Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with Poetry & TeaJoin us for a special evening featuring local AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) authors as they share their poetic works. 📚 Hear powerful, original poetry🍵 Enjoy an international tea tasting🎉 FREE and open to the public Presented in partnership with Get HAAPI.
Every year, people gather online to write for Lexington Poetry Month - as much as one poem per day per contributor, for all of June. From this work, an anthology is produced that includes a poem from each writer. This year, Workhorse Publishing is excited to announce our reading from 2024's anthology just in time […]
This year's keynote speaker will be Meg Shaffer, bestselling author of The Wishing Game and The Lost Story. "The Books in Progress Conference at the Carnegie Center ended up being a timely and integral nudge for my final revision of Back to Blue Holly. I experienced two baby epiphanies: I needed to revise again, this time […]
Join emcee LeTonia Jones for an evening of readings, books and dancing! Featuring Ondine Quinn, Renee Rigdon, Willie Carver, NitaJade and Savannah Sipple. Sponsored by 250Lex, JustFund, Kentucky Arts Council, and LexArts To volunteer at this event, please visit: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4EABA72BA6FDC61-56967656-queer
The first workshop in our "Kentucky Voices Rising: Songs of Social Change" series. This interactive community singalong explores how Kentuckians have used music to advocate for social change throughout our history. About This Workshop: Led by Carla Gover and Mitch Barrett of the beloved Kentucky group Zoe Speaks, this evening will feature original and traditional […]
Join Colombian visual artist Tatiana Aristizábal for a special presentation of her photobook El Caballero del Páramo. In her talk, she will discuss her artistic practice and the process of creating the book and how her themes of memory, territory, and ecology shaped the final work. El Caballero del Páramo reflects personal and collective narratives […]
Join us for the June Gallery Hop as we continue to celebrate Lexington’s 250th anniversary with the Carnegie Center’s exhibition, “The City is Alive.” You'll also have the opportunity to make a donation and take home a hand printed Cricket Press poster from the past 15+ years of the Kentucky Great Writers series. Open from May […]
Join us for the first edition of our La Voz poetry series. This dynamic series, centering Latino voices, provides a welcoming space for poets, storytellers, and wordsmiths to share their narratives, fostering a sense of community and celebration.
The Kentucky Black Writers Collaborative presents Say It Loud: Am I My Brother’s Keeper? This live event and discussion series is designed to showcase both prominent and emerging Black writers of the Commonwealth. With featured readers Frank X Walker, Dorian Hairston, JC McPherson and musical guest M. Lightsmith. The event is free and open to […]
This dynamic series, centering Latino voices, provides a welcoming space for poets, storytellers, and wordsmiths to share their narratives, fostering a sense of community and celebration. Our July feature is Paulette Waroe. Hosted by Susanna Spearman
July 18, 5-8 pm—Gallery Hop Tethered brings together six diverse artists exploring the intricate ties that can shape, ensnare, or hold us. Through painting, linocut print, resin collage, 3-D mobile, photography, and other mediums, the exhibition traces these delicate and sometimes tangled threads of connection: those we choose with love, those placed upon us by […]
Saturday, July 26, 9:30 – 11:30am Join us for our annual celebration of all things back to school in Gratz Park, behind the Carnegie Center! Children will receive a free backpack filled with school supplies and a new book to start the year! Games and activities will also take place during the celebration.
