46 past events with the reading tag

Ball State University, The College of Fine Arts and the Department of Theatre and Dance present:

The Fisher King: A New Musical
January 16th at 7:30pm
University Theatre

Tickets:
General Public-$10.50
Students-$5.50

Join Ball State students and faculty as they perform a staged reading of a new adaptation of the classic Terry Gilliam story. Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime chance to see a new Broadway musical in development. All proceeds benefit department scholarships.

For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact the University Theatre Box Office at 765-285-8749.

IN PRINT V: BALL STATE'S FESTIVAL OF FIRST BOOKS FEATURING NEWLY MINTED AUTHORS MITCHELL DOUGLAS, MARY MILLER, KAO KALIA YANG, & WRITER/EDITOR MATT BELL

Mitchell L. H. Douglas's debut poetry collection, Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem (Red Hen Press, 2009), explores the personal and professional struggles of soul legend Donny Hathaway.

Mary Miller's short story collection, Big World, was published in February 2009 by Short Flight/Long Drive Books.

Kao Kalia Yang's first memoir, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, was published by Coffee House Press in 2009.

Matt Bell Matt Bell is the author of a forthcoming fiction collection, How They Were Found (Keyhole, Fall 2010). He is also the editor of The Collagist and the series editor of Dzanc's Best of the Web anthology series.

*Teachers: excerpts from all three In Print books are available through Bracken's electronic reserve (search under "Christman" or "Visiting Writers Series")

Ball State students from this spring's Creative Writing in the Community class will read excerpts of poetry and prose written in collaboration with their partners from American Heritage, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Delaware County, Hillcroft Services, and Motivate Our Minds. We want to thank Majorie Hiner, BSU alumna, and her husband, Homer, for funding the CWIC event and publication.

Ball State English professor and poet Mark Neely will read from his new chapbook, Four of a Kind (Concrete Wolf Press), next Tuesday, October 26th at 7:30 p.m. in Bracken Library, room 104. The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing with the author. Both events are free and open to the public and refreshments will be served.

Praise for Mark Neely's Four of a Kind:
"Think newspaper columns: dispatches from the zeitgeist, fromancestral voices, from dreams, from terra incognita.  Think mullioned windowpanes: visions of the real, the hyper-real, TV, the neighbors. Think triptychs plus one in the excessive American way.  Think classical five-act play minus one in the age of diminished expectations. Think split screen, think directions on maps, think humors of the body.  While each frame is an act that arrests, the other frames undermine, amplify, illuminate, or incinerate the original.  Flights turn into dreams turn into blues turn into names in an amazing shape-shifting way.  They are echo chambers that resonate long after the initial reading. They have a furious and inescapable power."  --Bruce Smith, poet

Sponsored by Creative Writing in the Ball State English Department.

Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

Free Public Reading

Pruis Hall

Saturday, January 15th at 7:30PM

Come join the cast of this past fall's production of
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
to finish Tony Kushner's epic two part play series.

Sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Dance
and Alpha Psi Omega.

Part 1 of a three part campus wide competition between writers. 

This reading begins at 8 PM and will feature 10 readers all hoping to move forward to the final competition on December 3rd. 

Each reader will read one original work to be judged by three graduate student faculty members. Only 5 will move forward. 

So come out to support these writers as they battle for their own publicized reading next semester!

*THE READERS*

Kevin Brown
Esther Wolfe
Zach Arnett
Camille Germain
Austin Hayden
Michael Knoll
Jared Lynch
Ross Castaneda
Cam Kaminski
Jazmine Street

ALSO: IT'S FREE TO GET IN!