Family Fun & Learning Night: Superhero Edition!
Family Fun & Learning Night: Superhero Edition. Free books. Free food. Free activities. It's going to be loads of fun! Join us! Register for this free event today!
Family Fun & Learning Night: Superhero Edition. Free books. Free food. Free activities. It's going to be loads of fun! Join us! Register for this free event today!
We’re excited to host the reception for Vibrantly Grey project, an art exhibit curated by On The Move Art Studio! Through this project, women ages 55 and up explored powerful themes like wisdom, identity, and memory by creating framed quotes, expressive self portraits, and personal memory paintings. These art experiences created space to learn new […]
Launch reception for Perfect Black: Poetry for the People, a project of the Kentucky Black Writers Collaborative that explores what it means to be Black in all of its richness and complexity. Poems by Black writers will be displayed throughout Lexington at local businesses and organizations.
KEYNOTE: Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr. PRESENTERS: Olivia Cole • Jay McCoy • Claudia Love Mair • Samar Jade • Sarah Combs • Katerina Stoykova WITH PANELS PRESENTED BY: Kentucky Black Writers Collaborative • Blah, Blah, Blah Writing Group • Bluegrass Writers Coalition WITH INFORMATION AND EVENTS: Accents Publishing • Lexington Writers Room For more information, including the full schedule for each day: Click Here
Join us for an evening of readings, book giveaways, and dancing! Featuring: Hannah Drake, Jay McCoy, Misty Skaggs, Luis Andrade and Samar Jade
Daniel Boone during the American Revolution With award winning author, photographer, guest columnist, speaker and storyteller Randell Jones. Come hear the exciting life episodes of America's pioneer hero Daniel Boone during the tumultuous, eventful years of our founding era. He takes the initial steps to begin America's first westward movement to create Kentucky and then […]
Join artfarm and the Kentucky Black Writers Collaborative for What Does Freedom Mean? An Open Mic & Expressive Arts Experience Friday, June 19th, Juneteenth, 6:30-8pm At artfarm, 1123 Winchester Road Overflow parking at Eastland Shopping Center
Allegra Solomon is a fiction writer from Columbus, Ohio. She got her MFA from the University of Kentucky and her B.A. in Creative Writing from Ohio University. Her debut short story collection won the Kimbilio National Fiction prize, is currently longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and won a gold medal at the North […]
Join us for the July installment of our Burn The Mic poetry open mic series, with featured poet Eugenia Johnson-Smith! Hosted by Claudia Love Mair 6 PM signups 6:30-7:30 Mic Wednesday July 22
Families with children in grades K-12 are invited to attend this FREE event. Enjoy food, activities for kids, books and children receive a backpack filled with school supplies! August 8th from 9:30AM to 11:30AM No registration required. Made possible by: the LG&E and KU Foundation, Whitaker Bank, Health First Bluegrass and Advantage Air
Join us for the August installment of our Burn The Mic poetry open mic series Hosted by Claudia Love Mair 6 PM signups 6:30-7:30 Open Mic Wednesday August 26
Book Launch event for Cases of Resilience by Linda Freudenberger Linda Freudenberger is a retired occupational therapist residing in Lexington, Kentucky. She is enrolled in the Bluegrass Writers Studio MFA program in Creative Writing at Eastern Kentucky University, where she received the 2026 Emerging Writer Award for Poetry. Her first chapbook, The Other Side of […]