Women bosses
Women entrepreneurs, what does it take to be your own boss?
Hear what women bosses from around the commonwealth — Rappahannock County’s Cheri Woodard among them — have to say about owning their own businesses. An interactive session this Saturday morning, March 23, will be led by successful women who will provide their own success stories and insight on owning your own business.
Besides Woodard of Cheri Woodard Realty in Sperryville, panelists include Felecia Manns of Happiness Dance Studio in Richmond; Tisha Johnson of Orleans Bistro in Fredericksburg; attorney Marie Washington of Warrenton; and Charlotte Brady and Sandra ReavesYates of Culpeper’s Charlotte's Fashion boutique and NStyle Fashion Gallery respectively.
The free program, sponsored by Friends of the Culpeper Library and Women in Ministries, is from 10 to 11:30 a.m.. Coffee and light snacks served.
The Rappahannock Association for Arts and Community (RAAC), in partnership with Quievremont Winery, is pleased to announce the first installment in its new RAAC Reading Series, in which local writers will share their work during an intimate evening of poetry, prose, and wine.
The event will take place this Saturday, March 23. There will be a social hour at the winery from 6:307:30 p.m., followed by four readings from 7:45-9 p.m.
The three opening readers will be: KC Bosch whose poetry has appeared at Camel Saloon, Dead Mule, Poetry Breakfast, and vox poetica and who was awarded a RAAC Claudia Mitchell Fund grant to publish “Stealing Days” (2015), a full-length book of poems and original photographs; Sheila R. Lamb, another Mitchell Fund grant recipient whose writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals and whose most recent story is forthcoming in the “Anthology of Appalachian Writers”; and Nol Putnam, who has variously worked as a wood lot manager, a drill sergeant, an oil field roustabout, a truck driver, a school teacher, and a blacksmith and who is currently working on a memoir.
The keynote reader will be Angela M. Carter, an author, poet, novelist, motivational speaker, spoken word performer, visual artist and an advocate/activist whose book, “Memory Chose a Woman’s Body” (unbound CONTENT, 2014) is a poetry memoir that spotlights the effects of the silences endured after abuse, neglect and depression. Angela is a 2014 Pushcart Prize nominee, a nominee for the 2015 Virginia Library Literary Award (poetry), and has been featured in a multitude of venues, including The KGB Club in Manhattan and Busboys and Poets.
Attendance at this reading is free. Wine will be available for purchase, and light refreshments will be provided.