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Read the Classics Book Group
RESCHEDULED Outdoor Movie Night: Whale Rider
Join us at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17 for a movie night featuring the 2002 award-winning film Whale Rider. On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea’s direct descendants. But 11-year-old Pai (Keisha Castle-Hughes) believes she is destined to be the new chief. Written and directed by Niki Caro, Whale Rider is a contemporary story of love, tradition, rejection, and triumph. The movie is rated PG-13 and runs 1 hour and 41 minutes. This family-friendly event is free and open to all.
UCity Book Group
Read the Classics Book Group
Join us for a lively discussion of The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, the fantastic true story of a sailor was shipwrecked in the Caribbean for 10 days before washing ashore in his native Colombia, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The discussion takes place ONLINE at 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 19. Email reference@ucitylibrary.org for a Zoom invitation to the free event.
Author Event: Deesha Philyaw
After reading and discussing The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, join us at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 29 for an ONLINE visit from author Deesha Philyaw. In addition to the awards she’s received for The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Philyaw’s work has been listed as Notable in the Best American Essays series, and her writing on race, parenting, gender, and culture has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Brevity, dead housekeeping, Apogee Journal, Catapult, Harvard Review, ESPN’s The Undefeated, The Baltimore Review, TueNight, Ebony and Bitch magazines, and various anthologies.
Philyaw is also a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and will be the 2022-2023 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She is a past Pushcart Prize nominee for essay writing in Full Grown People. Philyaw lives in Pittsburgh, PA.
Most of the Adult Summer Reading programs will take place online and all are free and open to all. Email reference@ucitylibrary.org to receive an email invitation to the Zoom event. Each event will also be live-streamed to UCPL’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.
UCity Book Group
Join us at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 22 ONLINE for a discussion of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, a National Book Award-finalist by Deesha Philyaw. Email reference@ucitylibrary.org for an invitation to the Zoom event.Read the Classics Book Group
Join us at 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 21 ONLINE for an in-depth discussion of Katherine Anne Porter’s debut novel, Ship of Fools. For information on joining the Zoom meeting, email reference@ucitylibrary.org.
Adult Summer Reading Keynote Kickoff with Melody Jue
Help us kick off our Secrets of the Deep Adult Summer Reading Program at 7 p.m. ONLINE. Melody Jue is an associate professor of English at UC Santa Barbara working across the fields of ocean humanities, science fiction, science studies, and media theory. Her lecture “Diving into Reading” will explore themes of experiencing culture and the arts through water and prepare us for a summer of reading!
Most of the Adult Summer Reading programs will take place online and all are free and open to all. Email reference@ucitylibrary.org to receive an email invitation to the Zoom event. Each event will also be live-streamed to UCPL’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.
Orcs & Aliens Book Group
Join us for a lively discussion of Architects of Memory by Karen Osborne at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12 ONLINE. For information on joining the Zoom meeting, email reference@ucitylibrary.org.
