March Event

March 8, Monday, 7pm-8pm.
A night of poetry with Traveling Bonfires' Vagrant Wind, featuring local poets Barbie Angell, Donna Ensor, Matthew Mulder, Pasckie Pascua, and Samara Scheckler.
For more info: http://www.mountainx.com/ae/2005/0112bonfires.php or call Marta Osborne at 828 280 1555
The Bonfires advocates “global peace and harmony in diversity.” (Donations are welcome and will benefit impoverished communities in the Philippines.)

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