Calendar

Apr
1
Wed
Book Reading and Launch: Ken Mikolowski @ RC Benzinger Library
Apr 1 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

RC poetry instructor Ken Mikolowski reads from his new collection, That That, from Wayne State University Press Signing.

 

Apr
10
Fri
RC Review Release Party @ RC Benzinger Library
Apr 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

You’ve been waiting all year, and it’s finally here: the RC Review Release Party! Join us on Friday, April 10th, to pick up your free copy of this year’s magazine and bask in its glory. We’ll have an open mike for RC students to read, both published authors and anyone else who wants to! Trust me, you don’t want to miss it.

RC production of The Bacchae @ Matthaei Gardens Conservatory
Apr 10 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

U-M drama lecturers Kate Mendeloff and Martin Walsh direct RC students in Jaclyn Dudek’s new translation of Euripides’ classical tragedy. It tells of the catastrophe that results when King Pentheus bans the worship of a new god, Bacchus, in his city. The young god leads all the women of Thebes to the mountains to frolic and dance with wild animals, and is avenged when his followers (including Pentheus’s own mother) tear the king to pieces. Also April 12.

 

Apr
12
Sun
RC production of The Bacchae @ Matthaei Gardens Conservatory
Apr 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

U-M drama lecturers Kate Mendeloff and Martin Walsh direct RC students in Jaclyn Dudek’s new translation of Euripides’ classical tragedy. It tells of the catastrophe that results when King Pentheus bans the worship of a new god, Bacchus, in his city. The young god leads all the women of Thebes to the mountains to frolic and dance with wild animals, and is avenged when his followers (including Pentheus’s own mother) tear the king to pieces.

 

Apr
15
Wed
Writers’ Tea @ Greene Lounge, RC
Apr 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

RC Writers Tea, open to majors and current writing students who are non majors,  and current students interested in the writing major. In RC’s Greene Lounge.

Apr
20
Mon
Digital Storytelling Art Show @ RC Cafe
Apr 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
You are all invited to come join us for the end of the year Art Show of the Digital Storytelling course at the RC Cafe! See the amazing digital work of our students, find out about the wild world of Digital Storytelling, and talk to the artists!

 

RC: Short Plays @ RC Keene Theater
Apr 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

RC theater students present a program of short plays TBA.

 

Apr
21
Tue
RC Creative Writing Senior Reading @ RC Benzinger Library
Apr 21 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Join RC creative writing seniors as they read from their work – one last chance to celebrate the Creative Writer Class of 2015! Light refreshments!

 

Sep
19
Sat
RC: Thin Walls: Performance/Alice Eve Cohen in Residence @ Keene Theater
Sep 19 @ 8:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Kate Mendeloff and the RC Visiting Artists program welcome Alice Eve Cohen, playwright, author and actor,  for a production of “Thin Walls”  — a play about a microcosm of the urban landscape at a turbulent time in New York City’s history. Set in  a century-old residential building, once elegant and now run-down, the darkly humorous and deeply moving play interweaves the stories of the building’s long-time residents, its recent arrivals and its ghosts, as the end of the 20th century approaches.

Alice Eve Cohen’s plays and solo pieces have been produced around the world. Ms. Cohen has also written for television, and her fiction has been published by Simon and Schuster and Heinenmann Press. She has received fellowships, grants and commissions from New York State Council on the ARts, Dance Theatre Workshop and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as an Emmy Award Commendation and numerous awards from Poets and Writers, Meet the Composer andASCAP.  She received her BA from Princeton University and her MFA from the New School University, where she teaches solo theatre. She works with Lincoln Center Institute, and is the founding editor-in-chief of Theatre Development Fund’s educational theatre journal, Play by Play.

Sep
20
Sun
Detroit Portrait Series: Poets and Publishers Mural Installation at Eastern Market @ Eastern Market, Shed 3
Sep 20 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

WITH READINGS FROM LEGENDARY DETROIT­ AREA WRITERS & POETS:Naomi Long Madgett, Bill Harris, Lolita Hernandez, Terry Blackhawk & Melba Joyce Boyd

Public unveiling of ten large­ scale portraits, meet and greet with muralist Nicole Macdonald, followed by poetry reading with five Detroit poets and publishers depicted in the ongoing public art project, ‘The Detroit Portrait Series,’ will stage readings of their works at Detroit Eastern Market (Shed 3).

Beginning Saturday, September 12​th​, the five readers’ portraits along with those of Philip Levine, Mick Vranich, Dudley Randall, Robert Hayden, and Sixto Rodriguez will be displayed on large­scale painted panels in Shed 3 for one month.

After their residency at Eastern Market, the panels will travel to their permanent location in the Woodbridge neighborhood of Detroit where they will be installed on the boarded-­up windows of the Liquor Store on the corner of Trumbull Ave and I­94 service drive. ​The series is sponsored by Larry John and Dr. Lilian Lai of Woodbridge Co., who have renovated Woodbridge properties and promoted public art in the neighborhood for the past 35 years.

Each of the poets and publishers depicted in the series have made a significant contribution to the city of Detroit, through the establishment of independent writing presses, outreach organizations, and their role as educators ­­ in an academic setting and beyond. The ultimate installation site of these portraits, across from Wayne State University, is intended to connect the significant role that the university has played in the scholarship of many of these writers.

Portraits in this series are part of an ongoing public art project by Detroit muralist Nicole Macdonald. The series is inspired by Howard Zinn’s ​A People’s History of the United States​, which aims to tell history from the ‘bottom­up’, portraying leaders and everyday heroes who have struggled for justice and equality.

Wayne State University Press will be in attendance to introduce the authors, book signing to follow the reading.

More information contact: Nicole Macdonald / nicolexodus@gmail.com / 313­330­5643

 

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