The Foundation for Historical Louisiana will sponsor a
lecture and book signing with author Andrew Smith at noon Thursday, Sept. 15,
at the Old Governor's Mansion in Baton Rouge. Smith will discuss his book Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War.
Admission is free for FHL members and $10 for guests.
Warren Perrin will sign copies of “Vermilion Parish” at 10
a.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Thriftway Pharmacy in Abbeville.
The Friends of the Lafayette Library Book Sale will be
Tuesday through Thursday, Sept. 20-22, at the Heyman Performing Arts and
Convention Center Ballroom in Lafayette. Friends members get a sneak preview
from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 19, and you can join up at the door for
only a small fee. Regular hours to the general public are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 21-22, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22. This year’s silent auction, held in
conjunction with the sale, will at the South Regional Branch Library, 6101
Johnston St. Titles available for auction can be viewed at the Friends’ website, www.friendsofthelafayettelibrary.org.
For information, call 501-9209.
Casa Azul Gifts in Grand Coteau will host a Multilingual Open
Mic at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, featuring poems, songs and stories performed
in different languages. The free event is open to the public and appropriate
for all ages. For more information, contact Patrice Melnick at (337) 662-1032
or email festivalwords@gmail.com.
The film “The Motorcycle Diaries” will be shown at 6 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 22, at the South Regional Branch Library, 6101 Johnston St., as
part of Hispanic Heritage Month.“The Milagro Beanfield
War” will be shown at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, with a “Movie
Coffee Break” at 8 p.m. to discuss the movie and the John Nichols book on which
it was based.
Casa Azul Gifts in Grand Coteau will host a poetry reading
by Nicole Poret, followed by an open mic, concluding with a dramatic reading of
Jo Englerth's and Bonnie Camos' The Gris Gris Sisters performed by Patricia
Cravins and Becca Begnaud at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29.
100 Thousand Poets for
Change
On Sept. 24, several Louisiana
poets will be part of the 100 Thousand Poets for Change, the largest poetry
event in history involving more than 500 events in 350-plus cities in 80
countries. One of those cities will be
Lafayette. Numerous poetry–related events will
happen at the Acadiana Center for the Arts in downtown Lafayette, with the $6
admission being donated to non-profit organizations. Jessica Bordelon of The Break Room
Coffee Shop, Jonathan Penton of Unlikely Stories magazine and Rhonda Dean Robison
and Lana Maht Wiggins of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette will perform a
multi-generational, multi-approach poetry show and festival. Traditional
poets such as former Louisiana Poet Laureate Darrell Bourque and LSU’s Laura
Mullen will perform with the spoken word troupe Revolution Theory. Poets from Shreveport, Lake
Charles, Baton Rouge and throughout Acadiana are scheduled to participate, and
the ULL poetry group will perform a series of open-space musical and literary
skits. An open mic will accommodate last-minute
additions to the stage and local organizations will discuss what they’re doing
for change in Louisiana. During the intermission, there will
be 100 Thousand Poets for Change Webcasts in the AcA’s James Devin Moncus
Theatre. The Lafayette event will be webcast and recorded and archived by
UC Stanford. Sponsors
for the event are Acting Up (in Acadiana), BBR Creative, The Break Room Coffee
Shop, The Festival of Words, Unlikely Books and the ULL English Department-Creative
Writing. In addition to the Lafayette event,
two events are planned for New Orleans. For more information, visit www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange.
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