Cultural Arts Alliance
98 Hayden Rowe St.
Hopkinton, MA 01748
Phone: 508-435-9222
General info: info at caahopkinton dot org
Website issues: webmaster at caahopkinton dot org
When:
Thursday, March 6
7-9pm
Where:
CAA Farm House
98 Hayden Rowe Street
Hopkinton, MA
Reservations:
Seating is limited. Please call 508-435-9222 or e-mail
sandra@caahopkinton.org.
Coordinators:
Cheryl Perreault
CBPerreault@gmail.com
Geri Holland
geri@hopkinton.org
3-Apr: Polly Brown
National Poetry Month
Photos from Arts Forum Meetings
April is National Poetry Month and the Hopkinton Women's Art Forum is honored to announce Hopkinton resident and poet, Polly Brown as our special guest feature of the month. Polly will be sharing her words of poetry and some of the stories about her life and how it has intersected and inspired her writing. She will also give some suggestions for creative writing and in addition, will perform a few Russian songs on the piano! It is sure to be a very special heart-warming evening in having the opportunity to hear Polly read her connecting words of poetry with her captivating style of delivery that makes you feel her every word as well as hear it. You can read more about Polly and her published works of oetry below. This event is free and open to all women of the Hopkinton community and beyond. It will take place at the Hopkinton Cultural Arts Alliance Center located on 98 Hayden Rowe. Please call to rsvp in advance to assist us with seating accommodations. For rsvp and more information call 497- 9222.
Polly Brown
A member of the Boston poets' collaborative Every Other Thursday,
Polly Brown teaches at Touchstone Community School, a small progressive school with a
unique focus on the power of story. She lives in Hopkinton with her husband of many years,
extended family, and friends. Writing persona poems has taught her that you can't write in
other people's voices without giving yourself away, that you lie in order to tell the truth
even when you're writing as your own narrator, and that life and story (in all their forms)
nourish and need each other. Her poems have won awards from the Massachusetts Artists
Foundation and the Worcester County Poetry Association, and have been published in many
journals and anthologies, including Poetry from Sojourner, Appalachia, The Beloit Poetry Journal,
and Room of One's Own. Her first chapbook, Blue Heron Stone, was published by Every Other Thursday
Press in 2001, and a second chapbook, Each Thing Torn From Any of Us, will be released by Finishing
Line Press in the summer of 2008.
The sixth season of the Women's Art Forum promises to be very exciting and will continue with our goal of giving women artists the opportunity to meet and collaborate with other women interested in the arts, as well as to promote, inspire and encourage one another through creativity and artistic interests and endeavors.
Participation in this group is free and open to all women, whether currently practicing artists or not, hoping to find a new talent within or simply wanting to gather with other community women to talk and share ideas about the arts. This group will embrace all arts including the visual arts of painting, drawing, photography, sculpting, printing, fiber and fabric arts as well as the performing arts of music, storytelling, creative writing, poetry, drama and dance.
The meetings will consist of a structured presentation by a monthly "feature" who will share her art-form with the group, discuss the process of performing or creating this art or provide a sample demonstration. There will also be a discussion period where women participants will be invited to talk about their own current involvement or aspirations or challenges in the arts.
This forum is being coordinated by local spoken word artist Cheryl Perreault and painter Geri Holland. Those interested in participating should call the CAA in advance at 508-435-9222 or e-mail sandra@caahopkinton.org since seating is limited. Hope to see you there!