Marquette, MI – Celebrate the cosmos with Celestial Musings! This event is for all ages with music, poetry, door prizes and refreshments and takes place on Monday, August 19th from 6:00-8:30 pm in the Peter White Library’s Community Room.
Bring a donation for the library or a non-perishable item for the food bank to receive a ticket for a door prize. Count von Count will lead a read-along of Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. After the reading, there will be door prizes for children.
At 6:30 pm, local musician and piano teacher Bob Buchkoe will play music on the Library’s grand piano as well as his electronic keyboard. Pieces will include Debussy’s “Clair de Lune”, “Crumb’s Spiral Galaxy”, and “Vangelis’ theme from Cosmos”. At 7:00 pm, poets Martin Achat (Poet Laureate of the U.P.), Gail Mahan, Lynn Domina, and Beverly Matherne will share their celestial inspired work, followed by a musical performance by Terri Bocklund. Jane Piirto, Richard Rastall, and John Taylor will provide more poetry.
Free admission. Sponsored by the Carroll Paul Memorial Trust Fund of the Peter White Public Library and the Marquette Poets Circle. For more information, visit www.pwpl.info or call 226-4318. See the attached program for details.
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