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SUMMARY:2023 Art-for-FALL Teen Juried Art Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Art-for-FALL is a juried art exhibition open to 7th-12th grades. \nStop by The Clay Center to see this FestivFALL exhibition highlighting the work of local aspiring artists. The show will be up at the Ticketing Lobby of The Clay Center from October 13-22 with an Awards Ceremony at in the Susan Runyan Maier Sculpture Garden on October 22 at 1pm. \nFREE Event \nInterested in submitting your work? Click here to see the application. \nThank you to our generous sponsors! \n\n\nPrevious\nNext \nHave a few minutes to help us out? We’d love to hear from you! Take our survey below – and of course want to hear more about any event ideas and what you’d like to see at future FestivALL events! \n\nTake Our Survey!\n \nWant to volunteer for an event?\n\n\nClick Here to Volunteer!
URL:https://festivallcharleston.com/event/art-for-fall-teen-art-exhibition/
LOCATION:The Clay Center\, 1 Clay Square\, Charleston\, WV\, 25301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Local Art,visual arts
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SUMMARY:Art Scavenger Hunt
DESCRIPTION:Can YOU solve the riddles? \n5 local artists have hidden their artistic treasures around Charleston! \nTo start\, follow FestivALL Charleston’s Facebook Page and Instagram Page. \nEvery day at 8am from October 16-20\, FestivALL will post a HINT as to where to find the artwork. \nIf you can figure out the location based on the riddle and get there first\, the artwork is yours! \nEvery artwork has the artist’s social media information with it! \nMake sure to post your artwork and tag the artist\, FestivALL Charleston (Facebook) and @festivall_cwv (Instagram) to show us your new treasure! \nDay 1: October 16\n\nClue: Capitol’s Mark on Freshness Charleston-based artist Matt Smith specializes in a mix of realism and imaginative creations as both a painter and illustrator.You can find his work at www.mattsmithmakes.com or by checking out his page @mattsmithmakes. \nDay 2: October 17\n\nClue: This horned city is clearly out of this world for reading. With her company\, Bashful Bee Press\, Lindsay Emmite uses inspiration from nature and pop culture to create her pieces.You can find her work by visiting @bashfulbeepress. \nDay 3: October 18\n\nClue: Just like a stray dog to chase this one up a tree. Artist Jake Fertig from Charleston is a versatile master of many mediums\, including sculpture\, animation\, filmmaking\, and education.You can find his work by checking out his page @jakefertig. \nDay 4: October 19\n \nRIDDLE COMING SOON! \nDay 5: October 20\n \nRIDDLE COMING SOON! \nHave a few minutes to help us out? We’d love to hear from you! Take our survey below – and of course want to hear more about any event ideas and what you’d like to see at future FestivALL events!\n\nTake Our Survey!\n \nWant to volunteer for an event?\n\n\nClick Here to Volunteer!
URL:https://festivallcharleston.com/event/art-scavenger-hunt-2023-10-20/
LOCATION:Charleston\, WV\, Charleston\, WV\, United States
CATEGORIES:family-fun,Local Art,other-events,visual arts
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SUMMARY:An Evening with the Poets
DESCRIPTION:Marc Harshman hosts an evening of poetry readings and then the floor will be opened to attendees for discussion/Q&A.		 \nMarc Harshman\n												\n		Harshman’s WOMAN IN RED ANORAK\, won the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize and was published in 2018 by Lynx House / University of Washington Press. His fourteenth children’s book\, FALLINGWATER…\, co-authored with Anna Smucker\, was published by Roaring Brook/Macmillan in 2017 and was an Amazon Book of the Month. He is also co-winner of the 2019 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. Poems have been anthologized by Kent State University\, the University of Iowa\, University of Georgia\, and the University of Arizona. Harshman’s newest collection of poems\, THE SHADOW TESTIMONIES\, has just been scheduled for publication by Salmon Press in the Republic of Ireland. \nAppointed in 2012\, he is the seventh poet laureate of West Virginia. \nMaggie Anderson\n																										 \nMaggie Anderson was born in New York city in 1948. She moved to West Virginia when she was 13 years old\, and attended public schools and West Virginia Wesleyan College (1966-1968) and West Virginia University. She received a B.A. in 1970 and an M.A. in creative writing in 1973. Anderson is the author of five books of poems\, most recently Dear All (Four Way Books\, 2017). She is also the author of Windfall: New and Selected Poems (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2000)\, A Space Filled with Moving (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press\, 1992)\, Cold Comfort (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press\, 1986)\, Years That Answer (New York: Harper and Row Publishers\, Inc.\, 1980)\, Greatest Hits: 1984-2004 (Columbus: Pudding House Publications\, 2004)\, and The Great Horned Owl (Riderwood: Icarus Press\, 1979). She is the founding editor of the Wick Poetry First Book Series and the Wick Poetry Chapbook Series for Ohio Poets. In 1971 she co-founded Trellis\, a poetry journal\, with Winston Fuller and Irene McKinney\, and served as editor until 1981. She is currently working on a novel. \nAnderson’s awards and honors include two fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and grants from the Ohio Arts Council and the MacDowell Colony\, including an Isabella Gardner Fellowship. In 2004\, Emory and Henry College in Virginia honored her at their 23rd annual Appalachian Literary Festival\, and Kent State University honored her with a Distinguished Scholar Award. In 2003\, she received the Helen and Laura Kraut Memorial Ohioana Poetry Award from the Ohioana Library Association. In 2002\, the KSU Alumni Association awarded her one of just three University Distinguished Teaching Awards. Anderson also received the B.B. Maurer WV Folklife Scholar Award from Fairmont State University\, Fairmont\, WV\, for an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the preservation and perpetuation of Appalachian cultural heritage. \nAnderson attended West Virginia Wesleyan College from 1966–68 and earned a bachelor’s degree in English\, with high honors\, from West Virginia University in 1970. Her M.A. in English (Creative Writing) in 1973 and an M.S.W. in 1977 were also from WVU. She worked as a rehabilitation counselor for blind and visually impaired clients at the West Virginia Rehabilitation Center from 1973-77. Beginning in 1979\, she worked as poet-in-residence for ten years\, in schools\, senior centers\, correctional facilities and libraries in West Virginia\, Ohio\, and Pennsylvania. She has served as visiting writer at several universities\, including the University of Pittsburgh\, the University of Oregon\, the Pennsylvania State University\, Hamilton College\, and West Virginia University. In addition to her travels in the United States\, Anderson has lived in Denmark (1992–1993) and traveled extensively throughout western and eastern Europe\, Russia\, and Scandinavia. \nAnderson’s poems have been published in poetry journals\, including The American Poetry Review\, New Letters\, Prairie Schooner\, The Georgia Review\, and Hamilton Stone Review\, and her work has appeared in more than 50 anthologies and textbooks. Essays have appeared in 17 anthologies and journals of contemporary poetry and poetics. Her poems have been set to music four times by contemporary composers\, including “The Dream Vegetables” in Dreams and Nocturnes: Chamber Music of Stephen Gryc\, “In Singing Weather” by Monica Houghton\, “Nightmare\,” by Anne LeBaron\, and “Related to the Sky” from “Sun Songs and Nocturnes” by John David Earnest\, an a cappella piece for male chorus performed at Lincoln Center in 1992 by Chanticleer and the New Jersey Philharmonic Orchestra. \nIn 1989\, Anderson began teaching creative writing at Kent State University and was appointed coordinator of the Wick Poetry Program in 1992. In 2004\, when the Wick Poetry Program celebrated its 20th anniversary and received a $2 million endowment to create the Wick Poetry Center in the College of Arts and Sciences\, Anderson was named director. Anderson was on the founding committee of the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and served as Kent State University’s Campus Coordinator for the NEOMFA from 2003–2006 and as Director of the Northeast Ohio MFA Consortium from 2006-2009. Upon her retirement from Kent in 2009\, the Maggie Anderson Endowment Fund was established in her honor. The Fund aims to assist talented writing students at the university with writing-related travel expenses. \nYouth Speakers\nKaitlyn Erby\nThe current Youth Poet Laureate for WV. \nMorgan Sprouse\nPast champion of the WV Poetry Out Loud competition. \nHave a few minutes to help us out? We’d love to hear from you! Take our survey below – and of course want to hear more about any event ideas and what you’d like to see at future FestivALL events! \n			\n						Take our survey\n					 \nWant to volunteer for this event?\n \n		\n			\n						Click Here to Volunteer!
URL:https://festivallcharleston.com/event/evening-with-the-poets/
LOCATION:Taylor Books\, 226 Capitol Street\, Charleston\, WV\, 25301\, United States
CATEGORIES:other-events
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Youth Arts Company presents "Why We Stayed: Stories & Monologues About the Forgotten Victims of Domestic Violence"
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with the Charleston YWCA’s Resolve Family Abuse Program\, “Why We Stayed” is a poignant drama of heartbreak and reclamation told through the eyes of the forgotten victims and survivors of Domestic Violence. \nTickets:\n$15 for adults\n$10 for students/seniors \n\nCLICK HERE FOR TICKETS\n \nHave a few minutes to help us out? We’d love to hear from you! Take our survey below – and of course want to hear more about any event ideas and what you’d like to see at future FestivALL events!\n\nTake Our Survey!\n \nWant to volunteer for this event?\n\n\nClick Here to Volunteer!
URL:https://festivallcharleston.com/event/thetrappist-2023-10-20/
LOCATION:Elk City Playhouse\, 218 W. Washington Street\, Charleston\, WV\, 25302\, United States
CATEGORIES:theatre
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SUMMARY:Charleston Ballet presents "Fairy Tails"
DESCRIPTION:See the premieres of Peter and the Wolf\, Cinderella\, and Winnie the Pooh & Friends as they are brought to life on stage by the Charleston Ballet. Be amazed by Peter’s cleverness\, accompany Winnie the Pooh on his adventures\, and witness Cinderella’s dream come true. This production is perfect for all ages. \nDuration: 1 1/2 hours \nCharleston Coliseum Theater October 20-21\, 2023. 7:30 pm (plus 2:00 pm matinee Saturday) \nTickets: $35 Adult\, $30 Student/Senior\, available at the box office or online. \n\nGet Your Tickets Here!\n \nHave a few minutes to help us out? We’d love to hear from you! Take our survey below – and of course want to hear more about any event ideas and what you’d like to see at future FestivALL events! \n\nTake Our Survey!\n \nWant to volunteer for this event?\n\n\nClick Here to Volunteer!
URL:https://festivallcharleston.com/event/charleston-ballet-presents-fairy-tails/
LOCATION:Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center Theater\, 200 Civic Center Drive\, Charleston\, WV\, 25301
CATEGORIES:dance
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