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Artists – Literary Arts

The literary arm of the Patchogue Arts Council was born with live spoken word performances during PAC’s Annual Autumn Arts Festival.   Local poets raised their voices and the audience’s spirit during this day-long event held in the lobby of the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts.

Over the past five years, the PAC literary committee cultivated a wonderful partnership with Herstory Writer’s Workshop.  Through weekly workshops held in our gallery, writers of all skill levels are learning to harness the power of memoir writing circles and to use their stories to inspire the Patchogue community.   Memoirs of Motherhood: Connecting Through Our Stories was a women’s writing circle that brought mothers of all ages together to share their joys, sorrows, hopes, hardships, and dreams.   Bridges to Justice: Connecting Through Our Stories continues to unite human rights activists, high school and college students, and community members with the goal of crafting first-person testimonies of their struggles to create a more equitable and inclusive world.  Excerpts from these memoirs have been featured annually at public readings held at the Plaza Mac Media Center and the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts.

The literary committee is thrilled to announce that, through our partnership with Herstory Writer’s Workshop, PAC will be hosting a Freedom Forum, representing the Long Island Region in a statewide literary event designed to spotlight the ongoing struggles to preserve our democratic values such as freedom, equality, and justice under the law. On October 28th, we will be joining forces with Herstory and other partners at the Patchogue-Medford Public Library to host this day-long event featuring a presentation by poet Kathy Engel, followed by selected Herstory Writers reading memoir excerpts highlighting their journeys towards justice.  The program will then shift to a town-hall format wherein participants will discover how they can turn their own personal story into a literary work that will help mend the bridges in communities torn apart by violence and hatred.

The Freedom Forum will serve as a springboard for subsequent workshops during which participants can complete their stories.  The over-arching goal is to bring together members of Suffolk County’s hidden communities to cultivate empathy and a deeper understanding of the challenges confronting them in the current climate.  With the writers’ permission, the stories will be shared in various formats ranging from Herstory’s Digital Archive to local newspapers to sermons in churches, mosques, and synagogues.

In the future, the Literary committee looks forward to continuing its partnership with Herstory Writer’s Workshop while also returning to its roots by focusing on spoken word.   It is our goal to expand on PAC cultural offerings to the community by promoting poetry in Patchogue.  Stay tuned!


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Burns Night

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Burns Night

JANUARY 25 @ 7:00 PM

No cover | Donations welcome

PAC -MoCA and Whiskey N’ Eat present an evening of great food, high spirits (liquid and emotional) seasoned with dashes of poetry and song!

Join us @ 7:00 PM | We’ll warm it up with some Burn’s favorites while you order some tasty bites (including a Burns Night Scottish dish) and your favorite scotch. ALL Scotch & Whiskey is 50% off ALL evening. So have some of your favorite or try something new and let’s cheers to Burns.

@8:00 PM | Welcome to Robby Burns Remix Night celebrating the 264th birthday of Scotland’s national poet. Featuring the Fred the Human Ipod!

Since 1801, when close friends of Robert Burns held the first supper-party honoring his birthday, folks have gathered on January 25 in celebration.

You already know his “greatest hit.”  You hear it, you sing it every New Year’s Eve with old acquaintances and cups of kindness in your hands: Auld Lang Syne.

So, pour yourself a dram of scotch, grab a cock-a-leekie soup bowl, and buy a raffle ticket for a whisky treat. Celebrate with us at Whiskey N’ Eat. 

 Enjoy and support the arts by buying some raffles to win a Burns inspired basket of fun.

Learning to Look | Ekphrastic Poetry

Learning to Look | Ekphrastic Poetry

Special guest • Edward Schmieder

February 21 from 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

“Ekphrasis* is a practice in which a work of art inspires a piece of poetry or prose.  Examples include “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats, and William Carlos Williams’ “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” (Pieter Bruegel).  Join PAC MoCA curator John Cino and English educator Edward Schmieder (MPhil Literature) for a look at select artworks and the poems they have prompted. Together we will experience this intersection of art and language. Aspiring poets may find this approach a powerful tool for composition.

This event is offered as a hybrid. 

In person: MoCA L.I. @ 20 Terry Street, Patchogue

Join via Zoom: Meeting ID: 880 1524 8901 | Passcode: 419010

Offered in partnership with the Patchogue Medford Library

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