Friday Night Salon
May 10, 2024
6:30 PM–8:30 PM; Reception at 6:00 PM
Educator Members: Free
Neighbor Members: $10
Non-Members: $20
Tuition includes reception food & beverages
Location: The MacMillan Institute | 518 East Wheatland Road | Duncanville, Texas 75116
Dr. Larry Allums, an expert moderator and community builder, brings his popular program to The MacMillan Institute! Friday Night Salon is a monthly forum for thoughtful conversation in community about significant topics both timely and timeless.
Please register each month by noon the day thereof.
An Evening with an Author:
Ann Fields
Thursday, March 14, 2024
7:00 PM—8:30 PM
Reception at 6:30 PM
Educator Members: Free
Neighbor Members: $10
Non-Members: $20
Location: The MacMillan Institute | 518 East Wheatland Road | Duncanville, Texas 75116
Hold your calendar for a delightful evening!
From romance novels (under a pen name!) to short stories and novellas, non-fiction, novels, essays, and scripts—Ann Fields has written in most literary genres.
Join us for the reception at 6:30 and then a lively evening with this special author who will read from her work and discuss her journey and process as a writer.
Ann began her writing career in the romance genre. She published four romance novels and one novella under the pen name of Anna Larence with Kensington Publishing Company and BET Books. Then, she encountered her first ghost. That one brush with the supernatural shifted her focus from love and happily ever after to love and life in the here and after as witnessed by her novel, Fuller’s Curse, a supernatural murder mystery and her short stories in Voices from the Block (volumes I, II, and III) and Lyrical Darkness. Ann also authors children’s books to ensure Black children see themselves represented. Titles include: Who’s Up At Four A.M.?, No More Socks!, and Attorney for the Naughty. Ann can be reached at annfields.com or afields121@yahoo.com.
Neighbors and educators are welcome!
An Evening with a Poet:
Chris Mikesell
Friday, March 15, 2024
6:30 PM—8:00 PM
Reception at 6:00 PM
Educator Members: Free
Neighbor Members: $10
Non-Members: $20
Location: The MacMillan Institute | 518 East Wheatland Road | Duncanville, Texas 75116
"... their errant imagination never fades / beneath the harsh lies of reality.
Backs turned to the impending sunset, / they ride forever eastward
toward the dawn."
—Los Quixotes
In 2006, Chris Mikesell wrote his first poem, "Transport," which won third place in a contest (prize: bronze-plated bragging rights). After a hiatus of 15 years (during which he wrote short-fiction and survived a pandemic), he began writing poetry consistently, being first published in January 2022 with a half-dozen poems more, since then. Significant themes in his work include community and cooperation (and their antitheses, isolation and individualism), family, grace, and the nature of poets and poetry. A San Jose, Calif., native, he moved to the Dallas, Texas, area in 2007, started teaching high school shortly thereafter, and has lived in Wylie since 2009. His work can be found internationally in Griffel, domestically in The Quarter(ly) Journal, diet milk magazine, Teach/Write, The Carolina Muse, and Honeyguide. Find him online at chrismikesell.com.
Neighbors and educators are welcome!
Friday Night Lights Film Series
May 3, 2024
6:30 PM; Reception at 6:00PM
Educator Members: Free
Neighbor Members: $10
Non-Members: $20
Tuition includes movie candy, popcorn, & beverages
Location: The MacMillan Institute | 518 East Wheatland Road | Duncanville, Texas 75116
Monthly films and discussion—provocative, powerful, moving, inspiring—We will have it all!
Register each month by noon the day thereof.
An Evening with Dr. Anika Prather
Friday, April 12, 2024
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM; Reception at 6:00 PM
Location: The MacMillan Institute | 518 East Wheatland Road | Duncanville, Texas 75116
Join us for a joyful, informative evening with Dr. Anika Prather, one of the nation’s most inspiring classical educators.
Author, scholar, singer, teacher, founder—Dr. Prather is a sought-after speaker and consultant for private and classical schools, nationwide, and is the Founding Member of The MacMillan Institute’s Advisory Council.
In this special evening event, Dr. Prather will share her personal journey and discuss the importance of The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature (from her co-authored book by that name), the importance of liberal learning for all!
This event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
Registration is required.
This event is sold out.
William Shakespeare’s Birthday Celebration
Friday, April 26, 2024
6:30 PM—8:30 PM
Educator Members: Free
Neighbor Members: $15
Non-Members: $25
Location: The MacMillan Institute | 518 East Wheatland Road | Duncanville, Texas 75116
Who could ask for a better excuse for a Spring party than that special landmark date—Shakespeare’s 46oth birthday anniversary!
Food, revelry, & readings to honor The Bard! ‘Feel the need to dress like Medieval Times? Wear your best tights! ‘Feel the need to read a sonnet or act a scene? Bring your drama!
This will be an evening to remember, an evening to celebrate The Bard’s characters & language, the best the English language has ever been!
If you would like to do a reading, contact Dr. MacMillan cmacmillan@macmillaninstitute.org by April 5. Presentations will be considered both in the order in which they are requested & according to their variety & length to create the best possible program. (In other words, everyone may not be able to present...)
Please register by noon, April 24.
What is the Cowan Vision,
the “Spirit of Liberal Learning” for All?
This event has been postponed. It will be folded into a larger 40th anniversary event next school year. Updates will be posted when available.
Friday, May 17, 2024
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM; Reception at 6:00 PM
Educator Members: Free
Neighbor Members: $10
Non-Members: $15
Location: The MacMillan Institute | 518 East Wheatland Road | Duncanville, Texas 75116
Join Dr. Claudia MacMillan and newly minted Dr. Onyema Nweze to begin the 40th Anniversary celebration of the Epic Summer Seminar, the place where the Cowan Vision lives!
Dr. MacMillan will share from her upcoming book on the Cowan Vision, and Dr. Nweze will share from her dissertation about the impact of the Cowan Vision in educators’ lives!
Please register by noon, May 15.