Founder member of Writers In the Mountains, Barbara Apoian will do a performance/reading at the Foothills Performance Art Center, 24 Market Street, in Oneonta NY on Suday, August 17th.
"COME WITH ME ON A JOURNEY TO MEET AN OFFICER WHO SURVIVED THE TITANIC,
A NAVAJO GIRL IN THE SOUTHWEST, DOGS AND THEIR OWNERS IN CANNES, A
FRENCH RESTAURANT ON THE PEAK OF THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS, A THEATRICAL
DESIGNER IN LONDON, AN ITALIAN LIVING IN THE CATHEDRAL SQUARE OF
CREMONA, A WOODSTOCK ARTIST , AND A STRANGE ENCOUNTER IN LONDON, AS
WELL AS OTHER PLACES AND PEOPLE I THINK YHOU WILL ENJOY KNOWING."
Barbara Apoian
The following is an excerpt from an article written by Sam Goodyear in review of Ms. Apoian's last appearance at Foothills, written for his column Art Beat and appeared in the Freeman's Journal in Cooperstown, New York on Friday August 17, 2007.
"The event, presented by the Foothills Performing Arts Center Guild, was entitled “Among My Souvenirs.” Billed as a set of dramatized readings by Barbara Apoian from Roxbury (by way of London, Paris and New York), I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect. How interesting could one woman’s experiences presented in memoir form be, I wondered. The answer is: very. And then some."
$15 per person. Complimentary wine and cheese after the performance
Jennifer Kabat to Offer Weekend Workshop
"Writer's Workout" is an intensive workshop that focuses on building specific strategies to take back to our own work. The two-day workshop includes partnering up for exercises around character, plot and dialogue. Together we hone technical writing skills rarely covered in traditional workshops. Before the class, the group will read an assigned short story and watch a feature-length movie. Both will help guide discussions and illustrate different narrative techniques. The first day also includes time for the group to critique each others’ work, but the focus will be on generating new writing.
Jennifer Kabat moved to Margaretville from London in 2005. She has an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. Her story As If I Could Assume Your Life was recently published in the collection X-24: Unclassified, alongside Daniel Alarcón, Laila Lalami. Jennifer’s journalism has appeared in New York Magazine, Wired, The Financial Times and The Guardian, while she's a contributing editor at the architecture and design magazine Metropolis She is currently working on her first novel.
The two-day workshop is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program administered in Delaware County by The Roxbury Arts Group, and is only $15 per person.
The workshop will be held on Saturday and Sunday, November 1st and 2nd from 10 AM to 2 PM at the Walt Meade Gallery on Vega Mountain Road in Roxbury. Please bring your lunch.
You may register by clicking here.
Barbara Apoian to Perform 
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