Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Seattle writers\, analysts\, and civic instigators Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer have followed up on their lively earlier collaboration\, The True Patriot\, with their newest\, The Gardens of Democracy\: A New American Story of Citizenship\, the Economy\, and the Role of Government (Sasquatch). \\"Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer are progressives who always think outside the box\, and that's why everyone should pay attention to them. The Gardens of Democracy shakes up our stale debate over government's role in a dynamic society\, and in a thoughtful\, creative and inventive way. Everyone will find something to disagree with here\, and that's the point\: getting us out of our comfort zones is an immensely useful democratic undertaking.\\" – E.J. Dionne\, Jr. Free admission. The program will take place on Level 4 (the red floor)—\;in Washington Mutual Foundation Meeting Room 1. Seattle Central Public Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison &\; Spring). For more information\, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600\, The Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636\, or see www.spl.org.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120208T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120208T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/isay URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/isay SUMMARY:DAVE ISAY at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120209T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120209T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/houston URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/houston SUMMARY:PAM HOUSTON DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120209T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120209T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/ghonim URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/ghonim SUMMARY:WAEL GHONIM with D. PARVAZ at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120210T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120210T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/ruff URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/ruff SUMMARY:MATT RUFF with PAUL CONSTANT DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120211T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120211T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/fujino URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/fujino SUMMARY:DIANE FUJINO DESCRIPTION:Although historian Diane Fujino's new book on Afro-Asian coalition builder Richard Aoki\, A Samurai Among Panthers\: Richard Aoki on Race\, Resistance and a Paradoxical Life (University of Minnesota Press) won't be released until April\, we couldn't pass up the chance to give people a preview during Dr. Fujino's Seattle visit. Richard Aoki\, the only Asian American to serve in a leadership role in the Black Panther Party\, was a key figure in Bay Area Afro-Asian unity beginning in the 1960s\, as a co-founder of the Asian American Political Alliance\, and active in Asian American studies. Diane Fujino\, associate professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, is also the author of another book on an iconic Asian American activist\, Heartbeat of Struggle\: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120211T193000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120211T193000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/storytime2 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/storytime2 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120211T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120211T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/sherkat URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/sherkat SUMMARY:SHIRIN SHERKAT\, Psy.D. DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120212T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120212T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/cawthra URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/cawthra SUMMARY:BENJAMIN CAWTHRA DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120212T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120212T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/bayne URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/bayne SUMMARY:MARTHA BAYNE DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120214T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120214T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/spiers URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/spiers SUMMARY:ANN SPIERS & RICHARD WIDERKEHR DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120214T193000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120214T193000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/storytime3 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/storytime3 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120215T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120215T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/cibookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/cibookclub SUMMARY:GLOBAL ISSUES & ETHICS BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:Our Global Issues &\; Ethics Book Group is devoted to discussing books that cover the most relevant topics of our everyday lives. Our February selection is The Wayfinders\: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World by Wade Davis. Every Culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question\: What does it mean to be human and alive? Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.
In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In the Amazon we meet the descendants of a true lost civilization\, the peoples of the Anaconda. In the Andes we discover that the earth really is alive\, while in Australia we experience Dreamtime\, the all-embracing philosophy of the first humans to walk out of Africa. We then travel to Nepal\, where we encounter a wisdom hero\, a Bodhisattva\, who emerges from forty-five years of Buddhist retreat and solitude. And finally we settle in Borneo\, where the last rainforest nomads struggle to survive.
Understanding the lessons of this journey will be our mission for the next century. For at risk is the human legacy—\;a vast archive of knowledge and expertise\, a catalogue of the imagination. Re-discovering a new appreciation for the diversity of the human spirit\, as expressed by culture\, is among the central challenges of our times. This book comprises the 2009 Massey Lectures\, \\"The Wayfinders\,\\" broadcast in November 2009 as part of CBC Radio's Ideas series.
Vancouver native Brayden Hirsch may be one of the youngest authors we've had to Elliott Bay\; still in high school\, he's already written and published a chilling collection of stories\, Shadow Catalyst (Steward House Publishers). This combination of mystery\, suspense\, and the paranormal paint the West Coast with a darker reality where things are always as bad as they seem. This afternoon\, Brayden will be reading from his collection and talking about the craft of writing. Join us in the children's room to meet this talented young writer!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120226T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120226T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/african URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/african SUMMARY:AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITER'S ALLIANCE Group Reading DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120228T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120228T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/erickson URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/erickson SUMMARY:STEVE ERICKSON DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120228T193000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120228T193000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/storytime7 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/storytime7 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120229T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120229T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/drama URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/drama SUMMARY:STAGES - ELLIOTT BAY DRAMA BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120229T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120229T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/hassman URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/hassman SUMMARY:TUPELO HASSMAN DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120229T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120229T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/unger URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/unger SUMMARY:DAVID C. UNGER at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120301T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120301T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/bartels URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/bartels SUMMARY:PEGGIELENE BARTELS at the Northwest African American Museum DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM. Peggielene Bartels was enjoying life well enough as a gainfully employed secretary. Then\, one day\, her uncle passed away. With most relatives such as this\, there might be some form of inheritance—\;some money\, some property\, some possessions. Instead\, Ms. Bartels was chosen by the elders of her uncle's community—\;said uncle having been the king of a small town in Ghana—\;to be his successor. Told by Eleanor Herman and Ms. Bartels in charming narrative fashion\, King Peggy\: An American Secretary\, Her Royal Destiny\, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village (Doubleday) is the story of how she found herself king of a town of 7\,000. It's the kind of story which calls to question—\;whose lives were more changed\, the townspeople or King Peggy. This should be fun. \\"This is an astonishing and wonderful book about a real-life Mma Ramotswe. It is an utter joy.\\" – Alexander McCall Smith. Free admission. For more information on this evening\, please call Elliott Bay Book Company at (206) 624-6600 The Northwest African American Museum (www.naamnw.org) is at 2300 S. Massachusetts Street.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120301T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120301T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/klinenberg URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/feb12/klinenberg SUMMARY:ERIC KLINENBERG at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120302T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120302T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar12/ursu URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar12/ursu SUMMARY:LILIANA URSU & TESS GALLAGHER DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120303T193000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120303T193000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar12/storytime URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar12/storytime SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME wirh Special Guest ALEXANDRA DAY DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120306T193000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120306T193000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar12/storytime1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar12/storytime1 SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S STORYTIME DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T193931Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120307T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120307T023000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar12/fbookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/mar12/fbookclub SUMMARY:ELLIOTT BAY BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:Each month\, the Elliott Bay Book Club reads and discusses the best in contemporary fiction with the occasional classic thrown in for good measure. Our March selection is The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton.
England is in the middle of World War II\, a war that seems fated to go on forever\, a war that has become a way of life. Heroic resistance is old hat. Everything is in short supply\, and tempers are even shorter. Overwhelmed by the terrors and rigors of the Blitz\, middle-aged Miss Roach has retreated to the relative safety and stupefying boredom of the suburban town of Thames Lockdon\, where she rents a room in boarding house run by Mrs. Payne. There the savvy\, sensible\, decent\, but all-too-meek Miss Roach endures the dinner-table interrogations of Mr. Thwaites and seeks to relieve her solitude by going out drinking and necking with a wayward American lieutenant. Life is almost bearable until Vicki Kugelmann\, a seeming friend\, moves into the adjacent room. That's when Miss Roach's troubles really begin.
Recounting an epic battle of wills in the claustrophobic confines of the boarding house\, Hamilton's The Slaves of Solitude\, with a delightfully improbable heroine\, is one of the finest and funniest books ever written about the trials of a lonely heart.