pm, Th 11 am– Elizabeth D/ Johnston & Angelique Stevens, coordinators – Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY – completed
- F April 22, check time – Kim Noriega – San Diego Library???
- Th Apr 28, 6 pm, Josh Rubell, curator; Charles Fishman, coordinator: Cornelia Street Café / 29 Cornelia St, NYC, 212-989-9319 – completed
- St May 7, check time – Lucie Smoker: Gulf Coast Indie Book Fair, in conjunction w/the Menil Collection’s community arts festival – completed
- S May 15 check time – Charles Fishman, reading & discussion – Tzfat, Israel – Reuven Goldfarb, coordinator – completed
- S May 22, 2 pm – Charles Fishman, reading & discussion – Dara Barnat, coordinator – Tel Aviv University, Israel – completed
- T May 24, 7 pm – Charles Fishman – reading & discussion – Steven Sher, coordinator – Barbur Gallery, Nachlaot, Jerusalem, Israel – completed
- M May 30, 6 pm – Rashida Murphy: The Fremantle Fibonacci Centre, Perth, Australia – completed
- S June 5, 2016 4 pm, Harriet Pasca-Ortges: Nassau County Baha’i Center, Long Island – benefit & dual celebration, with poets included in Grabbing the Apple: Poetry by New York Women Poets & Veils, Halos & Shackles – completed
- Th June 26, 4:30 pm, Donna Barkman & Margo Stever, coordinators: Hudson Valley Writers Center – NYS – completed
- F September 23, – 5:30-7:30 pm at Kitabkhana, Fort, Mumbai, India – Smita Sahay: part of the Women’s Empowerment Event of 100 Thousand Poets for Change Mumbai 2016.
- T September 27th, 5:30 pm – Barbara Novack & Dr. Camenzuli, Siena Women’s Center: Molloy College (the Women’s Center’s book club will attend)
- W Oct. 5th 7-9:30 pm – Purdue North University – Janine Harrison, coordinator – “Veils, Halos & Shackles: Readings and Roundtable”
- Th Oct. 6th 9-11 am SULB-321 “Writing Through Trauma” – Janine Harrison, coordinator
- F Oct. 7th 6:30-8:30 pm – Queens Cultural Center, Astoria – Richard Jeffrey Newman, host & MC.
- St Oct. 8th , 4 pm – Charles Fishman – book signing & brief intro & reading – Circa Something Gallery, South Country Rd, Bellport, NY – Bob Baker host & coordinator
- St October 8 from 11am-1pm (Australian eastern Standard Time) – online launch by the Toowoomba contingent (Nola Passmore, Adele Jones and Catherine Sercombe) – event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/340670919605945/
- M Dec 5, 7:30-8:15 / 7 pm sign up for open mic / must leave by 9 pm, Susan Okie: Muse Café – Washington, DC
In progress scheduling efforts exist in all of the following locations:
- California – Gail Newman – Santa Cruz
- New Hampshire – Dianee Velee > Dartmouth, etc.
- New York – Mid-Island Y – check with Gayl Teller
- New York – Dutchess County – Theresa Senato Edwards
- New York – Richard Jeffrey Newman – NCCC via 2 depts. –March or April 2017 – sponsored by Creative Writing & Women’s Studies programs
- SCCC – Karen Dovell, via Lynn Cohen – cohenle@sunysuffolk.edu > after Spring Break
- Ireland – at least 1 venue
- Massachusetts Poetry Festival – 2017, via Richard Jeffrey Newman
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Hofstra via Dobrin > English/Creative Writing & Women’s Studies/Genocide Studies
Possible adoptions:
Fordham via Angela Alaimo O’Donnell