BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Greensboro Bound - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Greensboro Bound 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:20220522T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T140000 DTSTAMP:20260501T140611 CREATED:20220325T201655Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T025414Z UID:8415-1653224400-1653228000@greensborobound.com SUMMARY:Mysteries of Identity 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\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.* \nWith 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 the usual terrain of the mystery field. Hosted by JACOB PAUL.  \nJOHN COPENHAVER‘s historical crime novel\, Dodging and Burning (Pegasus)\, won the 2019 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel and garnered Anthony\, Strand Critics\, Barry\, and Lambda Literary Award nominations. Copenhaver writes a crime fiction review column for Lambda Literary called “Blacklight\,” cohosts on the House of Mystery Radio Show\, and is the six-time recipient of Artist Fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He grew up in the mountains of southwestern Virginia and currently lives in Richmond\, VA\, with his husband\, artist Jeffery Paul. The Savage Kind (Pegasus) is his second novel. \n VALERIE NEIMEN‘s new novel\, In the Lonely Backwater\, a YA/crossover suspense novel in the Southern gothic tradition\, will be published by Regal House/Fitzroy Books in May 2022. To the Bones\, her genre-bending folk horror/thriller about coal country\, was a finalist for the 2020 Manly Wade Wellman Award\, joining three earlier novels\, a short fiction collection\, and three poetry collections. She has published widely in journals\, and has held state and NEA creative writing fellowships. A native of western New York\, Nieman was a journalist and farmer in West Virginia. She holds degrees from West Virginia University and Queens University of Charlotte and recently retired as a creative writing professor at NC A&T State University. \nNICOLE ZELNIKER (she/her) is a writer\, activist\, and managing editor at The Nasiona. She is the author of several books\, including “Letters I’ll Never Send” and “Until We Fall.” \nJACOB PAUL  is the author of two previous novels\, A Song of Ilan (Jaded Ibis\, 2015) and Sarah/Sara (Ig\, 2010)\, which Poets & Writers named one of 2010’s five best first fictions. His collaborations have led to the fine art books\, Home for an Hour (Otherwise\, 2014) and Feed Mayonnaise to Tuna (Otherwise\, 2016). His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Hunger Mountain\, Western Humanities Review\, Green Mountains Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Seneca Review\, Mountain Gazette and USA Today’s Weekend Magazine as well as on therumpus.net\, fictionwritersreview.com and numerocinqmagazine.com. He teaches creative writing at High Point University in North Carolina. URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/mysteries-of-identity/ LOCATION:Stephen D. Hyers Theater\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States CATEGORIES:LGBTQIA,Literary Fiction,Mystery/Thriller END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T180000 DTSTAMP:20260501T140611 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 END:VCALENDAR