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WRITERS ROUNDTABLE
Presented in Person by Marianne Lyon & Geoffrey Leigh
9/23, 10/28 & 11/25 / 11 AM / Library
You are invited to join the Writer's Roundtable, hosted by Marianne Lyon,
former Napa County Poet Laureate, and Geoffrey Leigh. This will be an ongoing
open meeting on the 4th Tuesday of the month from 1 - 2:30 PM, starting
September 23rd, at the Yountville Library. Come share your work (five minute
suggested limit) using different writing styles and receive supportive feedback
from everyone attending. This is an opportunity to expand your expression in
an inspiring environment
ARTFUL INSIGHTS
AVRIL ANGEVINE9S ART LECTURE SERIES
9/12 & 10/10 / 12 PM / Community Center
Avril Angevine is an arts lecturer with a particular interest in modern, contemporary, and
California art. She speaks on many subjects at various locations in the Bay Area, including the
OLLI programs at Cal State East Bay, Dominican College, San Francisco State, and the Fromm
Institute. Avril has a BA in English and an MA in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley and
taught English and Humanities at local colleges. She is also a museum guide at SFMOMA, the
Oakland Museum, and the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art.
Sept 12; 12-1pm: Diego Rivera: Art for a New World
Diego Rivera was one of the big men of 20th century art4big physically, in
personality, and as an influence on American art at mid-century. His mural style
was forged in the Mexican Revolution; in his American murals, he achieved an
incongruous synthesis between a reverence for the indigenous cultures of his
native land and an appreciation of American industrial modernity. Overshadowed
today by his wife Frida Kahlo, Rivera was a prodigious talent whose commitment to
art as a political act still resonates. He didn9t believe in God, he said, but he did
believe in Picasso.
Oct 10; 12-1pm: Photography in Mexico
You know the folk art, the murals, the angular architecture. But Mexico has
produced a stable of outstanding practitioners in that most modern of arts,
photography. Like other genres of Mexican art, its photography exhibits a tension
between the modern and the Mesoamerican. Street savvy, elegant, surreal, or
shocking4or, like Our Lady of the Iguanas, all of the above--Mexican photography
shows us Mexico off the beaten track.
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