Rick Norcross reflects on over 50 years of Stories & Songs” from his career in Western music. Rick draws from his biography Riding My Guitar - The Rick Norcross Story written with Stephen Russell Payne.

About Rick:

Rick Norcross, longtime leader of Vermont’s premier western swing band, Rick & The All-Star Ramblers, performs original songs about life in Vermont set smoothly into the western swing style of music. Many of his songs are lighthearted snapshots of a lost Vermont.

The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-dominated Palestinian street car-racing scene. Weaving together their lives on and off the track, SPEED SISTERS takes you on a surprising journey into the drive to go further and faster than anyone thought you could.

Read and discuss I Saw Ramallah by Palestinian writer Mourid Barhouti, winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, with fellow In Translation book club members and scholar Mousa Ishaq.

About the Book:

Ukulele Mele is a twice-monthly gathering of ukulele enthusiasts from around these parts. We get together and play songs using chord and lyric sheets obtained from the Internet. You don't need to be able to read music to participate (most of us can't!) but it helps to have a ukulele and perhaps a music stand. No prior uke experience is necessary! We make a fair number of mistakes, mostly involving flubbed lyrics, chord misfires, uncertain pitch, and sloppy endings. But we try not to let that deter us from having fun. Come join us!

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Writing & performance workshops for teens with Rajnii Eddins.  Slam poet, rapper & artistic director for Young Writers Project’s Voices for Change.

First & Third Saturday of every month.

Staff setup: 10 chairs.

Writing & performance workshops for teens with Rajnii Eddins.  Slam poet, rapper & artistic director for Young Writers Project’s Voices for Change.

First & Third Saturday of every month.

Staff setup: 10 chairs.

Weeks before the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, Noredin, a police officer in Cairo, investigates a pop singer's murder at the Nile Hilton Hotel. What initially appears to be a crime of passion turns into a complicated case involving the power elite of Egypt. When Noredin decides to break the rules to obtain justice, he begins to unravel not only the corrupt police system but also his own sense of self.