27 March (Sunday) 3 pm Performance of The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, text by Marisha Chamberlain, music by Carol Barnett, with
the First Presbyterian Church Choir and Bluegrass ensemble, Monroe Crossing, First Presbyterian Church, 505 Franklin, Waterloo, IA.
27 March (Sunday) 3 pm Performance of The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, text by Marisha Chamberlain, music by Carol Barnett, with the Hickory Choral Society Bluegrass ensemble, Monroe Crossing, First Baptist Church, Hickory, NC.
2 April (Saturday) 7 pm Performance of The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, text by Marisha Chamberlain, music by Carol Barnett, at the South Portland High School Masterworks Festival, South Portland Auditorium, 637 Highland Avenue, South Portland, ME.
28 April (Thursday) 7 pm Marisha Chamberlain will read from her novel, The Rose Variations(Soho Press, 2009) headlining the Normandale Community College scholarship contest reading, for which she serves as this year's fiction judge, at Normandale Community College.
16 July (Saturday) Time TBA Berkshire Choral Festival. Performance of The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, text by Marisha Chamberlain, music by Carol Barnett, with the Berkshire Festival Chorale and Bluegrass ensemble Monroe Crossing at Stewart Center, the Berkshire School, Sheffield, MA.
1 August (Monday) 7 pm Marisha Chamberlain will discuss her novel, The Rose Variations, at a private book club in St. Paul, MN.
5 August (Friday) 7 a.m. Marisha Chamberlain will discuss her novel, The Rose Variations, at a private book club at House of Hope Presbyterian Church, St. Paul, MN.
2012 Calendar
4 March (Sunday) 2012 7:30 pm Performance of The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, text by Marisha Chamberlain, music by Carol Barnett, with the South Bend Chamber Singers and Bluegrass Ensemble Monroe Crossing at O'Laughlin Auditorium, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN.
14 June (Thursday) 2012 Time TBA Performance of The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, text by Marisha Chamberlain, music by Carol Barnett, with VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Bluegrass Ensemble Monroe Crossing at St Olaf Catholic Church, 215 South 8th Street, Minneapolis, MN.
PAST EVENTS
9-12 June 2010 (Wednesday-Saturday) Excerpt of Propeller, a new
opera, libretto by Marisha Chamberlain, music by Mary Ellen Childs, performed
as part of New Works Sampler, a highlighted event at the Opera America
conference, Los Angeles.
24 June 2010 (Friday) 4 pm Author day at Sister Wolf
Books.Marisha Chamberlain will
read from and sign copies of her novel, The Rose Variations, Dorset, MN.
21 July 2010 (Wednesday) evening Marisha Chamberlain will
discuss her novel,The Rose Variations, via teleconference, with a private book club in Spokane,
WA.
8 May 2010 (Saturday) 8 pm Performance of The World Beloved: A
Bluegrass Mass, text by Marisha Chamberlain, music by Carol Barnett, with
the New Classic Singers, St. Petronilla Church, 420 Glenwood Ave., Glen
Ellyn,
IL.
5 May 2010 (Wednesday) 7 pm Marisha Chamberlain will discuss her novel, The Rose
Variations, at a private book
club in Red Wing, MN.
28 April 2010
(Weds) 7 pm
Screening of Voices of Hope, a
documentary by Marisha Chamberlain and Emily Haddad, in collaboration
with the
Breast Cancer Support Group of Hastings, MN. Post-screening discussion
to be
led by Marisha Chamberlain. Northern Vineyards Winery, Main Street,
Stillwater,
MN.
25 April 2010
(Sun) 4:30 pm Performance
of The
World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, text by Marisha Chamberlain, music
by
Carol Barnett, with the bluegrass band, Middle Spunk Creek Boys and St.
Clement's choirs, at St. Clement's Episcopal
Church, 901 Portland Avenue, St.
Paul, MN.
11 April
2010 (Sunday) 3 pm Performance of The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, text by
Marisha
Chamberlain, music by Carol Barnett, with The Iowa State Singers and
Bluegrass
Ensemble Monroe Crossing at Collegiate Presbyterian Church, 159 N
Sheldon Ave,
Ames, IA.
8 April
2010 (Thursday) 10:30 - 11:45 am Squad365 Rides Again: Shameless Book Marketing.
Squad365 members: Marisha Chamberlain (fiction), Todd Boss (poetry),
Jon Spayde (nonfiction) and Margaret Hasse (poetry) reprise their panel
at AWP Writer's Conference, Hyatt Regency, Denver. Featuring Marisha
Chamberlain's 10
Marketing Tips for the Literary Novelist.
23 February 2010 (Tuesday) 7 pm
(doors open at 6:15 pm Turn the Key: A Collaborative Experience
with novelist Marisha Chamberlain,
photographer Laura Crosbyand
composer
Libby Larsen.The three artists will
screen Time Take, their collaborative
installation on aging, which was first seen at the Weisman Art Museum in
2002. Coming together again, they will explore with the audience the
concept of aging, through images, words, and sounds. Sponsored by Mill City Commons and
the Library Foundation of Hennepin
County. For more information: 612-630-6174.
16 February 2010 (Tuesday) 7:30 pm Reading
and book signing at the University Club, Summit Avenue, St. Paul.
Marisha Chamberlain will read from her novel,The
Rose Variations,
along with Judith Healey,
who will read from her novel, The
Canterbury Papers. Reading series sponsored byPublic Art St. Paul.
For more information: (651)222-1751.
10 February 2010 (Wednesday) 7 pm Great River Reading Series, Winona, MN: Marisha Chamberlain will be this year's
featured fiction writer, reading from her novel,The
Rose Variations.Winona
State University, Baldwin Lounge. For more information, call (507)457-5440.
1 February 2010 (Thursday) afternoon Marisha Chamberlain will join creative writing faculty Thomas Maltman,
students and other Minnesota writers at the Normandale Community CollegeMidwinter Writing Festival. Details TBA.
18
January (Monday) and 19 January (Tuesday) 7:30 p.m Excerpt of Propeller,
new opera by librettist
Marisha Chamberlain and composer Mary
Ellen Childs, performed as part of the Nautilus Music-Theater
ROUGH CUTS
series: fast art, loose ideas, and odd angles. Singers to be
accompanied
by Zeitgeist
New Music Ensemble. For more information:
(651) 298-9913.
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