2020 Round-Up

We made it!

 

 

twists & turns

2020 Achievements

  • Curated Poetic License, a poetry-inspired art exhibit

  • Participated in inaugural Upstate Arts Weekend

  • Launched our charitable arm: AIM Higher, Inc.

  • Kicked off our Private Mentoring program

  • Launched high-quality, low-cost Independent Study workshops & sliding scale Zoom workshops

  • Was nominated for three Chronogrammies (award for The Hudson Valley’s most outstanding establishments, nominated by its residents)

  • Held 22 online workshops serving 220 poets

  • Supported 15 teaching artists

  • Hosted six socially-distanced poetry workshops at the barn from July-December

  • Added hundreds of additional books to our lending library

  • Hosted our first resident

  • Held our first Zoom reading for the winter solstice

  • Reached over 10,000 Facebook followers


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looking forward

2021 Goals

  • Install signage & way-finding system in the library

  • Offer fine and hand-made books for sale

  • Feature local artists and makers in an expanded gallery space

  • Host our second residency

  • Design a crowd-funding campaign for our new charitable arm (AIM Higher)

  • Expand our online offerings

  • Host a fall retreat

    please Help us achieve our goals

 

The Poetry Barn is a fiscally-sponsored project of AIM Higher, Inc, a 501(c)(3) organization, making your donation fully tax-deductible to the extent provided by law. We are grateful for each and every gift, and will direct it toward community events and capacity building.

 

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You may also mail your tax-deductible donations made out to AIM Higher/The Poetry Barn to:

The Poetry Barn
1693 NY-28A
West Hurley, NY 12491

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