Anne's Arts & Activities Blog

  Read the article here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/onward-and-upward-in-the-garden/on-sunflowers-with-love-and-hate

  The Sanatorium  by Sarah Pearse, who I will be interviewing Tuesday. The book is Reese's Book Club pick for February. 10% in (according to Kindle) I can see why! I'm also reading the newest Joe Pickett novel,  Dark Sky by C.J. Box. So good so far! I have a couple more on my list. We'll see what happens. Depends on how good the Super Bowl is.

  Buffalo Bills van Gogh  by Cu Hung  You can purchase the painting here:  https://pixels.com/featured/buffalo-bills-van-gogh-cu-hung.html

 The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will celebrate Black History Month with online talks, discussions and concerts from renowned poet Nikki Giovanni, music executive Mathew Knowles and Pitt-Bradford faculty.             To sign up for events or find out more about Black History Month at Pitt-Bradford, visit www.upb.pitt.edu/black-history-month. All events listed are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.             Keynote speakers Giovanni, an internationally known poet, writer and social justice activist, and music industry leader Knowles will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. on Feb. 11 and 18, respectively.             Giovanni is a seven-time NAACP Image Award winner and the first recipient of the Rosa Parks Women of Courage Award. She holds the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry and is the author of 28 books, many of which have appeared on the Best Seller lists of the New York and Los Angeles Times – highly unusual for a poet.             She has written a

Join the Marilyn Horne Museum and Exhibit Center in celebrating Black History Month as they present a vocal performance by Cameroonian-American mezzo-soprano Veena Akama-Makia. This one-night-only recital will be available on the museum's YouTube channel and is free and open to all. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCEnMFyU9A_O1iZ3qToNOzg

 

 

  My favorite thing about my job is getting to read books before they're released. Tonight I get to start #DarkSky -- the new Joe Pickett novel! #NetGalley And #BigSky is on tonight. It's a @CJBoxauthor kinda day.

  The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has launched a new online publication that gives first-year students an opportunity to have their writing published.             Founded by composition instructor Matthew Salvia, Bradford Writes! features exemplary student essays in a number of genres typically required of first-year students – narrative, analysis, argument and research.             “There’s a lot of research in composition theory that students are much more likely to apply themselves to their work if it’s for more than a grade,” Salvia said.             With the help of faculty in the composition and first-year seminar programs as well as the Writing Center at Pitt-Bradford, Salvia solicited submissions from students. After selecting items to publish, he worked with the students through an editing process.             Salvia said students’ works come from Introduction to Composition, Composition I and Composition II.             Salvia hopes that by being

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  -- For the first time, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s award-winning literary magazine, Baily’s Beads, will be published online.             The 2021 edition will be unveiled at an online event at 7 p.m. Feb. 3. The event will include the Baily’s Beads tradition of an open mic. For login details, email Dr. Nancy McCabe, professor of writing and Baily’s Beads adviser, at ngm4@pitt.edu .             Additionally, the event will celebrate the awarding of first place with special merit by the American Scholastic Press Association to Baily’s Beads 2020 edition edited by 2020 graduate Taylor Tarahteeff, which focused on local and regional history, including historical photographs. The magazine also received an award for outstanding theme.             McCabe said the magazine staff had to make two major changes: how to create and edit the magazine when both students and faculty were working remotely and how to distribute the magazine.             “When we had t

  Winter in Paris by Robert Finale Purchase the painting here:  https://cvartandframe.com/product/winter-in-paris-by-robert-finale/