THE BIG READ:
Emily Dickinson in Amherst, VA

Our final "THE BIG READ: Emily Dickinson in Amherst Virginia" public event for this year will be:

Reading, Discussing and Acting Poems of Emily Dickinson, a Children's Summer Reading Program Activity

This event will be a participatory workshop of the Amherst County Public Library (ACPL) Children's Summer Reading program, led by Maxine Gasser, Youth Services Director of the ACPL and Denise Cooke, creative drama and movement specialist. Participating children will read poems of Emily Dickinson to themselves and out loud, will discuss poems and will act them out using movement and dance. Children will receive copies of poems and BIG READ Reader's Guides to take home. 
Event Location: Amherst County Public Library / Madison Heights Branch, 200 River James Shopping Center, Madison Heights, VA 24572  


Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2014    
Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm

Final Amherst Music Series Event

Barroco de Oro: Latin American and 
Mediterranean Quartets
St. Mark's Episcopal Church Clifford
670 Patrick Henry Highway
Sunday, April 27, 2014 at 4:00 pm

John Moran is the Music Director and baroque cellist and Risa Browder the concert mistress and baroque violinist for Modern Musick.

Washington's Modern Musick returns to Amherst to illustrate how music composed in Latin America influenced composers of the period in Southern Europe: The concert features John Moran, (baroque cello),  Risa Browder (concertmistress, baroque violin);  Leslie Nero (baroque violin) and Anthony Harvey (theorbo, baroque guitar).  

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