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Lynchburg's
Literary Lounge
Published authors read from
their work in a relaxed atmosphere.
7:30pm.
Free |
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Spring 2010 |
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Thu, January 21
7:30
John
Hawkins,
Third Thursday
Performance Poetry.
Local
writer/performance artist/musician John Hawkins will present his
unique take on story telling on Thursday, January 21st at
7:30pm. Hawkins will be accompanied by three visual artists who
will be creating their artwork live during the performance.
John Hawkins
will present his work in a casual setting, moving around the gallery
space and interacting with his surroundings. Hawkins’ style works
to engage the audience as he moves throughout the gallery and
interacts with listeners in very direct ways. His poetry follows a
similar pattern, telling travel stories as he “travels” throughout
the space. His very physical style of presentation will be a first
for Riverviews.
Hawkins’ plan
for the evening is to merge several genres of art-making into what
he refers to as a three-ring circus. To help achieve this
atmosphere, three visual artists will be in the gallery creating
paintings and drawings, reacting as John “tell stories”. |
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Thu, February 18
7:30pm
John
Franklin,
Inspired by a dream to “take a thousand of their closest friends to
Peru, fifteen at a time,” Doctors John and Sharon Franklin have
introduced numerous western-trained health care professionals and
others to the healing traditions of Peru. Successful veterinarians,
the Franklins have traveled from the Andes Mountains to the Amazon
Rainforest for well over a decade. Transformational ceremonies at
Machu Picchu and other sacred sites and a wisdom tradition about an
ethical relationship with nature inspired them to write Gift of
the Jaguar.
When
not in Peru, John now writes and shares his gift of touch with
people through Zero Balancing and Feldenkrais. Sharon shows others
how to create vibrant health and financial abundance with XanGo, and
is a Gold-Seal Certified Flight Instructor. Avid hikers and runners,
the Franklins enjoy life in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
with two cats. See DoctorsJohnandSharon.com for more about Gift of
the Jaguar, trips to Peru, and XanGo.
Free |
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Thu, March 18
7:30pm
Laura
Marello.
Laura Marello is the author of six novels, two novellas, a
collection of stories, a memoir, a collection of poems and a
screenplay. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the
Arts Grant, a Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown Fellowship and a
Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. She has been
awarded artist residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Millay, Montalvo and
Djerassi. Her fiction has been published by Gordon Lish in Q22 and
James Laughlin in New Directions $53. It has also appeared in The
Mississippi Review, The Chicago Review, Newsday, and other
magazines, and anthologies. Laura Marello grew up in Los Angeles and
New York. She has lived most of her adult life in northern
California. Laura will read from her newly released book: just
released book, “Claiming Kin.”
About Claiming Kin, a first novel by
Laura Marello:
Andrea has an unusual
sense of smell. She grows up to be a pheromone
researcher for the U.S. Department of Agriculture
and a perfume maker in Paris. But one idea haunts
her: who is her real father? Is it the man her
family says is her father, or is it his live-in
companion? Andrea follows them to San Remo, where
she tests her hypothesis, with startling results
that disrupt her family on both sides of the
Atlantic. Claiming Kin is about two families in
Italy and America and their conflicts over kinship.
The novel spans the 1950s through the 1980s and is
set in San Remo, Paris, Santa Cruz California and a
fictional Pottersville North Carolina.
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