BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Greensboro Bound - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://greensborobound.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Greensboro Bound REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T064812 CREATED:20220325T145702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220520T154454Z UID:8378-1653066000-1653069600@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:A Musical Thriller: Brendan Slocumb and Tona Brown in Conversation DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nBRENDAN SLOCUMB’S  The Violin Conspiracy is a best-selling crime/thriller for the classical world and TONA BROWN’S work has thrilled audiences from Carnegie Hall to the White House with both her voice and violin. This one-of-a-kind conversation will only happen at Greensboro Bound! Hosted by DR. REBECCA MacLEOD. \nYou may also be interested in:\n• Sounding Bodies: Identity\, Injustice\, and the Voice\n \nBRENDAN SLOCUMB was raised in Fayetteville\, North Carolina\, and holds a degree in music education (with concentrations in violin and viola) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. For more than twenty years he has been a public and private school music educator and has performed with orchestras throughout Northern Virginia\, Maryland\, and Washington\, DC. He is currently working on his second novel. \nTONA BROWN Vocalist\, violinist\, entrepreneur\, and teacher Tona Brown has an international performance career throughout the United States\, Canada\, and Europe as a violinist and mezzo-soprano. Ms. Brown is also an advocate for transgender issues in the arts\, often speaking and performing at colleges and universities. She is the first transgender woman of color to perform the National Anthem for a sitting President at the LGBT Leadership Gala Dinner for former President Barack Obama at the Sheraton in NYC. She is also the first transgender woman to headline at Carnegie Hall in a program of African-American composers with an all-inclusive LGBT cast of performers. Ms. Brown graduated from the Governor’s School for the Arts\, a prestigious high school for gifted and talented students. She was formally educated at the Shenandoah University and Conservatory of Music\, studying violin performance with minors in viola\, piano\, and voice. For Shenandoah University’s 2021 production of “Suor Angelica”\, she recorded an opera movie\, playing the role of La Zia Principessa. Ms. Brown will be performing in a lead transgender role as Hannah After in the opera “As One” by Laura Kaminsky with the Lowell Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Orlando Cela in the fall of 2021. Ms. Brown was also asked to do a masterclass on Transgender Voices by the Virginia National Association of Teachers. She teaches private lessons to students with her company Aida Studios. \nDR. REBECCA MacLEOD is Professor of Music Education at the University of North Carolina Greensboro\, where she directs the string education program and conducts the UNCG Sinfonia. She is the author of Teaching Strings in Today’s Classroom and is published in Journal of Research in Music Education\, International Journal of Music Education\, Bulletin for the Council of Research in Music Education\, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education\, Journal of Music Teacher Education\, String Research Journal\, Psychology of Music\, The Strad\, American String Teachers Journal\, and various state music education journals. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Research in Music Education\, the String Research Journal\, and as guest reviewer for the International Journal of Research in Music Education. She is the recipient of the UNCG School of Music\, Theatre and Dance Outstanding Teaching Award\, the American String Teacher Association National Researcher Award\, and the UNCG Junior Research Excellence Award. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/slocumb-brown/ LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, UNCG School of Music\, 100 McIver Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,LGBTQIA,Literary Fiction,Mystery/Thriller END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T064812 CREATED:20220325T150911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220520T154152Z UID:8381-1653066000-1653069600@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Memoir Plus: A Conversation on Hybrid Memoir DESCRIPTION:This event is SOLD OUT.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n  \n**THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT**\n  \n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \n  \nHow can bringing other genres and forms into memoir enrich the text? How close must memoir adhere to the facts? What is a memoir\, anyway? LAURIE STONE and ALEXIS ORGERA will use their own work to enlarge our idea of the genre and telling the story of our own lives. Hosted by STEVE MITCHELL. \nYou may also be interested in:\n• $ WORKSHOP Down the Rabbit Hole of Your Own Life: A Creative Writing Lab with Laurie Stone\n• Lost Mothers: Memoirs of Longing\n• $ WORKSHOP Writing from the Body with Nicole Lungerhausen\n• Lost & Found & Forgetting: Memoir as an Act of Moving Forward\n• A Conversation with Ann Hood & Julia Ridley Smith\n \nLAURIE STONE Laurie Stone is author of six books books including recently Streaming Now\, Postcards from the Thing that is Happening (Dottir Press\, 2022)\, Everything is Personal\, Notes on Now (Scuppernong Editions\, 2020)\, and My Life as an Animal\, Stories (Northwestern University Press/Triquarterly Press\, 2016). She was a longtime writer for the Village Voice\, theater critic for The Nation\, and critic-at-large on Fresh Air. She won the Nona Balakian prize in excellence in criticism from the National Book Critics Circle and two grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has published numerous stories in such publications as n + 1\, Waxwing\, Tin House\, Evergreen Review\, Electric Lit\, Fence\, Open City\, Anderbo\, The Collagist\, Your impossible Voice\, New Letters\, TriQuarterly\, Threepenny Review\, and Creative Nonfiction. In 2005\, she participated in “Novel: An Installation\,” writing a book and living in a house designed by architects Salazar/Davis in the Flux Factory’s gallery space. She has frequently collaborated with composer Gordon Beeferman in text/music works. The world premier of their piece “You\, the Weather\, a Wolf” was presented in the 2016 season of the St. Urban concerts. Her next book will be The Love of Strangers\, a collection of linked stories. Her website is: lauriestonewriter.com. \nALEXIS ORGERA is a poet-writer\, book editor\, and publisher living in North Carolina. She’s the author of two poetry collections in addition to Head Case: My Father\, Alzheimer’s & Other Brainstorms (Kore Press\, December 2021). Her work can be found in literary magazines like the Bennington Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Carolina Quarterly\, Chattahoochee Review\, Conduit\, Denver Quarterly\, Green Mountains Review\, Gulf Coast\, Hotel Amerika\, Indianapolis Review\, Interim\, Massachusetts Review\, Passages North\, Prairie Schooner\, Third Coast\, and elsewhere. More at alexisorgera.com. \nSTEVE MITCHELL\, a writer and journalist\, has published in CRAFT Literary\, entropy\, december magazine\, Southeast Review\, among others. His novel\, Cloud Diary\, is published by C&R Press. His book of short stories is The Naming of Ghosts from Press 53. He has a deep belief in the primacy of doubt and an abiding conviction that great wisdom informs very bad movies. He’s co-owner of Scuppernong Books in Greensboro\, NC. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/stone-orgera/ LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 S Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401 CATEGORIES:Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T064812 CREATED:20220325T152702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220520T154429Z UID:8675-1653075000-1653080400@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Hell of a State: North Carolina's Literary Fire DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \n2021 National Book Award winner and North Carolina native JASON MOTT  is joined by award-winning author and Greensboro’s own HOLLY GODDARD JONES as they talk about their recent work and writing from the Old North State. North Carolina Writers Network director ED SOUTHERN will moderate the conversation.  With a pre-conversation performance by COLIN CUTLER of songs inspired by the short stories of Flannery O’Connor. \n  \nJASON MOTT Bestselling author\, National Book Award Winner\, Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction Winner\, Pushcart Prize nominee\, and Carnegie Medals For Excellence Longlist nominee\, Jason Mott has a BFA in Fiction and an MFA in Poetry\, both from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He is the author of two poetry collections and four novels. The Returned\, Jason’s debut novel\, was adapted for television and aired on the ABC network under the title “Resurrection.” Jason’s fourth novel\, Hell Of A Book\, released in June 2021\, was a Jenna Bush Hager “Read With Jenna” Book Club pick\, Carnegie Medals For Excellence in Fiction Longlist selection\, a 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist selection\, a Joyce Carol Oates Prize Longlist selection\, the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Prize for Fiction winner\, and the winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. \nHOLLY GODDARD JONES is the author of three previous books of fiction\, including THE SALT LINE\, THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME\, and GIRL TROUBLE. She teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at UNCG. \nED SOUTHERN is the executive director of the North Carolina Writers’ Network\, and the author of ‘Fight Songs: A Story of Love & Sports in a Complicated South\,’ a finalist for the 2022 SIBA Southern Book Prize. His work has appeared in The Bitter Southerner\, storySouth\, the North Carolina Literary Review\, and elsewhere. \nCOLIN CUTLER is a Greensboro-based singer-songwriter\, short story writer\, and poet toting a banjo\, guitar\, and harmonicas\, with his musical roots drawing from the breadth of Americana—from Appalachian oldtime to gospel to country to roots rock. He holds an MA in English from UNC-Greensboro\, an MA in creative writing from York St. John University\, has taken a NC Poetry Society Gilbert-Chappell mentorship and had short stories and poetry published in The York Journal\, The Catholic Poetry Room\, with honorable mention from NC’s poet Laureate\, Jaki Shelton Green. He is currently working on an expansion of his Peacock Feathers EP into an album of songs based on Flannery O’Connor’s short stories\, and has performed for the International Flannery O’Connor Society and Andalusia Farm. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/mott-jones/ LOCATION:Van Dyke Performance Space\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:IBPOC Authors,Literary Fiction,Short Stories END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR