UPCOMING EVENTS:

Thursday, March 4th , 2010
National Grammar Day
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PAST EVENTS:

BEE SOCIAL: Adult Spelling Bees at the Flying Saucer
Monday, November 16, 2009
SLANG NIGHT
7:00 p.m. at the Flying Saucer
Nashville, TN

Prizes Will Be Awarded For:
Best Excuse For Failure
The Most Creative Team Name
The Winning Team

Guest Expert: Greta Gains
Musician/television host and internationally recognized pro-snowboarder and fly-fisherwoman, Greta Gaines is living life on her own terms.  In 1982 in the backwoods of New Hampshire, Greta spent her childhood days riding prototype snowboards years before they were on the market.  After graduating from Georgetown University, Greta took the Women's Extreme Snowboarding World Championship.  As a singer, she landed a major recording contract out of Los Angeles and started her own music label, Big Air Records.  Greta has hosted MTV's Sports and Music Festival, the Oxygen Network’s Freeride with Greta Gaines, ESPN 2's Basscenter, and The New American Sportsman.  Songs in Greta's music catalogue have been licensed to ESPN, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon and Oxygen Network, and have appeared in a dozen movie scores.  www.gretagaines.com

Monday, November 9
BEE SOCIAL: SHAKESPEARE NIGHT
7:00 p.m. at the Flying Saucer
Nashville, TN

Prizes Will Be Awarded For:
Most Dramatic Speller
The Most Creative Team Name
The Winning Team

Guest Expert: Denice Hicks
Denice Hicks is the Artistic Director for The Nashville Shakespeare Festival. She directed Shakespeare in the Park's Asian-influenced Macbeth, as well as lively versions of The Tempest and Twelfth Night. At the Troutt Theater, she directed Hamlet and most recently the critically acclaimed Vaudeville-styled Richard the Third. Denice has edited and directed touring productions of Shakespeare’s works, developed workshops, and created the Festival’s Apprentice Company Training Program. Educated at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Denice was an original company member of the Tennessee Repertory Theatre and was among the founders of both the Darkhorse Theater and People’s Branch Theatre. An Ingram Fellowship award winner, she has been praised by the Tennessean, Nashville City Search, and The City Paper, from which she has received “Best Actor” and “Best Director” acknowledgments. www.nashvilleshakes.org

Monday, November 2, 2009
BEE SOCIAL: GREEK NIGHT
7:00 p.m. at the Flying Saucer
Nashville, TN

Prizes Will Be Awarded For:
The Best-Dressed Speller
The Most Creative Team Name
The Winning Team

Guest Expert: Vanderbilt’s Alene H. Harris, Ph.D.
Dr. Harris developed the Greek Morphemes Lessons: It’s NOT Greek to Me program that builds vocabulary using Greek roots, prefixes, and suffixes.  She has shared the book with her future-English-teacher students for twenty years at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of Education, and published the program commercially this past year.  She is currently working on a companion vocabulary program based on Latin morphemes. www.vanderbilt.com

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