The Library will be closed on Monday, October 14 for Indigenous Peoples' Day. 

Call and Response: Two Poets Having a Very Black Conversation through Spoken Word

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Call and Response: Two Poets Having a Very Black Conversation through Spoken Word

Rajnii Eddins and H. “Herukhuti” Sharif Williams share their work and the experiences that inspired them in the tradition of the griot. Reading interchangeably from their respective work so as to create a call and response dialogue, this performance provides a unique and powerful experience. Q&A and book signing to follow. 

   Herukhuti

The Here and Now: Being Black, Dreaming Green & Playing the Long Game - Carolyn Finney Lecture

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Dr. Carolyn Finney, PhD, storyteller, author and cultural geographer will be speaking at the Fletcher Free Library on Sunday, August 20th at 11 a.m. 

Her keynote talk - The Here and Now: Being Black, Dreaming Green & Playing the Long Game - will explore themes from her most recent book Black Faces, White Spaces.

Renee Greenlee's Blue Alchemy : An exhibition of cyanotypes made on silk panels with water from the Lake Champlain Basin

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Blue Alchemy was inspired by the Lake Champlain watershed.  The exhibit and associated programming build connections between the public and the watershed in new ways.

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Renee Greenlee's Blue Alchemy : An exhibition of cyanotypes made on silk panels with water from the Lake Champlain Basin

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Blue Alchemy was inspired by the Lake Champlain watershed.  The exhibit and associated programming build connections between the public and the watershed in new ways.

About the artist: