Social Painting Party Monday 4/30 6-8pm

ASPIRING ARTISTS TO SWARM AT BEEHIVE BOOKS ON APRIL 30

            A new art-as-entertainment concept called "Social Painting" has arrived in Delaware and will be launched at Beehive Books on Monday, April 30, from 6 p.m.-8 p.m.

           

            "I can assure you that no artistic talent is needed,” said Kay Carroll, owner of Art Nest, the studio hosting the party. “Our featured artworks are chosen to promote spontaneity, skill development and excellent outcomes. It's a lot of fun and a unique opportunity to surprise yourself and keep the evidence.” 

            Social Painting Studios have emerged throughout the nation and have become a popular alternative to more typical destinations for an evening out. Studios host short workshops, often referred to as parties, for those hoping to get to know their inner artist, said Carroll. Party goers receive all supplies, aprons and instruction from a professional art Instructor.

            Guidance is offered to guests through each phase in the completion of their own acrylic painting on canvas, which is theirs to keep. 

           

            The cost is $25 per person, payable by cash or check at the event. To register or receive more information, contact Kay from Art Nest Studios at 614-832-8246 or email yournest4art@yahoo.com. 

Anne Tyler fans UNITE! at 2pm this Saturday 4/7

Join us for a reading from Anne Tyler's new novel (No, sorry, she won't be here) but fans are invited to read a selected passage from her new book and stick around to discuss her books and your favorites among them. 

Robert Olmstead Reading and Book Signing Tuesday 3 April @ 7pm

Join us for a special reading with Robert Olmstead on the day his new novel, The Coldest Night, is released.   A book signing and wine reception will follow the reading.

Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly consumes him. But when young Mercy’s disapproving father threatens Henry’s life, Henry runs as far as he can—to the other side of the world.

The time is 1950, and the Korean War hangs in the balance. Descended from a long line of soldiers, Henry enlists in the marines and arrives in Korea on the eve of the brutal seventeen-day battle of the Chosin Reservoir—the turning point of the war—completely unprepared for the forbidding Korean landscape and the unimaginable circumstances of a war well beyond the scope of anything his ancestors ever faced. But the challenges he meets upon his return home, scarred and haunted, are greater by far.

Robert Olmstead’s riveting new novel is not only a passionate story of love and war, it is a timeless story of soldiers coming home to a country with little regard for, and even less knowledge of, what they’ve confronted. Through his hero, Olmstead reveals an unspoken truth about combat: that for many men, the experience of war is the most enlivening, electric, and extraordinary experience of their lives.



Robert Olmstead is the author of seven previous books. Coal Black Horse was the winner of the Heartland Prize for Fiction and the Ohioana Award, and was a #1 Book Sense pick and a Border’s Discover pick. Far Bright Star was the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA grant, and is a professor at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Robert Flanagan Reading Monday 3/26 @ 7pm

Please join us on Monday, March 26 at 7 p.m. as Delaware author Bob Flanagan reads from his new short story collection, Fight Night.

Flanagan is the author of the acclaimed Marine Corps novel Maggot and the short story collections Naked to Naked Goes and Loving Power. Born in Toledo, he studied at the University of Chicago and served as Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing program at Ohio Wesleyan University, retiring in 2010. He lives in Delaware with his wife, Katy, and works out in a basement gym featuring a heavy bag, a peanut bag (“speed bag”) and a boom-box.

Nan Byrne, a writer and producer, has high praise for Fight Night. “Like a perfect left hook hitting America’s mid-section, Flanagan’s new collection of stories packs a powerful wallop,” she said. “Inside this book you will find spit and towel tales of the bruised and battered, jammed-fingered, broken-down and bloody-nosed, but still-resilient souls who come out swinging in that “cap down and collar up” corner of the universe where glory dreams collide with the hard-knock life. From the salty reminisces of a worn-out prize fighter to the liquid dreams of a youngster steeling for his first schoolyard fight, Flanagan’s brutally-honest prose floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee sent straight to the heart.”

Fight Night was recently published by XOXOX, located in Gambier, Ohio.

New Delaware Book! Book Signing & Talk Friday 2/10 @ 5-7pm

It's here!  The new book about Delaware has finally arrived and we are celebrating with a book signing and talk with Author Jeff Darbee.  Mr. Darbee and the folks from the Delaware County Historical Society will be at the Beehive Friday 2/10 from 5-7pm to sign books.                                                                                       Mr. Darbee will give a brief talk about the book at 7pm.



Please join us to welcome this wonderful new book about our fair city recently published by Arcadia Press as part of their Images of America series.  It has wonderful old photographs and tells the story of our city and county.  A great gift for friends and family or for your local history-loving sweetheart!

From Ethiopia to Palestine - Wed 1/25 @ 7pm -- Farewell Claire!

Join us as Claire Everhart, Global Village Collection intern, gives a quick recap of her Run Across Ethiopia (2011), including a few highlights from the documentary made of this endeavor: When We Run, AND discusses her upcoming Run Across Palestine (Feb 2012) and 6 month internship in Jenin. Come with questions about Palestine - she will answer them in her blog!  This will be an informal setting and some refreshments will be served. Wednesday, Jan 25th, 7pm, Beehive Books & Global Village. 

Most of all, it's a chance for us to thank Claire for her good work in our community, wish her well in her new endeavors, and stay in touch and learn through her new experiences as she goes global!

Check out more info about the Run Across Palestine at onthegroundglobal.org