Events Calendar

Phone: (828) 250-6480
Email: [email protected]
Event Type: Classes
Age Group: Adult
Location: 1561 Alexander Rd. – Leicester
Library: Leicester

Join us for an evening with children’s book editor, Joy Neaves. Explore elements that make up great stories and learn ways to get your own story ideas onto the page. We’ll look at strategies for developing strong characters, engaging action, and compelling ideas. Learn how using a storyboard can help you develop the framework for a picture book text or a longer work of fiction.

Joy Neaves is a freelance editor of children’s books at namelos who gained experience as an editor of children’s picture books, poetry, middle grade, and young adult fiction at Front Street Books, an award-winning imprint of books for children. Joy is passionate in her approach to talking about both children’s literature and the craft of writing for children, and enjoys helping writers hone their craft, with an eye toward publication. This workshop is designed for adults and older teens. Advance registration preferred. Please call 250-6480 to register.

Category: Book & Film Discussions
Contact Name: Holly
Contact Phone: 864-574-6815
Contact Email: [email protected]

Meet the author. Join us as we discuss David Burnsworth’s novel “Big City Heat,” a mystery that takes Brack Pelton from his home in Charleston to the Atlanta underworld. David will be here to talk about his book and answer any questions you may have. All are welcome.

Backline will be partnering with the Pacolet library to provide a free outdoor concert for the Pacolet community. Bring your lawn chairs! CD’s and other Merchandise will be available for purchase!

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Category: Music Programs
Contact Name: Leverne McBeth
Contact Phone: 864-474-0421
Contact Email: [email protected]

Enjoy a free outdoor concert at the Pacolet Library. Musical performance will be by the local bluegrass band Backline. Bring your folding chair and your dancing shoes at 6:00 pm.

Room: Barrett Room
Category: Educational Workshops
Contact Name: Jon B. Davis
Contact Phone: 864-596-3505
Contact Email: [email protected]

Living with Autism, a guide for parents, children and adults on the spectrum.

*This event is now on a waitlist – please call to join the list.

Please join us in welcoming Marie Tyler of Oliver McCrum Wines to The Community Tap for a virtual Tour of Italy as we explore wines from throughout the country.

This event will run 6:30-8:00 PM on July 24th with a cost of $20 per person. Reservations are required so please call the store (864.631.2525) or stop to reserve your spot.

The line up:

Sparkling

– I Clivi “RBL” / Sparkling Ribolla Gialla Brut / 2016 / $29.99

Whites

– Colle Stefano / Verdicchio di Matelica / 2016 / $19.99
– Ciro Picariello / Greco di Tufo / 2015 / $24.99

Reds

– Castell’in Villa / Chianti Classico / 2011 / $29.99
– La Sibilla Campi Flegrei Piedirosso / 2015 / $19.99
– Grifalco / Aglianico del Vulture Gricos / 2015 / $19.99

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Select Evenings, May 17–October 7, 2018

Biltmore House & Gardens opens to the public on Thursday–Sunday evenings for a special reservations-only viewing of Chihuly’s stunning large-scale glass sculptures. Chihuly Nights at Biltmore is an enchanting opportunity to witness the effects of dramatic nighttime lighting upon the luminous colors and graceful forms of these spectacular pieces. Sunset over the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains, live music in the gardens, and a wine bar make the evening experience all the more enticing. Chihuly’s towering works of art illuminated against a night sky surrounded by the timeless beauty and magnificence of Biltmore House & Gardens: a truly moving, memorable experience

Come Join us in planning for our LARGEST event of the year- Your help is much needed, appreciated, and crucial to making this event a success! Please make sure to attend!

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Join us July 24, 2018 with Joe Cat at Capri on Main,

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for the fourth week of Downtown Gaffney Alive. Sponsored in part by Capri on Main, Con Cafe II, Classic Windows and Siding, Boston Annie’s, Sweet Life Creamery, Davis Dickson Realtor, Daylily Gardens Venue, Rogers Termite and Pest Control, Culture Con-Quest, Holmes and Watson Escape Rooms, Kona Ice Cherokee, Basketcase Formalwear, and April Mabry.
Downtown Gaffney Alive is a community event, made possible by direct contribution by the community.

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The Greenville Drive is a Minor League Baseball team that plays in Greenville, South Carolina. They are a Class A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox and a member of the South Atlantic League.

Think you know stuff? Come out and test your knowledge this Tuesday with MiMi at New Groove Artisan Brewery in Boiling Springs. Trivia, beer, fun, and prizes.

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Room: Inman Mills Activity Room
Category: Fun & Games
Contact Phone: 864-596-3504

A funtastic medley of comic mayhem, this magical professor is sure to entertain.

“Why So Many Shapes?: Explorations of the Steel and Junction Group Sites” – Timothy Everhart

Date: July 24, 2018
Time: 7:00pm, doors open at 6:30pm
Location: Mound City Group Visitor Center, 16062 OH-104, Chillicothe, OH 45601

Famous ancient sites such as the Pyramids of Giza or the Pantheon led to the lasting association between monuments and complex societies like the Dynastic Egyptians or the Romans. Yet more recent research has documented that many small-scale societies worldwide constructed monuments. Unique among these examples are the Woodland earthworks of the Central Scioto River Valley. The noteworthy features of these societies and their monuments include their wide-spanning ritual network used to acquire exotic raw materials, the art of unprecedented skill produced from these materials and ultimately incorporated in funerary ceremonies, the varied and complex architecture of earthen monuments, and the scale and diversity of form of these monuments. Together these features were a complicated dynamic between people and the landscape – what archaeologists call monumentality. One of the most striking features of this monumentality is the variability in monumental forms. Excavation at the Steel and Junction Group sites over the last two years has sought to explain the source of this diversity. This talk will detail the results of those field campaigns and offer suggestions as to why these societies chose to build such an array of earthworks.

For more information, please call the park at 740-774-1126. For a complete list of lectures please visit https://www.nps.gov/hocu/planyourvisit/summer-lecture-series.htm

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Shared Worlds, a unique summer writing camp for rising 8th through 12th graders, takes place July 15-28 at Wofford College. Faculty authors including Jeff VanderMeer and Charlie Jane Anders will read their works over two evenings (July 17 and 24) at the Hub City Bookshop.

Reading scheduled for July 17:
Charlie Jane Anders
Jeff VanderMeer

Readings scheduled for July 24:
Gwenda Bond
John Chu
Julia Elliott
Hiromo Goto
Ekaterina Sedia
Leah Thomas
Ann VanderMeer

Charlie Jane Anders is the author of All the Birds in the Sky, which won the Nebula, Locus and Crawford awards and was on Time Magazine’s list of the 10 best novels of 2016. Her Tor.com story “Six Months, Three Days” won a Hugo Award and appears in a new short story collection called Six Months, Three Days, Five Others. Her short fiction has appeared in Tor.com, Wired Magazine, Slate, Tin House, Conjunctions, Boston Review, Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, ZYZZYVA*, and several anthologies. She was a founding editor of io9.com, a site about science fiction, science and futurism, and she organizes the monthly Writers With Drinks reading series. Her first novel, Choir Boy, won a Lambda Literary Award.

Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor, and author of the New York Times bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy—the first volume of which, Annihilation, is currently being made into movie to be released by Scott Rubin/Paramount this year. His latest novel, Borne, will be published by MCD/FSG April 25th, 2017 and has been optioned by Paramount. His fiction has been translated into thirty-five languages and has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales, Conjunctions, and multiple year’s-best anthologies as well as on such sites as Slate and Vulture.

VanderMeer grew up in the Fiji Islands and spent time traveling through Asia, Africa, and Europe before returning to the United States. These travels have deeply influenced his fiction. He is the recipient of an NEA-funded Florida Individual Artist Fellowship for excellence in fiction and a Florida Artist Enhancement Grant. A three-time winner of the World Fantasy Award and fifteen-time finalist, VanderMeer has also won the Shirley Jackson Award and Nebula Award as well as been a finalist for the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

In addition to his writing, VanderMeer has edited or co-edited several anthologies, including Best American Fantasy, The Weird, and The Big Book of Science Fiction. His award-winning Wonderbook is the world’s first fully illustrated creative writing book. He also writes for The NY Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic Online, Electric Literature, LitHub, and many others. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife, Ann VanderMeer, and two cats.

Gwenda Bond writes YA and children’s fiction. Her novels include the Lois Lane series (Fallout, Double Down, and Triple Threat), which bring the iconic comic book character front and center in her own YA novels, and the Cirque American series (Girl on a Wire, Girl Over Paris, Girl in the Shadows), about daredevil heroines who discover magic and mystery lurking under the big top. She and her husband author Christopher Rowe launched a middle grade series, the Supernormal Sleuthing Service, in 2017 with The Lost Legacy.

Her nonfiction writing has appeared in Publishers Weekly, Locus Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. She has an MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband and their unruly pets. There are rumors she escaped from a screwball comedy, and she might have a journalism degree because of her childhood love of Lois Lane.

John Chu is a microprocessor architect by day, a writer, translator, and podcast narrator by night. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming at Boston Review, Uncanny, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Tor.com among other venues. His translations have been published or is forthcoming at Clarkesworld, The Big Book of SF and other venues. His story “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” won the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.

Julia Elliott’s writing has appeared in Tin House, The Georgia Review, Conjunctions, The New York Times, and other publications. She has won a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, and her stories have been anthologized in Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses and Best American Short Stories. Her debut story collec­tion, The Wilds, a was chosen by Kirkus, BuzzFeed, Book Riot, and Electric Literature as one of the Best Books of 2014 and was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Her first novel, The New and Improved Romie Futch, arrived in October 2015.

Hiromi Goto is an emigrant from Japan who gratefully resides on the Unceded Musqueam, Skwxwú7mesh, and Tsleil Waututh Territories. Her first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms, was the 1995 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book, Canada and Caribbean Region, and co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award. Her second adult novel, The Kappa Child, was awarded the 2001 James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award. Her YA novel, Half World, was the recipient of the Sunburst Award and the Carl Brandon Parallax Award. She’s published two more novels for children and youth, a book of poetry, and a collection of short stories (adult). Hiromi is a mentor in The Writer’s Studio Program at Simon Fraser University, a mentor for The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, and is a board member of Plenitude magazine. Hiromi has a graphic novel pending with First Second Books. She is currently at work trying to decolonize her relationship to the land and to be a responsible guest on Turtle Island.

Ekaterina Sedia resides in the Pinelands of New Jersey. Her critically-acclaimed and award-nominated novels, The Secret History of Moscow, The Alchemy of Stone, The House of Discarded Dreams, and Heart of Iron, were published by Prime Books. Her short stories appeared in Analog, Baen’s Universe, Subterranean, and Clarkesworld, as well as numerous anthologies, including Haunted Legends and Magic in the Mirrorstone. She is also the editor of the anthologies Paper Cities (World Fantasy Award winner), Running with the Pack, Bewere the Night, and Bloody Fabulous as well as The Mammoth Book of Gaslit Romance and Wilful Impropriety. Her short-story collection, Moscow But Dreaming, was released by Prime Books in December 2012. She also co-wrote a script for YAMASONG: MARCH OF THE HOLLOWS, a fantasy feature-length puppet film voiced by Nathan Fillion, George Takei, Abigail Breslin, and Whoopi Goldberg to be released by Dark Dunes Productions.

Leah Thomas frequently loses battles of wits against her students and her stories. When she’s not huddled in cafes, she’s usually at home pricking her fingers in service of cosplay. Leah lives in San Diego, California and is the author of Nowhere Near You and the William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist, Because You’ll Never Meet Me.

Ann VanderMeer serves as the Shared Worlds editor-in-residence. Over a 30-year career, she has won numerous awards for her editing work, including the Hugo Award and World Fantasy Award. Whether as editor-in-chief for Weird Tales for five years or in her current role as an acquiring editor for Tor.com, Ann has built her reputation on acquiring fiction from diverse and interesting new talents. As co-founder of Cheeky Frawg Books, she has helped develop a wide-ranging line of mostly translated fiction. Featuring a who’s who of world literature, Ann’s anthologies include the critically acclaimed Best American Fantasy series, The Weird, The Time Traveler’s Almanac, Sisters of the Revolution, and the Big Book of Science Fiction (Vintage, 2016).

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Join us for a southbound Tap Takeover from 7-9pm!

Beers will include:
Mountain Jam – 5.1% – Southern Lager
Hoplin – 6.3% – American IPA
Scattered Sun – 5.2% – Belgian Witbier
Desert Dawn – 5.3% – Elderberry Saison
Rolling Tumbling – 6% – American IPA

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Do you want to improve your writing skills? Do you want to write for publication, posterity, or just for fun? Learn from veterans in the writing/illustrating field.
Students should have the first draft of a manuscript in hand to start the class. those who are also illustrators should have sample illustrations. Six in-depth sessions to further your storytelling skills. This class will focus on sharpening writing and/or illustrating skills and preparing your manuscript for the next step.
Tim Davis is the author and illustrator of several books and leading Hidden Pictures illustrator for HIGHLIGHTS MAGAZINE. Melinda Long is the author of several books including HOW I BECAME A PIRATE.

Hillman Beer is hosting Tuesday Trivia Night from 7pm-9pm! Get ready to drink some beer, test your wit, and have some fun!
Details:
– Please arrive at 6:30pm
– Max 6 people per team
– First place gets a $50 Hillman Beer Gift Card and other fun chances to win

Come cheer on the Tourists!

Come cheer on the Greenville Drive!

21+/ 730pm signups/ 830pm start

All acoustic acts welcome!

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