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 features University of Washington professor Christian Novetzke speaking on 'The Sacred Site of the Self in Hinduism: Temple, Society, and the Yoga Body.' 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.
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: 7:00 pm
We're pleased to welcome Seattle poet Elizabeth Austen back to Elliott Bay this evening to read from two recently published collections. Where Currents Meet, one of a quartet of chapbooks published in Sightline (ToadLily Press), includes a poetic reinterpretation of the story of Adam and Eve. She also reads from her recently published, well-received collection, The Girl Who Goes Alone (Floating Bridge Press). For more than ten years, Elizabeth Austen has presented poetry and author interviews on Seattle's NPR affiliate, KUOW. She served as the 2007 Washington "roadshow poet," giving readings and workshops in rural areas around the state and as part of the Hugo House Literary Series.
Start: 7:30 pm
Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. To describe Garry Wills as a public intellectual, a seeker, a gifted historian, and as a man writing from perspectives both Catholic and non-Catholic is accurate, yet leaves out the depth of his compassion for his fellow man. Some of Garry Wills' most personal writing on subjects such as his experiences during the Civil Rights Movement, writer friends like Studs Terkel, on presidential campaigns, and on his early life, appears within his new memoir, Outside Looking In: Adventures of an Observer (Viking), and it is not to be missed. Some of his many other books include Lincoln at Gettysburg, Bomb Power, What the Gospels Meant, and Nixon Agonistes. $5 tickets are available at the door starting at 6:30 p.m. or in advance via www.brownpapertickets.com (1-800-838-3006). Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). Preferred seating for Town Hall members. For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, Town Hall Seattle at (206) 652-4255, or see www.townhallseattle.org.
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