 Thursdays, May 8, 15, 22, 29, 6:00 - 7:00 PM
The Wright Way To Success
Workshop leader: Kevin Wright
Becoming a better you by learning the secrets of success!
Call
the Inkwell at 508-540-0039 or reserve a space in person at the
bookstore. Kevin Wright has conducted motivational seminars for the
sales team at the Cape Cod Times. Through his powerful 12 week course,
you will learn to focus your innate talents and maximize your
potential. Attend all 12 classes or pick and choose what appeals most
to you. New attendees are welcome throughout the series of workshops.
A complete syllabus is available at the bookstore. Below is a list of the first 6 workshops.
WEEK 1: 100% ACCOUNTABILITY - Completed
WEEK 2: MIND, BODY, HEART & SPIRIT - Completed
WEEK 3: POWER & FOCUS - May 8th
WEEK 4: BELIEVE & ACHIEVE -May 15th
WEEK 5: KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE - May 22nd
WEEK 6: TAKING ACTION - May 29th
$10 per class, or $100 if you sign up for all 12 classes.
 Tuesdays, May 6, 13, 20, 27, 6:00 PM
Knitting Circle
Beginners
and more advanced knitters are all welcome at this friendly and
informal gathering of knitters. Start making progress on your ongoing
projects! Established by the owners of Sage Fine Gifts & Yarn. Encouragement, ideas, tips, and conversation!
Tuesdays, May 6, 13, 20, 27, 7:00 PM
Backgammon Club
Come meet & greet other backgammon players at this informal club. Backgammon
is fast, deep, challenging, and great fun. Don't know how to play? Want
to learn? Now's the time. All levels of experience welcome.
Complimentary coffee is served.
Wednesdays, May 7, 21, 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Calligraphy Club
This
is a combination workshop and club. This will not be a formal class, as
we consider ourselves merely enthusiasts! All levels of calligraphers
are welcome. Bring your own projects or join our exploration of
different fonts. The club meets every other Wednesday. Calligraphy is a
relaxing art and a skill anyone can learn. Even if you've never held a
calligraphy pen, you will be surprised at how quickly you are able to
learn the craft.
 Wednesday, May 7, 7:00 PM - SOLD OUT!
Author Event
Merlot & Murder at the Mansion
The Inkwell Bookstore Literary Series
Presents an Evening at Historic Highfield Hall with Bestselling Authors
Katherine Hall Page, Peter Abrahams, Cynthia Riggs, and William Dougherty
Tickets
for the off-site Inkwell Bookstore event are $5. Tickets may be
purchased at the Inkwell Bookstore, or over the phone at 508-540-0039.
Doors open at Highfield Hall at 7:00 PM. Pianist Gary Girouard will
perform original compositions on the Hall's grand piano. Socialize
while nibbling on
hors d’oeuvres and participate in a wine tasting. Panel discussion
begins at 7:30 PM, followed by a Q&A. The Edgar award-winning
authors will talk about writing and publishing mysteries. Featuring: The Body in the Gallery by Katherine Hall Page, Delusion by Peter Abrahams, Double Murder on Martha's Vineyard by Cynthia Riggs, and Murder of an Irish Song by William Dougherty. Get $5 off your entire purchase of the event books at the time of your ticket purchase!
Saturday, May 10, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Reiki Circle
Free and open to all. The
circle meets the second Saturday each month. Perhaps the gentlest
alternative healing therapy in the world, Reiki has gone mainstream. A
form of energy healing developed in early twentieth-century Japan,
Reiki is rapidly breaking into conventional medicine because of its
ease of use, its immediate benefits, and, perhaps most important, the
element of self-care inherent in the practice.
Reiki is a gentle way to relieve stress and improve health.
Inspirational music and meditation enrich the meetings. Suggested
reading for the Circle: Empowerment Through Reiki by Paula Horan.
The
founder and leader of the Reiki Circle is Madeleine I. Felker, a
certified Reiki II practitioner. She has studied more than 30 years of
Comparative Religion, Metaphysics, Mysticism, and Crystal Energy.
Saturdays, May 10, 24, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Independent Writers' Club
This
lively and informal group is for published authors and future writers
who wish to exchange experience, read their work, or just meet with
people of the same interest. You are encouraged to bring
samples of your work to read aloud at the meeting. Occasionally, we
will invite guest speakers to discuss the fields of writing and
publishing. Suggested text: The Right to Write by Julia Cameron.
 May
Art Scene at the Inkwell
Paintings by Gayle Visentine Reynolds
Gayle
paints in her art studios both in Lexington and in Falmouth. Making art
has become her daily passion. She studied at the MFA and the DeCordova
Museum Schools. Color and texture are important elements in design so
exploring mood and emotional nuance using color in her art came
naturally. Working on canvas, she explores dynamic physical gestures
and controlled accidents to create larger, bold abstract paintings in a
multimedia art form.
Her paintings were juried into a special
Emerging Artists Exhibit at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. Her work has
also been exhibited at the DeCordova Museum, the Falmouth Artists
Guild, and the Cambridge Art Association where she is a member. She is
also a member of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
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 Wednesday, May 14, 7:02 PM
Readers in Red
The Abstinence Teacher
By Tom Perrotta
Adhering
to the adage that 'laughter is the best medicine', this new club will
choose books that make you think and laugh. Wear red to the meeting! Perrotta's topical novel illuminates the powerful emotions that run
beneath the placid surface of modern family life, and explores the
complicated spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people.
Thursday, May 15, 7:00 PM
Poetry Reading
Three Guyer Barn Poets
Robert Gardiner is a retired minister. He has one book, and several articles which have won national prizes. Robert has just published his first volume of comic verse, Funny Stuff: A Cheerful Poetic Romp Through the Puddles & Muddles of This Goofy Planet.
Roger Kessel is a retired attorney and business executive. Active in
cultural arts communities on the Cape. Member of the Board of Directors
Cape Cod Writers’ Center. His poetry has appeared in the Aurorean and Blueline.
Robin Smith-Johnson is on the staff of the Cape Cod Times and is an Adjunct Professor of English at Cape Cod Community College. Published in literary journals; recently won third
prize in Cape Women Writing Contest. Member of Falmouth Poets.
 Saturday, May 17, 2:00 PM
Author Event
Elise Forbes Tripp
Surviving Iraq: Soldier's Stories
Please join us in welcoming Elise Tripp who will give a talk about her new book, Surviving Iraq.
Also featured will be additional speakers who have served in Iraq. The
Iraq war is being fought by an all-volunteer army recruited from
working-class America, and it is these men and women who are the stars
of Tripp's powerfully moving book. Surviving Iraq: Soldiers' Stories is
the result of a close collaboration between the author and thirty
veterans who tell their stories of the invasion, occupation, and
ongoing insurgency in Iraq. Almost half a million soldiers have served in the four years
of this war, but each story is a unique version of what it is like to
serve in war, and to survive it. Such narratives should be at the
center of the national dialogue on the war.
Ken Burns wrote, “This fascinating collection of testimonies underscores the universality of all war...what emerges is a shocking, moving, and utterly heroic portrait of young men and women in impossible situations.”
Elise Forbes Tripp is a graduate of Harvard, and has a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. A former international relations counselor for UN affairs at the World Bank, she is an adjunct professor of American history at Holyoke Community College in Massachusetts. Tripp and guest veterans will share stories from Surviving Iraq. Complimentary refreshments will be served.
Monday, May 19, 7:00 PM
SF Reading Group
Earth
By David Brin
The
SF Reading Group has been meeting for 10 years, and reads a wide
selection of new and classic science fiction. We welcome new members. By the
award-winning, bestselling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift
War, Earth is an epic novel set fifty years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned,
scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world. "One hell of a
novel . . . has what sf readers want these days; intelligence,
action, and an epic scale." - Asimov's Magazine
Monday, May 19, 7:00 PM
Poetry Reading
Jarita Davis
January O’Neil
Come for a delightful evening of poetry with two startling talents, Jarita Davis and January O’Neil.
Jarita Davis is a poet in Woods Hole, MA, who has been awarded both a Woodrow Wilson Research Grant and a N. P. B. Kappa Award. She has received fellowships
from the Mellon Mayes program, Cave Canem, and Hedgebrook. Her work has
appeared in the Southwestern Review, Historic Nantucket, Cave Canem Anthologies, Crab Orchard Review, and Plainsongs. Learn more at www.jaritadavis.com.
January Gill O’Neil's work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Literary Mama, Field, Callaloo, Seattle Review, Stuff Magazine, and Cave Canem anthologies II and IV; her first poetry collection, titled Underlife,
will be published by CavanKerry Press in October 2009. She is a senior
writer and editor at Babson College, runs a popular blog called Poet
Mom (www.poetmom.blogspot.com), and lives with her husband and two
children in Beverly, MA.
These two poets will read their work and be available for discussion afterwards. Complimentary refreshments will be served.
Saturday, May 24, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Creative Visualization with Crystals for Artists and Writers
Free
and open to all, however space is limited. Please reserve your place by
calling 508-540-0039. This group meets the fourth Saturday each month.
Learn
how to use mental imagery and affirmations to produce positive changes
in your life. Please bring a pad of paper, pen, and crystal to each
meeting. We'll practice meditations and exercises that are aimed at
helping to channel energies in positive directions, strengthen
self-esteem, improve overall health, and experience deep relaxation.
Wednesday, May 28, 12:30 PM
Classics Book Club
A Bend in the River
By V.S. Naipaul
Everyone is welcome at our most popular book club. Complimentary coffee is always served. In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Time) V.S. Naipaul takes
us deeply into the life of one man — an Indian who, uprooted by the
bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated
town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African
nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet
of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring
modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
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PERFORMERS
We are on the lookout for talent! We invite musicians to come and play in our store for an hour or two. If you play an instrument, and are looking for a different venue, send us an email. If you have a CD, we would be happy to sell it during your performance. We are especially interested in having Friday or Saturday night events.
CALLING ALL POETS
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