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January 31, 2020
Super Pep Rally – Delray Beach Fashion Week

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February 2, 2020
BIG GAME WATCH PARTY

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March 19, 2020
Killer Queen

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March 25, 2020
Space Oddity: The David Bowie Music Experience

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March 27, 2020
Beatles of the Beach presents Micky Dolenz

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March 28, 2020
Beatles on the Beach presents McCartney Mania

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January 21, 2020
Craft Talks with Ilya Kaminsky & Dana Levin

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January 21, 2020
Interview with Joy Harjo by Laure-Anne Bosselaar

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January 21, 2020
KICK OFF READING with Nickole Brown, Jessica Jacobs, Adrian Matejka & Maggie Smith

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January 22, 2020
Craft Talks with Nickole Brown & Reginald Gibbons

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January 22, 2020
The Thomas Lux Memorial Poetry Reading with Joy Harjo

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January 23, 2020
Craft Talks with Major Jackson & Jessica Jacobs

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January 23, 2020
Mid Week Reading with Ilya Kaminsky, Dana Levin & Reginald Gibbons

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January 24, 2020
CRAFT TALKS WITH MAGGIE SMITH & ADRIAN MATEJKA

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January 24, 2020
Free Friday Concerts: Spider Cherry

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January 24, 2020
An Evening of Poetry with Patricia Smith

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January 25, 2020
Beloved Poems Panel Discussion

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January 25, 2020
Finale Reading with Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Major Jackson & David Kirby

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Museum

January 30, 2020
Art & Couture All Stars – Delray Beach Fashion Week

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October 31, 2019
Art Couture: The Intersection of Art and Fashion

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Art School

January 24, 2020

Expressive Abstract: Large Scale Painting

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January 31, 2020

Painting the Buddha

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February 14, 2020

Painting On Photographs

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February 29, 2020

Glide Into Oil Painting

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February 29, 2020

Different Strokes for Creative Folks

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March 13, 2020

Expressive Abstract: Large Scale Painting

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April 18, 2020

AUDITIONING FOR THE STAGE: TWO DAY INTENSIVE

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Old School Square

Name: Art Couture: The Intersection of Art and Fashion
Start: 2019-10-31T11-11-00-00
End: 2020-5-10T18-18-00-00
Location: Cornell Art Museum

The Old School Square campus includes the Cornell Art Museum, Crest Theatre, Fieldhouse, Pavilion and the Creative Arts School (located in the Crest Theatre, second floor studios); 51 N. Swinton Avenue (at Atlantic Avenue) in downtown Delray Beach (33444). The phone number is 561-243-7922.

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Old School Square’s new chief ready to ‘change lives through the arts’

January 15, 2020 By Faran Fagen Special to The Post Posted Jan 14, 2020 at 8:01 AM Old School Square’s new chief ready to ‘change lives through the arts’ Old School Square began 2020 with a new vision: to rebrand the Delray Beach historic site to better tell the city’s story. “Old School Square has been open for

Braman Honda Spotlight’s Old School Square!

September 25, 2019 Community Spotlight: Old School Square Delray by Dylan Bari Located in downtown Delray, Old School Square is a national historic site converted into an arts center which serves the Delray Beach Community and South Florida. It’s an amalgam of restored school buildings from the early 1900s that house the Cornell Art Museum, Crest Theatre, an

Crest Theatre Renovations

August 20, 2019 MILLION DOLLAR RENOVATION BEGINS ON HISTORIC OLD SCHOOL SQUARE CREST THEATRE The first phase of the two-phase project is scheduled to be completed on November 1, 2019 Beginning late August, The Old School Square Crest Theatre Building will undergo a long-awaited interior renovation. A generous $1 million-dollar donation by Margaret Blume will allow Old School

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(Tuesday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Location

Crest Theatre

51 N. Swinton Avenue

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Palm Beach Poetry Festival Presents

Ilya Kaminsky – Another Republic: Learning from Different Traditions
Dana Levin – By Repeating Comes Understanding: Pattern Recognition in Contemporary Poetry

Regular $15
Senior (65+) $12
Student $10

ABOUT ILYA KAMINSKY (born April 18, 1977 in Odessa, Soviet Union, now Ukraine) is a Russian-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He began to write poetry seriously as a teenager in Odessa, publishing a chapbook in Russian entitled The Blessed City. His first published poetry collection in English was a chapbook, Musica Humana (Chapiteau Press, 2002). His second collection in English, Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004), earned him a 2005 Whiting Writers’ Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Metcalf Award, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and the Dorset Prize, and was named the 2005 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year in Poetry. In 2008, he was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship. His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Kenyon Review, New Republic, Harvard Review, and Poetry. His latest book is Deaf Republic (Graywolf, 2019).

ABOUT DANA LEVIN Dana Levin’s most recent book of poetry is the remarkable Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, won the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive nearly every award available to first books and emerging poets. Copper Canyon Press also published her books, Wedding Day, in 2005 and Sky Burial in 2011. Levin’s poetry and essays have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including The Best American Poetry 2015, The Arcadia Project: North American Post-Modern Pastoral, The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, The AmericanPoetry Review, and Poetry. Her work has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress, as well as the Rona Jaffe, Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. A teacher of poetry for over twenty years, Levin splits her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Maryville University in St. Louis, where she serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence.

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21jan4:00 pm5:30 pmInterview with Joy Harjo by Laure-Anne Bosselaar4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

21jan8:00 pm10:00 pmKICK OFF READING with Nickole Brown, Jessica Jacobs, Adrian Matejka & Maggie Smith8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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(Tuesday) 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location

Crest Theatre

51 N. Swinton Avenue

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Palm Beach Poetry Festival Presents

Readings with Nickole Brown, Jessica Jacobs, Adrian Matejka, and Maggie Smith, followed by book signing in the Festival Book Store, located in the Ocean Breeze Room in the Crest Theatre Building.

Regular $15
Senior (65+) $12
Student $10

ABOUT NICKOLE BROWN Nickole Brown received her MFA from the Vermont College, studied literature at Oxford University, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. She worked at Sarabande Books for ten years. She’s the author of Sister, first published in 2007 with a new edition reissued in 2018. Her second book, Fanny Says (BOA Editions), won the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry in 2015. The audiobook of that collection became available in 2017. Currently, she is the Editor for the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and teaches at the Sewanee School of Letters MFA Program and the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNCA. She lives with her wife, poet Jessica Jacobs, in Asheville, NC, where she periodically volunteers at four different animal sanctuaries. A chapbook called To Those Who Were Our First Gods won the 2018 Rattle Chapbook Prize, and a long sequence called The Donkey Elegies will be published as a chapbook by Sibling Rivalry Press in September 2019.

JESSICA JACOBS Jessica Jacobs is the author of Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going (Four Way Books, 2019), Pelvis with Distance (White Pine Press, 2015), a biography-in-poems of Georgia O’Keeffe, winner of the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her chapbook In Whatever Light Left to Us was published by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2016. Her poetry, essays, and fiction have appeared in publications including Crazyhorse, The Missouri Review, New England Review, Orion, and Guernica. An avid long-distance runner, Jessica has worked as a rock climbing instructor, bartender, editor, and professor, and is now the Associate Editor of Beloit Poetry Journal. She lives with her wife, the poet Nickole Brown in Asheville, North Carolina.

ABOUT ADRIAN MATEJKA was born in Nuremberg, Germany and grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books, 2003) which won the New York / New England Award and Mixology (Penguin, 2009), a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series. Mixology was also a finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature. His third collection, The Big Smoke (Penguin, 2013), focuses on Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight champion of the world. The Big Smoke was awarded the 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was also a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award, 2014 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and 2014 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His most recent book, Map to the Stars, was published by Penguin in 2017. Among Matejka’s other honors are the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award, the Julia Peterkin Award, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Bellagio Center, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and a Simon Fellowship from United States Artists. He teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington and is Poet Laureate of Indiana.

ABOUT MAGGIE SMITH Maggie Smith is the author of three books of poetry: Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017); The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015); and Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005). Lamp of the Body won the 2003 Benjamin Saltman Award from Red Hen Press. The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison won the 2012 Dorset Prize, selected by Kimiko Hahn, and the 2016 Gold Medal in Poetry for the Independent Publishers Book Awards. The collection was also a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Montaigne Medal, and poems from this collection were awarded an NEA Fellowship in poetry. Smith is also the author of three chapbooks: Disasterology (Dream Horse Press, 2016); The List of Dangers (Kent State/Wick Poetry Series, 2010); and Nesting Dolls (Pudding House, 2005). A freelance writer and editor, and a Consulting Editor for the Kenyon Review, Smith is also a passionate and enthusiastic teacher. She has taught creative writing at Gettysburg College, in the MFA program at The Ohio State University, and at various conferences and nonprofits around the country. She is the Visiting Poet at Ohio Wesleyan University for 2017–2018. She lives with her family in Ohio.

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22jan2:00 pm3:30 pmCraft Talks with Nickole Brown & Reginald Gibbons2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

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(Wednesday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Location

Crest Theatre

51 N. Swinton Avenue

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Palm Beach Poetry Festival Presents

Nickole Brown – Writing in the Age of Loneliness: Eco-Poetry & The Writer’s Task
Reginald Gibbons – Inner Craft

Regular $15
Senior (65+) $12
Student $10

ABOUT NICKOLE BROWN received her MFA from the Vermont College, studied literature at Oxford University, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. She worked at Sarabande Books for ten years. She’s the author of Sister, first published in 2007 with a new edition reissued in 2018. Her second book, Fanny Says (BOA Editions), won the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry in 2015. The audiobook of that collection became available in 2017. Currently, she is the Editor for the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and teaches at the Sewanee School of Letters MFA Program and the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNCA. She lives with her wife, poet Jessica Jacobs, in Asheville, NC, where she periodically volunteers at four different animal sanctuaries. A chapbook called To Those Who Were Our First Gods won the 2018 Rattle Chapbook Prize, and a long sequence called The Donkey Elegies will be published as a chapbook by Sibling Rivalry Press in September 2019.

ABOUT REGINALD GIBBONS Born and raised in Houston, Reginald Gibbons earned his BA in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University, and both his MA in English and creative writing and his PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. Gibbons is the author of Last Lake (University of Chicago Press, 2016), Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories (University of Chicago Press, 2010), and Creatures of a Day: Poems (LSU Press, 2008). He is the Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University and lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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