“We Are Dying”
by Up In Arms
Monday, November, 5, 2007, 6-10pm
Scripps Hall Amphitheater
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Free; donations accepted
This Monday, Up in Arms invites you to attend “We Are Dying,” a nonpartisan interactive tribute to the U.S. Troops and Iraqi civilians affected by the war in Iraq.
Please join us for an evening of performance and reflection [...]
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ART/Oberfest
Saturday, October 20, 5-9 pm & Sunday, October 21, 2007, 2-7 pm
ARTS/West
132 W State St, Athens, Ohio
A community celebration of the visual, performing, and culinary arts!
Both days: Visual Art from more than 20 local artists.
Saturday: On stage (Those that I know are female are in CAPS.)
5:00 LEAH MILLER – belly dancer
5:15 Rusty [...]
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Benefit: Writer’s Harvest Reading
Thusday, October 11, 2007, 7:30pm
Margaret M. Walter Hall Rotunda
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
$3 donation
The OU Creative Writing Program will sponsor the Writer’s Harvest reading to benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank. The benefit is part of the nation’s largest reading series working to help fight hunger
Featured readers will be the new creative nonfiction [...]
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Spoken Word Slam
Baker University Center’s Multicultural Performance Series
Saturday, October 6, 2007, 9 p.m.
The Front Room Campus Coffeehouse
Baker University Center
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Free
The Spoken Word Slam will showcase different aspects of poetry with poets TRACI CURRIE, Omari Barksdale, and KALIMAH JOHNSON, along with DJ inCreDiBle (Corey Darnell).
‘Spoken Word Slam Poetry is a mix of reciting, [...]
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8th Annual New Straitsville Celtic Day Celebration
Saturday, September 8, 2007, Noon-5PM
Hubert Dunkle Building, Robinson’s Cave Grounds (Map)
New Straitsville, Ohio
Free and open to the public
New Straitsville shares its Welsh, Irish, and Scottish heritage in an outdoor festival. Dancers, storytellers, and Celtic musicians enliven the grounds of the New Straitsville History Group’s Robinson’s Cave and Dunkle Building [...]
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