Out of the Darkness: The Poetry Session will feature poets who have written ekphrastic poems based on John Zoccoli's art, plus an open mic!
Free and Open to the Public. Children must be accompanied by an adult.Join the NYS Writers Institute and the RED Bookshelf for a Children’s Pajama Storytime with UAlbany alumni and children’s book author Fabian Ferguson. Fabian Ferguson, who received his B.S. in Marketing and Management from the UAlbany School of Business in 2007, is an […]
Let’s take a closer look at your work in progress—story arc, individual scenes, settings, character, and theme—and interrogate those elements for what else might be true about them, all with an eye on infusing your story with more dimension, more humanity, and more resonance. Lastly, we’ll focus on how to do all of this with […]
Free and Open to the Public. Join the NYS Writers Institute as we talk with Sharr White and Maggie Mancincelli-Cahill on “The True,” an off-broadway play chronicling ex-Albany Mayor Erastus Corning II and Dorothea Noonan.Sharr White is the author of “The True,” a new play that explores the bounds of love, loyalty, and female power […]
Judith Heumann, star of the Oscar-nominated 2020 documentary CRIP CAMP: A DISABILITY REVOLUTION, is widely hailed as “The Mother” of the Disability Rights Movement. Heumann contracted polio at age 18 months and has used a wheelchair for most of her life. Over the course of half a century, she served as an organizer of various […]
The Dead Man’s Press Ink Spoken Word Poetry Showcase returns on Friday, April 1st at The FuzeBox with featured poet R.M. Engelhardt reading work from his most recent book, We Rise Like Smoke and the soon to be released Of Spirit Ash & Bone.The Dead Man’s Press Ink Spoken Word Poetry Showcase is a monthly […]
The film festival will feature filmmakers and notable film industry leaders hosting discussions and screenings, a short film contest, and the Ironweed Awards presentation, named after Writers Institute’s founder William Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.“Our niche is a ‘bookish’ film festival that celebrates storytelling on film and focuses on adaptations of novels and stories into films; […]
The Friends & Foundation invite you to our first book sale of the year!April is National Poetry Month and you should start your spring right with some new poetry books at the Friends and Foundation’s Poetry Book Sale, presented in partnership with the Hudson Valley Writers Guild. Our April Poetry Book Sale will feature hundreds […]
