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08-19-09
Pelham,
NY
THE HUDSON VALLEY
WRITERS’ CENTER TO OFFER WRITING WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS AND
YOUTH AND A FREE READING AT PELHAM ART CENTER
From October 2009 to January 2010, workshops and a reading
for adults and children will be offered by The Hudson Valley
Writers’ Center (HVWC) at Pelham Art Center through a new
collaboration between the organizations. The public may
enroll in the fall and winter courses beginning mid-August
by contacting HVWC and the reading is scheduled for
December. Information on the new workshops is found on
writerscenter.org and pelhamartcenter.org.
“Pelham Art Center is very excited to begin this new
partnership with HVWC. Both organizations have decades of
experience offering dynamic, high impact public programs and
classes to youth and adults and to beginning and established
artists and writers. The public will benefit greatly from
this new resource for area residents eager to improve and
refine their writing skills,” said Lisa Robb, Pelham Art
Center Director.
Fall 2009 offerings include two courses for adults,
Memoir Writing Workshop with Susan Hodara (Mt. Kisco), and
Introduction to Fiction Writing with David Surface
(Brooklyn) and one class for youth, Creative Writing for
Youth (11 – 14yrs) with Charlotte Walsh (White Plains).
“For over twenty years The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center
(located in Sleepy Hollow) has advanced the art and craft of
writing by providing high caliber writing workshops for
professional and amateur writers. Our writing instructors
are talented, published poets, fiction and prose writers,”
said Jerri Lynn Fields, Executive Director of The Hudson
Valley Writers’ Center.
This collaboration falls directly in line with the
mission and current goals of both partnering organizations.
“The current economic reality is a challenge to nonprofits
and collaboration is more important than ever,” said Renato
Rosaldo, HVWC Board Member and Co-Chair of its Program,
Evaluation and Planning Committee, “and by partnering with
the Pelham Art Center we achieve an organizational goal to
expand our geographic and demographic reach.” Andrea Bayer,
Pelham Art Center Board Chair adds “The Board of the Pelham
Art Center also sees this as a wonderful opportunity to
expand the Center’s offerings to the community – mixing
writing programs in with its extensive course schedule in
the visual arts. We are sure that the response from our
visitors and members will be very positive.”
In addition to collaborating on writing classes, Pelham
Art Center and The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center will offer
a literary reading at Pelham Art Center on Sunday, December
6, as part of ArtsWestchester’s Free Arts Day. The reading
will take place at 2:30pm during the 1:30 – 3:30pm opening
reception for Pelham Art Center’s annual artisan exhibition
and sale, Home Sweet Home. The event is free and open to the
general public.
HVWC will register all students for the workshops and
will waive the required registration fee for HVWC and Pelham
Art Centers’ members. To register for a writing workshop
contact HVWC at (914) 332-5953 or info@writerscenter.org and
for more information on the Pelham Art Center phone
914-738-2525 ext 111 or visit pelhamartcenter.org.
About HVWC: Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Inc. is a
not-for-profit organization founded in 1988 with a mission
to advance the art and craft of writing by encouraging
writers and readers at all levels to participate in and
enjoy the literary arts. It offers classes for professional
and amateur writers, presents public readings by well-known
and emerging prose writers and poets, does outreach work in
several community sites, and publishes at least one book of
poetry each year under the imprint Slapering Hol Press.
Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers' Center are
made possible in part by grants from the Bydale Foundation,
the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, and
the Thendara Foundation; and with public funds from the New
York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, the National
Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support
Grant of ArtsWestchester with funds from Westchester County
Government.
About Pelham Art Center: Since 1970, Pelham Art Center
has been offering the public high quality, free and
affordable art programs for all ages, interests and
abilities. Each year the Center serves more than 18,000
people with gallery exhibitions, fee based classes and
workshops, outreach programs for underserved audiences,
performances, readings, artist demonstrations, lectures and
panel discussions. The Center owns and occupies a 5,000
square foot facility on the main street of Pelham, NY, a
village in southern Westchester County. The Center’s mission
is to provide the public with the place, the resources and
the opportunity to see, study and experience the arts in a
community setting. Pelham Art Center receive public funds
from New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency;
Arts Westchester, through Westchester county government;
Town of Pelham; and New York State Department of Education,
through NY State Senator Jeffrey Klein. Funds are also
received from: YellowBook; Comer Family Fund; Target; Junior
League of Pelham; Strypemonde Foundation; Robin’s Art+Giving;
Members; and Annual Fund Dono
Hudson Valley
Writers’ Center
300 Riverside Drive 155 Fifth Avenue
Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591-1414
914-332-5953
www.writerscenter.org
Pelham Art Center
Pelham, NY 10803-1503
914-738-2525
www.pelhamartcenter.org
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