Featured are ten local artists sure to make us laugh, cry, and revel in word art. Also joining the event are guests at the Open Mike!  Check out the program as of today:

BENEFIT SHOW
*Marilyn Mayer Culpepper – Never Will We Forget
*Charles Thornton – storyteller
*Nancy Allen – poet
*Lee Sayles – I Have Nothing to Say
*Becky Payne – poet and storyteller
*Laura Apol – Crossing the Ladder of the Sun
*Silvana Alfaro – poet
*Tim Lane – Pure Pop, director of (SCENE) Metrospace
*Logic – organizer of Spitfire Poetry Slam and Open Mic, Nu Poet Collective
*Christine Pereira – poet

OPEN MIKE
*Chey Davis – Bad Dog Behavior
*Rosalie Sanara Petrouske – A Postcard from my Mother
*Shirley Bradley – Lansing Storytellers
*Margaret Beard – poet
*Aaron Curtner – visual artist, poet
*Melissa Dey Hasbrook – the land, once called DeWitt; HerStories organizer

The National Women’s History Project turns 30 this year and has given 2010′s Women’s History Month the theme Writing Women Back into History. The theme perfectly matches the writing workshops offered by The HerStories Project.

Workshops are open to adults and high-school aged youth. All sessions support the development of stories about women – historical, contemporary, autobiographical, and fictional. Participants are invited to submit an entry for possible publication by the magazine Greater Lansing Woman, which will publish one submission from all entries.

Registration (see form here) for workshops may be completed by email herstories.project @ gmail.com or at the Everybody Reads bookstore, 2019 E. Michigan Ave. in Lansing, during business hours: 11am to 7pm Monday through Saturday, and 9am to 4pm on Sunday.

There are five workshops offered by HerStories in March. Updates are ongoing about sessions, so just follow the links as they’re available:

• “Journaling through Change” by Holly Makimaa (Oasis Wellness) on March 6 at 2:30pm.
• “There’s Sense in Our Poetry: Using the Senses to Enter Poetic Spiritual Space” by Mary Catherine Harper (Defiance College) on March 13 at 2:30pm.
• “On Becoming a Fish: Birthing Characters and Finding Voice Through Fiction” by Dawn Comer (Defiance College) on March 13 at 3:45pm
• “Writing about Women” by Marilyn Mayer Culpepper (Never Will We Forget: Oral Histories of World War II) on March 20 at 2:30pm.
• “Making Your Creative Nonfiction Sizzle” by Virginia Law Burns (Bold Women in Michigan History) on March 20 at 3:45pm.