May 16th, 7:30pm
Join us as we try out an entirely new format. Readers, both pro and amateur, will read while visitors relax in lounge-like environment. Drop in, drop out, come as you are. Food, drink, music, poetry social hour.
Programs
March 29th at 7:30pm
LuAnn Keener-Mikenas writes poetry that is concerned with the environmental crisis and the remaking and spiritualization of our relationship with the natural world. She has also written memoir, fiction, and poetry for children. Formerly a college English professor, she became a licensed clinical social worker in 2000 and worked intensively with emotionally disturbed children in residential treatment.
Visiting Filmmakers: Directors, Cindy Burstein and Tony Herziga
Film and event with Film-Maker: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, Time 7pm
When men in a prison art class agree to collaborate with victims of crime to design a mural about healing, their views on punishment, remorse, and forgiveness collide. At times the divide seems too wide to bridge. But as the participants begin to work together, mistrust gives way to genuine moments of human contact and shared purpose. Their struggle to find creative common ground raises challenging questions about punishment, justice and reconciliation — the insights gained are reflected in the art they produce in Concrete, Steel and Paint.
The DIRECTORS will be at Riverviews to introduce their film.
Cindy Burstein is an award-winning independent producer. Formerly a community organizer, she received her MFA from Rutgers University to pursue the use of documentary film as a tool for dialogue and civic engagement. She also works with other independent filmmakers to develop public engagement initiatives for theatrical releases, broadcast premieres and educational distribution. She is a 2010 recipient of the Leeway Transformation Award, a fellowship which recognizes women artists engaged in social change.
Tony Heriza
Since co-founding the Community Media Workshop in Dayton, Ohio in 1974, Tony Heriza has been involved in many aspects of media for social change: producing, editing, teaching and working with community organizations. His work has been broadcast nationally on PBS and featured in many festivals. He is now the Director of Educational Outreach for the American Friends Service Committee and along with his co-producer, Cindy Burstein, is an active member of the New Day Film distribution co-operative.
Feb 062012
Riverviews celebrates the work of nine emerging writers from Randolph College’s Creative Writing Program. Come out on February 16th at 7:30pm to support these new voices appearing on the Lynchburg literary scene:
Jennifer Bundy
Sarah Fogle
Jamey Hagy
Alina Herron
Danielle Robinson
Karl Speer
Sara Taylor
Jerry Wells
Britni Wilson
April 19
Third Thursday:Casey Clabough and Ron Coleman
7:30pm
Ron Coleman is a local African American poet who will read from his newly published first book of poems, VersUS.
Casey Clabough is the author of six books, including most recently Confederado: A Novel of the Americas, from which he will read. He serves as literature section editor of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities’ Encyclopedia Virginia and as editor of the James Dickey Review, the sole professional academic journal of Lynchburg College.
Jan 122012
This month, Riverviews is excited to welcome three wonderfully talented writers currently in residence at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts:
Nancy K. Barry is both a teacher and a writer of creative nonfiction at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa and the University of Iowa’s Summer Writing Festival. Her essays have appeared in Iowa Woman, the Chicago Tribune and the Baltimore Sun, and for several years she contributed radio essays to Iowa Public Radio. She is the author of the one-woman play, Lessons from Cancer College, performed in the Midwest in 2010, and funded in part by a grant from the Iowa Arts Council. She has been a guest at two Minnesota residencies: The Anderson Center in Red Wing and the Collegeville Institute, and is spending this month as a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, working on a nonfiction essay about one of the earliest social workers in America, Lillian Wald, who founded the Visiting Nurses Society and the Henry Street Settlement in the lower east side of Manhattan.
Jessica Garratt’s book Fire Pond won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry and was published by the University of Utah Press in 2009. She earned her PhD at the University of Missouri, and in last spring held a visiting teaching appointment at Wichita State University. She has received fellowships from the Carson McCullers Center, MacDowell Colony, ART342, and from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her MFA. Jessica’s poems have appeared in journals such as Michigan Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, The Missouri Review, Literary Imagination, and new work is forthcoming in Western Humanities Review and Colorado Review. She is currently a writer-in-residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, where she is working on her second book of poems.
Elizabeth Poliner is the author of Mutual Life & Casualty, a novel-in-stories, and Sudden Fog, and chabpook of poems. Her work has appeared in many literary journals, including The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Laurel Review. She’s been awarded seven grants in fiction from the D.C. Commission on the Arts (and one in poetry), and has been a fiction scholar at both the Sewannee and Bread Loaf writers’ conferences. She teaches in the graduate and undergraduate creative writing programs at Hollins University’s Jackson Center for Creative Writing. While she’s at VCCA this month, she’s working on a novel.
David Schwartz Reading
Each month, Riverviews hosts the best and brightest literary talent from the surrounding area. Past presenters have included Pulitzer prize winners, the Virginia Poet Laureate, and many other notable fiction and non-fiction writers. The forum also occasionally hosts student writers, performance artists and open mic performers. Free.
Coproduced by the U.S.Holocaust Memorial Museum Research Institute,this Academy Award-winning documentary relates the harrowing story of Gerda Weissmann Klein and her journey of survival and remembering both before and after the war.
Gerda Weissmann Klein survived a six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. Rendered in a deceptively simple yet extraordinarily powerful manner, this film explores the effects Weissman’s experience had on the rest of her life. By the end of the war she had lost her parents, brother, home, possessions, and community; even the dear friends she made in the labor camps, with whom she had shared so many hardships, were dead. A journey of survival through one of the most devastating events in the history of mankind.
Gerda Weissmann Klein will be visiting Randolph College this Thursday. She will discuss the work of her Foundation which promotes tolerance, respect and the empowerment of students throughout the world. This event is co-sponsored by Randolph College and The Holocaust Education Foundation of Central Virginia..
Nov 052011
Riverviews Artspace will be selling ART – original or signed paintings, photography, sculpture, prints, and drawings & JEWELRY – vintage, heirloom, estate, fine, and international for our gently used art and jewelry sale. Dec 2: 5:30-8pm
- Proceeds from sales benefits Riverviews exhibitions and public programs.
The most elegant recycle/reuse event of the year! Fabulous
