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Upcoming Events

Saturday, November 9. 2024, 2:00-4:00 PM EST, Featured Reader with Kenny Carroll and Sasa Aakil at MIDNIGHT ROSE: A Reading of Poetry and Prose, Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW, WDC. FREE but register at

https://www.estherproductionsinc.com/events

Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 5:30-8:30 PM EST, Featured Reader with Naomi Ayala, Diana Rojas, Dan Vera, and Jona Colson, Arts Club of Washington, 2017 Eye St NW, WDC, 20006-1804. FREE but registration at https://acw.wildapricot.org/event-5832609/registration

Sunday, August 11, 2024, 5:00-7:00 PM EST, Featured Author with Claudia Gary & Luther Jett, My Dead Aunt’s Books, Second Sunday Series. 5132 Baltimore Ave, Hyattsville, MD, hosted by Sid Gold.

Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 6:00 PM EST, Author Reading, Duncan Branch of Alexandria Public Libraries, 2501 Commonwealth Ave., Alexandria. Free.

Saturday, June 1, 2024, 6:00 PM EST, House Book Party at Private Home. Email Elizabeth at EBruceAuthor@gmail.com for more information.

Sunday, May 5, 2024, 3:00-5:00 PM EST, House Book Party at Private Home with Sarah Pleydell & jonetta rose barras. Email Elizabeth at EBruceAuthor@gmail.com for more information.

Saturday, April 13, 2024, 3:00-5:00 PM EST, House Book Party at Private Home. Email Elizabeth at EBruceAuthor@gmail.com for more information.

Thursday, April 11, 2024, 7:00-8:30 PM, MoCo Underground Online Reading. Elizabeth is among the featured readers, and will read from Universally Adored & Other One Dollar Stories. To register visit: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36765/production/1187457?performanceId=11401989

Friday, April 5, 2024, 5:00-7:00 PM EST, A Bilingual Evening of Arts & Letters, with Abstract Paintings by Cynthia Mercado & A Literary Reading by Elizabeth Bruce, PEPCO Edison Place Gallery, 702 8th St NW, Washington, Dc 20068. Light refreshments. Free & Open to the public.

Sunday, March 24, 2024, 2:00-4:00 PM EST, House Book Party at Private Home. Email Elizabeth at EBruceAuthor@gmail.com for more information.

Sunday, February 25, 2024 – 5:30-6:30 EST, Reston Reads - Reston Used Books:  Elizabeth Bruce, Chuck Cascio and Shirley Brewer. and Majda Talal Gama, 623 Washington Plaza, Reston, VA 20190.

Friday, February 23, 2024, 6:30-8:30 PM EST, Mediterranean Threads Event and Open Mic hosted by award-winning author Mike Maggio. Elizabeth is a featured reader with local poets/authors Cathy Hailey, Susan Notar and Sally Zakariya, Ladi DI and Brenardo Taylor, Gallery B, 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Suite E., Bethesda, MD. 20814 (enter from Woodmont St.).

Thursday, February 22, 2024, 6:00-8:30 PM EST, HumanitiesDC Grantee Showcase, presentation about presenting about the “Theatre in Community” Podcast Series, Anacostia Arts Center, 1231 Good Hope Rd. SE, Washington, DC 20020

RECENT PAST EVENTS:

February 7-11, 2024, AWP in Kansas City, MO. Book Signings & Sales at Vine Leaves Press Table #T1342 & Washington Writers’ Publishing House Table #T3035.

Wednesday, February 7, 2024 – 5-7 PM CST, Writing from the DMV – Off-Site Event with WWPHDay Eight, and Yellow Arrow Publishing - Bluford Conference Center at Lucile H Bluford Branch of the Kansas City Public Library, 3050 Prospect Ave, Kansas City, MO 64128.

Sunday, August 6, 2023, 3:00-5:00 PM EST– Book Launch for Crime Novelist Dana King & “Rude Poems” by Robert Michael Oliver. Private Event.

Friday & Saturday, June 9, 2023, 7:30 PM & June 10, 2023, 2:00 PM — Elizabeth acting in Staged Reading of “Haunted” by Milbre Burch at Washington Women in Theatre: 20th Anniversary Festival, Katzen Arts Center of American University.

Sunday, April 23, 2023 – 11:00 AM-4:00 PM--Kensington Day of the Book Fair, Washington Writers’ Publishing House Table3786 Howard Avenue, Kensington, Maryland.

Sunday, March 26, 2023 - 3:00-5:00 PM EST Celebration of Elizabeth & Michael’s 40 Years of Creative Partnership + Book Launch @ BloomBars, 3222 11th St., NW, Washington, DC 20011.

COMING February 1, 2023! Creativists in Dialogue: A Podcast Embracing the Creative Life. Co-hosts Elizabeth Bruce and Michael Oliver interview people from all walks of life about the role creativity plays in shaping who they are. Not all the people we interview are “artists”—though some are—but they all live their creativity every day in their fields of expertise, their relationships, and beyond.

New episodes post every Wednesday at 11:00 am., with transcripts posting each Sunday at 11:00 am. A community chat feature is available to paid subscibers.

For a full schedule, please visit the link below.

Listen in and subscribe at https://creativists.substack.com.

 Supported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, HumanitiesDC, and subscribers like you.


OTHER Past Events

Saturday, July 30, 2022 – 1:15-2:30 pm EST– Co-presenter with Edelmira “Mimi” Nuñez Kitchen at American Association of Theatre Educators Conference, in Providence, Rhode Island - 2022 Conference (aate.com)

Sunday, July 10, 2022 @ 3 pm EST - Second Sunday Reading Series @ My Dead Aunt’s Books - 5132 Baltimore Ave., Hyattsville, MD. Anne Becker, Chris Brophy, Elizabeth Bruce

Tuesday, June 7, 2022 @ 10:30 am - 12 pm Presenter at “It Takes a Village”– CDA Program, Capstone Symposium, Columbia Heights Education Campus (CHEC), Washington, DC

Sunday, May 22, 2022 @ 4:30-6 pm EST – Co-Facilitator with Robert Michael Oliver of Sanctuary Theatre, “Writing Honest Emotion: Bring your Stories to Life with Method Acting,” Online Workshop from Inked Voices – inkedvoices.com/group/pro_groups

Saturday, May 14, 2022 @ 10 am — Washington Writers’ Publishing House Booth, Greedy Reads Small Press Fair, 320 29th St., Baltimore

Sunday, May 1, 2022 @ 11 am — Washington Writers’ Publishing House Booth, Capitol Hill Book Fair, Eastern Market, Washington, DC

Sunday, April 3, 2022
Writer’s Celebration for Elizabeth Bruce and Robert Michael Oliver (Private Event)

Sunday, November 7, 2021 @ 2 pm - Washington Writers’ Publishing House Celebration at The Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, Maryland 20815, USA

More info: Washington Writers’ Publishing House Celebration

October 3-17, 2021 –– Artist Residency at A.I.R. Studio Paducah in Paducah, Kentucky with Elizabeth Bruce and Georgia Writer of the Year Debra Bowling to craft a dual-voiced novel of two young women’s friendship beginning in 1972.

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