Second Saturday Family Hour: “All About Me” Zine

Sordoni Art Gallery 141 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, United States

Join us as we create zines inspired by ourselves. A lot of Gregg Deal’s work explores his identity. This theme, along with the influence of punk culture, is the perfect mixture for a zine, a self-made magazine! Using collage and drawing materials, kids will create a zine while thinking about…

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Max Rosenn Lecture Series in Law and Humanities

Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts 239 S River St., Wilkes-Barre, PA, United States

How good do you really have to be, to be christened the reporter’s reporter… by other reporters? You have to be Nicholas Kristof – good. After working in France, Kristof began backpacking in Africa and Asia, writing articles to cover his expenses. He’s lived on four continents, reported on six,…

Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series – Helena D. Lewis

Kirby Hall Salon 202 S River Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, United States

Helena D. Lewis is an award-winning actress, poet and playwright whose one-person show, Call Me Crazy: Diary of a Mad Social Worker, earned multiple theater accolades, including the AUDELCO Best Solo-Performance Award. A licensed social worker with a doctorate from Rutgers, she is the substance abuse treatment director for a…

Art in Context Lecture Series: “Catlin Revisited: Interpreting the Artist and His Legacy from Indigenous America” by Julia Grummitt, PhD

Sordoni Art Gallery 141 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, United States

Artist George Catlin was born in Wilkes-Barre in 1796 and dedicated much of his career to depicting Native American life and culture, becoming the best-known “Indian painter” of the nineteenth-century United States. Catlin’s paintings aimed to preserve the traditions of Indigenous peoples facing displacement but also perpetuated racial stereotypes and…

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