Events
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Start: 7:00 pm
Co-presented with COPPER CANYON PRESS. Back in the mid-1980s, when we began presenting poets and writers here, one of the first willing to read here was poet Madeline DeFrees—who had then moved back to Seattle in retirement. These many years, she is still going strong—reading, writing, getting out and about. This evening, her 90th birthday, we celebrate the esteemed and much-loved author of eight collections of poems—most recently 2006's Spectral Waves (Copper Canyon). She will be honored with readings and tributes—poets Thomas Aslin and Susan Rich among them. And Madeline herself—in and around the cutting of cake—will show she is still very much at it, reading some of her own work. "Like Dickinson, like the saints whose lives were personal expressions of divine energy, DeFrees is acutely aware of her mortality, but what we experience above all here is a fierce celebration of life in all its difficulty." - Prairie Schooner.
Start: 7:30 pm
Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE AND ISLAND PRESS, in association with ISLANDWOOD. The third in this Town Hall-based Island Press lecture series brings University of California, Berkeley biologist Anthony Barnosky here with his recent book, Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming (Island Press). "This fascinating and frightening book begins where others on global warming leave off. Anthony Barnosky shows that we're not just heating up the planet, but changing its basic character. Today's familiar animals and wild places may not be here tomorrow. For anyone who has grown attached to nature as we know it, this is an essential, eye-opening read." - Paul R. Ehrlich. Island Press is a leading, independent, non-profit Washington, D.C. publisher devoted to environmental and sustainability issues (www.islandpress.com). $5 tickets are available at the door starting at 6:30 p.m. or via www.brownpapettickets.com (of 1-800-838-3006). Preferred seating for Town Hall members. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, Town Hall at (206) 652-4255, or see www.townhallseattle.org.
Start: 7:30 pm
Presented by SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES. The surprising and unexpected are likely in store this evening as renowned film performer, filmmaker, and writer Isabella Rossellini takes the stage. Expected to be the center of attention this evening are the eye-opening films she has been making—Green Porno—and now the book, Green Porno (Harper Studio), which depicts what they're about. Namely, how the animals do it. Fun and informative it all is—and this evening should be. It is expected that some pre-signed copies of Green Porno will be available that evening. For tickets and information, please see www.lectures.org or call (206) 621-2230. Benaroya Hall is at 200 University Street.
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