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Digital Dialogue Series: Co-Learning to Build a Good Food System
Tue, October 27, 2020
5:30 P.M.
Heim Center for Civic and Cultural Engagement
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Parkway Central Library
Six conversations with community and civic leaders whose work reimagines our food system in Philadelphia and in cities across the country. Register for this free virtual series at digitaldialogue.eventbrite.com Get Healthy Philly (GHP) believes that all people should live to their fullest…
VIRTUAL - Nikki Giovanni | Make Me Rain
Tue, October 27, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
One of America’s most celebrated poets, the “outspoken, prolific, energetic” ( New York Times ) Nikki Giovanni is the author of numerous collections of poetry including Acolytes ; Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgment ; and Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea .…
VIRTUAL - Veronica Chambers | Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
Wed, October 28, 2020
12:00 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
In conversation with: Rachelle Baker, illustrator; Jennifer Harlan, writer; Steffi Walthall, illustrator Veronica Chambers is the author of the acclaimed memoir Mama’s Girl , a “troubling testament to grit and mother love” ( New Yorker ). She is also the co-author…
VIRTUAL - Barbara Kingsolver | How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)
Thu, October 29, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $30.00 - Book with Ticket and shipping (handling fees separate)
A “gifted magician of words” ( Time ), Barbara Kingsolver is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Poisonwood Bible , a postcolonial epic about an evangelical American family’s undoing in the Congo. She is the author of several essays and works of creative…
VIRTUAL Introduction to Fundraising Planning
Tue, November 3, 2020
10:00 A.M.
Regional Foundation Center
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Parkway Central Library
This program is part of the Regional Foundation Center's Diversify Your Funding Series. Does your organization need help directing its fundraising efforts? Planning focuses your organization by setting fundraising priorities and helps give staff and board members a roadmap to…
VIRTUAL - Ayad Akhtar | Homeland Elegies
Wed, November 4, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning broadcaster and journalist Acclaimed for exploring complicated sociopolitical aspects of identity within the Muslim American experience, Ayad Akhtar won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Disgraced , a play in which racial and cultural…
Changing East Passyunk: Re-examining the Logo
Thu, November 5, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
The murder of George Floyd has prompted widespread conversations about racial injustice throughout the country, and Philadelphia is no exception. Philadelphians have taken to the streets to protest the oppression that has dominated our history. One object of focus has been the Christopher…
VIRTUAL - H. W. Brands | The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
Thu, November 5, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
“A terrific writer who commands” his historical subject matter with “authority and panache” ( New York Times ), H. W. Brands was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin ( The First American ) and Franklin Roosevelt ( Traitor…
VIRTUAL Introduction to Corporate Giving
Tue, November 10, 2020
10:00 A.M.
Regional Foundation Center
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Parkway Central Library
This program is part of the Regional Foundation Center's Diversify Your Funding Series. Is your organization ready to seek corporate support? Corporate grantmakers are different from traditional foundations in many ways. This class provides a basic overview of: The different types of…
Digital Dialogue Series: Co-Learning to Build a Good Food System
Tue, November 10, 2020
5:30 P.M.
Heim Center for Civic and Cultural Engagement
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Parkway Central Library
Six conversations with community and civic leaders whose work reimagines our food system in Philadelphia and in cities across the country. Register for this free virtual series at digitaldialogue.eventbrite.com Get Healthy Philly (GHP) believes that all people should live to their fullest…
VIRTUAL - Nicole Krauss | To Be a Man: Stories
Tue, November 10, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $32.00- Book with Ticket and shipping (handling fees separate)
Register here . In conversation with Nomi Eve, author of Henna House and The Family Orchard , Director of the Creative Writing MFA program, Drexel University. “One of America’s most important novelists and an international literary sensation” ( New York Times ), Nicole…
Authors Up Close | Jumping the Broom with Tyler Parry
Wed, November 11, 2020
6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Join Dr. Tyler Parry of the University of Nevada as he discusses his new book, Jumping the Broom: The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual , a definitive history of a unique tradition and untangles the convoluted history of the "broomstick wedding." Parry…
Whiteness and the Broadway Musical: A Virtual Book Talk Featuring Warren Hoffman, author of The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical
Wed, November 11, 2020
7:00 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
2020 has been a year of visible antiracist action, as protests have sprung up across the U.S. in response to senseless killings of Black Americans. The country is taking a hard look at systemic racism in all facets of society, from immigration policy to employment practices to the justice…
VIRTUAL - Isaac J. Bailey | Why Didn't We Riot: A Black Man in Trumpland
Wed, November 11, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
Register here . “A painful indictment of American inhumanity woven with threads of grace and love” ( Guardian ) Isaac J. Bailey ’s memoir My Brother Moochie offered a raw, first-hand account of the author’s older brother’s longtime incarceration for murder. The…
VIRTUAL - Tamara Payne | The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Thu, November 12, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
Register here . In conversation with Sarah Glover, past president of the National Association of Black Journalists and the social media editor at NBC owned television stations in New York In 1990, Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist Les Payne set out on a nearly 30-year crusade to write the most…
VIRTUAL - Alex Ross | Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
Sat, November 14, 2020
11:30 A.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
Register here . In conversation with Simon Callow Music critic for the New Yorker since 1996, Alex Ross is the author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century . A trip down the rabbit hole of modern sound’s biggest moments and…
Monday Poets: Fiona Sze-Lorain & Nate Klug
Mon, November 16, 2020
6:30 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Join the Monday Poets Reading Series event with Fiona Sze-Lorrain and Nate Klug live on Crowdcast at 6:30 p.m. ET. Please register for this free event: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/monday-poets-fiona-sze Featured poets: Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a…
VIRTUAL Beyond the Buck: Transformative Practices in Growing Your Individual Donor Base
Tue, November 17, 2020
10:00 A.M.
Regional Foundation Center
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Parkway Central Library
This program is part of the Regional Foundation Center's Diversify Your Funding Series. How does your organization identify and engage potential donors? What about connecting with existing donors? Do your processes feel a little stale? Forced? Awkward? In "Beyond the Buck,"…
VIRTUAL - Jess Walter | The Cold Millions
Tue, November 17, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $34.00- Book with Ticket and shipping (handling fees separate)
Tickets available here . Jess Walter’s six acclaimed novels include the #1 New York Times bestseller The Beautiful Ruins , the National Book Award finalist The Zero , and Citizen Vince , winner of the Edgar Award. A former print journalist, he was a Pulitzer…
VIRTUAL Regional Foundation Center and Grantseeking Best Practices for Education Nonprofits
Fri, November 20, 2020
10:00 A.M.
Regional Foundation Center
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Parkway Central Library
The Regional Foundation Center (RFC) is Philly’s nonprofit resource center at the Free Library of Philadelphia. During this workshop you will learn about the resources and services available to nonprofit organizations through the RFC. We will also do a deep dive into Foundation Directory…