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Start: 11:00 am
Beginning with this morning, we start presenting these Children's Storytimes on a twice-a-week basis, on Tuesdays and Saturdays at 11 a.m. This is in good part to the wonderful response our initial story hours here on Capitol Hill have received. Featured will be readings from picture and storybooks new and old, as presented by Elliott Bay bookfolk. Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin! Please join us.
Start: 6:30 pm
Each month, the Elliott Bay Book Club reads and discusses the best in contemporary fiction with the occasional classic thrown in for good measure. With Elizabeth Costello, Nobel Prize winner, J.M. Coetzee has crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale told through an ingenious series of formal addresses. Vividly imagined and masterfully wrought, Elizabeth Costello is, on the surface, the story of a woman's life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling that only a writer of Coetzee's caliber could accomplish. John Banville in The Nation said, "Elizabeth Costello resonates in the mind long after it has been put aside."
Start: 7:00 pm
Another inspiring activist joins us tonight at Elliott Bay as Frank Meeink, founder of the advocacy group Harmony through Hockey, shares his own journey from violent, white supremacist, skinhead gang leader to coach and anti-racist ally. The Oklahoma City bombings and his own experiences behind bars—where he met and lived with people he'd previously been taught to hate—led him to make different choices: sobriety, speaking for the Anti-Defamation League, and working against hatred. His book, Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story (Hawthorne Books), an as-told-to with Jody M. Roy, shares some of his stories of life in prison, on the street, and of the events that led him to turn his life around." Frank Meeink's book is a candid and captivating story of the upbeat transformation of a raw racist into a courageous citizen, which has much to teach us all. Don't miss it." – Cornel West. Frank Meeink has recently worked in minor league hockey in Iowa.
Start: 7:00 pm
Co-presented with NORTHWEST PRIDE and SEATTLE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH's SEATTLE SPIRITUAL SYNTHESIS series. The 1998 gay bashing and murder of 21-year-old college student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, brought hatred and violence against gay people into public consciousness in an unprecedented way. Matthew Shepard's mother, Judy Shepard's memories of her son, and of her transformation into a gay rights activist working against hatred in all forms is powerfully told in her book, The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed (Plume). We welcome her tonight to Seattle First Baptist Church, a longtime leader among welcoming, open, and affirming congregations in the nation. "Although Matt's life was short, his story continues to have a great impact on young and old alike. His legacy lives on in thousands of people who actively fight to replace hate with understanding, compassion and acceptance. In her own beautiful words, Judy gives us all a greater understanding of Matthew and the larger meaning of his life. In doing so, she demonstrates the difference that each individual can make in achieving a better and more just society. She's a true profile in courage, and America will be a fairer nation because of her." - the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. For more about the Matthew Shepard Foundation, founded by Judy and Dennis Shepard, please see www.matthewshepard.com. Free admission is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Seattle First Baptist Church is at 1111 Harvard Avenue (at Seneca). For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600.
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