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Today is Monday, May 10, and here are five things to know in Montgomery County.
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Council Budget Work: The Council meets today at 9:30 p.m. for a work session on the operating budget. Watch the session live here.
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Monday, May 10 at noon: Reuben Jackson moderates a discussion between three poets about voice and poetic form Sandra Beasley, “Made to Explode”; Kim Addonizio, “Now We’re Getting Somewhere”; and Katherine Young, “Woman Drinking Absinthe.”
Monday, May 10 at 7 p.m.: Bethanne Patrick moderates a discussion between three fiction authors Te-Ping Chen, author of “Land of Big Numbers”; Dantiel Moniz, author of “Milk Blood Heat”; and Elizabeth McCracken, author of “The Souvenir Museum.”
Guide to the 2021 Virtual Gaithersburg Book Festival
Another year, another Gaithersburg Book Festival (GBF). But for the second year in a row, the festival will operate virtually.
Gaithersburg Mayor Jud Ashman, the founder of the popular event, spoke to MyMCM about what to expect at this year’s Virtual Gaithersburg Book Festival:
The Virtual Gaithersburg Book Festival begins Saturday, May 1 and there will be activities for four consecutive weeks. All author discussions (listed below) will premiere on the GBF’s YouTube page. Most programs are prerecorded, but authors will participate in the YouTube Premiere chat discussions.
The first two weeks of programming will be geared toward adults and the final two weeks of programming are aimed at children and young adults.
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is presenting a multimedia program of classical music, jazz, poetry and visual art called âMusic for Days Like This,â featuring artists representing the Black, Indigenous and people of color communities, composers, and creators from across the state, playing original compositions as well as time-honored favorites written by celebrated Black composers including Dorothy Rudd Moore, Florence Price, and Scott Joplin.
Reuben Jackson, known for presenting VPRâs Friday Night Jazz and curating the Smithsonian Institutionâs Duke Ellington collection, will be presiding over a star-studded cast of characters, including former United States Poet Laureate Rita Dove, prominent composer, musician, and University of Vermont professor Ray Vega, as well as work by Middlebury professor and composer Matthew Evan Taylor and many more contemporary composers. Paintings by Vermont-based visual artists Crystal Stokes, Julio Desmont and Alan Blackwell will b
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