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Finding Your Courage to Create (Interactive Workshop)

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Naomi Vladeck is an award-winning author and certified life coach who is devoted to advancing the work of women artists and creators through her company Creativity Matters Coaching. Naomi has been working with and around independent artists for thirty years.

As a performing artist, writing coach, fundraising executive, event planner and non-profit founder, Naomi has helped hundreds of artists create something new from an empty stage, blank page and canvas so that they could make their impact. The experience of her husband’s alcoholism and death led to her writing debut: Braving Creativity, Artists Who Turn the Scary, Messy, Thrilling Path of Change into Courageous Transformation which received a Silver Medal Award from the Non Fiction Authors Association, a Finalist Medal in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and a Book of the Year Finalist from the Independent Author Network (IAN).

Naomi has a Masters in Performance Studies from NYU, is a certified creativity coach with the Creativity Coaching Association. She holds a leadership certification from the Inner MBA program of Mindful NYU and is certified and registered public speaker with The Big Talk Academy NYC.

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Lit by the River: Poetry Writing Workshop

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Join us for the first of three poetry writing workshops instructed by Juan Mobili and Rebecca Watkins.

Session 1: Articulating What You Notice
Considering “paying attention” as a poet’s superpower. Reflecting on what you write about and what you do not write about. Developing your freedom to write outside your comfort zone. Everyone will write a new poem.

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Circle Up

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Our weekly poets circle, Circle Up, is happening every Thursday night from 6 PM to 7 PM at X House in Nyack. This week, I’m thinking on doing a performance/delivery workshop, but usually we do either writing or editing. If you want weekly emails or texts about that, let me know and I can add you to the proper list. If you can swing it, cost is $5, paid directly to the venue.

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Open Mic with Featured Poet James McSherry

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After a summer break, our lively open mic returns in September. Read a poem to a supportive audience.

 

James McSherry is a graduate of Columbia University’s Writing Program and has been a teacher of writing and film to inner-city high school and college students. His memoir A Clean Street’s A Happy Street is in the New York Public Library and is being taught in New York City public schools. Mr. McSherry was a visiting writer for a series curated by the New York Public Library called “Around the Neighborhood,” where local authors give workshops to young, aspiring writers.

He was a featured author in “The Five Boro Story Project” which brings local writers to the attention of their respective communities and was the recipient of several BRIO Awards, (Bronx Recognizes Its Own.) His short film “Poetry Man” was screened at the Cannes Short Film Corner and won the audience award at The Manhattan Film Festival. In addition, “American Boy” a chapter from Mr. McSherry’s latest memoir, We Will Never Be Here Again was a finalist in Columbia Journal’s Print Nonfiction Contest. Another chapter, “Lips”, from the aforementioned book was published in Sequestrum Literary Magazine. He is a contributing writer to MovieMaker Magazine and completed a novel, All the Lovely Dead, which he will soon be adapting for the screen.

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Rivertown Film Screening of “Atomic Cover Ups”

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Political and Media Manipulation x 4 at Rivertown Film

August 2025 – On Wednesday, September 24th, Rivertown Film will present clips from four films written and directed by Nyack resident Greg Mitchell. The films – produced in 2022 – 2025 – are all different but all deal with various forms of manipulation. Both the media and the government are adept at controlling the messages they want to get out, as these films show us. They are:

“Atomic Cover-Up” – Long suppressed footage of the human suffering caused by the US nuclear bombing of two Japanese cities in August of 1945 is uncovered.

“The First Attack Ads” – When author and socialist Upton Sinclair swept the Democratic primary for governor of California in August 1934- MGM producer Irving Thalberg ordered the creation of the first “attack ads” to appear on a screen.

“Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried” – On Memorial Day in 1937, striking workers at Republic Steel in Chicago gathered for a picnic. When some marched towards the plant police killed ten of them, but newsreel film of the massacre disappeared.

“The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero – and Nuclear Peril Today” – A few months after the second atomic bomb blast, over Nagasaki, the U.S. military staged an all-star football game on a killing field, amid lingering radiation levels. Why? And why does this provide so many lessons and warnings for us today?

Greg Mitchell is the former editor of Editor & Publisher, Nuclear Times, and Crawdaddy, and has written for dozens of leading publications. He is the author of thirteen books. ArtsRock director and WQXR host Elliott Forrest will lead a post-screening discussion. Community Partners are ArtsRock and Big Red Books.

The film begins at 8pm and doors open at 7:30pm. Tickets are $13/General

Admission, $11/Students &  Seniors, and $9/Rivertown Film Members More information can be found at rivertownfilm.org.

Rivertown Film is a non-profit organization which was founded in 2001. Their mission is

devoted to celebrating, exploring and promoting the art of the motion picture through film

screenings and educational programs. The organization is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts and with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and our corporate sponsor is Elena Schloss, Happy Dwellings with Elena/Julia B. Fee, Sotheby’s International Realty.

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