WKU Libraries welcomed Spoken Word, a Rap group from Bowling Green, Kentucky, to the Java City-Helm Library on campus March 26, 2008.
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Local Rap Group at Java City in Helm Library
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ERC Invites You to Its Book Exhibit
The WKU community is invited to the book exhibit “Children Between Worlds: Intercultural Relations in Books for Children & Young Adults.” in Educational Resources Center (ERC), 366 Tate Page Hall.
Events are scheduled for Wednesdays 3:30 to 4:00 p.m. on the following days:
- March 19: Readings from selected titles
- March 26: Dr. Tadayuki Suzuki, multicultural children’s literature from Japan
- April 2: Dr. Lucy Maples, international Cinderella tales
- April 9: Laura Crafton & Stephanie Tillery: Join us in making an international craft!
- April 16: Readers’ Theater featuring WKU Theater majors
Please bring your students to view this unique exhibit representing many cultures around the world!
You can also visit the exhibit at the Southern Kentucky Book Fest Saturday, April 19. Then the exhibit will move to the new Bob Kirby branch of the Bowling Green Public Library until mid-May.
For more information, contact Roxanne Spencer or Dr. Jennifer Montgomery.
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Band Celebrated St. Patrick’s Day at Java City
On March 17, 2008 at Java City in Helm Library, Shadowdancer entertained the faculty and students with songs from their latest CD “Tradition with a Twist.” The band consists one of our own, Jack Montgomery and WKU faculty members.
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Author Marcia Thornton Jones Visited Bowling Green Schools
Author Marcia Thornton Jones visited schools in Bowling Green March 6 and 7. Her Champ is selected for this year’s “On the Same Page.” Champ is a book about a boy and a dog who set out to prove to the boy’s father and the whole town that there is more than one way to be a winner. In the story, Riley is awful at sports and wants to quit. Champ is the three-legged dog that learns to perform as a show dog. Both learn that giving up is not an option.
Marcia Thornton Jones is the author of more than 120 books including the well-known Bailey School Kids series. She is a former elementary school teacher and lives in Lexington, Kentucky with her husband and two cats.
On the Same Page is the community wide reading project for younger children. It’s a partnership project of WKU Libraries, Bowling Green Public Library, and Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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US Bank “Celebration of the Arts” Exhibition
Five hundred art lovers turned out on Saturday, March 1 for the opening of the 2008 US Bank “Celebration of the Arts†Open Art Exhibition. The show featured nearly 400 works submitted by two hundred area artists. Juror Joseph H. Molinaro, Ceramics chair at Eastern Kentucky University, awarded prizes in seven categories – painting, watercolor works on paper, ceramics, photography, fiber arts and sculpture – to entrants in the professional and amateur divisions.
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One Book Author Man Martin in Bowling Green
On February 28, 2008, Man Martin, author of Days of Endless Corvette, came to Bowling Green to discuss his book, which is the 2008 “One Book” selection. He spoke and signed his book at the Corvette Museum, WKU’s Helm Library, and Bowling Green Public Library.
This is the fifth annual One Campus- One Community- One Book event sponsored by the Southern Kentucky Book Fest partners. The project is designed to cultivate reading and discussion by bringing the entire WKU campus and the Bowling Green community together around one book.
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KY Library & Museum Spring Break Arts Day Camp
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Kentucky Museum Store Sale
To Celebrate Leap Year at the Kentucky Museum Store… present this coupon:
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50% off* one regular priced item
offer good Feb.25th-29th
*(no other discount allowed)
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hours: Monday-Saturday: 9-4; Sunday: 1-4
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Jack Montgomery’s Second Book
Magical healings, ghostly encounters and alternative perceptions of reality have been a part of the history and culture of America since the settlement. Providing historical research to support personal narratives and field interviews, WKU Associate Professor and Librarian Jack Montgomery takes the reader into a largely hidden community that has its ancient roots in the African, German and Celtic cultures and is still active today despite the presence of our modern post-industrial society.
The research for this book actually began while Jack was a student at the University of South Carolina in the mid-1970s. As part of his senior thesis in Religious Studies, Jack conducted interviews with traditional magical healers in South Carolina, and eventually also included healers in Tennessee, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Virginia. This research led to a thirty-four year fascination with folk religion, magical healing and shamanism. It is also an account of one man’s spiritual journey into the depths of American folk religion that includes elements of shamanism and applied mysticism.
In 2002, Jack secured a book contract. The result is American Shamans: journeys with traditional healers published by BUSCA Press and released in February of 2008.
Tommy Womack Performed at Java City in Helm Library
Tommy Womack, a WKU alumni and a songwriter, author, and “creator of taut sensual tension,” came to WKU and performed at the Java City in Helm Library at noon on February 19, 2008. Tommy was awarded Best of 2007 honor for “There I Said It!”
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