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Community Night with the Library
Cultural Architect: A Poet’s Path to Building Community
Join the City of Oakland’s first and current Poet Laureate Dr. Ayodele Nzinga for a poetry reading and thought-provoking discussion on the importance of fostering a city’s cultural arts center.
Community Night with the Library
Your Personal Carbon Footprint
How does your personal lifestyle rank on Your Personal Carbon Footprint Scorecard? Join CEO of the California Arts and Sciences Institute, physicist, and U.S. energy authority Dr. C. Michael Hogan on an interactive journey of our lifestyle footprint via calculating our personal impact on the environmental crisis. By measuring lifestyle choices including food consumption, transportation choices, gardening preferences, use of electronic devices, and financial decisions, we we can all play a more proactive role in the carbon emissions cycle and in our overall ecological and biological health system.
Dr. Hogan is renowned for his peer reviewed work and research, which focuses on biological, physical, ecological and environmental expertise. Hogan received a PhD in physics from Stanford University and BS from Princeton University
Henry Meade Williams Local History Lecture Series
The Bruton Sisters: Modernism in the Making
Margaret, Esther, and Helen Bruton, sisters and distinguished artists in the unique era of the 1920’s-1960’s, were known for their various mediums and modern artistic methods. Their work, recently on exhibit at the Monterey Museum of Art, depicts their creativity and innovation, which later impacted future artists.
Join Wendy Van Wyck Good, a Bruton scholar, author, archivist, and former librarian at the Carmel Public Library, as she leads the discussion on the “three amazing sisters’” influence on California art, design, and architecture, and their ties to both Carmel and the Central Coast.
A Benefit for The Carmel Public Library Foundation
The Educated Edition
with Tara Westover, NYT Bestselling Author, and Alexis Madrigal, Co-host, KQED’s “Forum”
Community Night with the Library
Daughters of Smoke and Fire
The unforgettable, haunting story of a young woman’s perilous fight for freedom and justice for her brother, the first novel published in English by a female Kurdish writer, Ava Homa.
Join author Ava Homa and professor Nancy Middleton as they discuss Daughters of Smoke and Fire, an evocative portrait of the lives and stakes faced by 40 million stateless Kurds and a powerful story that brilliantly illuminates the meaning of identity and the complex bonds of family.
Community Night with the Library
Turning Stress to Strength
Discover how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease and improving life. Dr. Elissa Epel, co-author of New York Times best-selling book, The Telomere Effect, and her most recent book, The Stress Prescription is providing new research on stress, as one of the drivers of aging and how we can build our stress fitness and use it for positive transformation to our health and well-being.
Fireside Chat at the Library
The Ghost of Father Coughlin: Past or Present?
At the height of his popularity in the 1930’s Father Coughlin was one of the most influential personalities on American radio with some 30 million listeners. Join acclaimed author and photojournalist, Michael Katakis for a discussion about the power of words in dangerous times.
Community Night with the Library
Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson and the Great Sixties Environmental Awakening, with historian and acclaimed author Douglas Brinkley
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties, telling a highly charged story of an indomitable generation that quite literally saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. This is the story of how the environmental revolution in America led to landmark legislation such as the Clean-Air Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Endangered Species Act – all signed into law by President Richard Nixon.
Local History Lecture Series
THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL: through the words of Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a novelist, poet, short-story writer, and essayist. In 1883, while bedridden with tuberculosis, he wrote what would become one of the best known and most beloved collections of children’s poetry in the English language, A Child’s Garden of Verses. Block City is taken from that collection. Stevenson is also the author of such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Join Stevenson devotee and classically trained actor, Keith Decker for THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL Visions of Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel Valley, and Carmel Mission as seen through the words of Robert Louis Stevenson.
11th Annual Fundraiser for The Carmel
Public Library Foundation
Hofsas House at San Carlos & 4th Ave., Carmel-by-the-Sea
10:30am or 1:30pm
Download the flyer for details.
You are invited to celebrate the holidays with the 11th Annual Fundraiser for The Carmel Public Library Foundation. Create a gingerbread house at home and display throughout the holidays, or attend in person. Children will receive one gingerbread making kit and an individually wrapped cookie for a $25 donation to the Carmel Public Library Foundation, as well as a special goodie bag. Download the flyer for details.
Reservations: Space is limited to 50 Gingerbread houses.
Click to register (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/11th-annual-gingerbread-fundraiser-tickets-387109624307)
Community Night with the Library
Tech’s Rising Star: Defining the Future of Healthcare
Award-winning entrepreneur Julia Hu’s trajectory proclaimed her an industry leader in Silicon’s Valley’s competitive culture before she was 30 years old. Join Ms. Hu, co-founder and chief executive officer of the digital health company Lark Health as she imparts her remarkable journey and struggles that led to the development of this innovative healthcare platform that today, serves millions.
Henry Meade Williams Local History Lecture Series
sponsored by the Frank & Eva Buck Foundation and Robert & Lacy Buck
Bohemian Soul – Film
In 1906 Carmel, California; a group of Bohemian artists created a revolutionary colony based on the ideals of truth, freedom and love. Their commitment to ‘Art as Life’ continues as a major influence to artists and thinkers around the world today. Discover the gifts of artists past and present on the Central Coast through this intimate film “Bohemian Soul.”
Community Night with the Library Program “My Mother Next Door” by Diane Danvers Simmons
In My Mother Next Door, author Diane Danvers Simmons shares the life lessons learned growing up in the revolutionary 1970s in London while her mother at the age of sixty charted her own unfathomable course to independence and freedom, leaving her marriage behind and moving into the house next door with several young male students to start a new life. Join Diane Danvers Simmons to explore this unique journey of forgiveness and liberation.
Community Night with the Library featuring “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future”
Join Jonathan Martin, senior political writer for The New York Times and co-author of the New York Times best-seller This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future, in conversation with Betsy Fischer Martin, an Emmy-winning journalist who was the longtime Executive Producer of Meet the Press with Tim Russert, and is currently a professor of politics and the Executive Director of the Women & Politics Institute at American University. They will discuss the book’s authoritative account of the recent eighteen-month crisis in American democracy, and whether the long-established traditions and institutions of American politics can survive.
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