See Performances of Local Writing at Fenimore Art Museum

Writers and actors take the stage offering a variety of poetry, prose, short fiction, and more on April 26.

Write Out Loud
Saturday, April 26 • 7:00 p.m.
Fenimore Art Museum Auditorium
Admission: Free (donations accepted)

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Fenimore Art Museum’s Glimmer Globe Theatre presents its annual Write Out Loud performance, live in the Fenimore Auditorium on Saturday, April 26 at 7:00 p.m. The performance features an eclectic variety of poetry, prose, short fiction, and more, all penned by 24 local or regional writers. While most pieces will be performed by the authors, others will be interpreted by local actors.

This year’s program

This year’s program will feature the work of Brooklyn Benson, Robert Bensen, Richard Braco, Christopher Carter Sanderson, Joanne Corey, Merrill Oliver Douglas, Jessica Dubey, Wendy Everard, Elena Ficicchia, Christine Hauser, Robert Harlow, Roger W. Hecht, Lynne Kemen, Chris Laurel Santomassino, Libby Marshall, Fred Nelson, Lisa Rogers, Charles Wright Rosengren, Paulette Taylor, Rick van Valkenburg , Rosanne J. Westgate, Mary Anne Whelan, Saramarie White, Sally Zaengle.

The performance is free with suggested donation. Seating is limited, interested members of the public are encouraged to e-mail m.tamburrino@fenimoreart.org in advance to secure a spot. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit FenimoreArt.org.

About Fenimore Art Museum

Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, presents changing exhibitions each season. Past shows have featured artists such as Keith Haring, Ansel Adams, Banksy, M.C. Escher, and many others. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings from artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.