May to perform at arts center’s 3rd Thursday event Oct. 18

Monta May, director of web communication, will read her essays on transformation, transition, and transcendence during the Winona Arts Center’s 3rd Thursday event Oct. 18. The event is planned for 7 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday at the center, located at 5th and Franklin streets. Admission is a $3 to $5 sliding entrance fee. May regularly writes about art, life, death and transformation in her online journal, “Always Swimming Upstream” at http://montagael.blogspot.com.

Open-mike showtime follows May's performance. Community members are invited to bring images, tales, and songs that brought them to a different place, a different space, or a different sense of being. Bring your poems and stories to this special open mike. You’re invited to read from original work or any favorite work.