2 Nights Only!
‘Breathe’
Michelle Courtney Berry
& Friends
featuring the poetry and prose of Michelle Courtney Berry
- Playing
- Thur Apr 5 @ 7 pm
- Fri Apr 6 @ 8 pm
- tickets
- $18/Adults (in advance); $22/Adults (at the door)*
- $10 Seniors and Students (in advance); $12 (at the door)
- (No one will be turned away at the door, so please pay what you can)
- Ticket
Center Ithaca
in Center Ithaca on the Commons
607.273.4497 or 1-800-28-ITHACA
- or IthacaEvents.com
- at door: $15
- performance venue
- First Unitarian Church
corner of Aurora & Court St.
Ithaca, NY
- starring
- Michelle Courtney Berry
- with musicans
- Hank Roberts
- Dwight Carroll
- Joel Blizzard
- Benn Bartishevich
- with actors
- Sarah K. Chalmers
- Leslyn McBean-Clairborne
- Ahrayna Zakos
- emcee
- Benn Bartishevich
- directed by
- Ross Haarstad
a new one-woman show starring
former Tompkins County Poet Laureate
Michelle Courtney Berry & Friends
BREATHE is a return to the stage of the wonderful Michelle Courtney Berry, a kick-off of her new book of collected poems and prose, Breathe, and
a benefit to support the Multicultural Resource Center. There will be a book signing & CD sales immediately following on both evenings (A portion of the proceeds of book sales to benefit the Beverly J. Martin (BJM) Elementary School PTA)
Begin National Poetry Month with BREATHE, a variety show and performance benefit, featuring performances by former Tompkins County Poet Laureate Michelle Courtney Berry and (musicians) Benn Bartishevich (Ithaca College alum and emcee), Joel Blizzard (Thousands of One), Dwight Carroll (Shalamar), Hank Roberts (internationally acclaimed cellist) and (actors) Sarah Chalmers Simmons (Cornell faculty), Leslyn McBean-Clairborne (Tompkins County Legislator) and Ahrayna Zakos (Teacher, Ithaca City School District), under the direction of Ross Haarstad. This show has received grant support from The Community Arts Partnership.