Featured Events in White in May 2025 (April Updated)

Magpie Kids will be hosting silhouette artist, Erik Johnson!! Erik is a highly skilled, 3rd generation silhouette artist, who learned the craft from his father. Within minutes, Erik hand cuts each silhouette by just looking at the subject's profile. When he's done you'll have an amazing keepsake silhouette of you, your child, significant other, etc. Silhouettes make great gifts! Sign ups are FREE! Silhouettes are $30 each, duplicate of the same person is $15. Framing is available. Cash and credit cards accepted. Information Source: Silhouettes by Erik | eventbrite

When giant baby Xiaohua was sent on a study abroad track by her parents' remote control, her London adventure was even more magical than Sun Wukong's journey to obtain the scriptures! This avant-garde drama fuses the Eastern Sichuan Opera with Western drama, transforming the Eighty-One Tribulations of Journey to the West into survival challenges for the Z generation. In the end, can the overly protected Sun Wukong obtain the true scripture of independence in a foreign land? Director：Yi Tang Playwriter：Ziqi Lin Yi Tang Producer：Sunny Jie Liu Information Source: Central Saint Martins, UAL | eventbrite

Welcome to Brick Wall Pickleball! Join us at Dill Dinkers for an exciting event and watch as professional players showcase their skills and compete in thrilling matches for tons of cash. Whether you're a pickleball enthusiast or just looking for some entertainment, this event is perfect for everyone. Come cenjoy a day of fun at the complex - don't miss out on this opportunity to witness some incredible pickleball talent up close! For more information message @brickwallpickleball on Instagram! Information Source: eventbrite

Presented by Oblong Books in partnership with The White Hart & Scoville Memorial Library. An Economist Best Book of 2024! Tickets Required.Tickets $15: Include a complimentary glass of house wine, beer or non alcoholic beverage plus a $5 voucher towards the purchase of THE EDITOR at this event. Author Sara B. Franklin and Alice Quinn will discuss Franklin's book THE EDITOR - the story of the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century.During her more than fifty years as an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Jones nurtured the careers of literary icons such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Tyler, and John Updike, and helped launched new genres and trends in literature. At the forefront of the cookbook revolution, she published the who’s who of food writing: Edna Lewis, M.F.K. Fisher, Claudia Roden, Madhur Jaffrey, James Beard, and, most famously, Julia Child. Sara B. Franklin is a writer, teacher, and oral historian. She received a 2020–2021 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Public Scholars grant for her research on Judith Jones, and teaches courses on food, writing, embodied culture, and oral history at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is the author of The Editor, the editor of Edna Lewis, and coauthor of The Phoenicia Diner Cookbook. She holds a PhD in food studies from NYU and studied documentary storytelling at both the Duke Center for Documentary Studies and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. She lives in Kingston, New York. Alice Quinn, executive director of the Poetry Society of America for eighteen years, was also the poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987 to 2007 and an editor at Alfred A. Knopf for more than ten years prior to that. She teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and is the editor of a book of Elizabeth Bishop’s writings, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments, as well as a forthcoming book of Bishop’s journals. She lives in New York City and Millerton, New York The White Hart Inn is a fully wheelchair accessible space with on-site van accessible parking. Microphones and speakers will be used at this event. If you have specific questions about the space or how an event can be made more accessible to you, please do not hesitate to contact us: info@oblongbooks.com. Information Source: Oblong Books | eventbrite

'Think of an Irish wind that shakes the barley . Then think of the East!': How Lafcadio Hearn and W.B. Yeats mirrored Japan in Ireland. W.B. Yeats cited Lafcadio Hearn for his favourite definition of poetry — ‘There is something ghostly in all great art’. Hearn was a world-famous writer when Yeats started out as a poet. Hearn lectured on Yeats in Japan. They corresponded. They shared similar social backgrounds and a lifelong interest in folklore dating back to their Irish childhoods. Both produced their best mature work in collaboration with their wives. Hearn explained Japanese culture to the outside world and gave new life in English to Japanese ghost stories. Yeats turned the ghost stories underlying Noh theatre into a new form of Irish art. The parallels between them offer useful insights into their work, and their work offers useful insights into Japan and Ireland. Biographical Note: Seán Golden was Professor of East Asia Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona until retirement. He organised Yeats on Asia. Asia on Yeats, an International Yeats Society Symposium, in Barcelona (2016). Editor and co-author of Yeats and Asia: Overviews and Case Studies (Cork University Press, 2020), he has published and spoken extensively on Yeats. Co-editor with Peter Fallon of Soft Day. A Miscellany of Contemporary Irish Literature, he has published in Ireland in Cyphers, The Crane Bag, The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Force 10, The SHOp, and The Stinging Fly. This talk is presented by the OPW in support of the Farmleigh Gallery exhibition Kwaidan - Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn, which runs until Sunday 24th August, and as part of the Farmleigh House cultural programme for 2025. www.seangolden.ie www.kwaidanexhibition.com www.farmleigh.ie Photograph courtesy of the Barcelona Institute for International Studies (IBEI) Information Source: Farmleigh House OPW | eventbrite

Join us for an enchanting evening of heart-stirring Kirtan / World Devotional Music and divine melodies. Immerse yourself in the captivating rhythms and ancient devotional chants that will transport you to a state of pure bliss. Such pure joy & love coming through the music. Unlike any other Kirtan we've been to! I'm no musician but found so much joy by just letting go into the songs and mantras! I experienced such an energy surge through my body and felt a deeper connection to everything. ** To be notified about future Oneder Kirtan events join the mailing list here: https://bit.ly/3XkOqBX This music provides a chance for us to transcend our human boundaries. It speaks to the core of us, reminding us that there truly is no separation and deep within we are all one. We sing world heart mantras from the sacred traditions of India, Polynesia, Western & Native America. The word mantra derives from Sanskrit, which is divided into “man” meaning mind and “tra” meaning to free from. Mantras are quite literally tools to free the mind. Kirtan digs into the heart’s deepest well to touch and be touched by the Divine Unifying Presence. Singing these powerful healing mantras together, we have the opportunity to merge with the sound and true essence of oneness & love that these rhythmic ancient songs open within us. 🌞 7:30 -9 pm. *Doors open at 7:15pm* 🌞 $15 Online $20 Door 🌞 Over 18 Event - We are asking that children please stay home or have babysitters so that mum and dad can get the most out of the evening. Let's get together in honour of the light within us all! This event is followed by an evening of Kirtan World Heart Music and warm tea! Book your tickets to Kirtan here. For more info on this & latest IPF events go to: https://www.innerpeacefoundation.org/events Did you know there is a Truly Awakened Living Guide at the Inner Peace Foundation? Rohan offers group Satsang (Meetings in Truth) for true seekers to discover their deepest peace and Authentic Self. https://innerpeacefoundation.org/satsang-1 Information Source: InnerPeaceFoundation.org | eventbrite