Literature
For more information about a particular course, including the time, location, and cost, contact the person or department listed after the description for that course. All activities are held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, unless otherwise noted.
Write Your Life
Mar 18–Apr 8 (Tuesday evenings); The Friday Center
Attendance: 20
In this fun and supportive—yet challenging—class, beginners and professionals learn how to draw on the “material” of their lives to write and revise whatever they wish to work on, including stories, memoirs, novels, poems, or plays. Part of the Community Classroom Series.
Visit the Community Classroom Series Web site, or contact Jill Conrad, Friday Center Professional Development and Enrichment Programs, 800-845-8640 or 919-962-2643.
Nature and Fate in Shakespeare
Mar 18–Apr 8 (Tuesday evenings); The Friday Center
Attendance: 30
This course examines the psychological complexity of character in a selection of Shakespeare’s plays, and considers how Shakespeare’s audience might have understood the question of choice, using Renaissance concepts of astrology, cosmology, and psychology. Part of the Community Classroom Series.
Visit the Community Classroom Series Web site, or contact Jill Conrad, Friday Center Professional Development and Enrichment Programs, 800-845-8640 or 919-962-2643.
Personal Legacy Letters: Preserving Your Values for Your Family, Friends, and Community
Mar 25–Apr 15 (Tuesday evenings); The Friday Center
Attendance: 25
This course uses guided interactive exercises and reflective writing to teach participants how to express their wisdom by writing legacy letters; these letters may convey gratitude to loved ones; pass on life lessons, values, and hopes for the future; or ask for and grant forgiveness. Part of the Community Classroom Series.
Visit the Community Classroom Series Web site, or contact Jill Conrad, Friday Center Professional Development and Enrichment Programs, 800-845-8640 or 919-962-2643.
The Beats and Beyond: Counterculture Poetics, 1952–1975
Apr 23
Attendance: 100
This panel discussion addresses “The Beats and Beyond,” an exhibit that highlights the Rare Book Collection’s world-class holdings in post-World War II American poetry, including poets of the New York School, the San Francisco Renaissance, and North Carolina’s own Black Mountain College.
Contact Liza Terll, Friends of the Library, 919-962-4207.
Book Exploration: Southern Cultures
Apr 23
Attendance: 40
This program examines twenty-seven essays from first fifteen years of the journal Southern Cultures.
Contact Steffi Kinton, General Alumni Association Lifelong Learning, 919-843-5115.
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