The AAUW organization will host a spring literary luncheon on March 8th at 11:30 a.m. at the University Club of Winter Park. The event will feature guest speaker Dr. Richard Lapchick.
Lapchick is currently a professor at the University of Central Florida, as well as President and CEO of the National Consortium for Academics in Sport. He has helped to bring the NCAS office to UCF.
Lapchick is the author of 100 Trailblazers: Great Women Athletes Who Opened the Doors for Future Generations. A close friend to the late Nelson Mandela, Lapchick is an empowering speaker, sure to deliver a message you shouldn’t miss.
For more information, visit AAUW’s website.
Sleeping Moon Café will host an open mic night, lead by poet and storyteller, Tim Rumsey, on March 10th from 7:30-9:30 p.m. The theme for the night is “celebrating Vitamin K, the power of kindness in our lives.”
The open mic will feature readers sharing 6-8 minutes of material that highlights the value of kindness, or what happens when kindness is missing. The night will end with everyone sharing a meaningful quote about kindness.
The event is free and open to the public, however it is asked that all who attend purchase something from Sleeping Moon Café to thank them for hosting the event.
For more information, email timothyrumsey@yahoo.com.
Vanessa Blakeslee, author of Train Shots, will host a book release party at the Eden Bar in Maitland from 2-5 p.m. on March 15th.
The synopsis reads: a single mother rents a fundamentalist preacher’s carriage house. A pop star contemplates suicide in the hotel where Janis Joplin died. A philandering ex-pat doctor gets hooked on morphine while reeling from his wife’s death. And in the title story, a train engineer, after running over a young girl on his tracks, grapples with the pervasive question—what propels a life toward such a disastrous end?
For more information on Train Shots or the release event, visit Blakeslee’s website.
