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Professional Writers of Prescott members Margie Geiser and Pat Frayne signed their books at the Next Chapter Bookstore in Prescott Valley on August 21.

Pat has another singing at Hastings Book Store in Prescott on September 11 from 2 - 5pm.

Margie has another book signing at Hastings on Willow Creek, on Saturday, September 18 from 2 - 5pm.

Pat and Margie will also be sharing a table at the Sedona Book Festival on Saturday, October 2.

Margie is the author of Just Jump: The No-Fear Business Start-up Guide for Health and Fitness Professionals and Pat's book is Tales of Topaz the Conjure Cat, a two-part tale of a feline endowed with special powers.
 

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An invitation to read your poetry:

Poets’ Open Circle

Prescott Public Library

Emphasis on reading and listening to poems. Bring 12 copies of your poem(s) for constructive feedback. Meetings are held on the first Thursday of the month in Prescott Public Library. See the schedule below for room location. For more information contact facilitator Elle Hughes at 708-9692.

Thursday, September 2---Bump Room, Main Floor

Thursday, October 7---Bump Room, Main Floor

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Sandy Moss of KPPV/KQNA Radio  will interview Professional Writers of Prescott member Mike Rothmiller on her show at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, September 21. Mike is the author of My Hero: Military Kids Write About Their Moms and Dads (St. Martin's Press, May 2008), Old Dog's Guide for Pups: Advice and Rules for Human Training (St. Martin's Press, 2000), and L.A. Secret Police: Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network (Pocket Books, 1992).
 

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Two Prescott College alumni create a world music festival
honoring and celebrating multicultural music and education
by Aryn LaBrake '09
 
Endless Breath Entertainment LLC presents the First Annual 3DFest - Drum.Dance.Didge...Heal! at Watson Lake Park in Prescott, Ariz., to take place over three nights and two days, August 20 to 22, 2010. The festival will feature more than 20 hours of modern and traditional world music and dance performances and over 50 group drum, dance, didgeridoo, and sound healing workshops delivered by local, national, and international rhythm and dance artists. Participants can drum, dance, play and listen to music from African, Brazilian, Cuban, Middle-Eastern, Aboriginal, Indian, Asian, Native-American cultures and more. Classes will take place for all ages and skill levels, including an interactive youth area.
 
The festival will kick-off Friday with Reggae Night, featuring Native American Reggae Goddess and sound healer, Tchiya Amet and the Light House Band from Mendocino County, Calif. Other acts and performances will include Indian and Middle-Eastern style music, trance, and ambient didgeridoo, Japanese Taiko drumming, didgeridoo funk fusion, Reggae/Jungle dance music, and a lively fire performance. Friday night only tickets will be sold for $10 each, although all three nights are included in the $55 weekend pass.
 
Saturday and Sunday will offer a variety of musical and dance performances and workshops for beginners and advanced players and dancers. Workshops will take place at Watson Lake Park at four different themed camps within the park including Drum, Dance, Didgeridoo, and Sound Healing. Saturday and Sunday night performances will feature headlining Australian based band Ganga Giri on their international tour, Wunmi & the Slow Commotion (Nigeria/London), Dusu Mali Band (Mali/Portland, OR), and one-man didgeridoo orchestra Ondrej Smeyka (Czech Republic). Other performances include a group spiral dance, African drum and dance Ensembles, Brazilian song and dance, Capoeira, belly dancing, a community drum jam, and solo didgeridoo artists.
 
Additional attractions include the 3DFest bazaar open on Saturday and Sunday. Vendors and craftsmen will be selling world-class handmade or fair-traded instruments, clothing, and wares. Food vendors will serve thoughtfully prepared, healthy cuisine all day accompanied by open mic in the food court. A cold-soup, salad, and bread community lunch will be available for a small fee - please RSVP.
 
3DFest is a grassroots movement which aims to provide multicultural education and entertainment for a competitive price. Three night and two day passes sell for $55 or $35 for one day. There are special rates for youth, and children under the age of 10 are free. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own instruments to experience a rare opportunity to learn from and play with musical masters, although a limited amount of instruments may be provided.
 
"We are creating an environment where anyone can gather to celebrate multicultural music rhythm and dance" said 3DFest Co-Producer, Nikk Stevers. "We strongly encourage breaking the rules, and taboos of traditional music in a playful way, that still respects and acknowledges those who have preserved and carried these traditions for us. We want multicultural music and education to be accessible to everyone and we recognize 3DFest as an opportunity for passionate exchange of information and resources; a forum where attendees can learn, hands on, how traditional music is still meaningful and relevant and how it can deepen their modern life."
 
These two young social entrepreneurs have committed to changing how the entertainment industry does business by focusing on tackling major social issues and offering new, innovative ideas for wide-scale change in their communities. They are presenting a solution that everyone can get involved in and engaging widespread support for multicultural studies and music.
 
For a complete schedule and more details, visit www.az3dfest.com.
 
Endless Breath Entertainment LLC, founded in 2010, by Aryn LaBrake and Nikk Stevers, two Prescott College alumni, are focused on continuing education about the indigenous cultures of our world, and honoring their existence and preservation as well as encouraging their integration into modern music culture. As social entrepreneurs, they strive to generate social change, cooperation, communication, and spiritual wealth in our communities.
 

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SINAGUA INDIAN RESEARCHER TO SPEAK AT SEDONA LIBRARY

Former Village of Oak Creek resident, R.G. Wyckoff and artist wife, Kay,
will return to Sedona for a visit in early September, bringing R.G.'s latest
book, Tuwalanki, Fortress Village of The Sinagua. Wyckoff will appear at the
Sedona Public Library, 3250 White Bear Road, West Sedona, on Wednesday,
September 1 at 3 p.m. to display his book and talk about is genesis.

The book takes the reader on an engaging and rewarding prowl through the
Sedona area ruins left by the Sinagua (Native Americans) who mysteriously
disappeared 700 to 1000 years ago. The three compatible protagonists are
archeologists and anthropologist friends who wander the ruins and bring the
reader greater understanding of the Sinagua structures, horticultural skills
and their mysterious disappearance.

Wyckoff came to Sun City West, Arizona in 1999 to serve as
General Manager of a retirement complex. While at Sun City West, he and
Kay built their home in Village of Oak Creek and retired here in July 2002.
R.G. founded The Villager, the monthly publication still published by Verde
Valley Newspapers, Inc. The Wyckoffs moved to Texas in 2006.

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Fall Workshop at Yavapai College

Wouldn’t it just be wonderful if, as in Michelangelo’s painting, the God-like author simply reached out to the page (with her pen) and Presto! her characters came fully alive. If only! But, alas, it doesn’t happen that way – at least for most of us. The magic of “living”characters comes not only from the work of employing the standard strategies: portraying character with action, dialogue, internal thought, etc., but also from mining imagination. Besides and beyond simply using these usual strategies, it is imaginative knowing that brings about the magic, a digging down to where that character resides inside. Without that depth of knowing, all the strategies in the world won’t make a character breathe.

In this short workshop, we will look at the issue from both angles, with exercises that plumb imaginative knowing and discover appropriate strategies to convey that knowing and make a character breathe. The workshop is for all working writers except those who create characters magically, with one simple touch of the pen.

Instructor: Susan Lang
CRW249: Topics in CRW: Character C.P.R.
Breathing Life into Your Character
ONLY TWO WEEKENDS LONG!
Hybrid course. Online access required
Meets Sept 11th & 12th: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
and Sept. 25 & 26th: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Register for CRW249 CRN#33591
To register, please visit: http://www.YC.EDU

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

Susan Lang is the author of Small Rocks Rising, Juniper Blue, and Moon Lily, and winner of the 2003 Willa Award, as well as a 2007 Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts for The Sawtooth Complex, a novel now with University of Nevada Press. Susan is also Faculty Emeritus, Founding Director of the Southwest Writers Series and the Hassayampa Institute for Creative Writing.

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