Monthly poetry series
dal 20/4/2002 al 11/5/2002
Segnalato da
20/4/2002
Monthly poetry series
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
The San Jose Center for Poetry and Literature hosts a monthly poetry series at the Museum. The series, scheduled on the third Sunday of the month, features poets and writers who are both nationally and locally recognized. An open reading session follows the featured readers.
SAN JOSE CENTER FOR POETRY & LITERATURE
2pm - 4pm
Wendel Education Center
Free admission
The San Jose Center for Poetry and Literature hosts a monthly poetry series at the Museum. The series, scheduled on the third Sunday of the month, features poets and writers who are both nationally and locally recognized. An open reading session follows the featured readers.
Sunday, April 21 Phyllis Koestenbaum
Phyllis Koestenbaum is a senior scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. She will read from her new collection, a book of brilliant, quirky, fast-talking prose poems.
Sunday, May 19 Joan Edwards
Joan Edwards is a widely published poet whose work reflects her love of craft,
and her ability to translate life's lessons into art.
Sunday, June 16 Michael Dylan Welch
Michael Dylan Welch is editor of Tundra, the journal of the short poem. He will read with other contributors to the latest issue of the journal.
SPECIAL EVENT: A Conversation with Gerald Stern
Friday evening, April 26, 7pm
Free admission
With a career spanning over 20 years, Gerald Stern, often applauded as the modern Walt Whitman, has won numerous awards. Some of these include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, The Patterson Poetry Prize, The Lamont Poetry Prize, as well as grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. A resident of New Jersey and the author of ten poetry collections, his most recent book is Last Blue: Poems, (W.W. Norton and Company, 2000).
SAN JOSE OPERA GUILD LECTURE
Tuesday, April 9
Noon - 1pm
Wendel Education Center
Free admission
How about a little Opera with that Caesar salad? Come enjoy lunch in the Museum cafe and stay for a captivating opera lecture. Larry Hancock will speak on the upcoming performance of Madame Butterfly and principal artists from the production will sing short excerpts. Come early! These highly successful programs, which are co-sponsored by the Museum and the San Jose Opera Guild, have produced standing room only crowds
THE IVES QUARTET
Saturday, May 11
2pm - 4pm
$15 general admission, $10 Museum members & seniors, $5 students
Tickets available at the door or by calling (415) 392-4400. Seating is limited
Join us on the afternoon of May 11 when The Ives Quartet presents their last in a series of three concerts. The program, performed by Robin Sharp and Susan Freier (violins), Scott Woolweaver (viola) and Stephen Harrison (cello), will include Thomas Oboe Lee's Seven Jazz Studies, Haydn's Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2, and Benjamin Britten's Quartet No. 3. The Ives Quartet's concert tours have taken them to Europe, Taiwan and throughout the United States.
Gallery Tours in American Sign Language
Saturdays, April 13, May 11, June 8 at 12:30pm
On the second Saturday of each month at 12:30pm, the public gallery tour will be interpreted in American Sign Language for deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors. All are welcome; no reservations are required. This service is offered free of charge. For more information or accommodations, please contact Elana Hornstein at (408) 521-4001 or at ehornstein@sjmusart.org
Touch Tours
During the months of April and May, Touch Tours of the permanent collection will be offered for visitors with vision loss. This unique opportunity explores contemporary art using multiple senses. Designed in a two-part format, the program starts with an engaging, tactile gallery tour of works in the permanent collection, complimented by a 90-minute art-making workshop, guided by a local, professional artist. This program is free of charge and available for adults who are blind or visually impaired, and their companions.
San Jose Museum of Art
110 South Market Street, San Jose CA 95113-2383