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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. In this mock-documentary play, Yellow Face, David Henry Hwang puts himself center stage, as he uses the controversy over color-blind casting for Miss Saigon and the racially motivated federal investigation of his own father to explore ethnic identity and the ever-changing definition of what it is to be an American. Please join us for a thoughtful discussion of this OBIE Award winning new play, and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Start: 7:00 pm
Co-presented with SEATTLE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. A most welcome return to Seattle, Seattle First Baptist Church, and an evening convened, in part by Elliott Bay, is made by the inspiringly energetic Jim Wallis. Through writing (numerous books), publishing (Sojourners Magazine), and perpetual travel/activity, he has been among the most dedicated and persistent of those within Christianity in working to assert values that would largely qualify as liberal, politically, arguing that these were and are formative to proper, rooted Christian teaching. He is here this evening with his timely new book, Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street: A Moral Compass for the New Economy (Howard). This book poses challenges, and prescriptions for change—within institutions and religions, and within the people who practice them. To be addressed at least as much as an economic recovery, he would say, is a moral recovery. Admission is free on a first-come, first-serve basis. Seattle Baptist Church is at 1111 Harvard Avenue (at Seneca). For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600.
Start: 7:00 pm
February being a month when eros is on the calendar, if not in the air (Valentine's Day, Carnival, and more), editor Rachel Kramer Bussel being here to read from and discuss the anthology, Best Sex Writing 2010 (Cleis) is particularly apt. She is senior editor at Penthouse Variations, is the former "Lusty Lady" columnist for The Village Voice, and runs a New York City erotica reading series, "In the Flesh." She also did the hard work of putting together an anthology that embraces many different takes on sex and sensuality—which adds to the pleasures of this book. Reading with Rachel Kramer Bussel tonight are two local contributors to the anthology, MICHELLE PERROT and JANET HARDY.
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