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Guest Blog: Story and Craft + Baked Goods this Friday Thursday, December 03, 2009
Rob Yates is senior at Bryan College and organizer for Story and Craft, a monthly lecture series hosted at CreateHere and organized by Bryan. Here, he tells us about this Friday’s event.
Once a month a fellow student and I drop our schoolbooks and bake. This isn’t for a class or because we’re hungry. We bake for Story and Craft.
This year Chris Clark of Bryan College’s film department launched a new program for collegiate filmmakers and other artists in the Chattanooga area. The mission of the program is to provide a monthly opportunity for younger artists to hear from and converse with professional artist in fields such as music, graphic design, writing, and film.
Each month we meet at Create Here in downtown Chattanooga—you may have filled out their survey and received a bright yellow T-shirt this fall. Using their main space as an always-changing art gallery, CreateHere captures a core tenant of art—variety and unrest. By hosting a number of artists to talk about their work, Story and Craft wants to encourage many different expressions of art with an overall appreciation for the effort, expertise, and talent it takes to create such works.
If you’re interested in experiencing Story and Craft, come to Create Here at 7:30pm this Friday. This month’s featured guest is screenwriter, short story writer, and novelist Pinckney Benedict. You may have encountered some of his short stories in publications such as Esquire, Zoetrope: All-Story, StoryQuarterly, or the Ontario Review. Mr. Benedict will lead our discussion via the wondrous Skype.
Come and enjoy some coffee, freshly baked scones, and night of art this Friday at Create Here! Hope to see you there.
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