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Start: 6:30 pm
Elliott Bay's Drama Book Group, Stages, meets once a month to read, enjoy and discuss great plays and dramatic works, contemporary and classic, from the U.S. and around the world. For October, we're please to read and discuss The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza...which recently won the Tony Award for best play. What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach ids how to behave properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and tears before bedtime? Boys will be boys, but the adults are usually worse—much worse. Please join us for a lively discussion of this notable new play.
Start: 7:00 pm
Presented with the WOMEN'S NATIONAL BOOK ASSOCIATION in celebration of NATIONAL READING GROUP MONTH. Born into an Aramaic-speaking village in a Kurdish Jewish community in Iraq, Yona Sabar was one of 150,000 Iraqi Jews who relocated to Israel in the 1950s. He then emigrated to the U.S. to attend Yale and devote his life to preserving the heritage of the Jews of Kurdistan (an embattled region/community of its own). His writer son, Ariel Sabar, retraces his father's story, and that of their community, in his resonant, award-winning memoir, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Family's Past (Algonquin). My Father's Paradise received this year's National Book Critics Circle Award. All are welcome this evening, with book club members especially encouraged to attend. "Sabar's family history turns out to be more than the chronicle of one man's efforts to retain something of his homeland in new surroundings. It's also a moving story about the near-death of an ancient language and the tiny flicker of life that remains in it." - Washington Post.
Start: 7:00 pm
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Presented by Seattle Spiritual Synthesis. UCC Pastor Don Mackenzie, Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue leader and Rabbi Ted Falcon and Muslim Sufi Minister Sheikh Jamal Raman of Interfaith Community Church, aka the "Interfaith Amigos," present a special talk today on How Women Have Been Marginalized by the Abrahamic Traditions: Differences Between Core Teachings and Actual Practice." This will be the first time the Interfaith Amigos are focusing on the role of women, although all of us have touched on the subject before. They will share some of the awkward and difficult aspects of our traditions, and how we can evaluate those aspects using the central teachings of our faiths. They are the co-authors of the book Getting to the Heart of Interfaith: The Eye-Opening, Hope-Filled Friendship of a Pastor, a Rabbi and a Sheikh (Skylight Paths). "Courageous ... Provides an essential and inspiring guide to religious healing and the human step to spiritual maturity." - David Korten. Free admission. Seattle First Baptist Church is at 1111 Harvard Avenue (at Seneca). For more information, please see www.peace-action.org, www.afghanwoemnsmission.org, or call (206) 453-4471.
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