FREE | Every Friday: May 10 - October 11 | 5 PM - 6 PM
Join us throughout the residency season for our free public series of short and informal artist talks, readings, and presentations. We’ll learn about works-in-progress from our artists and scholars-in-residence with informative and inspiring presentations in all disciplines. This is a wonderful way to kick off your weekend! Bring a friend, all are welcome.
Location: Main Campus. Look for Craigardan Event sign at the end of Main Campus driveway (two “doors” west of the farm store, towards Keene). Google Maps Link
Virgina Chang Ph.D.
Virginia Chang, Ph.D., is an end-of-life doula, educator, and writer. She supports the dying and their families/caregivers to approach the end of life in a positive, meaningful, and affirming way. She works as a doula privately and volunteers for VNS Health. She teaches for the University of Vermont End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate program, as well as is an established mentor in the field. Virginia has been featured in the media, such as CNN, AARP, and PBS, and has written on death, mortality, and doula work in magazines and journals, such as Scientific American and Intima. She is inspired by her work as a doula and writes to remember the stories of the dying. She is grateful for their words of wisdom on living a life with meaning and purpose. Virginia lives, works, and writes in New York City.
Chauna Craig
Chauna Craig is the author of the story collection The Widow’s Guide to Edible Mushrooms, winner of a Next Gen Indies award for short fiction, and Wings and Other Things, both published by Press 53. Her fiction has appeared most recently in the anthologies Flash Fiction America (W.W. Norton) and Mountains Piled upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene (WVU Press), and her creative work has been recognized in the Pushcart Prize anthology, and by Best American Essays and Best American Nonrequired Reading.