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Online Pilates Class with Judy Kranz
Tuesdays starting April 7, 2020 @ 8:30 – 9:30 am VIA ZOOM
Saturdays starting April 11, 2020 @ 9:30 – 10:30 am VIA ZOOM
email rrooney@clamsnet.org to sign up
Limited space to 8 per day. Please sign-up for one day to start.
This is free and open to the public
Online Book Talk with Mary Beth Norton
1774: The Long Year of Revolution
On Tuesday, July 14 at 4:30pm, the West Tisbury Library presents an online book talk with special guest author and acclaimed historian Mary Beth Norton. This is a live event that will meet on Zoom. Mary Beth will discuss her newest book, 1774: The Long Year of Revolution (released February 2020). Please email wt_mail@clamsnet.org to receive your Zoom invitation to join. This event is free and open to the public.
About the book:
“From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2018 President of the American Historical Association, a groundbreaking book, the first to look at the critical, “long year” of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April 1775, from the Boston Tea Party and the first Continental Congress to the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
In this original and important book, Mary Beth Norton’s first in more than fifteen years, she looks at the sixteen months during which the traditional loyalists to King George III began their discordant ‘discussions’ that led to their acceptance of the inevitability of war against the British Empire and to the clashes at Lexington and Concord in mid-April, 1775.
Drawing extensively on pamphlets, newspapers, and personal correspondence, Norton reconstructs colonial political discourse as it happened, showing the vigorous campaign mounted by conservatives criticizing congressional actions. But by then it was too late. In early 1775, governors throughout the colonies informed colonial officials in London that they were unable to thwart the increasing power of the committees and their allied provincial congresses. Although the Declaration of Independence would not be formally adopted until July 1776, Americans, even before the outbreak of war in April 1775, had in effect “declared independence” by obeying the decrees of their new provincial governments rather than colonial officials.” (goodreads.com).
About the author:
Mary Beth Norton is the author of six books and co-editor of several others. Her textbook, A People and a Nation, a survey of U.S. history written with five other authors, has been published in ten editions and has sold more than 500,000 copies. Mary Beth is the Mary Donlon Alger Professor Emerita of American History at Cornell University. She lives in Ithaca, NY and West Tisbury.
Join us via Zoom while Heather Capece instructs watercolors for teens and adults. Each week will be a new theme.
Beginning Tuesday June 9th at 5:30 PM, the West Tisbury Library will host a beginners drawing class for adults and teens. This workshop will meet virtually through Zoom and is free and open to the public! Please sign up with lhearn@clamsnet.org
Starting Wednesday, July 8 from 12-2pm, the West Tisbury Library will host “In the Poetry Garden,” a weekly online poetry gathering led by KT Herr. We’ll come together using Zoom for a more-or-less traditionally-structured workshop discussion of each poet’s work, finishing up with a reading by each poet of a finished, favorite poem of their own. This is workshop-style class, geared toward practiced poets with a degree of writing experience. Meets virtually through Zoom on Wednesdays at 12pm (7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29). Join one, some, or all sessions. Each session will be limited to six participants. Free and open to the public!
Contact KT to register by emailing kt.herr@gmail.com, and please submit a single poem via email at least two days in advance of the workshop (sign up and submit a poem by Monday afternoon). KT will email the poems around to each participant, and everyone will have two days to make notes on the poems, keeping in mind the following analogy:
Poems are green, living things. What is the seed from which this poem grew? Where are the moments of blooming, fruiting? What is the structure of the stems supporting these blooms? How might the poet prune and train the foliage toward a more fruitful, more pleasing result? Good writing communities function like a healthy ecosystem; on the basis of exchange. Participants will be expected to give thoughtful feedback as well as receive it.
About the teacher:
KT Herr (she/her/hers) is a poet, songwriter, and grilled cheese enthusiast who grew up in Lancaster, PA and West Tisbury, MA. She is a 2020 MFA candidate at Sarah Lawrence College, where she is a Jane Cooper Fellow and 2019-2020 Thomas Lux Scholar. Previously, she lived in Grand Rapids, MI, where she was board secretary for Write616, poetry editor at The 3288 Review, and host of Electric Poetry on WYCE. While pursuing her graduate degree, KT has served as a Right-to-Write incarcerated writers workshop coordinator, Sunnyside college prep teaching artist, Firefly Podcast co-producer, Lumina Journal reader, member of the SLC Graduate Writing Program Diversity Committee, co-founder of the MFA Community Potluck series, and co-director of the 2020 Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival. The recipient of a 2017 Pushcart nomination and a 2019 Pabst Fellowship from the Atlantic Center for the Arts, KT was also named one of four 2018 Featured Women Poets with Punch Drunk Press. She currently works as a publishing intern for Black Lawrence Press, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Frontier Poetry (OPEN Prize Finalist), Quarter After Eight, SWWIM, Pilgrimage Magazine, and others.
CLASS FULL! Online Free-Write Poetry Class (series 3)
Starting Thursday, June 18 at 4pm, the West Tisbury Library will host another online Free-Write Poetry Class led by West Tisbury Poet Laureate Spencer Thurlow. In this class, we will do five four-minute free-write sessions. After each session, writers will be encouraged to read their work to the group, but it is not required. A prompt will be given for each free-write so that we all begin with the same line, but of course, after that, writers are free to go in any direction they choose.
Come connect and get creative with us! Classes will meet virtually through Zoom on six Thursdays at 4pm. Class will be limited to five participants. Sign up is required. Please email wt_mail@clamsnet.org. Class dates: 6/18, 6/25, 7/2, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23. Free and open to the public!
All-Levels Kripalu Flow Class
Virtual Yoga Hosted by the West Tisbury Library
Starting Friday, March 27 at 8am, the West Tisbury Library will host an online all-levels Kripalu Flow Class led by Jason Mazar-Kelly (Yogijay). Classes will meet virtually through Zoom on Fridays at 8am. This class is focused on soothing the nervous system through a combination of movement, breathwork, and meditation. This class is accessible to all levels and is a fun way to wake up while starting the day with a sense of peace in these times of uncertainty. Sign up is required. Please contact wt_mail@clamsnet.org to sign up. Free and open to the public!
About the instructor:
Jason is a certified yoga instructor, mindfulness consultant, business consultant, private chef, and CPA. From meditation and breathwork to hot vinyasa and pranic flows, Jason likes to share a variety of tools and techniques with practitioners at all levels. At the age of 12, Jason was diagnosed with severe obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). For the majority of his teenage years he struggled with OCD until finding yoga and mindfulness therapy. The practices he shares are practices he has worked with since 2011. Since 2014, he has shared these practices with communities around New England. His practices have been discovered through personal inquiry as well as through training, research, and mentorships. He will not only challenge you physically but will also challenge you to go deeper, to step into rigorous personal inquiry, and to engage with sensation. Discover the sweetness that comes from stepping outside of your comfort zone and into being fully alive.
Online! Balance: Chi Kung, Yoga & Breath
Starting Monday, April 13 at 11:30am, the West Tisbury Library will host an online Balance Series led by Kanta Lipsky. In this class, we will explore ways to strengthen our connection to the earth and increase our bodies’ ability to maintain good balance. No yoga mat needed, but a chair will be necessary for some of the movements.
Classes will meet virtually through Zoom on Mondays and Fridays from 11:30am-12:30pm. All are welcome. Please contact wt_mail@clamsnet.org to sign up. Free and open to the public.
Kanta Lipsky is a massage therapist and yoga teacher. She is also a painter, dancer, singer, and playwright who has been exploring alternative forms of healing and well being for many years.
Deep Dive: A Poetry Craft Class
Starting Friday, July 10 from 3-4:30pm, the West Tisbury Library will host a weekly online poetry craft class led by KT Herr. In this craft and generative class centered in collaboration, we’ll consider a selection of poems together as a group in order to zoom in on a particular aspect of craft. From line breaks and enjambment, to titling, to extended metaphor, to ekphrasis, each class will begin with a discussion of examples drawn from contemporary poets, followed by prompts and writing time designed to encourage playfulness and discovery related to the craft elements at hand. We’ll close each class with a reading of what we’ve generated during the writing session. Please register by email (kt.herr@gmail.com) twenty-four hours in advance in order to receive class materials.
These classes meet virtually through Zoom on Fridays at 3pm (7/10, 7/17, 7/24, 7/31). Join one, some, or all sessions. Free and open to the public!
About the teacher:
KT Herr (she/her/hers) is a poet, songwriter, and grilled cheese enthusiast who grew up in Lancaster, PA and West Tisbury, MA. She is a 2020 MFA candidate at Sarah Lawrence College, where she is a Jane Cooper Fellow and 2019-2020 Thomas Lux Scholar. Previously, she lived in Grand Rapids, MI, where she was board secretary for Write616, poetry editor at The 3288 Review, and host of Electric Poetry on WYCE. While pursuing her graduate degree, KT has served as a Right-to-Write incarcerated writers workshop coordinator, Sunnyside college prep teaching artist, Firefly Podcast co-producer, Lumina Journal reader, member of the SLC Graduate Writing Program Diversity Committee, co-founder of the MFA Community Potluck series, and co-director of the 2020 Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival. The recipient of a 2017 Pushcart nomination and a 2019 Pabst Fellowship from the Atlantic Center for the Arts, KT was also named one of four 2018 Featured Women Poets with Punch Drunk Press. She currently works as a publishing intern for Black Lawrence Press, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Frontier Poetry (OPEN Prize Finalist), Quarter After Eight, SWWIM, Pilgrimage Magazine, and others.
Online Pilates Class with Judy Kranz
Tuesdays starting April 7, 2020 @ 8:30 – 9:30 am VIA ZOOM
Saturdays starting April 11, 2020 @ 9:30 – 10:30 am VIA ZOOM
email rrooney@clamsnet.org to sign up
Limited space to 8 per day. Please sign-up for one day to start.
This is free and open to the public
Online! Balance: Chi Kung, Yoga & Breath
Starting Monday, April 13 at 11:30am, the West Tisbury Library will host an online Balance Series led by Kanta Lipsky. In this class, we will explore ways to strengthen our connection to the earth and increase our bodies’ ability to maintain good balance. No yoga mat needed, but a chair will be necessary for some of the movements.
Classes will meet virtually through Zoom on Mondays and Fridays from 11:30am-12:30pm. All are welcome. Please contact wt_mail@clamsnet.org to sign up. Free and open to the public.
Kanta Lipsky is a massage therapist and yoga teacher. She is also a painter, dancer, singer, and playwright who has been exploring alternative forms of healing and well being for many years.
Online Pilates Class with Judy Kranz
Tuesdays starting April 7, 2020 @ 8:30 – 9:30 am VIA ZOOM
Saturdays starting April 11, 2020 @ 9:30 – 10:30 am VIA ZOOM
email rrooney@clamsnet.org to sign up
Limited space to 8 per day. Please sign-up for one day to start.
This is free and open to the public
Join us via Zoom while Heather Capece instructs watercolors for teens and adults. Each week will be a new theme.
Beginning Tuesday June 9th at 5:30 PM, the West Tisbury Library will host a beginners drawing class for adults and teens. This workshop will meet virtually through Zoom and is free and open to the public! Please sign up with lhearn@clamsnet.org
