Events
Nikki McClure's papercut art has been heralded as lovely and inspiring by her neighbors here in Olympia for years. We probably should have presented her with an award every year for the calendars alone... So, even if it falls to the folks at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association to honor Nikki and Cynthia Rylant with a 2010 book award for their children's book All in a Day, we do at least get to host the ceremony here and be actually presenting Nikki with her richly deserved trophy/plaque/oversized check (we haven't seen it yet, but we assume it arrives in a hot-air balloon)! Are we gushing? The gush is all for the local talent. We're honored to serve as the transfer point, and we offer you champagne, delicious treats, children's music by Brandt Sandeno & friends, and the complete works of Nikki McClure. Watch the Dicky Dahl interview of Nikki on Vimeo.
Don’t let the title fool you -- this is no creationist tract. Dr. Wood asks, rather: what did Darwin MISS? What important notions did he not have access to? Is it due to chance that public opinion consistently boils down to THREE mutually exclusive explanations of human origins?
In case you thought this was mere rhetoric -- Dr. Wood offers you the answers to those questions and more. Please come on down for what should be a spirited discussion.
The full moon seems like a good time to launch a new writing group. We'll talk about what folks want in a writing group and, of course, do some writing. This group will be open and ongoing--a place to try out new ways of writing, expand current projects, get ideas for new projects, or just get your fingers inky while sitting around with people who like to play with words.
Orca Writes is facilitated by our own Sarah Tavis. Sarah is a published writer and received her MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University. She's taught writing to kids in elementary and middle school, teen mothers, undergrads, and is currently the Writing Faculty for the International Trauma Treatment Program (ITTP).
In which authors Riki Ott and David Cobb lead a community dialogue vis a vis action against the US Supreme Court's recent ruling on the personhood of corporations. Tonight the actual persons are taking over! Let's hear your voice.
If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we
need to stop using so much of it. And, says veteran environmental
activist Matt Hern, cities are the best chance we have left for a truly
ecological future . . . but what does it take to make a "truly"
sustainable city?
Common Ground in a Liquid City is a fun and engaging look at the future of urban life. Hern takes us on a journey through over a dozen urban centers, from Vancouver to Istanbul, Las Vegas, and beyond, exploring the history and current composition of cities around the globe and highlighting the elements of each that make it livable.
Each of Hern's ten chapters focuses on a central
theme of city life: diversity, street life, crime, population density,
water and natural life, gentrification, and globalism. What emerges in
the end is an appealing portrait of what the urban future might look
like--environmentally friendly, locally focused, and governed from
below.
Matt Hern is an inveterate city dweller and an
environmental and education activist. The editor of Everywhere All the
Time: A New Deschooling Reader and the author of Deschooling Our
Lives and Field Day, he founded Vancouver's Car-Free Day and is the
director of the Purple Thistle Center for alternative education. These
days, he lives in Vancouver with his partner and daughters and lectures
widely around the globe.
