Dewey Drop-In Use Your Words: Lives Thrown Wildly Off-Script w/Laura Didyk

Dewey Drop-In Use Your Words: Lives Thrown Wildly Off-Script w/ Laura Didyk

Wednesday, April 5

Doors at 6:30, Event at 7pm.

Dewey Hall, 91 Main Street, Sheffield, MA 01257

$10 at the door. Additional donations welcome.

You are invited to bring in take out from our sponsors Roberto’s Pizza and the Marketplace (now open until 7pm) to Dewey Hall. No outside beverages allowed though!

Contact: deweymemorialhall@gmail.com, 413 429 1322

Use Your Words brings writers, readers, and listeners together for evenings of sharing and conversation. Each date will be hosted by a different local writer, with readings by colleagues, students, writing groups, published authors, and storytellers. Themes will include Emergence, Grief, Creaturely Stories, Lives Gone Off Script, True Tales, Memoirs, and more. The hosts will open conversations around each evening’s themes, but also talk about writing practices, writing groups, and other skills to empower the art of writing and to encourage reading.

This evening, hosted by Laura Didyk, three nonfiction writers will read from their books in progress—tales of lives thrown wildly off-script or that never had scripts to begin with. Q&A to follow the reading.

Laura Didyk, host (Great Barrington, MA)

Amanda Giracca (Housatonic, MA)

Sarah Canney (Farmington, NH)

Laura Didyk’s writing has been published in The Sun, Fence, Hayden’s Ferry Review,  Diagram, Post Road, and Paterson Literary Review, among others. She has been a resident writing fellow at Yaddo, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the MacDowell Colony where she received the Rona Jaffe Foundation award. She is currently at work on a memoir. She lives, writes, and makes art in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Dewey Drop-In: Use Your Words dates, hosts, and themes:

05/03/2023 Maria Black: The Thursday Group

06/07/2023 Melanie Greenberg: Real Life Stories

10/04/2023 Barbara Newman: Life is a Bowl of . . .

11/01/2023 Sheela Clary: True Tales of Lives Lived

12/06/2023 Peter Murkett | Bonner McCalister: Creaturely Stories

The Dewey Drop-In (DDI) Wednesday night series includes:

First Wednesdays: Use Your Words, writing, readings, and storytelling

Second Wednesdays: Jazz Jams hosted by Brian Kantor w/ bandleader Luke Franco (participants and audience welcome)

Third Wednesdays: Show & Tell, a music and art soireé hosted by Michael Lesko

Fourth Wednesdays: Game Nights with hosts Maggie McRae and Michael Siktberg. Bring a game or join a game.

**Order food and dine at Dewey Hall: Order food at The Marketplace (Wednesday until 7pm) and/or Roberto’s (Wednesday until 9pm) and enjoy your dinner at Dewey Hall!.

**Order at Dewey Hall and eat at Dewey Hall:  Food ordered online from theRoberto’s at Dewey Menu (now the full Roberto’s Menu) or over the phone for dining at Dewey is delivered by Dewey staff to the Hall at 7:30pm! Orders must be placed by 6:45pm. Order here: www.dhrobertos413.com **If you’re order is not ready by 7:30pm you will need to pick up your own order from Roberto’s**

**Dine in at the Marketplace: The Marketplace are now open for your dining pleasure until 7pm on Wednesday nights.

**Dine in at Roberto’s: Roberto’s full menu is available at the restaurant until 9pm on Wednesday nights.

PLEASE do not bring outside beverages to the Hall!! Only beverages purchased at the Hall are allowed in the Hall! Beverages are available for purchase at the Hall!