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Wednesday, February 11, 7PM
Marisa Meltzer
Author of Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music
with Allison Wolfe of Bratmobile
and Denise Oswald, editor and director of Soft Skull Press
The early nineties was the time of the riot grrl. Girls across the country put down gender roles and classic feminist critiques, and picked up instruments, zines, and revolutionary politics. For years the best bands were almost exclusively girl bands.
Author Marisa Meltzer is the coauthor of How Sassy Changed My Life (Faber, 2007). Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Elle, and Teen Vogue. She lives in Brooklyn. She'll be here with the legendary Allison Wolfe of Bratmobile and editor Denise Oswald to talk about the book, the music and the movement.
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Ongoing Events |
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•THE SPANISH LANGUAGE DISCUSSION GROUP• Led by Javier Molea, this group meets Saturdays at noon in the Spanish literature section downstairs. It's open to all who wish to practice their Spanish while discussing literature.
•OUR FICTION BOOK CLUB• Led by Sarah McNally and Chris Jackson, this discussion group meets the first Monday of every month, at 7pm downstairs. They'll be discussing M. Glenn Taylor's The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart on February 1st.
•OUR ART & BEAUTY BOOK CLUB• Led by Adjua Greaves, this discussion group meets the second Wednesday of every month, at 7pm downstairs. For the next meetings on February 10th and March 10th, the book club will be discussing The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich.
•OUR GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK CLUB• Led by Angela Williams and Evan Narcisse, this discussion group meets the first Thursday of every month, at 7pm downstairs. At our next meeting on February 4th, the book club will be discussing Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine.
•KIDS STORYTIME• Resident storyteller Yvonne Brooks leads a storytime with with arts and crafts for kids ages 3 - 7, every Saturday at noon in the children’s section. Baby Storytime with storyteller Stewart Dawes takes place on Friday at 4:00 PM for ages 0 - 2.
NOTE All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. For more information about store events, email events coordinator Dustin Kurtz. |
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| The Changing Role of American Farmers |
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Wednesday, September 30 2009, 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
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Lisa M. Hamilton, author of Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness (Counterpoint)
Verlyn Klinkenborg, author of The Rural Life (Little, Brown & Co.)
Fred Kirschenmann, farmer and leader in the sustainable agriculture movement
Mary-Howell Martens, New York organic family farmer
    Over the past decade, our relationship to food and how it’s grown has transformed. But what about our relationship to the people who grow it? There is hope in the legions of new, young, and urban farmers cropping up around the United States, and yet overall, our country’s agricultural community is shrinking by the day. How is the role of farmers in our society and in our lives shifting? And what still needs to change? Moderator Lisa M. Hamilton, author of Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness, will be joined by three panelists: organic pioneer Fred Kisrchenmann, a Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University; the New York Times’ Verlyn Klinkenborg, author of The Rural Life; and New York farmer Mary-Howell Martens.
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