Posts Tagged ‘Walker Brents’
Walker Tells Tibetan Tales!
Sunday, Apr. 28 at 2:30 p.m.
On the last Sunday of each month, Walker Brents gives a talk, on subjects ranging widely across the cultural and intellectual spectrum. This month, in keeping with the light-hearted spirit of the street fair playing out down the block, Walker will tell some Tibetan folk tales… fascinating bits of mental legerdemain to amuse & delight!
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Sunday, March 31st at 2:30 p.m.
Walker Brents III on W. B. Yeats
Each month, Walker Brents gives a talk on a subject literary, poetic, mythological, or wherever his investigations lead…Â This month, the poet William Butler Yeats and his enigmatic system articulated in the work called “A Vision”
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Black Mountain College
a talk by Walker Brents III
Sunday, September 30 – 2:30 pm In the hills of North Carolina from the 1930s into the 1950s, a unique succession of intellectual and artistic developments occurred in the rather ramshackle environment of Black Mountain College, as if it were a sort of farm tended by a succession of agronomists, field hands and dabblers. Some,…
Read MoreWriters RD Armstrong & G Murray Thomas
Friday, August 31st – 5:30 to 8:00 pm Special 5th Friday booking in our weekly jazz in the bookshop series Scott Foster Trio live jazz without fail every Friday since October 2002!! 10 years & counting… Each Friday, we present one of four combos in rotation, but when there’s a fifth Friday in a month,…
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Thursday, May 24 – 7:00 pm The Monthly Eminent Authors’ Birthdays Open Reading a long-standing Bird & Beckett tradition, recurring on the fourth Thursday of each month Have a favorite writer born in May? Come down to Bird & Beckett this Thursday evening to share aloud a bit of his or her work with fellow…
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Sunday, April 29 Come to the Glen Park Festival! An all-day frolic al fresco on Diamond Street from Bosworth to Chenery. Crafts booths, food vendors, your occasional politician and a stage full of terrific musicians entertaining you & your 1,000 close personal friends-to-be! Music on the Fest stage starts at 10:00 a.m. when our honorary…
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