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Shirley Wyllys and granddaughter Madison on Patch & Pasture Farm

March 2010 

 

Author’s Reading: Eggs and Books

Zinta will be reading an excerpt from her novel-in-progress, Closed Doors Open, at a women’s book club. The gathering will include a brunch of organic foods, the reading, followed by discussion.

 

Place: Shirley Wyllys’s home and organic farm, “Patch & Pasture”

20975 Pine Lake Rd

Battle Creek, Michigan

Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010

Time: 11 a.m.

 

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November 2009

Convergence:  A Kaleidoscope of Form,   Medium and Concept

An exhibit of area artists including painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers, fabric artists and

November 2 – December 10

 

Meet the Artist reception

With music by pianist Doug Chamberlin

Sunday, November 15  2:00-3:00 pm

 

Convergence: A Symphony for the Senses: A Poetry Reading in Fifteen Languages

Sunday, November 15  3:00-4:30 pm

Kalamazoo/Portage is certainly a melting pot of culture and language. To prove it, the Portage District Library and Western Michigan University Foreign Languages Department are collaborating to bring together area residents from fifteen different areas of the world to select a favorite poem which can be one they have written themselves to read.


Cosponsored with Western Michigan University Foreign Languages Department, Michigan Festival of Sacred Music and Fetzer Institute.

 

Chinese      

Latino 

African Deme

Russian-Desha 

Latvian (Zinta Aistars reading from Mala Kausa)        

Portuguese  

French 

German 

Japanese Samer 

Indian   Bijoy Bhuyan  Bengali

Korean 

Arabic 

Arabic Farsi 

Africa     

 

Location: Austin, Sugarloaf, and West Lake Rooms
Contact Number: 269-3294542 ext 600

 

Or, for more information, contact:

 

Marsha Meyer

Program & Events Coordinator

Portage Public Library

mmeyer@portagelibrary.info

269-329-4542 ext 710

 

 

 

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Latvian Woman in Folk Costume, oil painting by Viestarts Aistars

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