Words Alive!
Authors, poets and artists in their own words
JUNE 11 AT 5:00pm -
BOOK LAUNCH: BIOGRAPHER PATRICIA HOERTH ON EVELYN BEATRICE LONGMAN
Hoerth discusses her new biography “Evelyn Beatrice Longman: The Woman Who Sculpted Golden Boy, Thomas Edison, and Other Monuments”. Longman was an important assistant and protégé of Daniel Chester French. Several examples of her sculptural work in the Chesterwood collection are on view in the French Family Galleries at the Residence.
JULY 9 AT 5:00PM -
TWO POETS: PATRICK DONNELLY & LISKEN VAN PELT DUS
Lisken Van Pelt Dus will read from her second collection of poems, the recently published “How Many Hands to Home.” Patrick Donnelly will read from his fifth collection of poems, the recently published “Willow Hammer.”
JULY 18 AT 5:30PM -
SCULPTOR RICHARD BLAKE ON CREATING W.E.B. DUBOIS FOR GREAT BARRINGTON
Moderated by the founders of the W.E.B. DuBois Sculpture Project, Julie Michaels and Lauren Clark, celebrated sculptor Richard Black will share his creative process for the commission of the W.E.B. DuBois monument for the town of Great Barrington, MA, DuBois’s hometown.
JULY 20 AT 1:00PM -
Roundtable: W.E.B.DUBOIS - Scholar, Artist, Architect of the Civil Rights Movement
A roundtable discussion with Richard Blake, sculptor of the W.E.B. DuBois monument for Great Barrington, MA; Dr. Chad Williams, DuBois scholar; Delano Burrows, artist and activist; Dr. Frances Jones Sneed, MCLA professor; and Gwen Pier, Executive Director of the National Sculpture Society.
AUGUST 6 AT 5:00 PM -
HAROLD HOLZER - THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL: CENTER of PROTEST
Renowned Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer presents a program about the Lincoln Memorial’s evolution into a center of protest and assembly around the theme of human rights—the place where Lincoln’s “unfinished work” has been addressed, from civil rights to peace. With a musical tribute to Marian Anderson and her historic Easter Sunday 1939 Lincoln Memorial Concert.
AUGUST 14 AT 5:00 PM -
MARK SHAPIRO: MUSIC AND THE MIND
Join the witty and erudite American conductor Mark Shapiro as he takes you on a whirlwind tour of recent thinking about the musical mind. How do we perceive, process, and respond to music? Why might these capacities have evolved? Discover how such explorations can enrich our listening and heighten our musical pleasure.
AUGUST 21 AT 5:00 PM -
POETRY READING
Join Writer-in-Residence Jessica Jacobs as she reads her poetry and discusses her residency at Chesterwood, with poet Owen Lewis.
SEPTEMBER 13 AT 5:00 PM -
POETRY READING
Moderator Neil Silberblatt, founder of the poetry network “Voices of Poetry”, presents Kathleen Aguero, Richard Hoffman, Daniel Tobin and David Gianini.