Speaking Tour: 11/22 - 11/28
It's a holiday week, and people are too busy stuffing themselves with turkey and cranberry jam to talk much. Just hang on until Tuesday, when things really pick up.
Thursday, November 23
>>>Our parents' house, all afternoon. Dad talks on "The 7 Worst Habits of Today's Generation." Mom covers "Communication Breakdown: You Never Visit." Join the annual panel for a starchy Thanksgiving meal, that mysterious "fruit" salad with mini-marshmallows, and an in-depth critique of our many shortcomings. Free, but we'd be willing to pay to make it stop.
Saturday, November 25
>>>Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, 7:00pm. Author and documentary filmmaker Jen Marlowe presents a screening of Darfur Diaries and reads from the book, Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival, which she co-wrote with Aisha Bain and Adam Shapiro. We saw the movie last year -- it's affecting. $7
Tuesday, November 28
>>>ToST, 8:00pm. Speaking of paying to make it stop, the Seattle Poetry Slam hangs out in Fremont Tuesday nights. However, this week it features poetry ingenue Barbara Adler, whom you remember from such poetry slams as the Vancouver Poetry Slam and...well, that's the most famous one. $5 at the door. At a slam, no one can hear you read in all lowercase.
>>>University Bookstore, 7:00pm. We had no idea two local writers won the fiction and poetry Prairie Schooner awards this year: John Keeble (fiction) and Kathleen Flenniken (poetry) for Nocturnal America and Famous. Free as the wind on the wide open Nebraskan plains. A prairie schooner is a covered wagon, we add, as an aside.
>>>Elliott Bay, 7:30pm. Julia Scheeres' memoir, Jesus Land, is about three children in an Indiana missionary family in the 1980s. There was Julia, her two adopted African American brothers, and quite a few miles of bad Indiana road. Bone-jarringly free.
>>>Broadway Performance Hall, 7:00-10:00pm. For the first Seattle screening of Uganda Rising, the keynote speaker is Margaret Musoke, the PR rep. for the Ugandan North American Association. She'll talk about her recent trip to Uganda and the positive changes she saw there, after the last 25 years of civil war and death. Free.
