Wednesday, December 6
Doors at 6:30, Event at 7pm.
Dewey Hall, 91 Main Street, Sheffield, MA 01257
$10 at the door. Additional donations welcome.
See below for dining options at the Hall and in Sheffield. No outside beverages allowed.
Contact: deweymemorialhall@gmail.com, 413 429 1322
The Dewey Drop-In presents Use Your Words: Literature and Loss. Join Beth Robbins and Hannah Van Sickle for an exploration of memoir — both as a vehicle for navigating grief and a creative act that ultimately gave shape to the authors' respective experiences. The discussion will be mediated by a moderator and will include a reading from both memoirs: Robbins' A Grief Sublime (Keats & Company, 2019) and Van Sickle's Circle of Control.
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.
Hannah Van Sickle is a freelance storyteller who has been fine-tuning her craft for seven years. An educator by training, she spent a decade teaching high school English at public and private schools across Berkshire County and Southern Vermont and another as a one-on-one academic tutor. Her work has appeared in myriad print and online publications from Upstate House to Business Insider; essays about her journey parenting daughters can be found at Modern Loss, Refinery 29, and SheKnows.
Beth Robbins published her first book, A Grief Sublime, in 2019, and is currently working on her second, Box of Bones. She received her Mlitt (2022) and MA (2016) from Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. She was the inspiration for and starred in Sproutland, a short narrative fictional film that reimagines the story narrated in her book. Beth is a longtime English and drama teacher at the Berkshire Waldorf High School in Stockbridge, MA.
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.
Wednesday Night Dining options in Sheffield!
Thank you to our sponsor Roberto’s Pizza!
**Order food and dine at Dewey Hall: Order food at 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 the Roberto'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: https://www.dhrobertospizza413.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 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!
Wednesday, December 6
Doors at 6:30, Event at 7pm.
Dewey Hall, 91 Main Street, Sheffield, MA 01257
$10 at the door. Additional donations welcome.
See below for dining options at the Hall and in Sheffield. No outside beverages allowed.
Contact: deweymemorialhall@gmail.com, 413 429 1322
The Dewey Drop-In presents Use Your Words: Literature and Loss. Join Beth Robbins and Hannah Van Sickle for an exploration of memoir — both as a vehicle for navigating grief and a creative act that ultimately gave shape to the authors' respective experiences. The discussion will be mediated by a moderator and will include a reading from both memoirs: Robbins' A Grief Sublime (Keats & Company, 2019) and Van Sickle's Circle of Control.
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.
Hannah Van Sickle is a freelance storyteller who has been fine-tuning her craft for seven years. An educator by training, she spent a decade teaching high school English at public and private schools across Berkshire County and Southern Vermont and another as a one-on-one academic tutor. Her work has appeared in myriad print and online publications from Upstate House to Business Insider; essays about her journey parenting daughters can be found at Modern Loss, Refinery 29, and SheKnows.
Beth Robbins published her first book, A Grief Sublime, in 2019, and is currently working on her second, Box of Bones. She received her Mlitt (2022) and MA (2016) from Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. She was the inspiration for and starred in Sproutland, a short narrative fictional film that reimagines the story narrated in her book. Beth is a longtime English and drama teacher at the Berkshire Waldorf High School in Stockbridge, MA.
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.
Wednesday Night Dining options in Sheffield!
Thank you to our sponsor Roberto’s Pizza!
**Order food and dine at Dewey Hall: Order food at 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 the Roberto'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: https://www.dhrobertospizza413.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 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!
