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SUMMARY:Philip Stead  presents The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine.
DESCRIPTION:Philip Stead presents the never-before-published\, previously unfinished Mark Twain children’s story\, The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine. \n\n\n\n\n“Completing a story penned by arguably America’s greatest author is no easy feat\, but the Caldecott-winning author-illustrator (and husband-wife) team proves more than equal to the task. . . . A pensive and whimsical work that Twain would applaud.”– Kirkus\, starred review \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn a hotel in Paris one evening in 1879\, Mark Twain sat with his young daughters\, who begged their father for a story. Twain began telling them the tale of Johnny\, a poor boy in possession of some magical seeds. Later\, Twain would jot down some rough notes about the story\, but the tale was left unfinished . . . until now. \nPlucked from the Mark Twain archive at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library\, Twain’s notes now form the foundation of a fairy tale picked up over a century later. With only Twain’s fragmentary script and a story that stops partway as his guide\, author Philip Stead has written a tale that imagines what might have been if Twain had fully realized this work. \nJohnny\, forlorn and alone except for his pet chicken\, meets a kind woman who gives him seeds that change his fortune\, allowing him to speak with animals and sending him on a quest to rescue a stolen prince. In the face of a bullying tyrant king\, Johnny and his animal friends come to understand that generosity\, empathy\, and quiet courage are gifts more precious in this world than power and gold. \nIlluminated by Erin Stead’s graceful\, humorous\, and achingly poignant artwork\, this is a story that reaches through time and brings us a new book from America’s most legendary writer\, envisioned by two of today’s most important names in children’s literature. \nPhilip Stead is the author of the Caldecott Medal-winning book A Sick Day for Amos McGee. With his wife\, illustrator Erin Stead\, he also created the acclaimed Bear Has a Story to Tell and Lenny & Lucy. Philip has also written and illustrated his own books\, including Hello\, My Name Is Ruby; Jonathan and the Big Blue Boat; and A Home for Bird. Philip and Erin live in northern Michigan. Visit Philip online at philipstead.com. \nErin Stead is the illustrator of eight picture books\, including And Then It’s Spring\, a 2012 and The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles. Visit Erin online at erinstead.com.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/philip-stead-presents-purloining-prince-oleomargarine/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Susan Lowry\, Nancy Berner & Marion Brenner Present Private Gardens of the Bay Area.
DESCRIPTION:  \nBuy a book to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222. \nIn Private Gardens of the Bay Area (October 2017\, The Monacelli Press)\, seasoned garden writers Susan Lowry and Nancy Berner and landscape photographer Marion Brenner celebrate the different approaches to gardening in the Bay Area and illuminate the unrivalled beauty of Northern California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this wonderful new volume we get the breadth of the sky\, the quality of the light\, the sparkle of the Bay\, the shapes of the hills—that has beckoned landscape designers and gardeners for generations. \nThe book is organized geographically—starting with the San Francisco Peninsula\, moving north into San Francisco itself\, crossing the Bay into Berkeley and Oakland\, and finishing in Napa\, Sonoma\, and Marin—Private Gardens of the Bay Area features more than thirty-five private gardens. These gardens encompass an extraordinary range of micro-climates that foster the cultivation of a diverse range of plants.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/susan-lowry-nancy-berner-marion-brenner-present-private-gardens-bay-area/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Fireman's boot drive for MDA
DESCRIPTION:The Berkeley Firefighters Association\, Local 1227 are planning on holding a boot drive\, in the Elmwood\, to raise funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Association(MDA). The details are as follows:\n\nDate: Saturday\, October 28th\nTime: 11:00am – 7:00pm\nLocation: College Ave @ Russell St\nWho: Off duty Berkeley Firefighters and their families\nContact: Dave Gabriner (415) 596-0635\, Jon Pique (510) 495-4674\n\nThe International Association of Firefighters is the main fundraising partner of the MDA. We held a similar boot drive at this intersection last year and it was very successful and we got great feedback from the community.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/firemans-boot-drive-mda/
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SUMMARY:Fred Sasaki & Don Share\, Editors\, with Poets Ari Banias and Javier Zamora
DESCRIPTION:Fred Sasaki & Don Share\, Editors\, with Poets Ari Banias and Javier Zamora Present Who Reads Poetry: 50 Views from “Poetry” Magazine. \n\n\n\n\nBuy a book to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, October 26\, 2017 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWho reads poetry? We know that poets do\, but what about the rest of us? When and why do we turn to verse? Seeking the answer\, Poetry Magazine since 2005 has published a column called “The View From Here\,” which has invited readers “from outside the world of poetry” to describe what has drawn them to poetry. Over the years\, the incredibly diverse set of contributors have included philosophers\, journalists\, musicians\, and artists\, as well as doctors and soldiers\, an iron-worker\, an anthropologist\, and an economist. This collection brings together fifty compelling pieces\, which are in turns surprising\, provocative\, touching\, and funny. \nWho Reads Poetry offers a truly unique and broad selection of perspectives and reflections\, proving that poetry can be read by everyone. No matter what you’re seeking\, you can find it within the lines of a poem. \nFred Sasaki edits Poetry magazine’s prose feature “The View from Here\,” from which the essays in this book are gathered. He is the art director of Poetry magazine and a gallery curator at the Poetry Foundation. He authored Real Life Emails\, a book of deluded emails\, and the zine series FRED SASAKI’S AND FRED SASAKI’S FOUR-PAGER GUIDE TO: HOW TO FIX YOU. In 2004 he founded Chicago Printers Ball\, an annual celebration of poetry and printmaking. He is also cofounder of the Homeroom 101 pop and subculture show. \nDon Share is the editor of Poetry magazine. Among his twelve books are Wishbone\, Union\, and Bunting’s Persia; he also edited a critical edition of Basil Bunting’s poems\, named a Book of the Year by the Times of London and the New Statesman. Miguel Hernández\, his book of translations\, was awarded the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize and Premio Valle Inclán. Other books of his include Seneca in English\, Squandermania\, and The Open Door: 100 Poems\, 100 Years of “Poetry” Magazine. Share received a VIDA “VIDO” Award for his contributions to American literature and literary community. \nAri Banias is the author of Anybody\, a debut collection of poetry\, published by W.W. Norton in 2016. He is the recipient of the 2014 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and the 2012 Campbell Corner Prize. He has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing\, and Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner program. Banias lives in Berkeley. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador in 1990 and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. His first poetry collection Unaccompanied\, was published in 2017 by Copper Canyon Press. Zamora is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. He holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, MacDowell\, Macondo\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. In 2016\, Barnes and Noble granted him the Writers for Writers Award for his work in the Undocupoets Campaign. He lives in San Rafael.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/fred-sasaki-don-share-editors-poets-ari-banias-javier-zamora/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Victoria Sweet reading from Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing.
DESCRIPTION:  \nBuy a book to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nOver the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician\, “healthcare” has replaced medicine\, “providers” look at their laptops more than at their patients\, and costs keep soaring\, all in the ruthless pursuit of efficiency. Yet the remedy that economists and policy makers continue to miss is also miraculously simple. Good medicine takes more than amazing technology; it takes time–time to respond to bodies as well as data\, time to arrive at the right diagnosis and the right treatment. \nSweet knows this because she has learned and lived it over the course of her remarkable career. Here she relates unforgettable stories of the teachers\, doctors\, nurses\, and patients through whom she discovered the practice of Slow Medicine\, in which she has been both pioneer and inspiration. Medicine\, she helps us to see\, is a craft and an art as well as a science. It is relational\, personal\, even spiritual. To do it well requires a hard-won wisdom that no algorithm can replace–that brings together “fast” and “slow” in a truly effective\, efficient\, sustainable\, and humane way of healing. \nVictoria Sweet was a physician at San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital for more than twenty years\, an experience she chronicled in God’s Hotel: A Doctor\, a Hospital\, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine. An associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of California\, San Francisco\, she is also a prizewinning historian with a Ph.D. in history and social medicine\, and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellows
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/victoria-sweet-reading-slow-medicine-way-healing/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan reading from Manhattan Beach
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Egan reading from Manhattan Beach\, the long-awaited\, daring\, and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. \n\n\n\n\nBuy a book to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nManhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan\, nearly twelve years old\, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles\, a man who\, she gleans\, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. \nYears later\, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard\, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver\, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations\, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother\, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career with the Ziegfeld Follies\, and her lovely\, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub\, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again\, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life\, the reasons he might have vanished. \nMesmerizing\, hauntingly beautiful\, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller\, Egan’s first historical novel is a masterpiece\, a deft\, startling\, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men\, America and the world. Manhattan Beach is a spectacular novel by one of the greatest writers of our time. \nJennifer Egan is the author of five books of fiction\, including A Visit from the Goon Squad\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and National Books Critics Circle Award; The Keep\, a national bestseller; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me\, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus\, which was adapted into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harpers\, Granta\, McSweeney’s\, The New York Times Magazine and many others. She lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/jennifer-egan-reading-manhattan-beach/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Cristina Garcia  reading from her new novel\, Here in Berlin
DESCRIPTION:  \nBuy a book to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222. \n\n\n\n\n\nHere in Berlin is a portrait of a city through snapshots\, an excavation of the stories and ghosts of contemporary Berlin–its complex\, troubled past still pulsing in the air as it was during World War II. Critically acclaimed novelist Cristina Garcia brings the people of this famed city to life\, their stories bristling with regret\, desire\, and longing.\n\n\n\n\n\nAn unnamed Visitor travels to Berlin with a camera looking for reckonings of her own. The city itself is a character–vibrant and postapocalyptic\, flat and featureless except for its rivers\, its lakes\, its legions of bicyclists. Here she encounters a people’s history: the Cuban teen taken as a POW on a German submarine only to return home to a family who doesn’t believe him; the young Jewish scholar hidden in a sarcophagus until safe passage to England is found; the female lawyer haunted by a childhood of deprivation in the bombed-out suburbs who still defends those accused of war crimes; a young nurse with a checkered past who joins the Reich at a medical facility more intent on dispensing with the wounded than healing them; and the son of a zookeeper at the Berlin Zoo\, fighting to keep the animals safe from both war and an increasingly starving populace. \nA meditation on war and mystery\, this is an exciting new work by one of our most gifted novelists\, one that seeks to align the stories of the past with the stories of the future. \nCristina Garcia is the author of seven novels\, including: Dreaming in Cuban\, The Aguero Sisters\, Monkey Hunting\, A Handbook to Luck\, The Lady Matador’s Hotel\, andKing of Cuba. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University\, and an NEA grant\, among others. Garcia has taught at universities nationwide. Recently\, she completed her tenure as University Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University-San Marcos and as Visiting Professor at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas-Austin. She lives in the Bay Area.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/cristina-garcia-reading-new-novel-berlin/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Jessica Powers  Launching her YA novel\, Broken Circle\,
DESCRIPTION:Jessica Powers Launching her YA novel\, Broken Circle\, “a fast-paced\, page-turning story!”–Skila Brown\, author of Caminar. \n\n\n\n\nBuy a book to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam wants nothing more than to be a “normal” teen\, but his reality is quickly leaking normal. Afraid to sleep because of the monster that stalks his dreams\, Adam’s breakdown at school in front of his crush Sarah lands him in the hospital. \nAs he struggles to cope with his day-to-day life\, Adam can only vaguely comprehend some sort of future. His mother died when he was only four and his eccentric father–who might be an assassin\, a voodoo god\, the reincarnation of the Buddha\, or something even stranger–is never available when Adam really needs him. Even his paranoid grandfather\, who insists that people are “out to kill the entire family\,” is no help. \nAdam’s life takes an even weirder turn when a fat man with a gold tooth and a medallion confronts his father regarding Adam’s supposed “True Destiny.” Adam is soon headed toward a collision with life\, death\, and the entities charged with shepherding souls of the newly dead\, all competing to control lucrative territories where some nightmares are real and psychopomps of ancient legends walk the streets of North America. \nJessica Powers is the award-winning author of three young adult novels\, The Confessional\, This Thing Called the Future\, and Amina. She is also the editor of two collections of essays and author of a picture book\, Colors of the Wind. She works as an editor/publicist for Cinco Puntos Press\, and is founder and editor of the online blog\, The Pirate Tree: Social Justice and Children’s Literature. She teaches creative writing\, literature\, and composition at Skyline College.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/1733/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Montessori For Babies with Zahra Kassam of Monti Kids
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Hands-On Class with you and your little Baby Dynamo (or if you’re expecting!) Taught by Zahra Kassam\, a Harvard educated Montessori teacher and the founder of Monti Kids\, this class will teach you why and how to incorporate Montessori at home with your baby\, starting from birth. We’ll explore how to set up your play space to promote learning and how to help your child develop their concentration\, perseverance and independence through play. You will leave with a better understanding of how to meet your child’s developmental needs throughout infancy.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/montessori-babies-zahra-kassam-monti-kids/
LOCATION:Baby Dynamo\, 2950 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Class
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SUMMARY:Baby Dynamo's Grand Opening
DESCRIPTION:Baby Dynamo is having an official Grand Opening Saturday\, October 14th 5:00-7:00. Prizes\, Raffle\, Refreshments including wines from Vintage Berkeley
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/baby-dynamos-grand-opening/
LOCATION:Baby Dynamo\, 2950 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Event
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SUMMARY:Jessica Bruder signs copies of Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
DESCRIPTION:Jessica Bruder stopping in on her cross-country trailer tour to sign copies of Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century\, a revelatory work of in-depth narrative journalism about a new American workforce and a shift away from retirement as we know it. \n\n\n\n\nFrom the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas\, employers have discovered a new\, low-cost labor pool\, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short\, often underwater on mortgages\, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs\, travel trailers\, and vans\, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves “workampers.” \nOn frequently traveled routes between seasonal jobs\, Jessica Bruder meets people from all walks of life: a former professor\, a McDonald’s vice president\, a minister\, a college administrator\, and a motorcycle cop\, among many others–including her irrepressible protagonist\, a onetime cocktail waitress\, Home Depot clerk\, and general contractor named Linda May. \nIn a secondhand vehicle she christens “Van Halen\,” Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects more intimately. Accompanying Linda May and others from campground toilet cleaning to warehouse product scanning to desert reunions\, then moving on to the dangerous work of beet harvesting\, Bruder tells a compelling\, eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy–one that foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time\, she celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these quintessential Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive. Like Linda May\, who dreams of finding land on which to build her own sustainable “Earthship” home\, they have not given up hope. \nJessica Bruder is an award-winning journalist whose work focuses on subcultures and the dark corners of the economy. She has written for Harper’s\, the New York Times\, and the Washington Post. Bruder teaches at the Columbia School of Journalism.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/jessica-bruder-signs-copies-nomadland-surviving-america-twenty-first-century/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Event
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SUMMARY:Robin Sloan  reads from his novel\, Sourdough
DESCRIPTION:Robin Sloan reads from his novel\, Sourdough\, the much-anticipated new work from the author of the bestselling Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. \n\n\n\n\nBuy a book to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity\, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night\, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then\, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop\, and fast. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture\, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive\, they tell her–feed it daily\, play it music\, and learn to bake with it. \nLois is no baker\, but she could use a roommate\, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon\, not only is she eating her own homemade bread\, she’s providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market\, and a whole new world opens up. \nWhen Lois comes before the jury that decides who sells what at Bay Area markets\, she encounters a close-knit club with no appetite for new members. But then\, an alternative emerges: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology. But who are these people\, exactly? \nLeavened by the same infectious intelligence that made Robin Sloan’s Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore such a sensation\, while taking on even more satisfying challenges\, Sourdough marks the triumphant return of a unique and beloved young writer. \nA Michigan native\, Robin Sloan now divides his time between Berkeley and the internet.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/robin-sloan-reads-novel-sourdough/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Indie Lens Pop-Up: Chasing Trane
DESCRIPTION: Free!\n\nCHASING TRANE is the definitive documentary film about an outside-the-box thinker with extraordinary talent whose boundary-shattering music continues to impact and influence people around the world. This smart\, passionate\, thought-provoking and uplifting documentary is for anyone who appreciates the power of music to entertain\, inspire and transform. \nWritten and directed by critically-acclaimed documentary filmmaker John Scheinfeld (The U.S. vs. John Lennon and Who Is Harry Nilsson…?) the film is produced with the full participation of the Coltrane family and the support of the record labels that collectively own the Coltrane catalog. Scheinfeld brings his strong story-telling skills to the creation of a rich\, textured and compelling narrative that takes the audience to unexpected places. \nSet against the social\, political and cultural landscape of the times\, CHASING TRANE brings John Coltrane to life as a fully dimensional being\, inviting the audience to engage with Coltrane the man\, Coltrane the artist.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/indie-lens-pop-chasing-trane/
LOCATION:Rialto Cinemas Elmwood\, 2966 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Theater
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CREATED:20171003T042704Z
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UID:1692-1507662000-1507662000@shoptheelmwood.com
SUMMARY:Birthright: A War Story
DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Civia Tamarkin\n\nBIRTHRIGHT: A WAR STORY is a feature length documentary that examines how women are being jailed\, physically violated and even put at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America. \nThe film tells the story of women who have become collateral damage in the aggressive campaign to take control of reproductive health care and to allow states\, courts and religious doctrine to govern whether\, when and how women will bear children. \nThe documentary explores the accelerating gains of the crusade to control pregnant women and the fallout that is creating a public health crisis\, turning pregnant women into criminals and challenging the constitutional protections of every woman in America. \nThis is the real-life “Handmaid’s Tale.”
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/birthright-war-story/
LOCATION:Rialto Cinemas Elmwood\, 2966 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171008T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171008T150000
DTSTAMP:20260616T054409
CREATED:20171003T050149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171003T050209Z
UID:1710-1507474800-1507474800@shoptheelmwood.com
SUMMARY:Pruning Gurus Joseph Gaglione & Ann Ralph in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join the conversation about snipping and shaping your trees and shrubs!\n\n\n\n\nBuy a book (either one) to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery pruning decision comes down to what stays and what goes. Two local tree enthusiasts present practical and artistic advice to inform and simplify the pruning conundrum. Questions welcomed. Joseph Gaglione is a professional aesthetic pruner and teacher with an eye for the beauty and essence of trees. He wrote The Art of Pruning: How to Look at a Tree. Ann Ralph is a fruit specialist\, pruner\, and author of Grow a Little Fruit Tree: Simple Pruning Techniques for Small-Space\, Easy-Harvest Fruit Trees. A perennial gardening bestseller at Mrs. Dalloway’s\,  “A thrilling read for the backyard farmer.”–Publishers Weekly
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/pruning-gurus-joseph-gaglione-ann-ralph-conversation/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171008T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171008T150000
DTSTAMP:20260616T054409
CREATED:20171003T143806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T050130Z
UID:1721-1507464000-1507474800@shoptheelmwood.com
SUMMARY:B12 Shots special event
DESCRIPTION:Urban Remedy will be hosting Got B12? who will offering B12 shots in our store.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/b12-shots/
LOCATION:Urban Remedy\, 2946 College Ave\, berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171007T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171007T160000
DTSTAMP:20260616T054409
CREATED:20171003T045204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171003T045451Z
UID:1699-1507392000-1507392000@shoptheelmwood.com
SUMMARY:Patricia Polacco presents her new book\, Remembering Vera
DESCRIPTION:Patricia Polacco returns to Mrs. Dalloway’s to present her new book\, Remembering Vera\, the heartwarming true story of an amazing dog who was found as a stray by the US Coast Guard\, moved into the San Francisco Bay base\, and became a hero and friend. \nBuy a book to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, October 7\, 2017 – 4:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 1962 a stray dog was found under a pile of boxes in a Coast Guard warehouse in what used to be called Government Island\, the Coast Guard Base in San Francisco Bay\, when a seaman named Dave Bunch was mopping the floor. It was love at first sight. At first the men decided to hide the pup from the Commander\, thinking she wouldn’t be allowed. But soon enough all of the men in the barracks fell hard for the little dog. Then one day when high waves challenged another vessel at sea\, it was Vera’s fierce determination and natural swimming ability that brought the life preserver and safety line to the sinking boat. Vera became a hero and the beloved pet and mascot of the San Francisco Coast Guard. \nPatricia Polacco belongs to a family of storytellers\, poets\, farmers\, teachers\, and artists. They came from many parts of the world\, but mainly Russia. She grew up to be an illustrator\, a designer\, and creator of many beloved children’s books\, including The Keeping Quilt\, The Blessing Cup\, Fiona’s Lace\, The Trees of the Dancing Goats\, Babushka’s Doll\, and My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother. She lives in Union City\, Michigan. Visit her at PatriciaPolacco.com and follow her on Facebook.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/patricia-polacco-returns-mrs-dalloways-present-new-book-remembering-vera-heartwarming-true-story-amazing-dog-found-stray-us-coast-guard/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T193000
DTSTAMP:20260616T054409
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UID:1772-1507231800-1507231800@shoptheelmwood.com
SUMMARY:"A Christmas Memory" read by Thomas Lynch
DESCRIPTION:Truman Capote’s classic story is read by Thomas Lynch the first week of December in a Mrs. Dalloway’s tradition. Join us in celebrating the holiday season. \n\n\n\nOriginally published in 1956\, this short story based on Capote’s childhood tells of a young boy who lovingly makes fruitcakes from scratch at Christmastime with his elderly cousin. This American holiday classic includes an audio CD.\n\n\n\n\n\nThomas Lynch is an actor\, neighbor\, and friend of the bookstore.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/christmas-memory-read-thomas-lynch/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T193000
DTSTAMP:20260616T054409
CREATED:20171003T044354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171003T044355Z
UID:1706-1507231800-1507231800@shoptheelmwood.com
SUMMARY:Laurie Ann Doyle in Conversation with Candace Eros Diaz
DESCRIPTION:A launch celebration and conversation about Doyle’s exquisite short story collection\, World Gone Missing. Mimosas\, raffle prizes\, and more! \n\n\n\n\n“Laurie Ann Doyle understands how to structure a story so that it sneaks up on you and gives you a thump that leaves you breathless—breathless with wonder.”–Catherine Brady \nBuy a book to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn World Gone Missing\, Laurie Ann Doyle’s powerful debut collection\, people have disappeared. In these stories set in and around San Francisco\, contemporary issues—divorce\, sexual identity\, homelessness—thread through a cast of memorable characters struggling to fill the void of a missing loved one. From the newly married couple anxiously searching for a brother who didn’t come home one night\, to the successful businesswoman increasingly obsessed with a high school friend she hasn’t seen in decades\, to the middle-aged clerk meeting her son’s birth-mother for the first time\, Doyle’s writing vividly evokes the loss and liberation absence can bring. \nStories in this book have won the Alligator Juniper National Fiction Award\, and been nominated for Best New American Voices and the Pushcart Prize. \nLaurie Ann Doyle is the co-founder of the long-running literary series Babylon Salon in San Francisco. Her stories and essays have been published in The Los Angeles Review\, Timber\, Jabberwork Review\, Under the Sun\, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at The San Francisco Writers Grotto and UC Berkeley.She lives in Berkeley. \nCandace Eros Diaz co-curates the reading series Babylon Salon and is the Coordinator of Admissions and Student Services for the MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College. Her work has appeared in Under the Gum Tree\, The East Bay Review\, Arroyo Literary Review and Huizache.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/laurie-ann-doyle-conversation-candace-eros-diaz/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T190000
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SUMMARY:National Theatre Live 2017 Fall 3-Play Season
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce the National Theatre Live 2017 Fall 3-Play Season! \nYerma \nby Simon Stone after Federico Garcia Lorca\ndirected by Simon Stone\nstarring Billie Piper\nTue\, Sep 26 7pm & Thu\, Sep 28 7pm  & Tue\, Oct 3 7pm  & Thu\, Oct 5 7pm \nFollies\nbook by James Goldman\nmusic and lyrics by Stephan Sondheim\ndirected by Dominic Cooke\nstarring Tracie Bennett\, Janie Dee\, Imelda Staunton\nTue\, Nov 21 7pm &  Thu\, Nov 30 7pm & Tue\, Dec 5 7pm & Thu\, Dec 7 7pm \nYoung Marx\nby Richard Bean and Clive Coleman\nStarring Rory Kinnear\nA new comedy from the team behind One Man\, Two Guvnors\ndirected by Nicholas Hytner\nTue\, Dec 12 7pm & Thu\, Dec 14 7pm & Tue\, Dec 19 7pm & Thu\, Dec 21 7pm
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/national-theatre-live-2017-fall-3-play-season/
LOCATION:Rialto Cinemas Elmwood\, 2966 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T183000
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CREATED:20171003T142748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171003T232551Z
UID:1719-1507228200-1507228200@shoptheelmwood.com
SUMMARY:Meet Neka the founder of Urban Remedy & talk ketogenic diet
DESCRIPTION:Meet Neka the founder of Urban Remedy. Neka will be hosting a talk about the ketogenic diet along with Dr. Geere who will be offering a complimentary InBody Composition Analysis.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/meet-neka-founder-urban-remedy/
LOCATION:Urban Remedy\, 2946 College Ave\, berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171003T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171003T193000
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CREATED:20171003T043613Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon reading from Moonglow\, just released in paperback
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestseller – Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal – An NBCC Finalist for 2016 Award for Fiction – ALA Carnegie Medal Finalist for Excellence in Fiction – Wall Street Journal‘s Best Novel of the Year – A New York Times Notable Book of the Year – A Washington Post Best Book of the Year – An NPR Best Book of the Year – A SlateBest Book of the Year – A Christian Science Monitor Top 15 Fiction Book of the Year – A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year – A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year – A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year – A New York Post Best Book of the Year \n#1 Indie Next Pick –– A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A BookPageTop Fiction Pick of the Month – An Indie Next Bestseller \nBuy a book to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/michael-chabon-reading-moonglow-just-released-paperback/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171001T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171001T110000
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SUMMARY:Kids Ages 3-7! Ryan Higgins OFFSITE @ ELMWOOD THEATER
DESCRIPTION:The author of Mother Bruce and Hotel Bruce presents a riotous sequel in Bruce’s Big Move. \n\n\n\n\n“Higgins turns classic picture-book scenarios upside down\, then wrings them for contemporary laughs.”–New York Times on Mother Bruce \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBring your little ones to meet Ryan Higgins and be the first on your block to own Bruce’s Big Move! \nAfter the events of Hotel Bruce\, our favorite curmudgeonly bear shares his home with not only his four geese\, but three rowdy mice besides! Fed up with their shenanigans\, Bruce sets off to find a rodent-free household. But as usual\, nothing goes quite according to plan. . . A hilarious sequel for fans of the previous Bruce books\, as well as a standalone discovery for new readers\, Bruce’s next reluctant adventure is sure to keep kids giggling. \nRyan Higgins is an author and illustrator who likes the outdoors and cheese sandwiches. He is NOT a grumpy old black bear\, but he DOES like making books about one—starting with the best-selling Mother Bruce\, which received the E. B. White Read-Aloud Award and the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Honor. He lives in Maine with his wife and kids . . . and too many pets. Visit him online at ryanthiggins.com or on Twitter @RyanT_Higgins.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/kids-ages-3-7-ryan-higgins-offsite-elmwood-theater/
LOCATION:Rialto Cinemas Elmwood\, 2966 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170924T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170924T170000
DTSTAMP:20260616T054409
CREATED:20170717T211656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T063812Z
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SUMMARY:The Elmwood Wine Walk
DESCRIPTION:Tickets maybe purchased at the event from the ticket table starting at noon.  Please be sure to bring $30 cash/ticket and photo ID.  Tasting begin at 1pm.\nEnjoy a leisurely Sunday afternoon stroll in The Elmwood and sample over 70 wines! \n\n\nSome highlights of the wine walk: \n\nfamed Berkeley-based natural winemakers Broc Cellars and Donkey & Goat will be represented\nwe’ll be pouring a sexy Provençal rosé out of the biggest bottle most people will have ever seen (double magnum)\nwe’ll be pouring bubbles all over the place (Prosecco\, Cava\, and more)\nwinemaker Bob Marr will be pouring all four of his red wines\, including two designed to pair with chocolates at Casa de Chocolates\nand you might get to taste your first-ever Armenian red (!) if you cross the street to La Med!\n\n\n\n\nIf we do not sell out\, cash-only tickets will be available for $30 on Sept. 24 at the ticket table on the lawn next to Wells Fargo Bank on Ashby Ave. \nBring your ticket and ID to one of the check-in locations: Anton Salon\, McGuire Real Estate\, or the table on the lawn next to Wells Fargo. Pick up your wine glass and program. The program has a map with the participating locations and information about the wines being poured. \nFor more information on wines\, participating retailers and restaurants\, transportation\, parking suggestions and more\, go to www.ShopTheElmwood.com. \nAll proceeds benefit beautification efforts right here in the Elmwood District.\n\n#elmwoodwinewalk\n\nCopyright © 2017 The Elmwood. All rights reserved.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/elmwood-fall-harvest-wine-walk/
CATEGORIES:Live Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170923T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170923T160000
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CREATED:20170902T001630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170927T235240Z
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SUMMARY:For Kids! Dashka Slater  presents her gorgeous new picture book\, The Antlered Ship.
DESCRIPTION:“Young readers will revel in the whimsical touches\, like the peg-legged pigeon sailor and the imaginative map gracing the book’s endpapers. This gorgeous\, eye-opening adventure is an engrossing reading experience that proudly touts curiosity and finding friendship in kindred spirits.” —Booklist (starred review) \nBuy a book to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Slater’s newest picture book\, an inquisitive fox sets off on a seafaring voyage with a crew of deer and pigeons in this enchanting tale of friendship and adventure. \nMarco the fox has a lot of questions\, like: how deep does the sun go when it sinks into the sea? And why do birds have such lizardy feet? But none of the other foxes share his curiosity. So when a magnificent ship adorned with antlers and with a deer for a captain arrives at the dock looking for a crew\, Marco volunteers\, hoping to find foxes who are as inquisitive as he is that can answer his questions. The crew finds adventure and intrigue on their journey. And\, at last\, Marco finds the answer to his most important question of all: What’s the best way to find a friend you can talk to? \nDashka Slater’s four picture books have won widespread praise for their inventive language and vivid imagery. Baby Shoes was named one of the best children’s books of 2006 by both Booklist and Nick Jr. magazines and was chosen for the Texas 2×2 list of best books for children age two to grade two. The Sea Serpent and Me was a Junior Library Guild Selection and a finalist for the Cybil and Chickadee Awards\, as well as being named to the 2008 Librarians’ Choices List of the best books for children and young adults. Dangerously Ever After was named the 2013-14 Surrey Picture Book of the Year based on the votes of over 12\,700 elementary school students. A recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Slater is also an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in such publications as Newsweek\, Salon\, The New York Times Magazine\, and Mother Jones. She is also the author of a novel for adults\, The Wishing Box\, which the Los Angeles Times named to its list of the year’s best fiction in 2000.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/kids-dashka-slater-presents-gorgeous-new-picture-book-antlered-ship/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170919T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170919T193000
DTSTAMP:20260616T054409
CREATED:20170902T001137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T045537Z
UID:1629-1505849400-1505849400@shoptheelmwood.com
SUMMARY:Louise Marburg in Conversation with Mary Volmer  discussing Marburg's collection of short stories\, The Truth About Me.
DESCRIPTION:“Smart and lovely stories\, perceptive\, compassionate\, and sometimes shocking. Who are these people\, so helpless in the currents that surround them? Marburg reveals their cowardice\, their flaws\, and their deep capacities to engage the heart.”—Roxana Robinson\n\n\n\nBuy a book to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222 \n\n\n\n\n\nIn this debut of extraordinary stories\, notions of love and self are turned upside \ndown by characters who encounter their own shortcomings\, secrets\, and \ninventions. No matter what their station in life\, the characters in these wry and \nmoving stories face moments in which the shock of being\, and becoming\, \ncomes from within. These stories show us how to navigate intimacy\, confront \nimperfection\, and like so many of the characters here must\, endure the private \npain that separates us from others.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/louise-marburg-conversation-mary-volmer-discussing-marburgs-collection-short-stories-truth/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170916T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170916T160000
DTSTAMP:20260616T054409
CREATED:20170901T235218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T045549Z
UID:1625-1505577600-1505577600@shoptheelmwood.com
SUMMARY:Constance Anderson launch for her picture book\, A Stick Until . . .
DESCRIPTION:  \nBuy a book to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nA stick is just a stick until an elephant turns it into a flyswatter\, an alligator uses it to catch prey\, or a child uses a stick as a toy. Anderson shows readers how a simple stick can become a tool or a toy in this enjoyable look at the many uses animals and people can find for sticks. Creative uses of sticks range from chimpanzees catching tasty treats to birds attracting mates. A fun book to read to an inquisitive child or for use in a classroom\, A Stick Until shows the wonders of nature and the joys of imagination. \nConstance Anderson is an abstract painter\, graphic designer\, and scientific illustrator. Her images\, which combine paint and collage\, are influenced by multiple faades of her work. In addition to making art\, she teaches art and develops art curriculum. She lives in the Bay Area.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/constance-anderson-launch-picture-book-stick/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170914T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170914T193000
DTSTAMP:20260616T054409
CREATED:20170826T001054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T045600Z
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SUMMARY:Sebastian Barry reading from Days Without End
DESCRIPTION:The winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award (his second)\, longlisted for the Man Booker prize\, and just released in paperback. \n“A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent\, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making\, the most fascinating line-by-line first person narration I’ve come across in years.”–Kazuo Ishiguro \nBuy a book to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222. \n“For its exhilarating use of language alone\, Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End stood out among the year’s novels. Epic in conception but comparatively brief in its extent\, this brutal\, beautiful book also features the year’s most beguiling narrator … A great American novel which happens to have been written by an Irishman.”–The Times Literary Supplement \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThomas McNulty\, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland\, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms\, John Cole\, Thomas goes on to fight in the Indian Wars–against the Sioux and the Yurok–and\, ultimately\, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves\, the men find these days to be vivid and alive\, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in. Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee\, Sebastian Barry’s latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. An intensely poignant story of two men and the makeshift family they create with a young Sioux girl\, Winona\, Days Without End is a fresh and haunting portrait of the most fateful years in American history and is a novel never to be forgotten. \nSebastian Barry is an award-winning novelist\, poet\, and playwright. His novels include The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty\, Annie Dunne\, A Long Long Way\, The Secret Scripture\, On Canaan’s Side\, and The Temporary Gentleman. Born in Dublin in 1955\, he lives in Wicklow with his family.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/sebastian-barry-reading-days-without-end/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Andy Couturier presents The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan.
DESCRIPTION:  \n“We are in an overheated world–physically and spiritually. It is extremely powerful to read of people who have managed to escape that world\, not by traveling to outer space but by heading toward reality. This is subversive in the best possible way.”–Bill McKibben \nBuy a book to reserve your seat. Call the store 510.704.8222 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndy Couturier captures the texture of sustainable lives well lived in these ten profiles of ordinary–yet exceptional–men and women who left behind mainstream existences in urban Japan to live surrounded by the luxuries of nature\, art\, friends\, delicious food\, and an abundance of time. Drawing on traditional Eastern spiritual wisdom and culture\, these pioneers describe the profound personal transformations they underwent as they escaped the stress\, consumerism\, busyness\, and dependence on technology of modern life. This intimate and evocative book tells of their fulfilling lives as artists\, philosophers\, and farmers who rely on themselves for happiness and sustenance. By inviting readers to enter into the essence of these individuals’ days\, Couturier shows us how we too can bring more meaning and richness to our own lives.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/andy-couturier-presents-abundance-less-lessons-simple-living-rural-japan/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170907T180000
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SUMMARY:Alice Waters OFFSITE @ FSM CAFE\, UC BERKELEY
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the publication of Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook\, the long-awaited memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters who recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America’s most influential restaurant.\n\n\n\n\nWhen Alice Waters opened the doors of her “little French restaurant” in Berkeley in 1971 at the age of 27\, no one ever anticipated the indelible mark it would leave on the culinary landscape–Alice least of all. Fueled in equal parts by naivete and a relentless pursuit of beauty and pure flavor\, she turned her passion project into an iconic institution that redefined American cuisine for generations of chefs and food lovers.
URL:https://shoptheelmwood.com/event/alice-waters-offsite-fsm-cafe-uc-berkeley/
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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