Events
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Start: 4:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
A full evening of art and literature about skiing and snow sports is planned at Blink Gallery this evening, beginning with a reception for Canadian artist Jan Jickling, followed by a talk and booksigning by Crystal Mountain ski patrol veteran Kim Kircher. She will speak about her new book, The Next 15 Minutes: Strength from the Top of the Mountain (Behler). The evening will also include a presentation by Greg Hill, of "2 Mill Hill: ski touring and mountaineering renown. His film, The Unbearable Lightness of Skiing, has been exhibited internationally. The free evening includes refreshments and appetizers. For more information and to pre-register, please see www.blinkux.com. Blink Gallery is located at 1011 Western Avenue, Suite 810.
Start: 7:00 pm
One of this season's highlights was the publication of Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels (Seven Stories Press). Tonight the author of this book, historian and University of Detroit professor Gregory Sumner speaks about this life and times 'biography' of Vonnegut's books, including his fourteen novels. Kurt Vonnegut, whose visits to Seattle and Elliott Bay are fondly remembered, remained devoted throughout his life to an alternative American Dream story, one full of possibility even at the darkest hour. Gregory Sumner brings Vonnegut's life into focus through these books, which were written under dramatically changing personal circumstances, and against some seismic shifts in our country's history.
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