Sherry Chandler
"On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.” — W.S. Merwin
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Wildacres Writers Workshop
(4)Last year I went, for the first time, to the Wildacres Writers Workshop. It was a wonderful experience. I was fortunate enough to receive the Katherine Osborne Scholarship, and I will be forever grateful. I wrote, I hiked, I partied (yes, serious me), I laughed, I made friends with some wonderful people and renewed friendships with some other wonderful people.
This year’s workshop is July 10 – 17 and faculty includes Janice Fuller, Ron Rash (workshop already filled), Philip Gerard, Lee Zacharias, Luke Whisnant, Gail Adams, Michael Parker, Abigail DeWitt, and Nancy Bartholomew.
The purpose of this post is to let people know that applications are still open for the 2010 scholarships, and the deadline for application has been extended until April 10.
The application is simple and the experience is wonderful.
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Christmas at Keeneland
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Preparations are under way here at our house for the Christmas at Keeneland Arts Fair over in Lexington next Saturday and Sunday.
Eighty-one artists will be there offering crafts from baskets to wood.
A great place to do your Christmas shopping.
The unfinished turned ornament shown here is made with tree of heaven (bowl) and ash (finial). The carved spoon below is cherry.
Look for TR at booth # 21. Visit his web page to see more of his work.
Look also for Toni Menk at booth #3. Toni is not only a great designer of glass beadwork but also a fine poet and a fellow member of the Green River Writers.
If you miss Christmas at Keeneland, TR will also have several pieces in the Third Annual Gallery & Gifts Holiday Market at the Scott County Arts & Cultural Center. The Gallery is located in the old jailer’s house, 117 North Water Street, Georgetown, Kentucky. The show opens on November 1 and will run through December 19. Gallery hours are 12 N to 4 pm, Tuesday through Saturdays, Sundays 1 to 4 pm.
And you can always purchase his work at the Kentucky Artisan Center or Appalachian Fireside Gallery.
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Upcoming Events
(2)TR will be at the KGAC Fall Fair, October 10 & 11, at the Indian Fort Theater on Highway 21E in Berea, Kentucky. I’ll probably be hanging around on Sunday.
TR will have three pieces in the exhibit Kentucky Wood at the LexArts gallery going up on October 9 and showing through November 29. Mon – Fri 9 – 5, Sat 10-4
The Heartland Review hosts a poetry reading at the University of Kentucky’s Gaines Center for the Humanities from 7:00-8.30pm, 232 E. Maxwell St. Featured readers are Scott Woodham, Yvonne Morris, Ted Higgs, David Harrity, Erin Keane and yours truly. The event is free and open to the public.
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Boomslangfest
(0)Boomslang, October 9 – 11
WRFL No CommentsBoomslang is a three-day multi-venue music and art festival in Lexington, Ky. Brought to you by WRFL 88.1 – Radio free Lexington – it is a celebration of visionary, experimental, genre-bending music and media of the highest caliber, as well as a showcase of Lexington’s unique venues and culture. In the spirit of independent media, the line-up includes local up-and comers, regional favorites and international legends – artists who have been critically acclaimed for their innovation, but have somehow fallen (or hidden) beneath the mainstream shuffle.
In addition to music, the weekend will feature workshops, sideshow acts, bike events, art exhibits and a circus-themed fashion show.
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Natural Occurrence
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Click the image to see the full-sized poster.
Follow this link to see more of Nancy’s work.
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Alltech Poetry Slam
(2)Have a poem? want to be in the 1000 poetry slam or the 1000 Equestrian Slam, contact Mark Eleveld at mark@em-press.com. Poems should be 3 minutes in length; you should have 5-6 poems on hand. Pre-registration for the Slam portions of the show.
$2000 in prizes at the Alltech Poetry Slam
starring poetry slam founder Marc Kelly Smith
w/ John Condron & the Benefit, with surprise guestsALL AGES WELCOME
September 30, 2009 7:30 PM
Downtown Arts Center (Black Box Theatre)
141 East Main Street
Lexington , Kentucky 40507
866-811-4111$15 dollars tickets; $10 dollars for students
Mark Eleveld recently programmed the first ‘Poetry Jam’ at the White House for President Obama and his family.
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Licking Valley Writers Workshop
(3)I will be signing from 4:00 to 5:45 tomorrow at the Licking Valley Writer’s Workshop sponsored by the Licking Valley Campus of Maysville Community and Technical College.
The event will be held at the historic Prizing House* and will be followed by a dinner with music by Rusted Clay. After dinner, and Kentucky’s Poet Laureate Gurney Norman will deliver the Clay Lecture.
The signing includes a stellar collection of Kentucky’s authors: Gurney Norman, Frank X. Walker, George Ella Lyon, Anne Shelby, Leatha Kendrick, Diane Gilliam, Jill Morgan, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Marianne Worthington, David Dick, Karen Angelucci, Lynn Shaffer, Buck Pennington, and Britt Kennerly.
On Saturday, workshops will be presented by Walker, Gilliam, Lyn, Shelby, Norman, and Kendrick.
This Licking Valley Writers Workshop was conceived and created, as was the Licking Valley Campus itself, by Bruce Florence, a woman of vision. I, for one, am very grateful to her.
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Anne Shelby, Britt Kennerly, Bruce Florence, Buck Pennington, C. Lynn Shaffer, David Dick, Frank X. Walker, George Ella Lyon, Gurney Norman, Jill Morgan, Karen Angelucci, Leatha Kendrick, Licking Valley Writers Workshop, Marianne Worthington, Mary Ann Taylor Hall, The Prizing House 3 Comments
*A prizing house was a place where cured and graded tobacco was “prized” into hogsheads for shipping.
Artistic Support
Sherry has also received an Artist Enrichment grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women.
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