Events
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Start: 9:30 am
Saturday University Sacred Sites of Asia Lecture Series, presented by the GARDNER CENTER FOR ASIAN ART AND IDEAS, cosponsored by UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON JACKSON SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES and ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY. This week's Saturday University lecture features the University of Washington's director of International Programs and Exchanges Peter Moran, speaking on 'Circling the Center: Pilgrimage in the Tibetan Cultural World.' Individual lecture tickets are SAM members $5, nonmembers $10. Series tickets are SAM members $38, nonmembers $75. The Seattle Asian Art Museum is at 1400 E. Prospect in Volunteer Park. For more information, please see www.seattleartmuseum.org. Elliott Bay is usually on hand with an assortment of related/recommended titles.
Start: 11:30 am
Join us for this fun round of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!
Start: 1:00 pm
Amy Lang, author of Birds + Bees + YOUR Kids: A Guide to Sharing Your Beliefs About Sexuality, Love, and Relationships (Peanutbutter Publishing), wants to help parents talk to their children about key issues in a way that's easy, fun, and empowering. She'll provide some quick and easy tips for making those conversations go more smoothly, will address what can be done to improve dismal teen pregnancy and STD rates, and will answer questions people bring. A sexual health educator for over 20 years, Amy Lang teaches parents and others folks how to talk to kids of any age about the birds and the bees. Both Birds + Bees + YOUR Kids and The Ask ANYTHING Journal are Mom's Choice Award-winners.
Start: 4:00 pm
Journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett won national attention—and inclusion in Best American Crime Reporting 2007—for work on the case of John Charles Gilkey, whose thefts earned him conviction and prison time. The object of his thievery? Books. In The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (Riverhead, new in paper), Allison Hoover Bartlett tells this story with all the suspense of the best literary thriller. This book has been a word-of-mouth hit since first being published last year. "The Man Who Loved Books Too Much is the enthralling account of a gently mad con artist and his fraudulent credit card scams, but it's also a meditation on the urge to collect, and a terrific introduction to the close-knit, swashbuckling world of antiquarian book dealers." - Michael Dirda.
Start: 6:30 pm
Co-presented with HEDGEBROOK. At 6:30 p.m., we'll have a brief presentation on Hedgebrook, the vital, non-profit, Whidbey Island-based women's writers retreat, focusing on Hedgebrook's excellent master class residencies. This will be followed by Hedgebrook alum Angie Chau's reading, commencing at 7 p.m. (give or take). A marvelous debut is celebrated this evening as Angie Chau reads here from her new book of stories, Quiet As They Come (Ig Publishing). "We call it naturalization, but these bright, authentic, well-made stories both personalize and illuminate just how unnatural the first twenty years in America felt for thousands of Vietnamese families who fled to San Francisco to escape the Vietnam War. Angie Chau writes with humor, intensity, and forgiveness about lives full of danger, insult, momentary reprieve, unending tenacity, and undying hope." - Pam Houston. "Heartbreaking tales of ordinary people lost between the extraordinary circumstances of history. Bitter and beautiful all at once." - Sandra Cisneros. For more information on Hedgebrook, please see www.hedgebrook.org.
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