Join us on Monday, September 9th at the Castle for Jill Bialosky & Kyrae Dawaun Presentations. We will welcome you with light refreshments at 6:00 PM.



Jill Bialosky
Writing, USA
Director’s Guest


Jill Bialosky is a poet, novelist, essayist, and editor. Her newest volume of poetry Asylum: A Personal, Historical, Natural Inquiry in 103 Lyric Sections, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She is the author of five acclaimed poetry collections, four critically-acclaimed novels, including The Deceptions, finalist for the Gotham Book Prize, and two memoirs Poetry Will Save Your Life and New York Times bestseller History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life.

Kyrae Dawaun
Visual Arts, USA
BOPA Affiliated Fellow


From the Northern MidAtlantic region of the United States, Kyrae Dawaun is demonstrating an expansion of painting history and milieu, leading a conceptual practice toiling in the chemistries of earthen, organic, and synthetic material matter, for paint technologies, the creation of objects, and choreographed exhibitions. His work is critical of national priority in dominion and competition. He uses metaphor found in material studies to prompt questions about these social dynamics.

Monday, September 9th, 2024
6:00 PM Welcome cocktail 
6:15 PM Presentations
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