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What could be more fun than spending the day in the rosy glow of Silly Science Sunday, writing stories with kids and being part of an...
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- Sep 2, 2022
- 4 min
The Place That Makes Us Film Screening (Oct. 22)
Join us for a public screening of The Place That Makes Us, Saturday, October 22 at 7:00 pm. This is the first in-person screening this...
- May 25, 2022
- 1 min
Lit Yo at Summer Festival of the Arts
If you're going to the Summer Festival of the Arts at the new Wean Park, stop by to see us. We enjoy talking to readers, writers and...
- May 22, 2022
- 2 min
Writer Residency with Quartez Harris
We are so grateful to the Ohio Arts Council for an Arts Resiliency Grant Community Projects Award for allowing us to invite poet Quartez...
- May 22, 2022
- 1 min
Artist Residency with Mike Geither
Many, many thanks to the Ohio Arts Council and Rob Briggs & Alyssa Lenhoff-Briggs for the funding to bring this talented and insightful...
- May 22, 2022
- 1 min
YWCA Women Artists Show Reading (June 30)
Forty poems to celebrate forty years of the YWCA Women's Art Show! We congratulate the YWCA and the artists and are so honored to take...
- Apr 17, 2022
- 2 min
Mike Geither Actors' Masterclass & Theatre Roundtable (April 30)
Join award-winning playwright Mike Geither, Lit Youngstown and the Youngstown Playhouse on Saturday, April 30 for a master class on song...
- Apr 17, 2022
- 1 min
Playwright Mike Geither Leads Talkback at Youngstown Playhouse (April 29)
People Along The Way, an original play by Terry Shears, opens at the Playhouse April 22. On Friday, April 29, the show will be followed...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 2 min
Writer Residency with Manuel Iris
So thankful to the Ohio Arts Council and Rob Briggs & Alyssa Lenhoff-Briggs for the funding to bring this wonderful poet to our...
- Mar 8, 2022
- 1 min
I Sing the Body Electric: Whitman's America in Words and Music
Hopewell Theatre and Lit Youngstown present "I Sing the Body Electric: Whitman’s America in Words and Song," Sunday, March 20 at 3:00 at...
- Mar 4, 2022
- 1 min
Youngstown Black History Tour (May 7)
Saturday, May 7, 10:00AM-1:00PM Lit Youngstown presents a tour focusing on notable sites and people of critical importance to our shared...
- Mar 4, 2022
- 1 min
Playwriting with Mike Geither (May 1)
Playwright Mike Geither leads participants in a generative playwriting workshop on Sunday, May 1st at 3 PM at the Hopewell Theatre. All...
- Mar 4, 2022
- 1 min
Mike Geither "The Body is the Best" Stand-Up (April 30)
Lit Youngstown presents Mike Geither in a stand-up performance of The Body is the Best, Saturday, April 30 at 7:00 PM at the Hopewell...
- Mar 4, 2022
- 1 min
Giving Voice: Mahoning Valley Hispanic Culture (Sat April 2)
Join us for a bilingual afternoon of award-winning poetry, storytelling, cuisine from local restaurants & music by the Labra Brothers...
- Feb 8, 2022
- 3 min
Poet-in-Residence Quartez Harris Events May 6-7
Lit Youngstown is the grateful recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Arts Resiliency Community Projects Grant that will allow us to bring...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 3 min
Interview with April Poet-in-Residence Manuel Iris
Lit Youngstown student intern Katelyn Urs asks April 1-2 poet-in-residence Manuel Iris three questions about his new book The Parting...
- Feb 4, 2022
- 2 min
Poet-in-Residence Manuel Iris April 1-2 Events
Lit Youngstown is the grateful recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Arts Resiliency Grant that will allow us to bring three...
- Aug 15, 2021
- 1 min
Thrive Seeks Your Story
Did you move to the Mahoning Valley? Add your story to the how-we-got-here project underway at Thrive Mahoning Valley. Lit Youngstown is...
- Jun 24, 2021
- 1 min
Call for Artists: Fall Lit Fest Ekphrasis
Lit Youngstown seeks artwork that responds to poems and story excerpts by presenters of Fall Literary Festival 2021. These highly award...
- May 6, 2021
- 1 min
Please Send Memories!
YSU Painting Professor Dragana Crnjak and students in her class on designing and installing public art are planning for the next section...
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