Event: Teen Fiction Reading from the Neutral Zone

Place: Sweetwaters Downtown, corner of W. Washington St. & Ashley

Date: Friday, December 10, 2010

Time: 6:30-8pm

Local teen authors from the Neutral Zone’s Short Story Workshop will read from their latest stories. The Neutral Zone Short Story Workshop is a collective of teen writers who meet weekly to share stories and improve their craft. For a glimpse at recent fiction experiments from the Short Story Workshop, see http://www.neutral-zone.org/programs/22/short-story-workshop.

For more information, contact Scott Beal at swbeal@gmail.com or visit www.neutral-zone.org.

Event: New Millennium Poetry at Sweetwaters

Place: Sweetwaters Downtown, corner of W. Washington St. & Ashley

Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Time: 7-8:30 pm

This month’s feature is Scott Beal and a group of his fifth- and sixth-grade student poets.

Scott is currently serving his third year as Dzanc Writer-in-Residence at Ann Arbor Open School. Scott Beal’s poems have appeared in journals including Indiana Review, cream city review and the Bellingham Review. His chapbook, Two Shakespearean Madwomen vs. the Detroit Red Wings, was published in 1999 by White Eagle Coffee Store Press. He earned his MFA in 1996 from the University of Michigan. He has been a core instructor for the Volume Summer Institute in Ann Arbor since 2002, and has led the Neutral Zone’s Short Story Workshop since 2007. He writes a column on parenting for AnnArbor.com.

Please call 994-6663 or email newmillenniumpoetry@gmail.com if you have any questions about this event!

Event: The Levins folk-pop musical performance

Place: Sweetwaters Downtown, corner of W. Washington St. & Ashley

Date: Thursday, November 4, 2010

Time: 8-9:30pm

We welcome back the Levins duo! First performing at Sweetwaters this past July, Ira & Julia Levin will join us again with their uplifting songs. Their concerts are filled with songs that accentuate the connection between communities, with a light-hearted depth that delights audiences and reaches beyond borders.

For more information on the Levins, watch their promo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRegIyVLNMo & visit their website: www.thelevinsmusic.com

Event: New Millennium Poetry at Sweetwaters

Place: Sweetwaters Downtown, corner of W. Washington St. & Ashley

Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Time: 7-8:30 pm

This month’s featured reader:

Perry Janes. Perry currently attends the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he is a double major in English and Film. He is the recipient of four Hopwood Awards, a Paul and Sonia Handelman Poetry Award, and a Roy and Helen Meador Writing Award. His work has recently appeared in Salt Hill and The Collagist.

This month’s New Millenium night will begin with open mic followed by Perry.  For more information contact Jeannie Ballew at 734-994-6663 or jmballew@provide.net.

Event: New Millennium Poetry at Sweetwaters

Place: Sweetwaters Downtown, corner of W. Washington St. & Ashley

Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Time: 7pm-8:30pm

This month’s featured reader:

Karrie L. Waarala tells stories. By starlight or the neon flash of road signs, in faded denim whispers or with tigers springing from her throat. They are distinctly hers, yet you’d swear they were your own. She and her poetry have zigzagged across Michigan for the past decade, representing various cities at several national and world poetry slam competitions. She regularly shares her insight and inspiration with students and educators at schools, libraries, colleges, and arts organizations all over her home state. Don’t let the weekday pinstripe suits fool you. Karrie is a woman of kaleidoscopes, circuses, and blues. And many, many well-worn boots.

Open mic will follow the featured reader.  For more information contact Jeanne Ballew at 734-994-6663 or jmballew@provide.net

Place: Sweetwaters Downtown, corner of W. Washington St. & Ashley

Date: Friday, September 3, 2010

Time: 7:30am – 9am

Meet Michigan Radio’s new All Things Considered host, Jennifer White, and their Morning Edition host, Christina Shockley over coffee at Sweetwaters downtown.  Stop by for a free cup of coffee and other Michigan Radio freebies and prizes.

For more information: http://www.michiganradio.org/coffee.html

Place: Sweetwaters Downtown, corner of W. Washington St. & Ashley

Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Time: 4pm-7pm

Join us in celebrating the work of Molly Ann Indura, Terry A. Odell, and Linda Kortesoja Klenczar – our featured artists during the month of September.  The reception is open to all!  Come enjoy a Sweetwaters drink and treat, view their work, and meet the artists.  Hats off to these three!

For more information about the artists:

Molly Ann Indura – www.bethelight.org

Terry A. Odell – www.terryodellphotography.com

Linda Kortesoja Klenczar – http://lindaklenczar.com/wordpress/bio/

Event: New Millennium Poetry at Sweetwaters

Place: Sweetwaters Downtown, corner of W. Washington St. & Ashley

Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Time: 7pm-8:30pm

Join us at the Downtown Sweetwaters for a night of all open mic poetry reading (no featured readers this month).  Open mic with featured readers will resume in September.  Starting in September, Sweetwaters will host New Millenium Poetry Reading on the third Tuesday of every month.  For more information contact Jeannie Ballew at 734-994-6663 or go to the Writers Reading website.

Place: Sweetwaters Downtown
Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Time: 8pm-9:30pm

Come enjoy this free concert by The Levins, an acoustic pop duo from California.  Their music is self-described as somewhere between “World Folk” and “Harmonious Pop.”  A great way to wind down – listening to great music with a freshly brewed Sweetwaters coffee or tea, and a delicious dessert.

For more information on The Levins, check out their website: http://www.thelevinsmusic.com/

Place: Sweetwaters Downtown
Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010
Time: 8pm-9pm

Join us as we welcome YouTube sensation Kayte Grace.  Kayte describes her new albums “Written On”, as an explosion of folk, blues, pop and rock, held together by warm-voiced, sing-along-able melodies and meaningful lyrics.  Whatever you want to call it, it’s good music.  And it’s feel good music.

Kayte is also an accomplished actress having landed roles on Law and Order, SVU, and Gossip Girl.

For more information on Kayte, check out her website: http://www.kaytegracemusic.com/