BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CalDiscovery//caldiscovery//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH DESCRIPTION:Discovered and maintained by CalDiscovery (https://caldiscover y.com). Event details belong to their publishers. Contains information fro m CalDiscovery\, which is made available under the ODbL 1.0. SOURCE:https://caldiscovery.com/dallas-tx/src-9702.ics X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-WR-CALDESC:Discovered and maintained by CalDiscovery (https://caldiscove ry.com). Event details belong to their publishers. Contains information fr om CalDiscovery\, which is made available under the ODbL 1.0. X-WR-CALNAME:CalDiscovery - dallas-tx BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:September Lyceum Series: Chukwudi Ukonne – Coloring Outside The Lines: Writing Beyond Form & Genre DTSTART:20260919T150000Z DTEND:20260919T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260826T182147Z UID:17008-1789812000-1789819200@writersgarret.org CATEGORIES:education,literary DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the lyceum. These free\, monthly workshops are held on the third Saturday of the month\, and offer writers of every genre and skill level an opportunity to learn\, experiment and develop their craft. We hope you’ll join us!\nWhat happens when our stories and ideas resist formal boundaries between poetry\, memoir\, reportage and fiction? Throug h close reading\, discussion\, and generative exercises\, we will explore and experiment with writing that privileges emotional truth and curiosity over conventional labels. Participants will leave with a renewed sense of creative possibility and the beginnings of a piece that challenges traditi onal genre classifications.\n\nChukwudi Ukonne is a poet and essayist whos e work explores the histories\, politics\, and cultures of the global dias pora\, tracing the ways personal experience intersects with collective mem ory. His writing has appeared in The Republic Journal\, Isele Magazine\, a nd Glasstire. He was a 2025 Artist-in-Residence at Arts Mission Oak Cliff\ , and is currently a member of Cohort V of the Cedars Union Residency.\nRS VP for the Lyceum Series LAST-MODIFIED:20260826T182147Z LOCATION:The Writer’s Garret\, 215 S. Tyler St.\, Dallas\, TX\, 75208\, United States URL:https://writersgarret.org/event/september-lyceum-series-chukwudi-ukonn e/ X-SOURCE-NAME:The Writer's Garret X-SOURCE-URL:https://writersgarret.org/event/hear-me-see-me END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cake & Prose: Michael Vadney DTSTART:20260927T000000Z DTEND:20260927T020000Z DTSTAMP:20260901T061848Z UID:17032-1790449200-1790456400@writersgarret.org CATEGORIES:food,literary,music DESCRIPTION:Cake and Prose returns to Fort Worth! On Saturday\, September 26th at 7 p.m.\, we’re featuring acclaimed local author\, Michael Vadney . Come join us at Arts Fifth Avenue to hear readings from Vadney’s work\ , to enjoy songs from our musical guest\, Hamstir—and of course\, to eat cake. \nCake and Prose is a unique\, free literary event with a focus on genre fiction\, local talent\, and cake. The ingredients are simple: \n\n\ n\nThree stories. An author shares three stories — read by three differe nt actors. These stories could be any genre. They could be short stories o r excerpts of a longer work.\nThree songs. A musical performance by a gues t artist adds another layer to this night of entertainment. Themes can eme rge between the stories and songs.\nOne cake. During the intermission\, th ere is cake. Really good cake from a local bakery.\n\nMix together and enj oy! RSVP now\; more info on the author and performers follow! \n\n\nAUTHOR AND PEFORMER BIOS\nMichael Vadney\, Author\nMichael Vadney’s writing li ves in the nobledark corner of fantasy\, where grim\, morally complex worl ds meet heroic virtues. He believes every story worth telling explores the space between who we are and who we could become. He has dedicated nights \, weekends\, and an unreasonable number of pre-dawn hours to storytelling . The result is his debut novel\, Crownfall. \n  \nLydia Mackay\, Reader\ nLydia Mackay is a professional stage & voice actor and an Associate Profe ssor of Performance in the Department of Theatre at Texas Christian Univer sity. She is forever nurturing the connections that live between her passi ons – education\, performance\, storytelling\, meditative movement\, pla yful invention\, and empathetic living. Give her a Google. \n  \nBrandon Wetch\, Reader\nBrandon Wetch holds an MFA in acting\, and has recently ap peared as Montano in Othello (Shakespeare Dallas)\, Orsino in Twelfth Nigh t\, and Richmond in Richard III (SSG). Voiceover credits include One Piece \, Spirit Chronicles\, Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom\, Natsume’s Book of Friends\, I Shall Survive Using Potions! and The Legendary Hero is Dead. \ n  \nRudy Lopez\, Reader\nRudy Lopez is a Mexican American stage\, VO act or\, and film actor. His most recent credits include Telemachus in Odyssey and Oswald in King Lear at Shakespeare Dallas. Beetle Girl in The Butterf ly’s Evil Spell with Theatre Three. He is also a voice actor within Crun chyroll and commercial work. He can be heard in some of your favorite anim es like One Piece\, Twilight Out Of Focus\, Dead Mount Death Play and many more! \n  \nHamstir\, Musician\nA solo bassist who’s been playing for most of his life\, he finds it is easier to express himself through his in strument than with words. With the use of chords\, tapping and a couple of effect pedals\, he’s able to get out his view of the world with unique songs. LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T061848Z LOCATION:Arts Fifth Avenue\, 1628 5th Ave.\, Fort Worth\, TX\, 76104\, Uni ted States URL:https://writersgarret.org/event/cake-prose-michael-vadney/ X-SOURCE-NAME:The Writer's Garret X-SOURCE-URL:https://writersgarret.org/event/hear-me-see-me END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR