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Featured Artist: April, 2024


Charlene Kellsey



About the Artist

Charlene Kellsey has been painting for about eighteen years now. She started with pastels, has done watercolor botanicals, but now focuses on watercolor and acrylics. She has always been inspired by nature and many of her paintings are of landscapes or flowers. Lately she has been experimenting with more intuitive abstraction as a new challenge. She lives in Longmont and is a retired CU librarian, so what better place to show her art than Inkberry Books.








Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Poems From the Realm of Non-Thought: Space and Its Contexts

A reading by Wendell Beavers

His solo dance work has been characterized as "reaching the ecstatic through subtle travails of the flesh" (The Village Voice, Toby Tobias). Recent work has aspired to reach the ecstatic through subtle travails of the sound and meaning of words.

Wendell Beavers, emeritus professor of performing arts at Naropa University, where he taught from 2003-2018, founded and chaired Naropa's MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Program (2003-2020). He previously was a founding faculty and Director of New York University's Experimental Theater Wing (ETW) 1978-2003. He continues to teach, create performance, and perform under the auspices of his company SomaticPerformer Movement Arts that he shares with his partner, Erika Berland. He has produced, adapted, directed/choreographed hundreds of experimental theater and dance productions, mostly in educational settings, in collaboration with artists from many disciplines. These have including Luminous Emptiness: A Multi-Media Adaptation of The Tibetan Book of The Dead, The Siddhartha Project (an adaptation of Hermann Hess's Siddhartha), 23 Seconds about John Cage, Trojan Women, BeckettButoh-07, Our Town, Shakespeare's Lear: A Living Room Version, Shakespeare's The Tempest: A Musical, A Celebration Service with/by Meredith Monk. HIs solo dance work and choreography has been seen at Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Movement Research at Judson Church, Dance Theater Workshop (currently NY Live Arts), American Dance Festival, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, and many venues globally. www.beaversberlandworkshops.com



Inkberry Books: May 17th at 7:00

The Memory of Lavender and Sage

Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since she lost her beloved mother at the tender age of thirteen. When her workaholic father passes fifteen years later, Tempèsta is not surprised that the majority of the considerable family money will pass to her dutiful younger brother, Wal. Still, she is left a modest 

remembrance from her mother, and for the first time Tempèsta has a world of choices before her.

Lost in grief and hoping to reconnect with her memories and her mother 's past, she uses the money to buy a ramshackle manor house in Sainte-Colombe, a small village in Provence, where her mother had grown up. But she is greeted with more questions than answers. Her welcome, especially by the town 's stodgy mayor, is cold at best, and she finds herself wondering if the entire experiment was a mistake.

Yet she stays, stubbornly sticking it out, slowly learning that her mother 's legacy was more than just a nest egg. Through her mother and the village, Tempèsta learns the value of community and friendship, the importance of self-confidence, and the power of love and trust. What 's more, she sees for herself that there is magic and beauty in the everyday—even something as simple as a sprig of lavender and sage.


Author Aimie Runyan

Aimie writes fiction, both historical and contemporary, that celebrates the spirit of strong women. In addition to her writing, she is active as a speaker and educator in the writing community. She lives in Colorado with her amazing husband, kids, cats, and pet dragon.

Inkberry Books: June 21st at 7:00

A Musical Mystery--and the Story of a Lie

As the Great War rages, a French pianist sits down to play a breathtakingly original sonata--a piece so strange and inspired that it could change the course of classical music. The moment is captured on wax cylinders, the recording medium of the day. But in the tumult of war the fragile cylinders vanish, and with them the identities of the brilliant composer and the virtuoso pianist.

A century later, five timeworn wax cylinders land on the desk of Ben Weil, a revered classical music producer. From the moment he first plays them in his Chicago studio, Ben knows he's in the presence of genius. The dazzling piece is fifty years ahead of its time, more Coltrane than Debussy--how could it be?

Brought low by a painful divorce, Ben throws himself into unlocking the sonata's mysteries. But when the renowned pianist Ana Clara Matta stumbles upon the work and takes credit for unearthing it, he's swept into a lie that could shatter his reputation and his private life at a stroke. Somehow Ben must find a way to tell the truth--a dangerous quest that will lead him not only to the sonata's surprising origins, but to his own.

Edward Hamlin is the winner of the Nelson Algren Award, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the Nelligan Prize and a Colorado Book Award. Pulitzer Prize finalist Karen Russell called his prizewinning short story collection, NIGHT IN ERG CHEBBI AND OTHER STORIES, "sweeping and intimate and awesomely confident," while two-time National Book Award finalist Jim Shepard found it "beautifully written and politically astute."

Publishers Weekly named NIGHT IN ERG CHEBBI a "memorable read from a writer with considerable talent; Foreword Reviews found the work "beautiful, terrifying and compassionate." His debut novel, SONATA IN WAX, will be published in April, 2024.

Since 2012 Edward Hamlin has published more than twenty-five stories in Ploughshares, Missouri Review, Colorado Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Chariton, the Chicago Tribune and elsewhere, garnering three Pushcart Prize nominations along the way. His work has been shortlisted twice for the Bridport Prize (UK) and has been a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Grace Paley Award, the Narrative Story Prize, the Raymond Carver Award and others. Stories of his have also been performed on stage and published by Audible.

A New York native and an accomplished composer, Edward Hamlin spent his formative years in Chicago and now lives in the Colorado foothills. He is represented by Deborah Schneider of Gelfman-Schneider/ICM, [email protected].

www.edwardhamlin.com