Story House Ithaca Traveling Exhibit: “Behind the Wall: Art & Writing from Prison”
Cortland Free Library 32 Church Street, Cortland
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Story House Ithaca Traveling Exhibit: “Behind the Wall: Art & Writing from Prison”
Come experience the last stop on the tour of this traveling exhibit at Cortland Free Library during regular library hours. “Behind the Wall” is a traveling exhibition of drawings, paintings, letters, stories, and poems created by people in prison. It provides a window into the lives and imaginations of incarcerated people in our communities and […]
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Incarceration Imagination: A Talk with Richard Rivera
Incarceration Imagination: A Talk with Richard Rivera
In tandem with the “Behind the Wall: Art & Writing From Prison” exhibit that’s up on our Main Reading Room, Richard Rivera is coming to speak at the library. If you’ve visited the exhibit, Richard’s piece is the charcoal drawing on the Letter Writing Station table. About Richard: Richard Rivera is associate director of Cornell’s […]
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Movie Matinee: “Hidden Figures”
Movie Matinee: “Hidden Figures”
Hidden Figures tells the incredible untold story of Katherine Jonson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) – brilliant African-American women working at NASA who served as the brains behind the launch into orbit of astronaut John Glenn, a stunning achievement that turned around the Space Race. The visionary trio […]