A Program of Virginia Humanities
Leland Melvin (Chasing Space) will speak at the Read & Lead Lunch on March 21, 2018.
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Tags: African-American, Biography / Memoir, Book Club Picks, Business, Education / Teaching, Environment / Science, Headliners, Health / Mind / Body, Nonfiction, Sports / Outdoors / Animals
Due to winter weather-related closures, this program has been canceled. Susan Fraiman (Extreme Domesticity), Johann Neem (Democracy’s Schools), and Rachel Wahl (Just Violence) discuss essential aspects of American culture, how they came to be, how they are viewed and used in other countries, and how this affects us all.
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Tags: Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, Education / Teaching, Gender, Nonfiction
Due to winter weather-related closures, this program has been canceled. Poet Remica Bingham-Risher (Starlight & Error), fiction writer Lisa Ko (The Leavers), and young adult novelist Nic Stone (Dear Martin) discuss race, gender, and identity across genres, offering perspectives on immigration, family, and police brutality, among other topics, encouraging thoughtful dialogue within our community.
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Tags: African-American, Asian-American, Book Club Picks, Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, Education / Teaching, Family / Aging, Fiction, Gender, History, Language / Culture / Folklife, Nonfiction, Poetry
Micah LeMon (The Imbible) gives a demonstration of various and sundry recipes from his cocktail guide, sharing anecdotes and wisdom from his years behind the bar at beloved local watering holes.
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Tags: Food / Beer / Wine / Travel, Nonfiction, Workshop / Demo
Legendary meditation teacher, Sharon Salzberg (Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection) shines a light on the powerful healing force of true connection and how to undo the limited definitions that reduce love to simply romance or passion, and give the heart a much needed tune-up to connect ourselves to the truest experience of love in our daily lives.
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Due to winter weather-related closures, this program has been canceled. Join urban farmer and food justice activist Karen Washington (Letters to a Young Farmer) for a community conversation and story telling about food, farming, identity, and equity.
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Barry Bergey and Tom Pich (Folk Masters) discuss their tribute to folk artists who have been named National Heritage Fellows, the highest honor the U.S. government awards to traditional artists, with Virginia state folklorist Jon Lohman. National Heritage Fellows Phil Wiggins and Sherman Holmes will perform with Almeta Ingram-Miller, Cora Harvey Armstrong, and Jared Pool.
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Tags: African-American, American Indian, Arts, Exhibit, Folklife, Food / Beer / Wine / Travel, Language / Culture / Folklife, Music, Nonfiction, Southern / Appalachian
Dalia Rosenfeld (The Worlds We Think We Know) and Tom Sleigh (The Land Between Two Rivers) discuss their stories, essays and perspectives drawn from far-flung locations.
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Tags: Fiction, Global, Nonfiction
Due to winter weather-related closures, this program has been canceled. Letters to a Young Farmer anthology contributors Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch, Karen Washington, and Jill Isenbarger discuss the the highs and lows of farming life—as well as larger questions of how our food is produced and consumed—in vivid and personal detail.
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Marcus Holmes (Face-to-Face Diplomacy: Social Neuroscience and International Relations), Trita Parsi (Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy), and Todd S. Sechser (Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy) discuss the intricacies of diplomacy in our challenging world.
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Tags: Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, Global, Nonfiction
Khizr Khan (An American Family) will discuss his experiences as an immigrant, our rights as Americans, and the legacy of democracy that we are each empowered to protect; in conversation with Douglas Blackmon.
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Tags: Biography / Memoir, Book Club Picks, Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, Education / Teaching, Global, Headliners, Language / Culture / Folklife, Law / Supreme Court, Nonfiction
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Karen Washington has had to cancel her participation. Tess Taylor (Work & Days) and Karen Washington (Letters to a Young Farmer) discuss the intersection of farming and verse, and the connections that may be made through food and writing.
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Tags: African-American, Arts, Environment / Science, Food / Beer / Wine / Travel, Health / Mind / Body, Nonfiction, Poetry
Sally Atkins and Melia Snyder (Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy) and Florence Williams (The Nature Fix) will discuss their nonfiction books on the mental health impact of nature and spending time outside.
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Tags: Environment / Science, Health / Mind / Body, Nonfiction, Sports / Outdoors / Animals
Elliot Carlson (Stanley Johnston’s Blunder), Meredith Hindley (Destination Casablanca), and Liza Mundy (Code Girls) discuss their works that illuminate new aspects to the history of World War II.
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Tags: Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, History, Nonfiction
Barbara King, (Personalities on the Plate), Abbie Gascho Landis (Immersion), and Maryn McKenna (Big Chicken) discuss our surprising connections to animals through the food we eat, water we drink, and medications we need.
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Thi Bui (The Best We Could Do) reads from and discusses her evocative illustrated memoir about the story of her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves.
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Tags: Asian-American, Biography / Memoir, Comics / Graphic Novels, Family / Aging, Language / Culture / Folklife, Nonfiction
Carl Hoffman (The Last Wild Men of Borneo) and Kathleen Saville (Rowing for My Life) share their tales of adventure and endurance, including examining personal motivations and pursuing fascinating stories of others’ expeditions.
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Tags: Biography / Memoir, Food / Beer / Wine / Travel, Nonfiction
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Lindsey Smith has had to cancel her participation. Jamie DeMent (The Farmhouse Chef), Ken Haedrich (The Harvest Baker), Barbara Pleasant (Homegrown Pantry), and Lindsey Smith (Eat Your Feelings) share stories about their time in the kitchen and garden.
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Thomas Mira Y Lopez (The Book of Resting Places) and Jessie van Eerden (The Long Weeping) discuss their essays drawing on personal experience, history, mythology, religious tradition, and the landscapes of love and loss.
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Tags: Biography / Memoir, Food / Beer / Wine / Travel, Nonfiction
S. Max Edelson (The New Map of Empire), Lynn Rainville (Virginia and the Great War), and Camille Wells (Material Witness), discuss the inexorable ties of history to land, conquest, and conflict.
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Tags: Global, History, Nonfiction
Kelley Fanto Deetz (Bound to the Fire) and Adrian Miller (The President’s Kitchen Cabinet) discuss histories of food and eating, from enslaved cooks to the personal cooks, butlers, stewards, and servers for every first family since George and Martha Washington.
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Tags: African-American, Food / Beer / Wine / Travel, History, Nonfiction
Garnette Cadogan, Kima Jones, and Kevin Young discuss their contributions to The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, exploring and reacting to race in America in a present-day response to James Baldwin’s 1963 examination, The Fire Next Time.
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Hermione Hoby (Neon in Daylight), Irène Mathieu (orogeny), Nathaniel Rich (King Zeno), and SJ Sindu (Marriage of a Thousand Lies) give short readings of their work during this annual “late-night” Festival program. Just steps away from the Omni Hotel, enjoy the work of acclaimed emerging writers in an informal setting, with music, drinks, and mingling.
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Tags: African-American, Arts, Fiction, Food / Beer / Wine / Travel, Gender, History, Language / Culture / Folklife, LGBTQ, Music, Nonfiction, Poetry, Publishing / Books / Writing, Southern / Appalachian
Lesa Cline-Ransome (Before She was Harriet), James Ransome (Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You), and Carole Boston Weatherford (Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library) read from and discuss their historical picture books for children, which tell important stories of African-American heroes in the Civil Rights and social justice movements.
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Tags: African-American, Arts, Biography / Memoir, Education / Teaching, History, Nonfiction, StoryFest / Youth
Authors Andrew Kahrl (Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America’s Most Exclusive Shoreline) and Wayne Wiegand (The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism) discuss their work. Robert Williams, who protested at the Danville Public Library in 1960, will also participate.
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Tags: African-American, History, Nonfiction, Social Justice
Angela Hattery and Earl Smith (Policing Black Bodies) and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (How We Get Free) discuss their work, exploring systems of structural racism as well as potential and radical strategies to work for change.
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Journalist Elizabeth Flock (The Heart is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai) and novelist SJ Sindu (Marriage of a Thousand Lies: A Novel) discuss their books and the intimate perspectives they provide on marriages: arranged, loving, truthful, and otherwise.
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Tags: Asian-American, Family / Aging, Fiction, Gender, Global, Language / Culture / Folklife, LGBTQ, Nonfiction
Deborah Heiligman (Vincent and Theo) and Ray Anthony Shepard (Now or Never) discuss their nonfiction books for young readers featuring historical figures.
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Kathleen Belew (Bring the War Home), Nancy MacLean (Democracy in Chains), Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (How We Get Free), and Vegas Tenold (Everything You Love Will Burn) discuss the root causes and champions of the alt-right, and the wide-ranging impacts of the movement on American social equality and democracy. Jamelle Bouie moderates.
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Monica Hesse (American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land) and Bryant Simon (The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives) discuss their stories of poverty, desperation, and tragedy in rural America.
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SOLD OUT—Jim Ryan (Wait, What?) takes on life’s essential questions in conversation with his friend and marathon running coach, Mark Lorenzoni. Ryan’s seemingly simple questions offer paths to thoughtful deliberations for readers of all ages.
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Tags: Education / Teaching, Headliners, Nonfiction
2017 National Book Awards finalists Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Never Caught) and David Grann (Killers of the Flower Moon) join 2017 National Book Awards longlisted author Kevin Young (Bunk) in a discussion of the stories and facts their books bring to light, the hidden impacts of racism and social inequality in America that their work speaks to, and ultimately, the pursuit of truth in their award-winning nonfiction. National Book Foundation executive director Lisa Lucas moderates.
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The Charlottesville Chapter of The Links Incorporated presents its fifteenth annual Celebration of the African American Literary Tradition, including brunch, musical and spoken word performances by community youth, a tribute to book festival authors, book sales and signing. Tickets required.
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Tags: African-American, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award recipients Peter Ho Davies (The Fortunes), Tyehimba Jess (Olio), and Margot Lee Shetterly (Hidden Figures), accompanied in conversation with Award jury member Rita Dove, will share their writing and insights about race and culture, with a particular focus on the August 2017 events that took place in Charlottesville.
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