BY MICHELE SLATER
Welcome to the Mayapple Center, where we carry a torch for the arts and humanities fueled by passion, intellect, imagination and creativity in both scholarship and the arts. The Mayapple Center was founded to give back to the community in a small-scale, yet meaningful, way. As an educational nonprofit, Mayapple is an intellectually and artistically rigorous boutique institute that seeks to cultivate imagination through artistic and intellectual cross-pollination in a distinctly 21st century climate.
This summer, we are offering exciting five-day residential seminars for adults in the areas of creative writing, humanities, music, theatre and visual arts. All members of the community are welcome to apply for these programs led by an exceptional faculty that includes Pulitzer prize-winning poet Vijay Seshadri, Pulitzer prize winning-investigative journalist Thomas Powers and faculty from Brown, Yale, Princeton, Juilliard, Columbia and Middlebury.
We admit a maximum 10 participants so that each individual”™s voice will be heard. Our extraordinary guest lectures are open to the public and include talks by Henry Urbach, director of the Philip Johnson Glass House; Dartmouth Professor Donald Pease; board member and Johns Hopkins Professor Emeritus Stephen G. Nichols; and Meghan O”™Rourke, a recent Guggenheim winner, poet and former editor of the New Yorker.
We are building a residency program for artists and scholars of exceptional stature to collaborate and share their work, and we are also creating an innovative workshop to cultivate cultural literacy.
The center”™s holistic approach to artistic growth and development is also demonstrated by our dedication to sustainability. Our organic gardens provide produce not only for our programs but also for local food banks, and we are pursuing opportunities for renewable energy and stewardship of the land.
Horace Mann once sounded the exhortation: “Be ashamed to die until you have made a meaningful contribution to humanity.” At Mayapple, we are all inspired to fulfill Mann”™s exhortation, as participants, staff, and faculty. We invite you to join the Mayapple community this summer as we forge a renewed cultural and intellectual vitality.
Michele Slater is president of the Mayapple Center for the Arts and Humanities Inc. and a member of the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County.
Where is this program located?
Dear Bob,
It is located in Pound Ridge and North Stamford,CT.