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
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!

 

May
30
Sat
Anna Clark’s Book Release Party @ Signal-Return
May 30 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Anna Clark’s new book, Michigan Literary Luminaries, will be published on May 4 by The History Press. Celebrate the release on Saturday, May 30 at Signal-Return (1345 Division Street, Suite 102), which is hosting this event. “Our agenda is simple: drink, food, music, laughter, joy.”

Sep
11
Fri
Bob Clifford @ Nicola's Books
Sep 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Poet Bob Clifford is an RC creative writing alum (’79) and is former associate director and coordinator of academic programs, where he designed and implemented an academic program for over 600 student-athletes and monitored compliance of Big Ten and NCAA regulations.  He is currently the associate athletic director at Oregon State University.  Clifford will be at Nicola’s Books for the release of his latest collection of poetry, Gasping for Air.

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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