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Start: 11:00 am
Join us for this fun hour of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!
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. Our selection for August is the newest Pulitzer Prize-winner Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey, newly published in book form. "No show on Broadway right now makes as a direct grab for the heart—or wrings it as thoroughly—as Next to Normal does. . . . [It] focuses squarely on the pain that cripples the members of a suburban family, and never for a minute does it let you escape the anguish at the core of their lives. Next to Normal does not, in other words, qualify as your standard feel-good musical. Instead this portrait of a manic-depressive mother and the people she loves and damages is something much more: a feel-everything musical, which asks you, with operatic force, to discover the liberation in knowing where it hurts." - Ben Brantley, The New York Times. Please join us for this evening's lively discussion.
Start: 7:00 pm
One of the foremost scholars at work on Northwest Coast native art, Aldona Jonaitis is now director emerita of the Alaska Museum of the North, but is still more than active as professor (University of Alaska Fairbanks) and author. She is here with a sumptuous, major new work, The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History (University of Washington Press). Co-authored with Aaron Glass, and featuring sidebar contributions from Robert Davidson, Susan Point, Richard Hunt, Bill Holm, and others. Smart, scholarly, and with a sense of humor—cartoons and ads featuring totem poles are included—and a feast for the eye, this may be the fullest, most accessible book on totem poles yet published. It may also be the most essential, delving as it does into history, and into the diaspora of totem poles off to other parts of the world. Aldona Jonaitis' other books include Art of the Northwest Coast and Looking North: Art from the University of Alaska Museum, among many.
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