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A Reading of Two Short Plays by Bette and Ric Siler

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A Fashionable Funeral by Bette Siler

JANET and BRENDA are the Mutt and Jeff of the over-60 set. While JANET prides herself on being a sophisticate, BRENDA is an innocent who believes that all things come to she who waits; that there is redemption, and beyond that, a heavenly hereafter. They enter a funeral home in Woodside, Queens, New York to view the body of their friend, Nancy. They are not entirely pleased with the mortician’s best intentions. A FASHIONABLE FUNERAL is a comedy that explores aging, death and how to avoid a bad hair day in your casket.

Writer’s Block by Ric Siler

Chief and Boggs are a couple of small-time criminals. When Boggs steals a leather bag with a play and a laptop in it, Chief is intrigued. When the playwright shows up at their door, it brings up questions that may be better left unanswered.

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Open Mic With Featured Poet Nicole Cooley

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Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her most recent book is the collection of poetry Mother Water Ash (Louisiana University Press, July 2024) as well as the two poetry collections, Girl after Girl after Girl (Louisiana State University Press, 2017) and Of Marriage (Alice James Books, 2018).  She has published four other collections of poems, Breach, Milk Dress, The Afflicted Girls and Resurrection, as well as a novel, Judy Garland, Ginger Love, two chapbooks, Frozen Charlottes, A Sequence, and Vanishing Point, and a collaborative artists’ book (with book artist Maureen Cummins), Salem Lessons.  Her awards include The Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, a Discovery/The Nation Award, an NEA, a Creative Artists fellowship from The American Antiquarian Society, and the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America. Currently, she is a professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation and the English Department at Queens College-City University of New York.

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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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Figure Drawing

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Starting January 9, 2024, the Nyack Art Collective will sponsor weekly Figure Drawing on Tuesdays, 6:15-9:15 pm at X House Nyack, 48 S. Franklin St., Nyack, @xhousenyack https://www.instagram.com/xhousenyack/
These sessions are open to the public. Artists must provide their own materials and may bring an easel if desired. Session is $15 per person, $13 for Nyack Art Collective members.

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