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2012!!!

JANUARY,

Thursday, Jan. 5 at 4 p.m. "Give Yourself the Gift of Time" Ronnie Murtha, CSW. will lead us in a guided reflection as we bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new one.Time for journaling, reflection and discussion.

COURSE FILLED!! Fridays, January 13 through Feb. 3 "A Winter Walk with Thomas Merton" led by Eda Lorello. This four-session contemplative workshop offers participants an opportunity to reflect on their own spiritual journey while being introduced to Merton´s life and work. Course filled.

Sat. Jan. 14 at 5 p.m. "The Other America: Dr. Martin Luther King´s Legacy in the Occupy Movement", a discussion with Rev. Dr. Katrina Foster. Excerpts from Dr. King´s speeches are part of the program.

Sat. Jan. 28 at 11 a.m. Children´s book author Kate McMullan and illustrator Jim McMullan present their latest creation, I´m Fast! about a freight train.

Sat. Jan. 28 at 5 p.m. Author and editor Bill Henderson reads from All My Dogs: a Life.

FEBRUARY

Feb. TBA Liberty´s Vigil, a poetry reading from the anthology of OCCUPY poems with Kathy Engel and friends.

. Feb. 18 at 5 p.m. Author Dava Sobel speaks about A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos.

New Writing Workshops on offer: "Winter Write with Thomas Merton a five-week writing workshop sparked by the writings of Thomas Merton, beginning mid-February. This small group workshop uses excerpts from Merton´s work to inspire our own personal essays and stories

Shaping Stories a six-week small-group session focusing on the craft of storytelling useful to writers of both fiction and non-fiction. Selections from Ann Charter´s The Story and Its Writer will be used. Copies available at Canio´s.

MARCH

Sat. Mar. 3 at 3 p.m. Cookbook author Margaret Johnson introduces her newest, Flavors of Ireland: Celebrating Grand Places & Glorious Food

Sat. Mar. 3 at 5 p.m. Poet Marc Cohen and friends introduce the work of the late poet Gerrit Henry.

Contact the shop for more information on writing workshops: nature writing; memoir; spirituality; personal essay. Master class with essayist David Bouchier coming this spring.

Celebrate Sag Harbor! Sag Harbor Is: a Literary Celebration edited by Maryann Calendrille, photographs by Kathryn Szoka signed copies available. Makes a great gift.