The Mishi-maya-gat
Spoken Word & Music Series

Now in its 4th Season

  • Featured Musicians, Poets and Writers
  • Monthly events during the school year, September through May (with the exception of December) on the 2nd Thursday from 7-9 p.m.
  • All events are held in the new Community Commons, Great Path Academy (attached to the Lowe Building). Access from Parking Lot B. Click here for Directions to MCC, including a campus map and driving directions.
  • Free and open to the public
  • Sponsored by the MCC Foundation
  • Hosted by Stephen Campiglio
Mishi-maya-gat is the Algonquian term for “Great Trail System,” a network of foot paths created by the native tribes of Connecticut. Within this system of trails, a “Great Path” connected one region with another. The site of the MCC campus is along one of these great paths, and thus, the naming of Great Path as the street leading to campus. It is in this spirit of historical and cultural significance that the arts series takes its name.

Please note: There is no December event.

Upcoming Events

January 14, 2010

Featured musician: Barbara Hopkins, solo flute; Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook; her CDs include the Telemann Sonatas and, as part of the Rosewood Chamber Ensemble, Songs and Dances of Old New England (http://www.BarbaraHopkins.com/rosewood.htm). More info on Barbara can be found at: http://www.myspace.com/barbarahopkinsflutist.

Featured poets: “A Celebration of Quale Press,” a small, independent publisher located in  western Massachusetts (http://www.quale.com), with Dennis Barone (North Arrow is a “collection of stories that traverse stylistic, emotional, and geographical landscapes, from New Jersey to the Netherlands to abstract poetic terrain”);  Elizabeth Bryant (the prose poems of nevertheless enjoyment “build on the winding and unwinding of a relationship as seen in slant light and around corners”); and Brian Clements (And How to End It are prose poems that spin with the urgency of a society, a globe, and a universe careening toward a crisis point).

Last Update: November 19 2009
For additional information, contact: Stephen Campiglio