June 6, 2009           Midsummer LitFest! – WAS A GREAT TIME! SEE YOU NEXT YEAR.

Click here to see some great photographs from litfest

Sponsored by The University Cultural Association (UCCA) and Wayne State University (WSU) part of the Midsummer Nights in Midtown series.

          June 8 – 26, 2009    "PoeTweet" with Twitter.  Featuring M.L Liebler!

Literary arts meets 21st century technology!  This is an exclusive Scarab Club/Springfed Arts "first-time-ever" event featured in cyberspace. Follow Detroit literary legend M.L. Liebler along with Cassie Poe and LaShaun Phoenix Moore while they engage their individual styles and techniques to craft verse (or prose) about "Summer in Detroit".  For three weeks view each artist “tweeting” their vision line by line via Twitter.  As the excitement and anticipation builds, witness the revealing of their final composed literary creations on scarabclub.org – an event you just don’t want to miss!

June 18, 2009          Literary “Spirits” (Third Thursday Cocktail Party) 6-10pm

Join the Scarab Club and Detroit Synergy (detroitsynergy.org) for a special joint Third Thursday, June 18th from 6:00pm to 10:00pm. 

$5.00 at the door covers light hors d'oeuvres with a DJ and cash bar.  In celebration of the Scarab Club's June Literary Celebration our charity partner for the evening is the United Way Reading Village project.  Please bring at least one new children's book for kids ages infant through five years. Thank you for supporting this exciting program. (http://www.uwsem.org/readingvillage/index.html)

June 21, 2009         "Imagining Ancient Egypt'' with poet & teacher Joan Gartland 2-3pm

presented by Springfed Arts & The Scarab Club. FREE Admission

(part of the Scarab Club Family Fun Series)

Kids, journey to the land of pyramids and pharaohs with Ms. Gartland. PLUS, learn how to write your name in Egyptian hieroglyphics!  Bring your imagination because this is one adventure you don’t want to miss!

Joan Gartland is a retired librarian from The Detroit Public Library, and she is the author of A Passionate Distance (Ridgeway Press).  Her poems  “Egyptian Gallery in August: Detroit 1994″ & “Song in Tender Black” appear in Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001 (Wayne State University Press).  Gartland currently works as a librarian at Macomb Community College.

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