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Our editor, Zach Everson, reviews Louisville.com's events calendar and selects the weekend's choicest happenings to include in this newsletter. The Weekender goes out on Wednesday, because we know your weekend starts on Thursday night.
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I have been wearing my manicure down to bring all of you our fashion "finds" from all the Derby events. As I have no shortage for words or an opinion on fashion and style, I will be uploading more blogs throughout tomorrow. Including my red carpet disasters and my very up close and personal "experience" with the diva (and not in a good way) herself...My sweetheart Star Jones!
Fashionably Yours'
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This SECOND SATURDAY is all about HERstory! We’ll celebrate both the traditional and not so traditional roles of women & girls throughout history with women-centered activities and demonstrations will be going on throughout the museum. Free admission for our Kids Club members.
How Kentuckians fared in the late Civil War and afterward will be the focus of a March 8-9 conference at the University of Louisville on “Victory Achieved — Freedom Denied: From Civil War to Reconstruction in Kentucky.”
Historians and other scholars will discuss Kentucky’s post-war Confederate identity; the lives of women, African Americans and soldiers during the war and Reconstruction; and lawlessness of wartime and post-war Kentucky. The keynote speaker, Columbia University history professor Barbara Fields, will examine issues Kentucky and other border states faced. Other topics will range from Kentucky horse-racing to Lincoln to Confederate memorials.
The public symposium is sponsored by UofL’s College of Arts and Sciences and Center for Arts and Culture Partnerships, along with the Frazier History Museum through support from the Institute of Museum & Library Services. The conference includes the chance to visit several related local history exhibits.
Meet city folks with farm lives on the side, including Tommee Clark, a microbiologist by day, a Fern Creek farmer by night; Debbie Galloway, a long-time Louisville resident who recently moved to a Shelby County farm and blogs about country life; and urban vegetable gardener extraordinaire Tomese Buthod. Wayne Long, UK agricultural extension agent, will share resources for the growing numbers of people interested in farming, from vegetables to beekeeping and raising chickens.
Over 40 Shows a Year....
National Exhibitors Presenting a Wide Variety of:
Beads, Beading Craft Supplies, Jewelry Making Supplies, Huge Variety of Gemstones, Silver & Copper and Bronze Craft Supplies, Lampwork Artists, Wholesaler and Retailers, Classes for Making Jewelry, Beading, Citrin, Amber, Jade, Jasper, Finished Jewelry, Learn to Make Jewelry and Start a Business on the side, Make Unique Jewelry, Take Classes, Meet National Suppliers. Open to the Public. Visit our website www.AmericanBeadShows.com for more info.
Carlos Robson of Charlotte, North Carolina's Concrete Generation never thought he would be a writer, much less a poet. But as long as he can remember, he's always wanted to be a storyteller. And since touching his first spoken word stage in late 2005, he has done exactly that. Carlos has competed in local, regional, and international poetry slams. He represented Charlotte in the Individual World Poetry Slam in 2006 and 2007. Currently one-half of the Southern Comfort Tour, he is taking his experiences to the nation with his dynamic ability to blend soul shaking stories of love, loss, and redemption with his stylistic re-interpretations of spiritual hymns and children's songs.
His real life stories of both family and fate have been sending shockwaves through audiences from New York City, to Miami, and from Vancouver, Canada to Austin, Texas. Recently featured on Urbana's Urbanabots Annual Compilation alongside other of the world's best, Robson is quickly making a name for himself with his unique new art project “The Indoctrination Experiment."
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