A Musical Thriller: Brendan Slocumb and Tona Brown in Conversation

Tew Recital Hall, UNCG School of Music 100 McIver Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* BRENDAN 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 […]

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Exploring a Future, Changing the Past (Sci-fi/Fantasy)

Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Science Fiction and fantasy explore new worlds; some are light years away or hundreds of years in the future, some are new perspectives on our shared past. They can be intimate stories of a […]

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Everywhere We Belong

Greensboro History Museum 130 Summit Avenue, GREENSBORO, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Three award-winning Black authors bring their unique voices to bear on what it means to be black and male in 21st Century America. Whether writing about unknown facets of the Civil War, a father’s […]

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Afternoon Delight

Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Say goodbye to your mom's harlequin bodice rippers, romance has gotten a makeover! From sleek new cover designs you actually want on your shelf (so long, busty corsets!) to rethinking what romance storytelling can […]

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The Truth about Disability: What We Don’t Talk About

Stephen D. Hyers Theater, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, GREENSBORO, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Around 20% of Americans live with a disability, but for many disability remains a taboo subject. Too often, the complex experiences of the disabled are reduced to pity or inspiration. On this panel, three […]

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Mysteries of Identity

Stephen D. Hyers Theater, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, GREENSBORO, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* With JOHN COPENHAVER, VALERIE NIEMAN, and NICOLE ZELNIKER. These three novels skirt the edges of the mystery genre while taking on various considerations of identity. Gender expectations, LGBTQ concerns, and coming-of-age self-awareness all complicate […]

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Lost & Found & Forgetting: Memoir as an Act of Moving Forward

Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* With KATHRYN SCHULZ and ALEXIS ORGERA. These two memoirs examine the pain of losing fathers, but something else is found in the process of loss, in the process of writing, and in the process […]

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Sounding Bodies: Identity, Injustice, and the Voice

Scuppernong Books 304 S Elm Street, Greensboro, NC

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* Sounding Bodies presents a powerful model of how the seemingly disparate disciplines of philosophy and voice/speech training can, in conversation with each other, generate illuminating insights about our vocal lives and identities. Utilising the […]

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Eating & Drinking Together: How Food Shapes Culture

Stephen D. Hyers Theater, Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N Davie Street, GREENSBORO, NC, United States

*All events are FREE, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* JULIA SKINNER and MARCIE COHEN FERRIS are both food historians and they bring deep understanding of the role of food and drink in our past and in our present. Each author examines how culinary excellence, […]

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