BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Shop The Elmwood - ECPv6.17.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Shop The Elmwood X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Shop The Elmwood REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190601T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190601T170000 DTSTAMP:20190602T005340Z CREATED:20190602T005339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190602T005340Z UID:3441-1559376000-1559408400@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Susan Adrian & her new book Forever Neverland DESCRIPTION:Kids 8-12/ Susan Adrian in Conversation with Anne Nesbet\n\n\n\n\ndiscussing Adrian’s new book\, Forever Neverland\, a contemporary sequel to J. M. Barrie’s timeless classic Peter Pan. \n“A magical ode to childhood that updates the classic while keeping its flavor.”–Kirkus Reviews  \n“One of the best representations of autism in middle grade literature. A must purchase for all children who love magic and adventure\, especially those who have longed to see someone like Fergus on the page.”–Lizzie Huxley-Jones\, editor of Stim \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Forever Neverland by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. Neurodiversity welcome. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, August 8\, 2019 – 6:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat if Peter Pan wanted to take you to Neverland? Would you go? \nClover and Fergus are the great-great-grandchildren of Wendy Darling (yes\, that Wendy). And now Peter Pan wants to take them to Neverland for the adventure of their lives! But Clover is a little nervous–she’s supposed to look after her brother. Fergus is autistic\, and not everyone makes him feel welcome. What will happen to him in this magical world? \nFergus isn’t nervous at all. To him\, Neverland seems like a dream come true! He’s tired of Clover’s constant mothering and wants some independence\, like Peter and the Lost Boys have. He wonders\, Why can’t the real world be more like Neverland? \nNeverland is fun and free\, but it’s also dangerous and even scary at times. Unfamiliar creatures lurk in the shadows\, and strange sounds come from the waters. And then the mermaids start to go missing. . . . \nIn an imaginative and thoughtful continuation of the story of Peter Pan\, Susan Adrian explores Neverland with a fresh perspective and indelible warmth\, offering a new adventure based on a beloved classic! \nSusan Adrian is a fourth-generation Californian who somehow stumbled into living in Montana. By day she is a scientific editor\, and by night she dreams up wild adventures that sometimes turn into books. She is the author of the holiday fantasy Nutcracked and two thrilling books for teens. Follow her on Twitter @susanadrian and visit her on the web at susanadrian.net. \nAnne Nesbet is the author of The Orphan Band of Springdale\, Cloud and Wallfish\, The Wrinkled Crown\, A Box of Gargoyles\, and The Cabinet of Earths. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/susan-adrian-her-new-book-forever-neverland/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/foreverneverland.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190613T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190613T193000 DTSTAMP:20190311T200344Z CREATED:20190311T200344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190311T200344Z UID:3225-1560454200-1560454200@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Louise Aranson presents Elderhood: Redefining Aging\, Transforming Medicine\, Reimagining Life\, an essential\, empathetic look at a vital but little respected stage of life. DESCRIPTION:Louise Aranson presents Elderhood: Redefining Aging\, Transforming Medicine\, Reimagining Life\, an essential\, empathetic look at a vital but little respected stage of life.\n\n\n\n\n“In the latter years there are possibilities for joy\, transcendence\, and meaning\, but also for just the opposite. Aronson writes like a memoirist while giving us scientific insight\, philosophical wisdom\, and wise counsel for a journey and destination we all share. Elderhood is a lovely and thoughtful exploration of this voyage.”–Abraham Verghese \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of Elderhood by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more than 5\,000 years\, “old” has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood\, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before\, we’ve made old age into a disease\, a condition to be dreaded\, denigrated\, neglected\, and denied. \nReminiscent of Oliver Sacks\, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients\, and draws from history\, science\, literature\, popular culture\, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that’s neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy–a vision full of joy\, wonder\, frustration\, outrage\, and hope about aging\, medicine\, and humanity itself. \nElderhood is for anyone who is\, in the author’s own words\, “an aging\, i.e.\, still-breathing human being.” \nLouise Aronson\, MD\, is the author of the story collection A History of the Present Illness and a geriatrician\, educator\, and professor of medicine at UCSF\, where she directs UCSF Medical Humanities. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College\, Dr. Aronson has received numerous awards for her medical work\, teaching\, educational research\, and writing. The recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and four Pushcart nominations\, her articles and stories have appeared in many publications\, including The New York Times\, New England Journal of Medicine\, Lancet\, and Bellevue Literary Review. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/louise-aranson-presents-elderhood-redefining-aging-transforming-medicine-reimagining-life-an-essential-empathetic-look-at-a-vital-but-little-respected-stage-of-life/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/elderwood.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190616T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190616T160000 DTSTAMP:20190602T004024Z CREATED:20190602T004014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190602T004024Z UID:3424-1560697200-1560700800@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Bloomsday with Thomas Lynchreading from Chapter Ten of James Joyce's Ulysses  DESCRIPTION:Bloomsday with Thomas Lynch reading from Chapter Ten of James Joyce’s Ulysses recalling Dublin on June 16\, 1904. \n\n\n\n\nJoin us for Guinness\, Irish soda bread and cheer! Bring Dad! \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, June 16\, 2019 – 3:00pm URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/bloomsday-with-thomas-lynchreading-from-chapter-ten-of-james-joyces-ulysses/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ulysses.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190717T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190717T193000 DTSTAMP:20190602T004346Z CREATED:20190602T004346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190602T004346Z UID:3425-1563391800-1563391800@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Brandon Brown presents The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America's First Moon Missions DESCRIPTION:Brandon Brown presents The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America’s First Moon Missions\, a uniquely earthbound story of space travel that follows a handful of surviving engineers from the time through their longest days\, tightest deadlines\, and most confounding challenges.\n\n\n\n\n[Brown] has captured the soul of what was arguably the most challenging and significant engineering accomplishment of the 20th century…a great read for all audiences…I learned things about ‘my era’ that I never knew!”–Gerry Griffin\, Former Director of the Johnson Space Center\, and former flight director for the Apollo Program \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of The Apollo Chronicles by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe moon landing of 1969 stands as an iconic moment for both the United States and humankind. The familiar story focuses on the journey of the brave astronauts\, who brought home Moon rocks and startling photographs. But Apollo’s full account includes the earthbound engineers\, mounds of their crumpled paper\, and smoldering metal shards of exploded engines. How exactly did the nation\, step by difficult step\, take men to the Moon and back? \nIn The Apollo Chronicles\, fifty years after the moon landing\, author Brandon R. Brown\, himself the son of an Apollo engineer\, revisits the men and women who toiled behind the lights. He relays the defining twentieth-century project from its roots\, bringing the engineers’ work and personalities to bright life on the page. Set against the backdrop of a turbulent American decade\, the narrative whisks audiences through tense deadlines and technical miracles\, from President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 challenge to NASA’s 1969 lunar triumph\, as engineers confronted wave after wave of previously unthinkable challenges. \nBrown immerses readers in key physical hurdles–from building the world’s most powerful rockets to keeping humans alive in the hostile void of space–using language free of acronyms and technical jargon. The book also pulls back from the detailed tasks and asks larger questions. What did we learn about the Moon? And what can this uniquely innovative project teach us today? \nBrandon R. Brown is a Professor of Physics at USF. His research includes work on superconductivity and sensory biophysics. He enjoys writing about science for general audiences\, including articles and essays in New Scientist\, SEED\, and the Huffington Post\, as well as a biography\, Planck\, that won the 2016 Housatonic Award for Nonfiction. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/brandon-brown-presents-the-apollo-chronicles-engineering-americas-first-moon-missions/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/theapollochronicles.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190728T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190728T160000 DTSTAMP:20190602T004613Z CREATED:20190602T004612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190602T004613Z UID:3429-1564326000-1564329600@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Tucker Malarkey returns to present Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon\, the story of Guido Rahr DESCRIPTION:Tucker Malarkey returns to present Stronghold: One Man’s Quest to Save the World’s Wild Salmon\, the story of Guido Rahr\, a passionate and eccentric environmentalist who has single-mindedly dedicated his life to saving the environment\, working to preserve the world’s last pristine stronghold for salmon in Russia’s Far East–a landscape of ecological richness and diversity that is rapidly being developed for oil\, gas\, minerals\, and timber in the Putin era.\n\n\n\n\n“A powerful and inspiring story. Guido Rahr’s mission to save the wild Pacific salmon leads him into adventures that make for a breathtakingly exciting read.”–Ian Frazier\, author of Travels in Siberia \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Stronghold by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nA high school drop-out and rebel more at home in the natural world among animals than among people\, Rahr is a passionate fly fisher. His preternatural ability to understand the fish he was catching led him to fear for their future. What he came to understand is that the fate of the salmon is linked with the fate of humanity\, as they contribute in essential ways to our own habitat. Deeply reported and beautifully written\, Stronghold reveals the astonishing natural history of the salmon\, while also providing a fascinating narrative that takes the reader to remote\, inhospitable terrain and into the world of Russian oligarchs\, corrupt officials\, and impenetrable bureaucracies–as well as bringing us as close as possible to an extraordinary species of endangered fish. It is also a personal book in that Malarkey is Rahr’s first cousin and spent her summers with him on their family’s cabins in the wilds of Oregon. She has accompanied Rahr on many of his expeditions and knows this elusive\, private\, brilliant man as few do. \nTucker Malarkey is the author of the novels An Obvious Enchantment and Resurrection. Stronghold is her first major work of nonfiction. She lives in Berkeley. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/tucker-malarkey-returns-to-present-stronghold-one-mans-quest-to-save-the-worlds-wild-salmon-the-story-of-guido-rahr/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/stronghold.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190801T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190801T193000 DTSTAMP:20190602T004903Z CREATED:20190602T004902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190602T004903Z UID:3433-1564687800-1564687800@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:The Lager Queen of Minnesota DESCRIPTION:J. Ryan Stradal reads from his much-anticipated The Lager Queen of Minnesota\, a novel of family\, Midwestern values\, hard work\, fate\, and the secrets of making a world-class beer\, from the author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest. \n\n\n\n\n“Warm\, whimsical\, incredibly well-written and infused with Stradal’s signature sympathy for his characters–those everyday heroes we all know and love. . . a thorough delight\, from beginning to end.”–Nickolas Butler \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Larger Queen of Minnesota by speaking to a bookseller or ordering through our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdith Magnusson’s rhubarb pies are famous in the Twin Cities–they were named the third-best in the state of Minnesota and St. Anthony-Waterside Nursing Home has quickly become the hottest dinner ticket in town. Still\, she lies awake wondering how her life might have been different if her father hadn’t left their family farm to her sister Helen\, a decision that split their family in two. \nWith the proceeds from the farm\, her sister\, Helen Blotz\, built her husband Orval’s family soda business into the top selling brewery in Minnesota. She single-handedly created the light beer revolution and made their corporate motto ubiquitous: “Drink lots\, it’s Blotz.” But Helen dismisses IPAs as a fad\, and the Blotz fortune begins its inevitable decline. Soon\, though\, she finds a potential savior that’s surprisingly close to home. . . \nDiana Winter earns a shot at learning the beer business from the ground up just as the IPA revolution begins. The stakes couldn’t be higher: just as she’s launching her own brewpub\, she’s due to deliver a baby girl. When the unthinkable happens\, it’s up to Grandma Edith–and a delightfully surprising cadre of grandmother friends–to secure the next generation’s chances for a better future. Can Grandma Edith’s Rhubarb Pie In A Bottle Ale save Diana’s fledgling brewery\, and change their hearts and fortunes forever? \nJ. Ryan Stradal is a contributing editor at Taste Magazine. His bestselling debut\, Kitchens of the Great Midwest\, won the 2016 American Booksellers Association Indie’s Choice Award for Adult Debut Book of the Year and also the 2016 Midwest Booksellers Choice Award for debut fiction. Born and raised in Minnesota\, he now lives in Los Angeles. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address: URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/the-lager-queen-of-minnesota/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/thelager.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190807T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190807T193000 DTSTAMP:20190602T005139Z CREATED:20190602T005139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190602T005139Z UID:3440-1565206200-1565206200@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Alexander Tilney in Conversation with Katharine Dion discussing Tilney's new novel\, The Expectations DESCRIPTION:Alexander Tilney in Conversation with Katharine Dion discussing Tilney’s new novel\, The Expectations\, “a deeply resonant\, brilliantly nuanced meditation on privilege\, social ambition\, and the folly (and cruelty) of youth.”–Kate Walbert \n“Alexander Tilney applies supple\, panoramic prose to the deep interior of an exclusive Northeastern prep school\, with arresting results: at once anthropological and visceral\, The Expectations provides an authoritative glimpse into a rarefied world of privilege–and announces a dazzling new voice in American fiction.”– Jennifer Egan \nSt. James is an exclusive New England boarding school known for grooming generations of leaders. Ben Weeks is a true insider–his ancestors helped found the school\, his older brother taught him all the slang\, and he’s just won a national championship in squash.\nBut after fourteen long years of waiting\, Ben arrives only to find that the reality of St. James doesn’t quite match up with his imaginings. At the same time\, his new roommate\, Ahmed Al-Khaled\, the son of a fabulously wealthy Emirati sheik\, can’t navigate the unspoken rules of New England blue bloods. Even as Ben and Ahmed struggle to prove themselves in the place they have revered for so long\, each of them must face losing it forever. \nThe Expectations is at once a finely drawn portrait of American privilege and a subtle exploration of class\, race\, and tradition. Above all\, it is a tender\, sharp\, and evocative debut about the pain and treachery of adolescence\, and the difficulty–wherever one finds oneself–of truly belonging. \nAlexander Tilney received an MFA from Warren Wilson College and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony. He lives in New York with his partner\, theater artist Sarah Hughes. \nKatharine Dion is the author of The Dependents. She lives in Berkeley. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/alexander-tilney-in-conversation-with-katharine-dion-discussing-tilneys-new-novel-the-expectations/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/theexpectations.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190814T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190814T193000 DTSTAMP:20190603T182649Z CREATED:20190603T182247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190603T182649Z UID:3450-1565811000-1565811000@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World. DESCRIPTION:Neil Shister in Conversation with Harley Dubois discussing Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World.\n\n\n\n\n“An all-in history of\, and love letter to\, this one-of-a-kind event. If you’ve been there\, or want to go\, you couldn’t possibly find better companions than Neil Shister and his engaging book.”–Daniel Okrent\, author of Last Call and The Guarded Gate \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Radical Ritual in advance by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThrough interviews with fabled Burning Man personages\, Radical Ritual traces the festival’s evolution from the first scrap wood bonfire on a San Francisco beach to the week-long extravaganza in Black Rock City. Written from Neil Shister’s perspective as a five-time participant\, journalist\, and student of American culture\, Radical Ritual presents Burning Man as vitally\, historically important\, a significant player in the avant-garde\, forging new social paradigms as liberal democracy unravels. Burning Man’s contribution to this new order is post-post modern\, a fusion of sixties humanism with state-of-the-art Silicon Valley wizardry. Shister is not alone in his opinion. Led by conservative activist Grover Norquist\, the Cato Institute recently held an event on what libertarians can learn from Burning Man. The festival intertwines conservative and progressive ideas. On one hand it is a celebration of self-reliance\, personal accountability\, and individual freedom; on the other hand it is based on strong values of inclusion\, consensual decision-making\, and centered\, collaborative endeavor. \nNeil Shister has been a correspondent with Time\, television critic for the Miami Herald\, and editor of Atlanta magazine. He’s taught at Hampshire College\, Boston University\, and The George Washington University. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Côte d’Ivoire (1968-1970). He lives in Washington\, D.C. \nHarley Dubois is a founding board member and chief transition officer\, Burning Man Project. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/radical-ritual-how-burning-man-changed-the-world/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/radicalritual.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190829T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190829T183000 DTSTAMP:20190603T183923Z CREATED:20190603T183923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190603T183923Z UID:3456-1567103400-1567103400@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Kids 12 up! Elizabeth Lim reads from Spin the Dawn DESCRIPTION:Kids 12 up! Elizabeth Lim reads from Spin the Dawn\, a sweeping YA fantasy about a young girl who poses as a boy to compete for the role of imperial tailor and embarks on an impossible journey to sew three magic dresses\, from the sun\, the moon\, and the stars.\n\n\n\n\n“Pure magic. Romance\, artistry\, and deep enchantment.”–Gregory Maguire\, author of Wicked \n“What an amazing creation! Every time I thought I knew where it was going\, I was wrong. This is a white-knuckle read.”–Tamora Pierce\, author of Tempests and Slaughter \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Spin the Dawn by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaia Tamarin dreams of becoming the greatest tailor in the land\, but as a girl\, the best she can hope for is to marry well. When a royal messenger summons her ailing father\, once a tailor of renown\, to court\, Maia poses as a boy and takes his place. She knows her life is forfeit if her secret is discovered\, but she’ll take that risk to achieve her dream and save her family from ruin. There’s just one catch: Maia is one of twelve tailors vying for the job. \nBackstabbing and lies run rampant as the tailors compete in challenges to prove their artistry and skill. Maia’s task is further complicated when she draws the attention of the court magician\, Edan\, whose piercing eyes seem to see straight through her disguise.\nAnd nothing could have prepared her for the final challenge: to sew three magic gowns for the emperor’s reluctant bride-to-be\, from the laughter of the sun\, the tears of the moon\, and the blood of stars. With this impossible task before her\, she embarks on a journey to the far reaches of the kingdom\, seeking the sun\, the moon\, and the stars\, and finding more than she ever could have imagined. \nElizabeth Lim grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she was raised on a hearty diet of fairy tales\, myths\, and songs. Before becoming an author\, Lim was a professional film and video game composer\, and she still tends to come up with her best book ideas when writing near a piano. An alumna of Harvard and Juilliard\, she now lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/kids-12-up-elizabeth-lim-reads-from-spin-the-dawn/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/spinthedawn.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190910T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190910T193000 DTSTAMP:20190603T184331Z CREATED:20190603T184331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190603T184331Z UID:3457-1568143800-1568143800@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Meg Waite Clayton returns to launch The Last Train to London DESCRIPTION:Meg Waite Clayton returns to launch The Last Train to London\, a beautifully rendered novel centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe–and one brave woman who helped them escape to safety.\n\n\n\n\n“Painful and beautiful\, absorbing and unforgettable. A wonderful tribute to courage\, to a remarkable woman\, to the ones she saved\, and the ones she could not. Recommend this book to anyone who thinks no single person can make a difference.”–Karen Joy Fowler \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Last Train to London by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 1936\, the Nazi are little more than loud\, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman\, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna’s streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan’s best friend and companion is the brilliant Zofie-Helene\, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive\, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents’ carefree innocence is shattered when the Nazis’ take control. \nYet there is hope in the darkness. Truus Wijsmuller\, a member of the Dutch resistance\, risks her life smuggling Jewish children out of Nazi Germany to the nations that will take them. It is a mission that becomes even more dangerous after the Anschluss–Hitler’s annexation of Austria–as\, across Europe\, countries close their borders to the growing number of refugees desperate to escape. \nTante Truus\, as she is known\, is determined to save as many children as she can. After Britain passes a measure to take in at-risk child refugees from the German Reich\, she dares to approach Adolf Eichmann\, the man who would later help devise the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question\,” in a race against time to bring children like Stephan\, his young brother Walter\, and Zofie-Helene on a perilous journey to an uncertain future abroad. \nMeg Waite Clayton is the author of The Four Ms. Bradwells\, The Wednesday Sisters\, The Language of Light\, and The Wednesday Daughters. She’s written for the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the San Jose Mercury News\, Forbes\, Writer’s Digest\, Runner’s World\, and public radio. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School\, she lives in Palo Alto. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/meg-waite-clayton-returns-to-launch-the-last-train-to-london/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/lasttraintolondon.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190913T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190913T190000 DTSTAMP:20190909T180322Z CREATED:20190909T180321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T180322Z UID:3631-1568401200-1568401200@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Kids 9-12! Lucy Jane Bledsoe launch party for her new middle-grade novel\, Running Wild. DESCRIPTION:To reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Running Wild by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwelve-year-old Willa and her twin brothers have survived with their father in the Alaskan wilderness for five years. But Willa knows this can’t go on–they must escape.Since their mother died five years ago\, Willa\, her younger brothers\, and her father have lived in the wilderness\, in a log cabin they built. They survive on food they grow and animals they hunt. Every year they have struggled a little bit more to survive. Now\, with winter approaching and her father becoming more reckless\, Willa wonders if they will live to see spring. She also knows her father will never agree to leave. \nWhen her father goes on a hunting expedition by himself\, Willa convinces her brothers that they must make the four-day journey down the Yukon River to Fort Yukon to get help. But first\, they’ll need to survive the treacherous trip…and all the while\, their father is on their trail.\nPerfect for middle grade readers looking for adventure stories with strong female protagonists\, Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s Running Wild is a page-turner that hooks you from the beginning and doesn’t let go. \nLucy Jane Bledsoe is an author of books for children and adults\, both fiction and nonfiction. An adventurer\, Lucy has been to Alaska many times to hike and kayak\, and has worked as a National Park Service ranger. She lives in Berkeley. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/kids-9-12-lucy-jane-bledsoe-launch-party-for-her-new-middle-grade-novel-running-wild/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/runningwild.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190914T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190914T100000 DTSTAMP:20190909T180543Z CREATED:20190909T180543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T180543Z UID:3632-1568455200-1568455200@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Kids 4-8! Mac Barnett & Greg Pizzoli launch their new books Hi\, Jack! and Jack Blasts Off DESCRIPTION:Kids 4-8! Mac Barnett & Greg Pizzoli launch their new books Hi\, Jack! and Jack Blasts Off\, a funny early reader series about a mischievous rabbit\, a cranky old lady\, and a lovable dog sure to delight fans of Elephant & Piggie. The always entertaining author/illustrator duo will hold forth at Mrs. Dalloway’s for this special Saturday morning family event. While all ages will enjoy this presentation\, the Jack books are best suited for children ages 4 to 8. \n\n\n\n\nMac Barnett is the New York Times bestselling author of more than forty books\, including Sam & Dave Dig a Hole\, Extra Yarn\, and the Mac B.\, Kid Spy series. His books have won numerous prizes\, including three E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards\, two Caldecott Honors\, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. He lives in Oakland. \nGreg Pizzoli is an author\, illustrator\, and printmaker. His first picture book\, The Watermelon Seed\, won the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award\, and his book Good Night Owl was a Geisel Honor. His nonfiction picture book Tricky Vic was a New York TimesBest Illustrated of 2015. He lives in Philadelphia. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/kids-4-8-mac-barnett-greg-pizzoli-launch-their-new-books-hi-jack-and-jack-blasts-off/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/hi-jack.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190915T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190915T150000 DTSTAMP:20190909T180812Z CREATED:20190909T180812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T180812Z UID:3636-1568559600-1568559600@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:NaNoWriMo's Grant Faulkner\, Rebecca Stern and Laura Bradley launch Brave the Page DESCRIPTION:NaNoWriMo’s Grant Faulkner\, Rebecca Stern and Laura Bradley launch Brave the Page\, the official NaNoWriMo handbook that inspires young people to tackle audacious goals and complete their creative projects. \n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Brave the Page by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNational Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo) has generated one of the most effective approaches to writing the novel of your dreams. But it’s not just for adults. Its Young Writers Program encourages kids in grades K-12 to pick up their pens (or pencils\, or keyboards) and tackle this enormous feat head-on.  \nCome to celebrate the publication of NaNoWriMo’s teen writing guide\, Brave the Page\, which promotes NaNoWriMo’s belief that everyone’s stories deserve to be told. It’s a fun guide that introduces young people to NaNoWriMo’s signature “deadline plus goal” approach and includes craft information\, pep talks from popular authors\, advice on how to commit to your goals\, a detailed roadmap for writing a novel in a month\, and more! \nNational Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that believes in the transformational power of creativity. They provide the structure\, community\, and encouragement to help people find their voices\, achieve creative goals\, and build new worlds–on and off the page. With its first event in 1999\, the organization’s programs now include National Novel Writing Month in November\, Camp NaNoWriMo\, the Young Writers Program\, Come Write In\, and the “Now What?” Months. \nGrant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. He’s published two books on writing: Brave the Page and Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo. He’s also published Fissures\, a collection of 100-word stories\, and Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. His stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines; his essays on creativity in The New York Times\, Poets & Writers\, Writer’s Digest\, and The Writer. He also co-hosts Write-minded\, a weekly podcast on writing and publishing.   \nRebecca Stern has experienced NaNoWriMo from every angle: she had her students participate in the Young Writers Program when she was a teacher\, did a victory dance in the 50K winner’s circle\, served on the organization’s Associate Board\, and then was Director of Programs. Rebecca is now Development Manager. Prior to working for NaNoWriMo\, Stern was a teacher and a Senior Digital Editor at Pearson Education. She also co-edited an anthology for kids called Breakfast on Mars and 37 Other Delectable Essays. \nLaura Bradley teaches middle school English\, Design Lab and Broadcast Media at Kenilworth Junior High School in Petaluma. After 20 years of pulling teeth to get her students to write\, she hit the jackpot with NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program. She and her 8th graders have participated in NaNoWriMo since 2011\, and she credits the novel-writing challenge with dramatically increasing her students’ enthusiasm about writing\, as well as their skills and confidence. Bradley is a National Board Certified Teacher\, Edutopia facilitator\, PBS Innovator All-Star\, and occasional blogger.  URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/nanowrimos-grant-faulkner-rebecca-stern-and-laura-bradley-launch-brave-the-page/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/bravethepage.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190919T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190919T190000 DTSTAMP:20190909T181511Z CREATED:20190909T181241Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T181511Z UID:3640-1568919600-1568919600@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Bonnie Tsui & other Writers Grotto members host an interactive party/workshop inaugurating a new series for writers: LIT STARTS DESCRIPTION:Bonnie Tsui & other Writers Grotto members host an interactive party/workshop inaugurating a new series for writers: LIT STARTS. Writing Action is the focus of this evening\, with Foreword author Bonnie Tsui reading and guiding a prompt-and-response session. \n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase any of the four LIT STARTS books listed below by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the covers below. Bring a writing instrument and your creative juices! \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFocus on a single aspect of the craft of writing with help from the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Writing Action kicks off with a foreword by award-winning author and journalist Bonnie Tsui\, who offers pointers for creating page-turning prose. The rest of the book consists of prompts and space to write\, providing opportunities to explore how both high-stakes and low-key moments can be action-packed. Among other ideas\, you’ll be asked to write an account of: \n\na highly competitive game of hopscotch 
\nan orange being peeled as if it were the last one on earth 
\na car ride with an overly confident student driver 
\na meal prepared by a cook who is really depressed 
\nthe step-by-step process of opening a long-awaited piece of mail 
\n\nPerfectly sized to take to a café\, on vacation\, or on your morning commute\, this book is designed for practicing your creative writing a little bit at a time. \nThe San Francisco-based Writers Grotto is comprised of more than one hundred professional writers\, including journalists and novelists\, podcasters and poets\, comedians and filmmakers\, playwrights and publishers. Since its founding in 1994\, members have written New York Times bestsellers\, feature films\, and television series\, and have won everything from Pushcarts to Pulitzers. Bonnie Tsui is a longtime contributor to the New York Times and the author of American Chinatown. Visit her at bonnietsui.com URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/bonnie-tsui-other-writers-grotto-members-host-an-interactive-party-workshop-inaugurating-a-new-series-for-writers-lit-starts/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/writinghumor.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190922T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190922T150000 DTSTAMP:20190909T182714Z CREATED:20190909T182714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T182714Z UID:3650-1569164400-1569164400@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Peter Dale Scott and Freeman Ng present Poetry and Terror: Politics and Poetics in Coming to Jakarta DESCRIPTION:Peter Dale Scott and Freeman Ng present Poetry and Terror: Politics and Poetics in Coming to Jakarta\, a study at many levels of Scott’s long poem Coming to Jakarta. \n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Poetry and Terror ($34.99 paperback) in advance by speaking to a bookseller. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nComing to Jakarta is Scott’s response to a midlife crisis triggered in part by his initial inability to share his knowledge and horror about American involvement in the great Indonesian massacre of 1965. In Poetry and Terror\, interviews with Ng supply fuller information about the poem’s discussions of: a) how this psychological trauma led to an explorations of violence in American society and then\, after a key recognition\, in the poet himself; b) the poem’s look at east-west relations through the lens of the yin-yang\, spiritual-secular doubleness of the human condition; c) how the process of writing the poem led to the recovery of memories too threatening at first to be retained by his normal presentational self\, and d) the mystery of right action\, guided by the Bhagavad Gita and the maxim in the Gospel of Thomas that “If you bring forth what is within you\, what you bring forth will save you.” \nLed by the interviews to greater self-awareness\, Scott then analyses his poem as also an elegy\, not just for the dead in Indonesia\, but “for the passing of the Sixties era\, when so many of us imagined that a Movement might achieve major changes for a better America.” Subsequent chapters develop how human doubleness can lead to an inner tension between the needs of politics and the needs of poetry\, and how some poetry can serve as a non-violent higher politics\, contributing to the evolution of human culture and thus our “second nature.” \nPeter Dale Scott is a poet and author of many books including The American Deep State: Big Money\, Big Oil\, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy and Coming to Jakarta: A Poem About Terror\, and he is co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at University of California\, Berkeley. Freeman Ng is a former Google software engineer\, an author\, and an artist. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/peter-dale-scott-and-freeman-ng-present-poetry-and-terror-politics-and-poetics-in-coming-to-jakarta/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/poetryandterror.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190924T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190924T183000 DTSTAMP:20190909T183005Z CREATED:20190909T183004Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T183005Z UID:3654-1569349800-1569349800@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:E.R. Razmipoor OFFSITE presenting The Ventriloquists DESCRIPTION:E.R. Razmipoor OFFSITE presenting The Ventriloquists\, her much-anticipated debut novel inspired by true events\, about a ragtag gang of journalists and resistance fighters risking everything for an elaborate scheme to undermine the Reich. \n\n\n\n\n“Magnetic… Sprawling and ambitious\, with crisp pacing and fully realized characters\, this will fascinate anyone looking for an unusual\, enthralling war story.” — Publishers Weekly \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this fast-paced historical thriller\, twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country’s most popular newspaper\, Le Soir\, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene’s world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist\, Marc Aubrion\, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion’s team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies\, or be killed. Faced with no decision at all\, Aubrion has a brilliant idea. While pretending to do the Nazis’ bidding\, they will instead publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin–daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors. The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke\, and they have only eighteen days to tell it. \nE.R. Razmipoor studied political science at UC Berkeley\, where she researched underground literature in resistance movements and discovered the forgotten story of Faux Soir. Her writing has been featured in McSweeney’s. \n  URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/e-r-razmipoor-offsite-presenting-the-ventriloquists/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/theventroloquist.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190925T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190925T193000 DTSTAMP:20190909T183137Z CREATED:20190909T183136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T183137Z UID:3658-1569439800-1569439800@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Jean Fruth & Jeff Idelson present Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin. DESCRIPTION:Jean Fruth & Jeff Idelson present Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin. The evening includes a presentation by photographer Jean Fruth and retiring National Baseball Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson\, on some of the legends in the book and the places they come from. Followed by a book signing.  A matching donation of the book price ($60) will be donated to Oakland Little League for every book sold at this event.  \n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Grassroots Baseball ($60 hardcover) in advance by speaking with a bookseller. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin\, photographer Jean Fruth features more than 250 of the best images from all levels of the amateur game in the U.S. as well as several hotbeds of baseball around the world. Each chapter opens with a portrait of a baseball legend and a first-person essay recounting his early memories of playing the game. Some of the stars highlighted in this full-color book include Whitey Ford\, Vladimir Guerrero\, Hank Aaron\, Randy Johnson\, Nolan Ryan\, and Ichiro Suzuki. The pages that follow in each chapter document the game from sandlots to big time ballparks\, and at every level of organized baseball\, giving readers a window into how these legends’ careers began. With an introduction by Cal Ripken\, Jr.\, a foreword by Steve Wulf\, and an afterword by Johnny Bench\, this book makes the perfect gift for baseball fans of all teams. \nJean Fruth has been a photographer for nearly two decades and shooting baseball for the past 15 years. She covered the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A’s before turning her attention to the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum\, where she helped to build the museum’s profile and photo archive. Today Fruth is the traveling photographer for La Vida Baseball\, a digital media company and Hall of Fame partner that tells the story of Latino baseball across the United States and Latin America. She is recognized by Sony as one of its 45 Sony Artisans of Imagery\, world-wide. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/jean-fruth-jeff-idelson-present-grassroots-baseball-where-legends-begin/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/grassrootsbaseball.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190929T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190929T150000 DTSTAMP:20190909T184504Z CREATED:20190909T184503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T184504Z UID:3665-1569769200-1569769200@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:L. John Harris launches his delightful new book\, Café French: A Flâneur’s Guide to the Language\, Lore and Food of the Paris Café. DESCRIPTION:L. John Harris launches his delightful new book\, Café French: A Flâneur’s Guide to the Language\, Lore and Food of the Paris Café. \n\n\n\n\n“L. John Harris’s amusing and instructive book distills Parisian flânerie—that unique blend of urban strolling and conversing that fuses literary\, spatial and historical life—with playful images\, witty narrative and memorable quotations by and about the notorious flâneurs of yore.”–W. Scott Haine\, author of The World of the Paris Café \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Café French in advance by speaking to a bookseller. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHe has been called Mr. Garlic\, the Balzac of Berkeley and now a Neoflâneur: author\, artist\, cookbook publisher\, filmmaker and “pre-foodie” L. John Harris\, a founding father of Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto\, is all of the above and more. Join us as we celebrate the publication of his new book of witty texts and whimsical illustrations inspired by his wanderings through the streets and cafés of Paris. \nA native of Los Angeles\, L. John Harris studied art at UC Berkeley from 1965-1969. Through the 1970’s\, while working in some of Berkeley’s iconic food businesses–the Cheese Board\, Chez Panisse and The Swallow–he wrote The Book of Garlic\, followed by The Official Garlic Lovers Handbook. His book Foodoodles came out in 2010. A modern Renaissance man\, Harris is also a documentary film maker (Divine Food: 100 Years in the Kosher Delicatessen Trade and Los Romeros: The Royal Family of the Guitar) and classical guitar afficionado whose programs at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music feature world-class guitarists playing vintage classical and flamenco guitars from his personal collection. Harris spends his time between Berkeley and Paris. \n  URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/l-john-harris-launches-his-delightful-new-book-cafe-french-a-flaneurs-guide-to-the-language-lore-and-food-of-the-paris-cafe/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cafefrench.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191004T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191004T193000 DTSTAMP:20190909T184723Z CREATED:20190909T184722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T184723Z UID:3669-1570217400-1570217400@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Matt Maiocco\, Brad Mangin & Brian Murphy present Letters to 87: Fans Remember the Legacy of Dwight Clark DESCRIPTION:Matt Maiocco\, Brad Mangin & Brian Murphy present Letters to 87: Fans Remember the Legacy of Dwight Clark\, a coffee table book featuring heartfelt letters from fans of the San Francisco 49ers hero\, with essays by Edward J. DeBartolo Jr.\, Ronnie Lott\, Joe Montana\, Brian Murphy\, and Kelly Clark. Letters to 87 also offers rare photos from Michael Zagaris\, Brad Mangin\, and John Storey. \n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Letters to 87 by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFootball fans will always remember “The Catch” as the moment a dynasty was born. When Dwight Clark received the touchdown pass that sent the 49ers to their first Super Bowl in 1982\, an indelible moment was etched into the history of the NFL. Later\, as Clark battled ALS\, he and sportswriter Matt Maiocco put out a call to fans\, asking them to share their memories of this moment. The letters that Clark and Maiocco received tell the story of how the man who wore number 87 brought together a city and a franchise through his sincerity\, his loyalty\, and his spirit for life and the game. \nAll royalties will go the the Golden Heart Fund\, a nonprofit arm of the 49ers that helps support former 49er players. Find out more at www.lettersto87.com. \nMatt Maiocco\, beat reporter for NBC Sports Bay Area\, has covered the San Francisco 49ers for over a decade. Brad Mangin is a photographer who\, since 1987\, has captured the biggest stars in professional sports. Brian Murphy is half of KNBR’s « Murph and Mac » sports report. He’s written six books\, three of which celebrate the World Series Champions SF Giants. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/matt-maiocco-brad-mangin-brian-murphy-present-letters-to-87-fans-remember-the-legacy-of-dwight-clark/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/letterto87.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191016T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191016T193000 DTSTAMP:20190909T185001Z CREATED:20190909T185000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T185001Z UID:3670-1571254200-1571254200@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Prerna Lal launching Unsung America: Immigrant Trailblazers and Our Fight for Freedom DESCRIPTION:Prerna Lal launching Unsung America: Immigrant Trailblazers and Our Fight for Freedom. Please join us for a most timely discussion. \n\n\n\n\n“Deeply insightful and intentionally detailed–Prerna Lal has conceived a text that breaks down the inner workings of the United States immigration system and the impact it has had on the lives of countless immigrants and families. Lal lays out a timeline both old and new\, that vividly chronicles the birth and impact of certain policies\, views\, and opinions within the realm of immigration policy.”–Juan Escalante \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of Unsung America by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFar too often\, immigrants are demonized and scapegoated\, when they should be celebrated as heroes and revolutionaries. This book strings together both triumphant and painful stories of immigrants who blazed trails and broke barriers in their fight for American citizenship and fundamental human rights. \nThese are ordinary people who have used their own stories on the fight for citizenship to illustrate their triumphs and trials as immigrants in a new land. Each uses a different strategy and tactics; what works for one does not work for another. They all have one thing in common\, however—a desire for racial and social justice. \n  \nPrerna Lal is a naturalized United States citizen\, born and raised in Fiji Islands with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lal is an Indo-Fijian attorney\, based in the Bay Area\, and founder of DreamActivist\, an online advocacy network led by undocumented youth. Through the use of social media\, Lal has been credited for organising an online network to stop the deportations of undocumented youth and they are well known as one of the pivotal figures and leaders of the DREAM Act movement. A clinical law professor\, Lal is a frequent writer on immigration\, racial justice\, sexual orientation\, and how these forces intersect. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/prerna-lal-launching-unsung-america-immigrant-trailblazers-and-our-fight-for-freedom/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/unsungamerican.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T193000 DTSTAMP:20190909T185347Z CREATED:20190909T185347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T185347Z UID:3674-1571859000-1571859000@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Lawrence Weschler presents And How Are You\, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Weschler presents And How Are You\, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks\, the untold story of the famous neurologist\, his own most singular patient. \n\n\n\n\n“The story of Lawrence Weschler’s faithful four-decade friendship with the amazing Oliver Sacks offers pleasures and amazements on every page. This loving but unblinking portrait will delight fans of Dr. Sacks as well as devotees of Weschler’s always-pathfinding nonfiction.”–Ian Frazier \nTo reserve your seat in advance please purchase a copy of And How Are You\, Dr. Sacks? by speaking with a bookseller or clicking on the cover image below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s\, when he set out to profile the neurologist for The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier\, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings–the account of his long-dormant patients’ miraculous but troubling return to life in a Bronx hospital ward. But the book had hardly been an immediate success\, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknown. Over the ensuing four years\, the two men worked closely together until\, for wracking personal reasons\, Sacks asked Weschler to abandon the profile\, a request to which Weschler acceded. The two remained close friends\, however\, across the next thirty years and then\, just as Sacks was dying\, he urged Weschler to take up the project once again. This book is the result of that entreaty. \nWeschler sets Sacks’s brilliant table talk and extravagant personality in vivid relief\, casting himself as a beanpole Sancho to Sacks’s capacious Quixote. We see Sacks rowing and ranting and caring deeply; composing the essays that would form The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; recalling his turbulent drug-fueled younger days; helping his patients and exhausting his friends; and waging intellectual war against a medical and scientific establishment that failed to address his greatest concern: the spontaneous specificity of the individual human soul. And all the while he is pouring out a stream of glorious\, ribald\, hilarious\, and often profound conversation that establishes him as one of the great talkers of the age. Here is the definitive portrait of Sacks as our preeminent romantic scientist\, a self-described “clinical ontologist” whose entire practice revolved around the single fundamental question he effectively asked each of his patients: How are you? Which is to say\, How do you be? \nA question which Weschler\, with this book\, turns back on the good doctor himself. \nLawrence Weschler\, a longtime veteran of The New Yorker and a regular contributor to NPR\, is the director emeritus of the New York Institute of the Humanities at NYU and the author of nearly twenty books\, including Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees\, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder\, Everything That Rises\, and Vermeer in Bosnia. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/lawrence-weschler-presents-and-how-are-you-dr-sacks-a-biographical-memoir-of-oliver-sacks/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/drsacks.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T193000 DTSTAMP:20190909T185619Z CREATED:20190909T185618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T185619Z UID:3679-1571945400-1571945400@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Rosalind Brackenbury returns to read from her exquisite new novel\, Without Her. DESCRIPTION:To reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Without Her in advance by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen her old friend Hannah doesn’t show up at her house in the south of France\, everyone assumes that Claudia\, who has known Hannah since their shared years at boarding school\, will know where she is\, and what has happened. But as Claudia travels from the USA to France to help Hannah’s husband and children conduct their search\, she is forced to deal with her old jealousy of Hannah\, as well as her own relationship in the present with her French lover\, Alexandre. As events unfold\, Claudia begins to wonder if Hannah and Alexandre may have had an affair and if that has had something to do with Hannah’s mysterious disappearance. In this exquisitely written\, Ferrante-esque novel\, the question of whether or not Hannah will come back becomes urgent and bewildering. And if she doesn’t come back\, what will the lives of her friends and family be without her? \nPoet and novelist Rosalind Brackenbury is the author of Becoming George Sand\, Paris Still Life\, The Third Swimmer\, and The Lost Love Letters of Henri Fournier. A former writer-in-residence at the College of William and Mary\, she has also served as poet laureate of Key West\, teaching poetry workshops. Born in London\, Rosalind lived in Scotland and France before moving to the United States. She now lives in Key West. Her latest poetry collection\, Invisible Horses\, was published in May. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/rosalind-brackenbury-returns-to-read-from-her-exquisite-new-novel-without-her/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/withouther-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191105T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191105T200000 DTSTAMP:20190909T185824Z CREATED:20190909T185824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T185824Z UID:3683-1572978600-1572984000@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Raina Telgemeier OFFSITE TICKETED EVENT presents Guts DESCRIPTION:Raina Telgemeier OFFSITE TICKETED EVENT presents Guts\, a true story from the bestselling\, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile\, Sisters\, Drama\, and Ghosts. Telgemeier once again brings a thoughtful\, charming\, and funny tale about growing up and gathering the courage to face–and conquer–her fears. \n\n\n\n\nStay tuned for further details about how to sign up to attend. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, November 5\, 2019 – 6:30pm to 8:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nFirst Congregational Church of Berkeley\n2345 Channing Way @ Dana St\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704 URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/raina-telgemeier-offsite-ticketed-event-presents-guts/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/guts.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191111T180000 DTSTAMP:20191022T182557Z CREATED:20191022T182557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191022T182557Z UID:3814-1573293600-1573495200@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:School Benefit Weekend DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, November 9\, 2019 – 10:00am to Monday\, November 11\, 2019 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\nOnce again\, Mrs. Dalloway’s will reimburse all partnership schools for 17% of total pre-tax purchases made by the school community from Saturday\, November 9 through Monday\, November 11. \nThis is a great opportunity to stock up on holiday gift items such as children’s books\, cookbooks\, adult fiction and nonfiction\, gardening books\, merchandise\, art\, and gift certificates for teachers\, family\, and friends. \nOnline sales are welcome! Can’t make it to the shop? Support your school by visiting www.mrsdalloways.com. \nPlease make sure to keep your receipts* and turn them in to your school no later than end of day Friday\, November 15. \n*For online purchases\, print out your order confirmation email\, and turn this in as your receipt. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/school-benefit-weekend-2/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/mrsdallowayslogo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T193000 DTSTAMP:20191022T182808Z CREATED:20191022T182808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191022T182808Z UID:3815-1573673400-1573673400@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Peter Jan Honigsberg launches his new book A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices of Guantánamo\,  DESCRIPTION:Peter Jan Honigsberg launches his new book A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices of Guantánamo\, containing firsthand testimonies from Guantánamo Bay\, inspiring future generations to never repeat the human rights violations of the detention center. \n\n\n\n\n“The definitive account of what happened at Guantánamo in all of its chilling and horrifying detail. What makes this book unique and compelling is that it is the story of what it does to people’s lives to create ‘a place outside the law.’ Through his countless interviews\, Professor Honigsberg describes the impact of Guantánamo on those who have been part of it: soldiers\, medical personnel\, lawyers\, interrogators\, torturers\, detainees. It is the story of what happens when a country abandons the rule of law.”–Erwin Chemerinsky\, UC Berkeley\, School of Law \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of A Place Outside the Law by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaw scholar and Witness to Guantánamo founder Peter Jan Honigsberg uncovers a haunting portrait of life at the military prison and its toll\, not only on the detainees and their loved ones but also on its military and civilian personnel and the journalists who reported on it. \nHonigsberg conducted 158 interviews across 20 countries so that the people who lived and worked there could tell their heartbreaking and inspirational stories. In each one\, we face the reality that the healing process cannot begin until we start the conversation about what was done in the name of protecting our country. These are a few of them. Many alleged operatives in Guantánamo were purchased by the United States for ransom from Afghan and Pakistani soldiers. Brandon Neely\, a prison guard who processed the first group of suspected operatives to arrive in Cuba\, flew to London to embrace the detainees he guarded after leaving the military. Navy whistleblower Matt Diaz covertly released the names of 500 detainees by sending them in a greeting card to a lawyer in New York. Journalist Carol Rosenberg committed the past 17 years of her career to documenting life at Guantánamo. And Damien Corsetti\, an interrogator who came to be known as the “King of Torture\,” received ribbons and awards for the same cruel actions for which he was later prosecuted. \nIn startling\, aching prose\, A Place Outside the Law shines a light on these unheard voices\, and through them\, encourages the global community to embrace humanity as our greatest tool to make the world a safer place. \nPeter Jan Honigsberg is a professor at USF School of Law and the founder and director of Witness to Guantánamo. His research and teaching focuses on the rule of law and human rights violations that occurred in the detention center in Guantánamo\, as well as on the study of terrorism and post-9/11 issues. His books include Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror and Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir. Honigsberg lives in Berkeley. \n  URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/peter-jan-honigsberg-launches-his-new-book-a-place-outside-the-law-forgotten-voices-of-guantanamo/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/guantanomobay.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T193000 DTSTAMP:20190909T190114Z CREATED:20190909T190114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T190114Z UID:3688-1574364600-1574364600@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart discussing Sciolino's new book The Seine: The River that Made Paris. DESCRIPTION:Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart (and introduced by L. John Harris) discussing Sciolino’s new book The Seine: The River that Made Paris. \n\n\n\n\nA soulful\, transformative voyage along the body of water that defines the City of Light. Elaine Sciolino is the perfect guide to the world’s most romantic river.”–Lauren Collins \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Seine by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nElaine Sciolino came to Paris as a young foreign correspondent and was seduced by a river. In The Seine\, she tells the story of that river from its source on a remote plateau of Burgundy to the wide estuary where its waters meet the sea\, and the cities\, tributaries\, islands\, ports\, and bridges in between. \nSciolino explores the Seine through its rich history and lively characters: a bargewoman\, a riverbank bookseller\, a houseboat dweller\, a famous cinematographer known for capturing the river’s light. She discovers the story of Sequana–the Gallo-Roman healing goddess who gave the Seine its name–and follows the river through Paris\, where it determined the city’s destiny and now snakes through all aspects of daily life. She patrols with river police\, rows with a restorer of antique boats\, sips champagne at a vineyard along the river\, and even dares to go for a swim. She finds the Seine in art\, literature\, music\, and movies from Renoir and Les Misérables to Puccini and La La Land. Along the way\, she reveals how the river that created Paris has touched her own life. A powerful afterword tells the dramatic story of how water from the depths of the Seine saved Notre-Dame from destruction during the devastating fire in April 2019. \nElaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times. She is the author of five books\, including The Seine\, The Only Street in Paris and La Seduction. Sciolino was decorated as a chevalier of the Legion of Honor\, the highest honor of the French state\, in 2010 for her “special contribution” to the friendship between France and the United States. She and her husband have lived in Paris since 2002. \nThad Carhart is the author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank and Finding Fontainebleau. A resident of Paris for 25 years\, he now lives in San Francisco. \nL. John Harris is the author/illustrator of Cafe French. He lives in Berkeley. \n  URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/elaine-sciolino-in-conversation-with-thad-carhart-discussing-sciolinos-new-book-the-seine-the-river-that-made-paris/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/theseine.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T193000 DTSTAMP:20191123T195642Z CREATED:20191123T195641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191123T195642Z UID:3901-1575401400-1575401400@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Thomas Lynch reads Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory” DESCRIPTION:Join us for fruitcake and cheer in this annual Mrs. Dalloway’s tradition.\n\n\n\nTuesday\, December 3\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst published in 1956\, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection from Capote about his rural Alabama boyhood is a perfect gift for fans young and old\, a “gem of a holiday story.” (School Library Journal\, starred review). \nSeven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin\, Miss Sook Falk: “It’s fruitcake weather!” Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship and the memories the two friends share of beloved holiday rituals. \nReader Thomas Lynch is an actor and longtime resident of the Elmwood. URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/thomas-lynch-reads-truman-capotes-a-christmas-memory-2/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Live Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/christmasmemory.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T193000 DTSTAMP:20200114T012811Z CREATED:20200114T012705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200114T012811Z UID:3963-1579721400-1579721400@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:Ian Haney López OFFSITE presents Merge Left:Fusing Race and Class\, Winning Elections\, and Saving America.  DESCRIPTION:Tickets $12 advance at Mrs. Dalloway’s or through brownpapertickets.com.\n\n\n\nWednesday\, January 22\, 2020 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 2014\, Ian Haney López in Dog Whistle Politics named and explained the coded racial appeals exploited by right-wing politicians over the last half century–and thereby anticipated the 2016 presidential election. Now the country is heading into what will surely be one of the most consequential elections ever\, with the Right gearing up to exploit racial fear-mongering to divide and distract\, and the Left splintered over the next step forward. Some want to focus on racial justice head-on; others insist that a race-silent focus on class avoids alienating white voters. \nCan either approach–race-forward or colorblind–build the progressive supermajorities necessary to break political gridlock and fundamentally change the country’s direction? \nFor the past two years\, Haney López has been collaborating with a research team of union activists\, racial justice leaders\, communications specialists\, and pollsters. Based on conversations\, interviews\, and surveys with thousands of people all over the country\, the team found a way forward. \nBy merging the fights for racial justice and for shared economic prosperity\, they were able to build greater enthusiasm for both goals–and for the cross-racial solidarity needed to win elections. What does this mean? It means that neutralizing the Right’s political strategy of racial division is possible\, today. And that’s the key to everything progressives want to achieve. \nA work of deep research\, nuanced argument\, and urgent insight\, Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class\, Winning Elections\, and Saving America is an indispensable tool for the upcoming political season and in the larger fight to build racial justice and shared economic prosperity for all of us. \nIan Haney López is a law professor at UC Berkeley\, where he teaches in the areas of race and constitutional law. Haney López is the author of Dog Whistle Politics plus two other books and two anthologies. He co-founded the Race-Class Narrative Project\, and also co-chaired the AFL-CIO’s Advisory Council on Racial and Economic Justice. He holds an endowed chair as the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at UC Berkeley and lives in Richmond. \nIn collaboration with KPFA. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nKehilla Synagogue\n1300 Grand Ave\n\nPiedmont\, CA 94610 URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/ian-haney-lopez-offsite-presents-merge-leftfusing-race-and-class-winning-elections-and-saving-america/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/41O20dXH5dL._SX329_BO1204203200_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T190000 DTSTAMP:20200114T011234Z CREATED:20200114T011234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200114T011234Z UID:3959-1580324400-1580324400@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:PEGGY ORENSTEIN discussing Boys & Sex DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 29 – 7:00pm  OFFSITE TICKETED EVENT\n\n\n \n\n\nIn conversation with Judy Campbell discussing Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups\, Love\, Porn\, Consent\, and Navigating the New Masculinity. The award-winning journalist Orenstein’s Girls & Sex broke ground\, shattered taboos\, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nand launched conversations about young women’s right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. In \nBoys & Sex\, she reveals how young men also understand and negotiate the new rules of physical and emotional intimacy. The result is a provocative work that offers a vision of how boys can truly move forward as better men. This event is presented in collaboration with East Bay School for Boys. Tickets are available through Eventbrite or directly from Mrs. Dalloway’s in-store. Ticket price includes a copy of Boys & Sex.\n\n\n\n\nPeggy Orenstein is the author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter. She is an award-winning journalist\, and internationally recognized speaker on gender issues\, especially those related to teens\, sex and relationships.\n\nJudy Campbell is a producer for KQED’s Forum as well as the co-host and co-producer of the KQED podcast The Leap.\n\nEvent address\n\n\n\nFirst Congregational Church\, 2345 Channing Way Berkeley URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/peggy-orenstein-discussing-boys-sex/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading,Live Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/518VNHlm-EL._SY346_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200202T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200202T170000 DTSTAMP:20200114T020902Z CREATED:20200114T020902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200114T020902Z UID:3968-1580653800-1580662800@stew.bluebamboodesigns.net SUMMARY:George Lakey Workshop with Kazu Haga OFFSITE DESCRIPTION:George Lakey Workshop with Kazu Haga OFFSITE conducts a workshop based on his most recent book\, How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning\, with Kazu Haga\, founder of the East Point Peace Academy and author of the forthcoming Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm. \n\n\n\n\nRegister at eastpointpeace.org/howwewin or call 510.500.7853. Sliding scale $20-$80. Wheelchair accessible. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, February 2\, 2020 – 2:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n“It’s a good time to take a fresh look at what has worked in times of trouble\, and share what we have learned about successful campaigning that gives hope for the future. These times call for new and creative tactics in order to make changes to the status quo\,” says activist and sociologist Lakey. \nGeorge Lakey has been on the forefront of social change for decades\, leading social change workshops on five continents and heading projects on local\, national and international levels. How We Win details how we can achieve needed social change. His previous book\, Viking Economics\, discusses how Scandinavia has instituted successful social change–and how we can too. \nIn addition to his work as founder and coordinator of the East Point Peace Academy\, Kazu Haga is the author of Healing Resistance and a core member of the Ahimsa Collective and a trainer in Kingian Nonviolence\, a philosophy developed out of teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. \nA second event\, “How to Make Polarization Work for Progress\,” with George Lakey\, follows on Monday\, February 3 at 7:00 p.m. at the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library\, 6501 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland. \nThese events are co-sponsored by the Social Justice Committee\, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists and Social and Environmental Action Committee of the Berkeley Society of friends. \nBooks will be available for sale at the events. \nFor further information contact julianna@lmi.net or 510.612.5181. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBerkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists\n2924 Cedar St.\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94709 URL:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/event/george-lakey-workshop-with-kazu-haga-offsite/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://stew.bluebamboodesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/51LsifBgS6L._SX312_BO1204203200_.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR