Speaking Tour: 3/19 - 3/25
Monday
WOMEN & MONEY: Personal finance expert and author, Suze Orman talks about the complicated and dysfunctional relationship that women have with money in her book, Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny.
7:30pm // Town Hall // $5
AGORAPHOBES TAKE HEART: Everything you’ve been told about dating is wrong. Love Will Find You is a new approach to love from dating expert Kathryn Alice. It may be the first dating book to claim that you don’t need to leave the house to meet your soulmate.
7pm // Third Place Books // FREE
Tuesday
AUTHOR, AUTHOR: In Lisa Lutz's novel, The Spellman Files, readers meet Izzy, 28, who has been a part of the family business, Spellman Investigations, since she was 12. She's addicted to "Get Smart" and coping with a family with boundary issues: Mom and Dad have no qualms about bugging their kids' rooms.
7pm // University Bookstore // FREE
EX-MASHER'S MEMOIR: Best known from the M*A*S*H and Providence TV series, actor Mike Farrell is also president of Death Penalty Focus, an anti-death penalty group. In his memoir, Just Call Me Mike: A Journey from Actor to Activist, Farrell describes his lifelong struggle to be a responsible citizen of the world.
7:30pm // Town Hall // $5
Wednesday
DEEP ECONOMIES: Bill McKibben's book, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, explores a new way of thinking about all the things we buy, the food we eat, the energy we use, and the money that pays for it all. McKibben advocates pursuing prosperity locally, with cities, suburbs, and regions producing more of their own food, energy, culture, and entertainment.
7pm // Town Hall // $5
BIOFUELS & YOU: Three local experts speak about the potential health, environmental and policy implications of biofuel use: David Kircher, manager of air resources, Puget Sound Clean Air Agency; Peter Moulton, coordinator of Climate Solutions' Harvesting Clean Energy Program; and Tim Stearns, energy policy specialist with Washington Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development.
5:30pm hors d'oeuvres, 6:30pm lecture // Town Hall // $10/$15
Thursday
THIS RECYCLED OLD HOUSE: Learn the secrets to using reclaimed and recycled materials in home building. Sustainable Ballard presents a panel and discussion on topics including material salvage and green remodeling. Take a tour of an eco-renovated house in the neighborhood.
6:30-7:45pm // Seattle Public Library Ballard Branch // FREE
FREE TIBET-AN HISTORY Veteran journalist Thomas Laird chronicles the history of Tibet as seen through the eyes of the Dalai Lama in The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama. Thousands of years of history are brought to life in Laird's powerful narrative, including the country's occupation by China.
7pm // University Bookstore // FREE
Friday
NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATOR: Marshall Rosenberg, PhD, is the creator of “nonviolent communication” and director of educational services for the Center for Nonviolent Communication, an international non-profit organization. Rosenberg's training methods are used in schools, businesses, health care centers, prisons, community groups and families.
7pm // Town Hall // Suggested donation $15-$50
AUTHOR, AUTHOR: Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring, reads from her new novel, Burning Bright, in which she re-creates Georgian London and the life of poet and painter William Blake. Maybe it explains how "eye" rhymes with "symmetry."
7-8:30pm // Seattle Public Central Library Microsoft Auditorium // FREE
Saturday
WEBLOG U: UW's Communication 2.0 series concludes with an Introduction to Blogging. Learn what makes blogs different from other Web site forms, analyze a variety of blogging technologies and hosts, and explore how local businesses and media companies are incorporating blogs into their communication mix, with instructor Kathy E. Gill, from the UW Department of Communication’s Digital
Media program.
9am-2pm // UW Communications Bldg Rm 302 // Tickets $100 general/$75 UWAA & AWC members
IT'S, LIKE, ZEN: Gen Kelsang Jansem presents How To Solve Our Human Problems by Gen Kelsang Gyatso. The idea is that when things go wrong we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem, but in reality the problems we experience come from the mind. Probably should just get that taken out.
6:30pm // Third Place Books // FREE
Sunday
P-TOWN PROSE: From Portland, Cheryl Strayed reads from her small-town Minnesota-set first novel, Torch. Ursula Hegi says, "In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments." You remember Ursula Hegi. She wrote that book about the dwarf, Trudi.
2pm // Elliott Bay // FREE
VEGFEST 2007: Free food samples, cooking demonstrations, information on nutrition from doctors and dieticians, and a huge selection of books, including Veg-Feasting in the Pacific Northwest and the cookbook, The Veg-Feasting Cookbook: it's VEGFEST!
10am-6pm // Seattle Center Exhibition Hall // $5 adults/under 12 FREE
