Playwrights’ Platform Summer Festival of New Plays in Boston, Mass. (June 18-20, 8 p.m.) – Come support the aspiring writers of Playwrights’ Platform who have written the vibrant short plays constituting this summer’s festival. After each performance, the audience members will vote on their favorite plays and actors for the awards ceremony that concludes the festival. Who knows, there might even be a future Lorraine Hansberry in the group! A Bilingual Reading of Pablo Neruda Poetry in Seattle, Wash. (June 20, 2:00 p.m.) – This reading, which will take place at Central Library, is perfect for English-speaking students of Spanish, Spanish-speaking students of English, hardcore bilingual Neruda fans, and lovers of the poet who have only read translations and wish to hear the exquisite music of his native tongue.
Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival in Farmington, Conn. (June 24, 6:30 p.m.) – This festival, which opened two weeks ago, will be held every other Wednesday evening until August 5, in the Sunken Garden of the historic Hill-Stead Museum property. Bask in the bloom of the Colonial Revival as you listen to readings by the Connecticut Poetry Circuit winners and Baron Wormser, and a musical performance by New York’s Uptown Trio.
Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. (June 24-28 and July 1-5) – The Folklife Festival is a multimedia, multicultural, enormously popular event on the National Mall. This year’s programs will include Giving Voice (focusing on “The Power of Words in African American Culture”), Las Américas, and Wales, and visitors can experience these cultures through food, music, dance, and, of course, storytelling.
Fresh Threads of Connection: Mother Nature and British Women Writers in Iowa City, Iowa (through July 26) – If you love the likes of Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Charlotte Bronte, head over to Iowa City’s Old Capitol Museum. The Fresh Threads of Connection exhibit, through the work and lives of ten female British writers, examines art, culture, nature, and these women’s relationships to the world and to one another.
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