Jeff Worley, Kentucky Poet Laureate 2019-2020, is the author of seven book-length collections of poetry, including The Poet Laureate of Aurora Avenue: Selected Poems, Broadstone Books. Worley has received 3 Al Smith Fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. His poems have appeared in over 500 literary magazines and journals. Website: jeff-worley.com. The Poetry Series is curated by W.V. Poet Laureate, Marc Harshman.
Thursday, Oct. 12 at 6 PM: Sounds of Appalachia: Lisa Bella Donna Live!
Lisa Bella Donna is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and modular synthesist. She has many years of experience as a session musician and has developed extensive techniques with a variety of genres including musique concreté, micro-tonal music, orchestration, film composition, and more. Produced by Jesse James Johnson. Sponsored by the Wheeling Arts and Cultural Commission, and West Liberty University.
Friday, Oct. 13, 2023 @12:30: Wheeling Symphony Orchestra Festival of Ideas: Violins of Hope Panel
As a prelude to the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra’s Masterworks 1 concert, featuring the Violins of Hope project. https://www.violins-of-hope.com/, the WSO is offering a “Festival of Ideas” panel that will further inform audiences about the restoration of violins that were confiscated and discarded by the Nazis from Jewish musicians during the Holocaust and later discovered in a variety of locations. The panel will include Maestro John Devlin, Rabbi Lief, Barb Lewine, and Roi Mezare, the WSO’s principal clarinetist. Note: The is a special Friday at 12:30 edition of Lunch With Books.
Oct. 17, 2023 Collective Chaos: A Roller Derby Team Memoir by Samantha Tucker and Amy Spears
Through stories about playing this full-contact, theatrical, and revolutionary sport, Collective Chaos shows the value of gaining a truly radical self-knowledge through teamwork, love, discipline, and critical consideration of our local and global societies and of our roles and responsibilities within them.
Oct. 24, 2023 WWII Hellships
The National American Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor (ADBC) Museum, Education & Research Center in Brooke County will tell us about the horrors of WWII “Hellships.” Rich Lizza, Intro; POWs as the Museum’s Founders with Mary Kay Wallace; experiences as Pows. e.g. the “Hellships” with James Brockman; Liberation, Coming Home, and the Pows’ Postwar World with Joseph Vater.
Oct. 30, 2023 (Mon. @ Noon): Halloween film: A Classic Vampire Horror film. Check the brochure for details!
Then on Oct. 30, 2023 at 7 PM: Halloween film: Another Classic Vampire Horror film. Check the brochure for details!
Oct. 31, 2023 Halloween Special: Or-Sean Welles as Count Dracula!
For this year’s bloody-good Halloween special, we (OCPL staff and you, OCPL patrons!) will perform the radio play of “Dracula,” adapted by Orson Welles from the Bram Stoker classic and further adapted by Sean Duffy for our beloved Wheeling and OCPL Theatre On-the-Air!. First, we will screen the new OCPL Horror feature film: “The Hempfield Vampire!”
