A&E briefs — Jan. 26, 2022

January 26, 2022 1:30 am
Sequim Gazette file photo by Emily Matthiessen Olympic Theatre Arts hosts an open house on Jan. 29 — an opportunity to find out more about the organization and meet David Herbelin, OTA’s new executive manager.
Sequim Gazette file photo by Emily Matthiessen Olympic Theatre Arts hosts an open house on Jan. 29 — an opportunity to find out more about the organization and meet David Herbelin, OTA’s new executive manager.

Poets highlight PC’s next Studium Generale

Join poets Carolyne Wright and Gary Copeland Lilley for a reading at Peninsula College’s next Studium Generale event, set for 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 27. Join the Zoom meeting for free at pencol-edu.zoom.us/j/82278252780 (meeting ID 822 7825 2780).

Wright’s new book is “Masquerade,” a memoir in poetry. The title poem in her previous book, “This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems,” won a Pushcart Prize and also appeared in The Best American Poetry 2009. A contributing editor for the Pushcart Prizes, Wright teaches for Seattle’s Richard Hugo House and for literary conferences and festivals nationwide.

Lilley was recently named Artistic Curator for The Centrum Writers Conference. He is the author of eight books of poetry, the most recent being “The Bushman’s Medicine Show” and a chapbook, “The Hog Killing.” He has received the DC Commission on the Arts Fellowship for Poetry and is published in numerous anthologies and journals.

Port Book and News in Port Angeles has copies of “The Bushman’s Medicine Show, “Masquerade” and “This Dream the World.”

The event was created in partnership with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Open house set at OTA on Saturday

Olympic Theatre Arts hosts an open house from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, at 414 N. Sequim Ave.

Learn about opportunities to get involved. See what productions OTA has coming up and explore parts of the theatre you may have never seen before.

The event will include tours, music, presentations and opportunities to meet OTA’s staff and Board of Directors as well as an introduction to new OTA executive director David Herbelin.

For more information, call 360-683-7326.

Poet and teaching artist Gary Copeland Lilley, a North Carolina native who has lived in Port Townsend for 13 years, is the new artistic curator of Centrum’s Port Townsend Writers Conference. He and Carolyne Wright will be featured at Peninsula College’s Studium Generale on Jan. 27. File photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz/Olympic Peninsula News Group

Poet and teaching artist Gary Copeland Lilley, a North Carolina native who has lived in Port Townsend for 13 years, is the new artistic curator of Centrum’s Port Townsend Writers Conference. He and Carolyne Wright will be featured at Peninsula College’s Studium Generale on Jan. 27. File photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz/Olympic Peninsula News Group