Updates & Changes

Business Breakfast: The Place to Be

With Roger Mudd, veteran newsman and author of The Place to Be: Washington,CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News.

Hosted by Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

Sponsored by Northwest Mutual Financial Network and WHTJ Charlottesville PBS.

Moderator: Robert Vaughan

IMPORTANT - This is a ticketed event. You must purchase tickets in order to attend.

History in These Waters: Pre-Jamestown to the Present

Amy Waters Yarsinske (The Elizabeth River) and Avery Chenoweth (Empires in the Forest: Jamestown and the Beginning of America).

Sponsored by We the People Initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Moderator: Howard Newlon

Reading Group Choices

Barbara Mead (Reading Group Choices), James Collins (Beginner's Greek), Jill A. Davis (Girl's Poker Night, Ask Again Later), and Therese Fowler (Souvenir). Box lunches are available at Gravity Lounge. $8. For choices and to order, see www.gravity-lounge.com.

Moderator: Barbara Drummond Mead

Return of Virginia's Poets Laureate

Five Virginia poets laureate present their poems: Joseph Awad, George Garrett, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Grace Simpson, and Margaret Ward Morland.

Hosted by The Poetry Society of Virginia.

Moderator: Edward Lull

Three Cups of Tea with Greg Mortenson

Greg Mortenson (Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time) will discuss his work building schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Free tickets will be distributed one hour prior to the event at the Culbreth. Each person can receive two tickets. Each person may request two tickets for the 8 p.m. "Fiction Favorites," at 5 p.m., too. (However, all attendees must leave the auditorium, and reenter after the 6 p.m. event.) No reserved or pre-ordered tickets.

Sponsored by The Village School.

Moderator: Proal Heartwell

The Renaissance Generation: How It Affects Your Business
(Canceled)

We regret to announce that this event has been canceled.

Traveling Historic Virginia: Sites and Tales

With Jean L. Cooper (A Guide to Historic Charlottesville & Albemarle County, Virginia), Pamela K. Kinney (Haunted Richmond) and Donna Akers Warmuth (Legends, Stories and Ghostly Tales of Abingdon and Washington County, VA)

Moderator: Rob Craighurst

The Creative Mind: How Writers and Artists Invent the World

Explore how creative minds have shaped and will continue to shape our lives with Jonah Lehrer (Proust Was a Neuroscientist), David Kirby (Ultra-Talk: Johnny Cash, The Mafia, Shakespeare, Drum Music, St. Teresa Of Avila, and 17 Other Colossal Topics of Conversation), and Patricia Martin (Ren Gen: Renaissance Generation -- The Rise of the Cultural Consumer).

Moderator: George Sampson

Living the Uncommon Life for Real

John St. Augustine (Living an Uncommon Life: Essential Lessons from 21 Extraordinary People), a radio commentator and producer for Oprah & Friends Radio, joins success coach Michelle Prosser to discuss creating a greater life experience. Reception to follow.

Hosted by Hampton Roads Publishing.

Moderator: Michelle Prosser