Originally, I had planned on doing one blog post to showcase the areas not to miss events, however, there are SO MANY exciting events that I had to break them down by week! So here's the second weeks events for this month! I need two clones so I can attend all three events on Friday the 13th!
NH
MEDIA MAKERS – 8th Anniversary Meet-up for Creative Movers &
Shakers
Sunday,
May 8, 2016, from 10 a.m. to noon at Crackskulls
86
Main Street, Newmarket, NH 03857 https://nhmediamakers.wordpress.com/
FREE
and OPEN to the PUBLIC
The
next NH Media Makers meet-up is very special. It's our 8th anniversary of
monthly meet-ups. Join us for an inspiring meet-up as individuals,
organizations, and businesses share their creative corners of the world. Plus
door prizes! If you have something you want to contribute to the list of
prizes, then bring it along! Share, connect, and get inspired! All are welcome.
Hosted by John Herman of JohnHerman.org
Stories
of Addiction
Sunday,
May 8, 2016, from 7-9 p.m. at Seacoast Rep
125
Bow Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801
www.seacoastrep.org
FREE
and OPEN to the PUBLIC
Stories
of Addiction is co-produced by the Seacoast Rep and Jackie Burke in an attempt
to help raise awareness about the heroin epidemic affecting the Seacoast. This
event is free and open to the public. Donations will be collected during the
event and all proceeds will benefit Ambers Place - a specialty recovery
respite for those suffering from substance use disorder.
For
the last few months, people from around the state have been submitting their
personal stories of addiction. On Sunday May 8th, these people will either read
their stories or have it read on their behalf.
Authors
Night in Hampton Falls
Tuesday
May 10, 2016, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Hampton Falls Free Library
7
Drinkwater Road, Hampton Falls, NH 03844 www.hamptonfallslibrary.org/
FREE
and OPEN to the PUBLIC
Panel
of authors including Amy Ray, Shelby June, Rebecca Matthews, Marilynn Carter and more!
Adam Haslett Imagine Me Gone
Adam Haslett Imagine Me Gone
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at RiverRun Bookstore
142 Fleet Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801 (603) 431-2100
website: http://www.riverrunbookstore.com
About Imagine Me Gone:
"This touching chronicle of love and pain traces half a century in a family of five from the parents' engagement in 1963 through a father's and son's psychological torments and a final crisis. Something has happened to Michael in the opening pages, which are told in the voice of his brother, Alec. The next chapter is narrated by Margaret, the mother of Michael, 12, Celia, 10, and Alec, 7, and the wife of John, as they prepare for a vacation in Maine. Soon, a flashback reveals that shortly before John and Margaret were to wed, she learned of his periodic mental illness, a "sort of hibernation" in which "the mind closes down." She marries him anyway and comes to worry about the recurrence of his hibernations--which exacerbate their constant money problems--only to witness Michael bearing the awful legacy. Each chapter is told by one of the family's five voices, shifting the point of view on shared troubles, showing how they grow away from one another without losing touch, how they cope with the loss of John and the challenge of Michael. Haslett ( Union Atlantic, 2009, etc.) shapes these characters with such sympathy, detail, and skill that reading about them is akin to living among them. The portrait of Michael stands out: a clever, winning youth who becomes a kind of scholar of contemporary music with an empathy for black history and a wretched dependence on Klonopin and many other drugs to keep his anxiety at bay, to glimpse a "world unfettered by dread." As vivid and moving as the novel is, it's not because Haslett strives to surprise but because he's so mindful and expressive of how much precious life there is in both normalcy and anguish."
-Kirkus Reviews
"Imagine Me Gone is a beautiful, elegant, harrowing story of the dissonant music of family, a poignant book that makes you eager, once more, for the complications of the world."
-- Colum McCann, "National Book Award winner for "Let the Great World Spin"
About Adam Haslett:
Adam Haslett is the author of the short story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here, which was a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, and the novel Union Atlantic, winner of the Lambda Literary Award and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. His books have been translated into eighteen languages, and he has received the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, the PEN/Malamud Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations. He lives in New York City.
Kid
Lit Author to Author: Paul Durham
Wednesday
May 11, 2016, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at The Portsmouth Public Library
175
Parrott Ave, Portsmouth, NH 03801 (603) 427-1540 www.cityofportsmouth.com/library
FREE
and OPEN to the PUBLIC
Learn
from professionals as you navigate the jungle of book publishing in today’s
market. It doesn’t matter where you are in your career, whether you’re in the
thinking stage or already have been published, come share and learn! The free
sessions for adults will begin with a presentation in the Levenson Room,
followed by a question and answer period. A book signing, open to all ages,
will be held in the lobby of the library immediately after.
Paul
Durham is an award-winning author who specializes in writing books for young
readers. His debut middle grade fantasy trilogy, The Luck Uglies
(HarperCollins), has been published in the United States and abroad, including
in the United Kingdom, Australia, India, Norway, and Turkey. The Luck Uglies
was named a 2015 ALA Notable Children's Book, the winner of the 2014 Cybils
Award for Speculative Fiction, a New York Public Library Best Book for Reading
and Sharing, an ALA Booklist Top Ten First Novel for Youth, and a Great Stone
Face Nominee here in New Hampshire. His next series of middle grade novels will
be published by Crown Books for Young Readers (Random House) beginning in 2018.
Paul lives in Exeter, New Hampshire, where he writes in an abandoned chicken
coop at the edge of a swamp. When he isn't writing, Paul regularly speaks at
schools and book festivals around the country. Visit him on the web at pauldurhambooks.com.
Susan
Strecker: NoWhere Girl
Thursday,
May 12, 2016 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at RiverRun Bookstore
142
Fleet Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801 (603) 431-2100
website:
http://www.riverrunbookstore.com
FREE
and OPEN to the PUBLIC
Please
join Susan Strecker at RIVERRUN BOOKSTORE to celebrate the release of her
second novel, NOWHERE GIRL. She will read an excerpt, answer questions &
sign copies. Books will be available for puurchase.
Click
below to read the first chapter and a summary of NOWHERE GIRL:
Click
below to read Kirkus's review of NOWHERE GIRL:
Authors
at the Inn
Friday,
May 13, 2016, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at The Portsmouth Public Library
175
Parrott Ave, Portsmouth, NH 03801 (603) 427-1540 www.cityofportsmouth.com/library
FREE
and OPEN to the PUBLIC
Spend
Friday the 13th with a night of History, Mystery, Legends & Lore from 6 - 9
pm. Readings, Raffle, Cash Bar, Appetizers, and book signings. Attending
authors include: Amy Ray, K.D. Mason, Roxie Zwicker, Matthew Thomas, Cheryl
Lassiter, Karen Raynes, Marcia Buber, Elly Becotte, Betty Moore, Elizabeth
Akyroyd, Rev. Deborah Knowlton and Tom & Rosemarie Claire.
Banned
in D.C. Talk & Slideshow
Friday,
May 13, 2016, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Wrong Brain HQ Suite #459Washington Mills,
Dover, NH 03820
$3-6
DOOR - NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS
Concluding
will be a book signing and copies of the new edition of Banned in DC will be
for sale. ($25)”
“Cynthia
Connolly will present a live slide show and talk on the Banned in DC book this
April and May! Celebrate the 7th edition of legendary punk photo book with
Cynthia Connolly, the book's publisher and one of its authors. There will be a
talk and signing of the new edition of the book (with a new 8-page afterword).
For the talk, Connolly will take you on a fast paced ride through her story of
how and why she made "Banned in DC," illustrated by even more images
of ephemera and photos that could not fit in the new afterword. Book signing
will follow. Bring cash for your copy of "Banned in DC"!($25)
Station
Note Reading Series
Friday,
May 13, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. at 3S Artspace
319
Vaughan Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801
www.3sarts.org
FREE
and OPEN to the PUBLIC
Come
join us for the 4th installation of the Station Note Readings!
Same
time Same place = 7:30 @ the gallery space of 3S Artspace
Besides
the poets that we feel should see the light of your day, and vice-versa, for
this particular month we'll be featuring a singer-songwriter that is something
of a cult classic to the area, Guy Capecelatro III.
We
hope that you'll join us for a night of supreme lyrics.
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Emilia
Phillips is the author of two poetry collections from the University of Akron
Press, Groundspeed (2016) and Signaletics (2013), and three chapbooks. Her
poems and lyric essays appear in Agni, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon
Review, New England Review, Ninth Letter, Poetry, Ploughshares,StoryQuarterly,
and elsewhere. She is the Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Centenary
College of New Jersey.
“The
insightful poems of Emilia Phillips’ Groundspeed juxtapose the frail and
sensuous human body with the detached, projected image: television show,
airplane entertainment system, YouTube, hospital monitor. “This is America,”
she observes, “where no one witnesses and everyone watches.” When more and more
of the horrors of contemporary life seem to reach us through electronic
screens, Phillips examines how what we see and how we’re seeing it is
redefining what it means to be human. That she does so with wit, compassion,
and the eye of an exquisite cinematographer is a great gift to her readers.
This is a timely and indispensable book.”
—Nicky
Beer, author of The Octopus Game
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Duncan
D. Campbell’s poems have recently appeared in The Crab Creek Review, Dukool, El
Aleph Magazine, Tinderbox, and West Branch, and his work has been nominated
three times for the Pushcart Prize. Duncan's first chapbook, "Farmstead,
Fire, Field" is available from ELJ Publications and a second,
"Joysong Demarcation" is forthcoming from Tree Light Books. He lives
in Vermont and makes his living as a youth programmer. In addition to all of
this, he co-edits poetry for the multi-genre print journal Paper Nautilus.
Bucolic
and brutal, Farmstead, Fire, Field moves us through landscapes of farmland and
longing. These poems explore the complexity of the rural with keen observation
and gorgeous images: sugar maples trickling “in unison / from metal taps, sap
boiling / off as honeyed vapor,” the barns and houses all painted the same
“cheap red, / because, of all things, it is rust / and blood that are
plentiful.” Campbell’s collection moves beyond these quiet fields and into the
tough honesty of universal human feeling, where sometimes the most tender act
is not so straightforward, as in “Juvenilia,” with a speaker who is fearful of
crayfish, and a girl who “maimed one crayfish / just so I could hold it.” —Lisa
Mangini
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Guy
picked up the guitar when he was 10 years old, allegedly “never getting any
better at it” after 20-something years of playing. Growing up in Mamaroneck,
New York, high school memories are “driving to the Bronx at lunch time for bags
of crappy pot sprayed with hairspray to make it seem more bud-like.” He left
that all behind in order to study philosophy at Plymouth State College.
Quitting after two years, he traveled around the U.S., hitting 42 of the 50
states. He moved into Portsmouth in 1987, resuming his studies at UNH while
enjoying public transportation (though he had a car) as it “provided a lot of
fodder for stories because freaky people take the bus,” and graduated with his
philosophy degree in 1989.
Between
1988 and the birth of his record label Two Ton Santa, Guy was in the bands
Fancy Pants, Toast, Size of Guam, The Driveways, Up-a-Tree, Beekeeper, The
Pants, Bob & Guy, and The Crotch Wax Menace, “and probably some others I’m
forgetting as well,” he guesses.
Sometimes,
it was a one- or two-gig existence for the band, sometimes not. Sometimes, it
was just a matter of trading musicians in and out of bands because everyone was
connected to the same people and places. He played with the country band The
Buckets, now based out of San Francisco, and comprised of Ray Halliday, Mary
Lou Lord and Carrie Bradley. He headed up Two Ton Santa (the band, not the
label), a two bass, drums and guitar ensemble with one singer. Guy’s band Milk
of Magnesia, “a psychedelic band, almost,” opened their first show at The Rat
with a faux imbibing of magnesia milk, inspiring audience members to volunteer
their own drinking efforts, only they swallowed the real thing, which Guy seems
to think they enjoyed quite a bit.
Between
all that, running Two Ton Santa Records, and cameos at The Friendly Toast, he
continues to write his mostly abbreviated songs, which he lovingly describes as
“little story vehicles” – “like a paper boat. Sliding into the ocean. On fire.”
