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October 3, 2024

Feature: Carrie Vitko

Title: Creative Engagement: Collaborative Story Making and Poetry Writing with People Living with Dementia

Summary Statement: Please come explore valuing all members of our community, cultivating connection and creativity in the context of cognitive entropy, and replacing the pressure to remember with the freedom to imagine.

Carrie Vitko is speech-language pathologist living in Bloomsburg who has a passion for helping people of all ages and abilities find a meaningful place in their communities.  She’s been a practicing SLP for over 25 years, working in multiple settings – to include but not limited to home health and hospice, early intervention, and long-term care. Carrie’s current full-time work involves supporting the complex communication needs of young children in a rural school setting, but for the last ten years she’s made creative engagement with folks living with dementia and other neurogenic challenges a beloved side quest.

7:30 pm to 9 pm

MC: Linda Dietrichson

Start: October 3, 2024 7:30 pm
End: October 3, 2024 7:30 pm
Venue: Bloomsburg Public Library
Address:
Market Street, Bloomsburg, PA, 17815, United States

September 5, 2024

Last minute change ———-Lester Hirsh An evening of poetry

Change from the originally scheduled program.
Lester Hirsh will host an evening of poetry.
There will be an open reading, so bring your words to share.
7:30 pm to 9 pm
MC: Lester Hirsh
Start: September 5, 2024 7:30 pm
End: September 5, 2024 7:30 pm
Venue: Bloomsburg Public Library
Address:
Market Street, Bloomsburg, PA, 17815, United States

June 6, 2024

First Thursday Poetry – a workshop: Tara Holdren

 

Theme:  Names and Fame. Pack your phone, your favorite pen and journal and prepare to unpeel your name like an overripe banana. This writing workshop with Tara will inspire and challenge you, and she’ll sprinkle in a little of her own work, kind of like cinnamon on the aforementioned banana.                                  7:30 PM to 9 PM

MC: Tara Holdren

Start: June 6, 2024 7:30 pm
End: June 6, 2024 7:30 pm
Venue: Bloomsburg Public Library
Address:
Market Street, Bloomsburg, PA, 17815, United States