THE NEA BIG READ AMHERST COUNTY VIRGINIA:
​Discussion of Works by Joy Harjo and Karenne Wood
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(All events are open to the public free of charge.)

Book discussion about
An American Sunrise
by Joy Harjo

11 am Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Amherst County Public Library,
Amherst Branch, 382 S. Main St.,
Amherst VA 24521

​Discussion led by Jacob Etter, Amherst County Public Library’s new director.

For information call (434) 946-9488.

Copies of
An American Sunrise
​are in circulation at both branches of the Amherst County Public Library.

Discussion of works
by Native American
poets Joy Harjo and
Karenne Wood

11 am Friday, March 18, 2022
Amherst County Public Library,
Madison Heights Branch,
200 River James Plaza,
​Madison Heights, VA 24572

Discussion led by scholar Marcia Robertson, PhD, and by Madison Heights Branch Librarian Judy Maxham.

For information call (434) 846-8171
​
Open to all. Home schooled and adult education program students are especially invited to attend this discussion event. Traveling exhibits about Joy Harjo and Monacan poet Karenne Wood will be on display at the Library.

Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR) arts and Humanities Projects in 2021-2022 are funded as follows::
 
AGAR’s concerts are made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts,
and The Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, with marketing assistance from SHARE Greater Lynchburg.
This project is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. AGAR’s arts programs for individuals receiving meals delivered at home are also funded in part by CENTRA and Amherst Woman’s Club.
 
The Digital Residency by Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc., organized in partnership with Cecilia Smith and
Lafayette Harris, Jr., has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America through its Residency Endowment Fund. These concerts are delivered online as a “thank you” during the COVID-19 times to medical and non-medical staff and to patients at Centra Health and CVACL, Lynchburg; Virginia Commonwealth University Health in Richmond, Tappahannock, and South Hill; and to Gifts of Art, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
 
The NEA BIG READ is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
 
AGAR’s Virginia History Programs are supported in part by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
and Virginia Humanities (VH).

Funding for a VH/SHARP grant to AGAR has been provided by Virginia Humanities and the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and the NEH Sustaining the Humanities
​through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) initiative.

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