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4:00 pm
Wed September 26, 2012

Axton Reading Series Opens with Poet Laureate

Credit Barry Westerman / Kentucky Arts Council
Kentucky poet laureate Maureen Morehead, author of "Late August Blues: the Daylily Poems"

Kentucky’s poet laureate will read from her new book in the Axton Reading Series at the University of Louisville tomorrow.

Morehead will read from her new collection of poems, “Late August Blues: the Daylily Poems,” in U of L’s Ekstrom Library, in the Chao Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Morehead is also the author of "In a Yellow Room," "Our Brothers’ War," "A Sense of Time Left" and "The Melancholy Teacher." She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Spalding University.

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Arts and Humanities
6:00 am
Wed September 26, 2012

The Big Break: Introducing Our Young Artists in Residence

Every season, performing arts companies take on a group of young up-and-comers who will work, and learn, with the pros. The Louisville Ballet calls them trainees. At Actors Theatre of Louisville, they’re apprentices.

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Arts and Humanities
4:00 pm
Mon September 24, 2012

Baby Horse Blurs Line Between Performance Art and Theater

Credit Baby Horse Theatre Group
Jon Becraft, Danielle Burns and Kelli Fitzgibbons in "Biography of Physical Sensation."

Baby Horse Theatre Group, a new Louisville company, blurs the line between drama and performance art with its first experimental show. Devised from extensive interviews with one ordinary subject, “Biography of  Physical Sensation” tells the story of one woman’s life through her memories.

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Arts and Humanities
11:02 am
Mon September 24, 2012

Stephen Tobolowsky Coming to Louisville

Host of "The Tobolowsky Files" (Thursdays at 9 p.m. on 89.3 WFPL), Stephen Tobolowsky will be speaking at the Kentucky Center on Friday, October 5. Tickets are now on sale.

Tobowlowsky is currently touring in support of his brand new book, "The Dangerous Animals Club."

"He weaves a spell not unlike Jean Shepherd or Garrison Keillor." – Leonard Maltin

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