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SUMMARY:Beaufort Human Library\, Fourth Edition
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, April 7\, 2024 – 12:30-4:00 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 3 1/2 hrs\nLocation: Technical College of the Lowcountry’s MacLean Hall (104 Reynolds St\, bldg 12\, Beaufort\, SC) \nCheck Out the Fourth Edition of the Beaufort Human Library\, April 7 \n“Where oral history meets speed dating.” The Beaufort Human Library project seeks to foster empathy and understanding across communities by offering the public opportunities to “check out” more than a dozen Human Books who will be sharing their personal stories of facing challenges and striving for acceptance. These engaging conversations will cover topics including occupations\, education\, healthcare\, gender\, race\, faith\, immigration\, addiction\, abuse\, and law enforcement\, among others. Ultimately the dialogues will focus on building bridges of understanding\, person to person\, through storytelling. \nThe fourth edition of the Beaufort Human Library will be held on opening day of National Library Week: Sunday\, April 7\, from 12:30 to 4:00 p.m. in MacLean Hall\, building 12 of the Technical College of the Lowcountry (TCL)\, at 104 Reynolds Street in Beaufort. Free and open to the public\, the event is hosted by TCL; the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center; DAYLO: Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization; and volunteer community organizers. \nFollowing a featured Book presentation in the TCL auditorium from 12:30 to 1:00 p.m.\, all of the volunteer Human Books will be available throughout MacLean Hall to be checked out for 30-minute small group conversations from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. No advance registration is needed. Volunteer Librarians and student Bookmarks from DAYLO will be on hand to help guests navigate their Beaufort Human Library experience. \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/beaufort-human-library-fourth-edition/
LOCATION:Technical College of the Lowcountry – Building 12 Auditorium\, 104 Reynolds Street\, Bldg 12\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:April 2024 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held virtually on Thursday\, April 11\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is poet Heather Corbally Bryant\, author of The Coffin Makers. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, April 11\, 2024 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Virtual  \nInterested in reading as part of Open Mic? Let us know at contact@patconroyliterarycenter.org \nWe want to build our community of writers and an appreciation for the art and talent of new\, emerging\, and long-time writers. Thank you for supporting this partnership! \nEvent Facebook Page \nAbout The Coffin Makers\n“Heather Corbally Bryant’s eleventh collection of poetry shows her deepening grasp of language\, and follows her grappling with the exigencies of a global pandemic in both intricate and plainspoken poetry.”–Laura Munson\, bestselling author and founder of Haven Writing Retreats \n“In The Coffin Makers\, Heather Corbally Bryant offers us poetic witness to a world turned upside down by catastrophic fear\, in clear\, beautiful poems\, marking out our moments of grief\, isolation and hope\, step by step. These poems will remain with us as graceful testament to our moment of crisis.”–Eibhear Walshe\, Director of Creative Writing\, University College Cork \nAbout our featured writer:\nHeather Corbally Bryant is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. She has also taught at Harvard\, the University of Michigan and the Pennsylvania State University where she has won awards for her teaching. She has written eleven books of poetry\, a prize-winning academic book\, How Will the Heart Endure: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of War\, and a work of creative nonfiction\, You Can’t Wrap Fire in Paper. Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, the Massachusetts Book Award\, and have won Honorable Mention in the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition. \n  \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/april-2024-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
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SUMMARY:Evening with novelist Carolyn P. Hartley\, author of the Buried Sunshine Series
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 18\, 2024 – 5-7:00 PM EDT\nPrice: $15 (includes a glass of wine and refreshments by Mimi Rodrigues)\nRegistration: Register at Eventbrite\nVenue: The Rhett House Inn | 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center\, in collaboration with the award-winning Rhett House Inn\, will host an evening with historical novelist Carolyn P. Hartley\, author of the Buried Sunshine Series\, on Thursday\, April 18\, at 5:00-7:00 p.m.\, at the Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort). $15 registration fee includes a glass of wine and refreshments by Mimi Rodrigues. Books will be available for sale and signing. \nRegister at Eventbrite \n“The Buried Sunshine Series is a courageous family saga\, a sizzling coming of age story\, as heroine\, Adele Dawson discovers her roots in this action-adventure series.”—Millie West\, award-winning author and screenwriter awards \nAbout Book One: Redemption\nGreed is invisible until you see the damage it inflicts on innocent children. Redemption exposes raw families caught between social lines when federal funds\, intended to trickle down from corporate landowners never makes it into the hands of tenant farmers. \nWhen agriculture was the bedrock of the American economy\, families\, suddenly penniless lost nearly everything in historic floods\, bank failures\, political and social annihilation. But at their core\, one family would not let catastrophes defeat them. Adele Christina Dawson\, the oldest stepchild of an imbittered farmer\, is suddenly thrust into adulthood when her mother dies giving birth to a tenth child. \n“Adele Dawson is intelligent\, feisty\, and strong\, and she emits a beam that carries this story forward\, that lifts it up from the rushing current of thick Mississippi Mud.”—Main Street Rag \nAbout Book Two: Reconciliation\nAdele Dawson\, finally back with her West Virginia birth family\, is driven to learn why her father died so young and why her mother remarried despicable August Beck\, a con artist\, then gave birth to eight of his children. When her half-sisters also come to live with her\, they get wise to a secret museum of treasures in Adele’s once-lavish stone mansion. She unlocks secrets inside a locked trunk about her mother’s coerced life in corruption\, greed\, and extortion\, secrets that now threaten to extinguish the entire family. \nHer paternal grandmother’s final wish is that Adele rebuild the family’s coal mine\, nearly bankrupt from the Depression\, and restore the river stone mansion to its original beauty. The more involved she becomes in the mining business\, the more she discovers her mother’s enemies have concealed themselves within the family business. On the verge of gaining trust from superstitious coal miners\, her saboteur stepfather creates mine blasts that injure workers\, forcing the reconstruction to miss critical deadlines. \n“This thrilling novel series leaves the reader spellbound with a story that captures everything a reader could wish for. Once you start reading you won’t stop. A must read.”—William A Petty\, historian\, curator\, and author \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nCarolyn P. Hartley is an award-winning author\, most recently for the Buried Sunshine novel series: Redemption (2019)\, Reconciliation (2022)\, and Rebellion (forthcoming 2024). \nReconciliation achieved #1 bestseller rank in seven Amazon categories\, including American History Romance. She is lead author of The Caregiver’s Toolbox (CTB)\, an Amazon #1 hot new release for nine consecutive weeks in two healthcare categories. After six years\, CTB is still a popular backlist title. \nIn prior careers\, Carolyn was a book packager for Prentice Hall\, McGraw-Hill\, Universal Press Syndicate\, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, and VP of marketing and communications for Fleishman Hillard International\, where she placed clients on The Today Show\, CBS This Morning\, Good Morning America\, Fox and Friends\, among others. Carolyn publishes her creative non-fiction\, essays\, and short stories in literary and consumer magazines\, including North American Literary Review\, Child\, Whispering Prairie Press\, Family Circle\, and Working Women’s Magazine\, and\, for six years she was a columnist for Woman’s World. She developed public service announcements for Al Franken\, Miss America\, and the Points of Light Foundation. She also is founder of JMerrillPress\, LLC\, an independent woman-owned publisher that focuses on women of courage. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/evening-with-novelist-carolyn-p-hartley-author-of-the-buried-sunshine-series/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Grants Make Cents Led by Penny Federspill
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nSaturday\, April 20\, 2024 · 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST\nCost: $25\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.)\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St Beaufort\, SC 29902 \nNeed alone is not enough to win grants. Led by Penny Federspill\, Grants Make Cents will provide the basic skills needed to learn the essential elements of successful grant writing. These elements include methods of finding an appropriate grant funder\, from your own backyard to paid research data firms. \nThe presentation will be comprised of all the parts of a grant narrative\, accompanied by examples\, with special attention directed to needs assessment\, objectives\, evaluation\, and budgeting. This will include hands-on exercises. Time will be allotted to participants to begin to write a grant proposal\, with individual assistance as needed. A template will be used to guide the writer; it will be a roadmap to achieving a standard format that can be used and reused. Attendees will also leave with a Tip Sheet and glossary to help in future endeavors. \nThis in-person workshop will be held at the Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.)\, limited to 15 participants. (A minimum of 5 needed to hold the class.) $25/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nPenny Federspill has been able to merge her love of learning with helping others to gain access to “free money.” She has 40 years of experience in public school environments in Ohio and South Carolina as an instructor\, educator\, and administrator. Ms. Federspill has researched\, developed\, and organized her business\, Grants Make Cents\, resulting in dozens of funded grants\, grant writing workshops\, and contracts as a grant consultant. \nAs a city Grant Administrator\, she gained successful experience with community education and environmental grants and a $225\,000 Federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG). As a part-time school district Grant Administrator she wrote community education grants\, grants for drug-free programs\, and Effective Schools grants. She holds education degrees and has earned recognition from several grant educational institutions. Locally\, she found a grant for a sweetgrass basket designer and wrote a grant for the first after school program for a Beaufort County high school. \n  \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/workshop-grants-make-cents-led-by-penny-federspill/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with poet Ray McManus
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 25\, 2024 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-379-7025.\nVenue (UPDATED): Rhett House Inn’s garden (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort) \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with award-winning poet Ray McManus\, author of The Last Saturday in America\, on Thursday\, April 25\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Rhett House Inn’s garden (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort). This is an outdoor event. Free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout The Last Saturday in America\n“These are poems about boys listening to men who were once boys who listened to men\, the blind leading the blind leading the blind through the dark. Some boys grow up. Some men never do. Ray McManus has chipped away at the pageantry and performance\, the stupidity of the lie\, the outright futility of it all…. The Last Saturday In America is\, ‘a song that pays homage / to a history of work we should’ve done better.’ Here’s hoping one day we do.” —David Joy\, author of Those We Thought We Knew\, from the introduction \nFor fans of Americana music and a beer after mowing the lawn\, The Last Saturday in America confronts the long shadow of Southern masculinity. \nThe Last Saturday in America is set in a nation on the precipice of great change. Through examinations of suburban neighbors\, bullies\, gun violence\, and vasectomy appointments\, Ray McManus draws a portrait of American masculinity in the face of political division\, pandemic\, and cultural warfare. McManus’s speaker is caught between the way he was raised and the future he wants to see for who he is raising. He can no longer rely on what he thought he knew\, nor does he know what to do about it. The man rendered in these pages is a father\, a son\, a Southerner. And he is willing to burn it all down and start something new\, only to see that the new start he is looking for has been with him the whole time. \nAbout Ray McManus\nRay McManus is the author of four books of poetry: Punch. (winner of the 2015 Independent Publishers Book Award for Best Book of Poetry in North America)\, Red Dirt Jesus (selected by Alicia Ostriker for the Marick Press Poetry Prize 2011)\, and Driving through the country before you are born (winner of the South Carolina Book Prize in 2006)\, and a chapbook called Left Behind. He is the co-editor for the anthology Found Anew with notable contributors with South Carolina ties. His poems have been published in numerous journals such as Crazyhorse\, Prairie Schooner\, and POETRY magazine. \nHe lives in South Carolina where he teaches for USC Sumter and serves as the Writer in Residence for the Columbia Museum of Art. \n  \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-poet-ray-mcmanus/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy Book Club: A Lowcountry Heart
DESCRIPTION:Thursday April 25\, 2024 – 6:30-7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: $10\nRegistration: Register at Eventbrite | Limited to 20 participants\nVenue: The Rhett House Inn | 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and the award-winning Rhett House Inn will host a monthly book club discussion of Pat Conroy’s dozen books in order of publication\, moderated by Charlene Spearen and Jonathan Haupt. Book discussions will be held on fourth Thursdays beginning at 6:30 p.m. Limited to 20 participants each month. $10/person. Advance registration required. Participants are expected to read the books and to come prepared to discuss them. \nDiscussions will be held at The Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort) \nRegister at Eventbrite \nJanuary 25: South of Broad\nFebruary 21: My Reading Life\nMarch 28: The Death of Santini\nApril 25: A Lowcountry Heart \nABOUT OUR DISCUSSION LEADERS \nDr. Charlene Monahan Spearen received her MFA degree in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of South Carolina. She is currently serving as the Public Relations and Special Projects Coordinator for Penn Center after a successful career in academia at Allen University. She served as the Program Coordinator for the University of South Carolina’s Arts Institute and was the Assistant Director for the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In addition to her work throughout the Carolinas\, Spearen has been a featured reader and Creative Writing instructor and scholar in County Monaghan and County Mayo\, Ireland. She has published a full-length collection of poems titled A Book of Exquisite Disasters. Her poems have appeared in journals and publications throughout the United States. \nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Conroy Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press\, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Pat Conroy\, named by Garden & Gun magazine as one of “the top ten things to love about the South.” Haupt’s book reviews and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier\, Lowcountry Weekly\, Beaufort Lifestyle\, Savannah Morning News’ Beacon magazine\, Southern Review of Books\, and Southern Writers Magazine’s Suite T blog. He is co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, the recipient of seventeen book awards. He serves on the boards of the Friends of South Carolina Libraries and the South Carolina Academy of Authors. In 2020\, Haupt was recognized with the Doug Marlette Literacy Leadership Award presented by the Pulpwood Queens\, the largest book club in the U.S. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/pat-conroy-book-club-a-lowcountry-heart/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Mark Larson\, Award-winning Educator and Author
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 29\, 2024 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-525-1066.\nVenue: Beaufort Bookstore (2127 Boundary St\, #15\, Beaufort) \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe Beaufort Bookstore and the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with Mark Larson\, award-winning educator and author of Working in the 21st Century: An Oral History of American Work in a Time of Social and Economic Transformation\, on Monday\, April 29\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Beaufort Bookstore (2127 Boundary St\, #15\, Beaufort). \nLarson will be in conversation with two of the interview subjects of his book\, Dr. N’kia J. Campbell\, officer of academic initiatives for the Beaufort County School District\, and Bradley Tarrance\, principal of Robert Smalls Leadership Academy. \nFree and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-525-1066. \nAbout the Book\nEsquire magazine has named Working in the 21st Century as One of the Best Books of 2024 (so far). \nFrom nurses and teachers to wildland firefighters and funeral directors—this oral history offers an intimate\, honest\, and illuminating collection of interviews that reveal what it’s like to work in America at this historic and volatile moment in time. \nAuthor Mark Larson sits down with more than one hundred workers from across the socioeconomic spectrum as they share their experiences with work and what it has meant in their lives—the good\, the bad\, the mundane\, and the profound. Doulas\, firefighters\, chefs\, hairstylists\, executives\, actors\, stay-at-home parents\, and so many more talk about what they do all day and how it aligns (or doesn’t) with what they want to be doing with their lives. The pandemic\, the ensuing “Great Resignation\,” and the current reckonings with racial justice are among the forces that are now upending and reshaping our longstanding relationships with work. Larson’s interviews display how these forces collide in the lives of average Americans as they tell their own stories with passion\, heartbreak\, and\, ultimately\, hope. \nWorking in the 21st Century asks why we show up—or don’t—to the jobs we’ve chosen\, and how the upheaval of the past few years has changed how we perceive the work we do. It will be released to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Studs Terkel’s 1974 classic Working. \n“Mark Larson’s superb and robust oral storytelling brings new light to the life of work. His book explores the intricacies of people working in these 21st-century times and shows that while work has been transformed\, it is also becoming more relevant and powerful than ever.”—Laura Washington\, Chicago Tribune contributing columnist and ABC7 Chicago political analyst \n“Mark Larson appeared in one of Studs Terkel’s books and is clearly an admirer of America’s 20th-century storyteller. While Working in the 21st Century celebrates the 50th anniversary of Studs’s Working\, the book\, through its diversity and clarity\, portrays both the similarities and differences of work 50 years later. Larson is a wonderful oral historian and the stories he tells depict the realities of work at the present time. His interviews and writing bring alive the breadth and depth of what it means to live in 2024.”—Alan Wieder\, author of Studs Terkel: Politics\, Culture\, but Mostly Conversation \nAbout the Author\nMark Larson is a Chicago-based writer and educator who holds a doctorate in educational leadership. Larson has worked at Evanston Township High School\, the Field Museum\, Lincoln Park Zoo\, and National Louis University. \nHe is the author of two books on education and Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater\, for which he conducted over 300 interviews with Chicago theater artists\, past and present. He lives in Chicago with his wife\, Mary. They have twin daughters and twin grandsons. \n  \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-mark-larson-award-winning-educator-and-author/
LOCATION:Beaufort Bookstore\, 2127 Boundary St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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