*Fine Arts will be from 1-3 pm ($10 Admission) Then a Public Open House will follow from 3-5 pm ($5 Admission for Ages 12+, Under 12 are Free) Also, if you pay the $10 admission for the Fine Arts portion, your open house is FREE.
About our Featured Poet, Roy Roberts
I have been paid for a variety of undertakings during my curious safaris into the brambles. My parents and I farmed. I drove truck and did odd jobs for a lumber yard – including cutting glass and grass. I have been a preacher, a pastor, an English teacher of high school students, an adjunct professor of philosophy and medical ethics. For the past nine years, my wife and I have worked our produce farm on the land where I grew up. The one constant braided through every endeavor has been my ache to write. It pushes, fusses with, and entices me. It fidgets with drumming fingers and tapping feet, fizzing incessantly: “Try to dig up and ship out what you have sifted during your mountain summits, your ragged tumbles down gravel slopes, your struggles to regain footing.”
All of this is the meat and bone of my poems – and essays. I invite you to join my pursuit. My first book, Wrestling Thunderbolts, is available on Amazon (search Wrestling Thunderbolts Roberts). My second book, Tree Line, should be ready for release in early 2025. - Roy Roberts
About our Featured Musician, Isidora Nojkovic
Praised for her "great control" (Chicago Classical Review), cellist Isidora Nojkovic is an active soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician. She has a passion for contemporary music and commissioning, having premiered over 50 works, and is one half of the contemporary violin/cello duo Orbit (“the new cross-continental duo to pay attention to.” – Classical Post). A founding member of Varo String Quartet, she also performs regularly with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Vancouver Opera, Vancouver Symphony, Illinois Symphony, Vancouver’s Turning Point Ensemble, and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra. She has completed two tours with Lincoln Center Stage, performing in twenty-two countries as part of a piano quintet.
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