Event: Reading & Conversation -- 4/30

The Harvard Advocate Presents...

Henri Cole: A Reading and Conversation
Harold Bloom says: "a central poet of his generation."

Time: Friday, April 30th, 1:30 pm
Location: 21 South Street

Refreshments will be served

Cole's awards and honors include the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin, the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

From 1982 until 1988 Cole was executive director of The Academy of American Poets. Since then he has held many teaching positions and been the artist-in-residence at various institutions, including Smith College, Reed College, Brandeis, Columbia, Harvard, and Yale Universities. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Illustrators, win a scholarship to a NYC art school!

Utrecht Art Supplies 2nd Annual Art Competition
(GRAND PRIZE WINNER) – (Best Overall) 6-Week Full Scholarship to
The Grand Central Academy of Art, New York City (a value of $4,000),
and up to $3,500 to cover travel expenses & accommodations
No Entry Fee!!

Get national recognition for your art! Beginning April 19, Utrecht Art Supplies invites you to submit your drawing, painting, or sculpture work.

The top three winners in each category will be awarded Utrecht ArtSmart™ gift cards ranging from $500—$1500. There will be an overall Grand Prize winner who will receive a 6-week Full Scholarship to attend the Grand Central Academy of Art in New York City, and up to $3,500 to cover travel expenses and accommodations. Runners-up will receive Certificates of Merit from Utrecht and American Artist magazine.

Submit up to three pieces of original art. (one per category) All winners and finalists will be selected based on quality and originality of work in each category. The competition will be juried by American Artist, Utrecht Art Supplies' Resident Artist, and the Grand Central Academy of Art.

Enter today!

Entry deadline: September 1, 2010.
Winners will be notified November 1, 2010.

ONE OVERALL GRAND PRIZE WINNER: Full 6-week scholarship to Grand Central Academy of Art (a value of $4,000) and up to $3500 to cover travel expenses and accommodations. FIRST PLACE DRAWING: $1500 ArtSmart™ gift card from Utrecht Art Supplies FIRST PLACE PAINTING: $1500 ArtSmart™ gift card from Utrecht Art Supplies FIRST PLACE SCULPTURE: $1500 ArtSmart™ gift card from Utrecht Art Supplies SECOND PLACE DRAWING: $750 ArtSmart™ gift card from Utrecht Art Supplies SECOND PLACE PAINTING: $750 ArtSmart™ gift card from Utrecht Art Supplies SECOND PLACE SCULPTURE: $750 ArtSmart™ gift card from Utrecht Art Supplies THIRD PLACE DRAWING: $500 ArtSmart™ gift card from Utrecht Art Supplies THIRD PLACE PAINTING: $500 ArtSmart™ gift card from Utrecht Art Supplies THIRD PLACE SCULPTURE: $500 ArtSmart™ gift card from Utrecht Art Supplies

For more information see: http://contests.interweave.com/utrecht/

Event: Publishing/Children's Literature 4/30

From Elise...

Want To Be A Writer?
Interested in Publishing?

History and Literature presents a conversation with

Elise Broach (author of MASTERPIECE) and Marie Rutkoski (author of THE CELESTIAL GLOBE)

Elise and Marie will discuss and answer questions about children's literature, the intersection of history and literature, creative writing, and publishing.

Time: 2-3pm, Friday, April 30, 2010
Location: Barker Center 110 (Thompson Room)

ELISE BROACH is the author of many picture books and three novels. Both When Dinosaurs Came with Everything and Masterpiece (currently a NY Times Bestseller) won the E. B. White Read Aloud Award of the Association of Booksellers for Children, and Shakespeare's Secret was an Edgar Award Nominee for Best Juvenile Mystery. Elise holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in history from Yale University, and lives with her family in Connecticut, where she writes and serves in town government.

MARIE RUTKOSKI grew up in Bolingbrook, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), as the oldest of four children. In high school, she was a member of the Young Adult Advisory Board at the Fountaindale Public Library in Bolingbrook. She later attended the University of Iowa, where she took Writers’ Workshop classes and also studied with Pulitzer Prize–winner James Alan McPherson. After graduating, she lived in Moscow and Prague. Upon receiving her Ph.D. from Harvard University, she held dual appointments as a lecturer there in both English and American Literature and Language, and History and Literature. Ms. Rutkoski is currently a professor at Brooklyn College. She lives in New York City.

Event: Literature As Recycleable Material 4/30

I'm a little biased about this event, but it sounds really cool:

Literature as Recyclable Material (Part of ARTS 2010)

Time: Friday 4/30 02:00 PM
Location: CGIS, 1730 Cambridge St., Room S010

No Tickets Required. Free and Open to the Public.

A workshop with the Paper Picker Press that explores artistic interventions into challenging texts. Rewrite, reinterpret and rediscover literature as a recyclable material.

Tylor Brandon '12, facilitator.

Cliches

Can't think of the right phrase? Reaching for cliches?

Other writers share your problem too. This week, PaperCuts has an article on cliches. There have been quite a few articles about them recently--both on their negative and their "positive" qualities (some reportedly humorous).

Read more about them here.

Event: Working in Non-Profits Panel -- Friday, 4/23

Meet CEOs in the Non-Profit World: Explore the Pathways to Leadership

This Friday (April 23) 4:30 pm

Interested in meeting CEOs from four of the largest non-profit organizations in the country? Want to learn more about what it takes to become a leader in the non-profit sector? Come hear from members of Leadership 18, a coalition of not-for-profit CEOs whose organizations serve over 87 million people annually and work with over 5.5 million volunteers. The panel will be moderated by David Ellwood, Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and is open to all University students. Speakers include:

Stephen Bennett, CEO, United Cerebral Palsy;

James Firman, CEO, National Council on Aging;

Peter Goldberg, CEO, Alliance for Children & Families; and

Roxanne Spillett, CEO, Boys & Girls Club of the USA.

DATE: Friday, April 23, 2010

TIME: 4:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Harvard Graduate School of Education, Larson 106

RSVP: ocsrsvp@fas.harvard.edu. Include your name and Harvard affiliation in your response. Space is limited.

Leadership 18 Member Organizations

Alliance for Children and Families, AARP, American Cancer Society, American Red Cross, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, Boy Scouts of America, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Camp Fire USA, Catholic Charities USA, Girl Scouts of the USA, Girls Incorporated, Goodwill Industries International, Inc., Lutheran Services in America, Mental Health America, National Council of La Raza, National Urban League, Inc., The Salvation Army, United Cerebral Palsy, United Way of America, Visiting Nurse Associations of America, Volunteers of America, YMCA of the USA, and YWCA USA.

Obituary for An Illustrator

From The New York Times:

Remember "Julie of the Wolves"? Too young to remember "Owl Moon?" John Schoenherr illustrated it.

As described by The New York Times, Schoenherr had a fascinating life. He illustrated children's books and designed the jackets of science-fiction books. He explored a variety of media to create what the NYT described as "evocative" drawings. Schoenherr also painted.

Learn more about him here.

Event at Harvard

From The Living Magazine:

An International Literary Event!

Location: Arthur Sackler Museum Auditorium on 485 Broadway
Time: 4:00-6:00 pm on Wednesday, April 14

The second installment of the Visiting Writers Series will be a performed literary magazine featuring, among others, Chinese poets Bei Ling (co-editor of the banned Chinese literary magazine TENDENCY) and Meng Lang (co-editor of TENDENCY and editor-in-chief of the banned Chinese online literary magazine FREEDOM TO WRITE); Burmese poet and surgeon Ma Thida (editor of Burmese TEEN Magazine); and Iranian novelist Shahriar Mandanipour (editor of the banned Iranian literary magazine THURSDAY EVENING).

This event is free and open to the public; students are encouraged to attend.