Rosey Hay & Rudy Caporaso, Co-artistic Directors of REV Theatre, speaking about the ensemble's annual winter residency at United Neighborhood Centers of NEPA in Scranton. They are working with students to create an original theatre piece based on their experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. "Lockdowns & Vaccines & Masks, Oh My: Pandemic in Scranton" will have its premiere online on February 19, 2021 at 7:00 pm, on The UNC Youth YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTMpxyF5KcC-8nRAwzBk30A

www.uncnepa.org/

Jenny Hill, poet, performance artist, arts educator and native of NEPA,

speaking about her new poetry collection, "Year in the Blanks", based on her experience with her mother's dementia. There will be an online book launch and reading on February 6, 2021, at 7:15 pm.

[email protected] or www.actsofjennius.com

Jenny Hill, Poet, Performance Artist, Educator, a native of northeastern

Pennsylvania, speaking about her new collection of poems, "Year in the Blanks," growing out of the onset of dementia in her mother's life.

There will be a book launch online on February 6, 2021, at 7:15 pm.

To register: [email protected]/ or www.actsofjennius.com/

The first of a two-part series.

Poet Jerry Wemple, Professor of English at Bloomsburg University, speaking about his new poetry collection, "Artemas and Ark: The Ridge and Valley Poems" issued by Finishing Line Press, in anticipation of an

online reading on February 4, 2021, at 7:30 pm, as part of the Arts in Bloom & Big Dog Reading series at BU. To take part, go to The Arts in Bloom of Bloomsburg University Facebook page or YouTube Channel.

www.bloomu.edu/

Bob Eckstein, Author, Cartoonist, Educator from NY & Wayne County, PA, speaking with WVIA in 2017 about his books, "The Illustrated History of the Snowman" issued by Globe Pequot. And "Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores" published by PenguinRandomHouse.

www.bobeckstein.com

Poet Craig Czury of Northeastern Pennsylvania, speaking about growing up in the Anthracite Coal Region and what it meant for him as a creative artist and reading his poem, "Gouged Earth, Gouged People" in connection with Anthracite Mining Heritage Month held annually in January. The final event is on January 30, 2021, at 2:00 online, and it's an informational session on an upcoming industrial history tour sponsored by the PA Anthracite Heritage Museum in Scranton at the end of June and into the beginning of July.

More information can be found at the Anthracite Heritage Foundation at www.ahfdn.org/ And for information about poet Craig Czury,

www.craigczury.com/

Dr. William Crow, LUAG Director and Professor of Practice at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, speaking about the Galleries' collection and how the public will be able to interact with many of the works as the new year begins. "Connect & Create" is a creative journaling workshop with the Shanti Project 1/28/21 at 7:00 pm on Zoom. There is no fee. For more information about the Lehigh University Art Galleries: www.luag.org/

Derek Jolley, native of the Wyoming Valley, musician and founding member of the band Cuddledrug, speaking about his music and that of his fellow band members in anticipation of the release of a full-length album titled, "Cuddledrug" on

February 14, 2021. https://linktr.ee/cuddledrug

Ronnie Harvey, General Theater Manager & Film Booker at the Dietrich Theater in Tunkhannock, PA, speaking about the way the Dietrich has coped with the Covid pandemic and also about the winter mini-film festival that will run from January 29 through February 4, 2021. There will be 7 films in rotation, and all pandemic protocols will be in place.

The Dietrich Theater is located at 60 E. Tioga Street, and for more information: www.dietrichtheater.com/

Composer Luna Pearl Woolf speaking about her new album, "Luna Pearl Woolf: Fire and Flood" released by Pentatone/Oxingale Series, featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Novus NY, under Julian Wachner; cellist Matt Haimovitz, and soloists. The album highlights 25 years of her vocal & choral works. www.lunapearlwoolf.com/ www.pentatonemusic.com/