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Calend Ar of Events Janu Ar Y 22 CALENDAR OF EVENTS OF CALENDAR JANUARY 22—MARCH 2020 18, JANUARY FREELIBRARY.ORG/ONEBOOK Eight inspired weeks of discussions, films, performances, and creative activities for all ages CALENDAR OF EVENTS OF CALENDAR JANUARY 22—MARCH 2020 18, JANUARY FREELIBRARY.ORG/ONEBOOK Eight inspired weeks of discussions, films, performances, and creative activities for all ages WELCOME FROM THE CHAIR 3 WELCOME FROM THE CHAIR The centerpiece of 2020 One Book, One Philadelphia is 4 2020 FEATURED TITLES Tommy Orange’s stunning novel There There, which explores 5 ABOUT THE AUTHORS the complexities of being Native American in today’s America. 6 FEATURED EVENTS “A novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from 12 COMMUNITY EVENTS you,” There There follows 12 multigenerational stories connected to each 16 NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARY PROGRAMMING other in ways known and yet to be discovered. With each story, Orange 20 BOOK DISCUSSIONS paints vivid portraits of memorable characters, exploding the stereotyping 22 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS and mythologizing of Native Americans that he describes and condemns in 24 FURTHER READING his novel’s powerful opening essay. Issues of Indigenous identity, tradition, genocide, urban life, education, poverty, and exclusion are dramatized 25 BEYOND ONE BOOK as the characters prepare for and travel to the Oakland coliseum and the 26 SPONSORS novel’s tragic climax. 27 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS As with all outstanding literature and through the lyrical, powerfully moving writing of Tommy Orange, Philadelphia readers will develop a deeper, more empathetic understanding of characters whose life circumstances may differ from our own, but with whom we share a common humanity as well as a The land upon which the Free Library stands is part of the traditional common chapter of early U.S. history. territory of the Lenni-Lenape, called Lenapehoking, where the Lenape Our 2020 One Book project will include a rich array of programs to enhance lived in harmony with one another for thousands of years as the original and deepen our understanding of There There, including discussions, panels, people of this land. We pay respect to those Lenape tribal communities performances, and exhibits. that remain to this day, and those who were removed generations ago, and we honor their continuing relationship with their territory. These words As always, One Book, One Philadelphia thanks the many thousands of are only a small symbol of our commitment to decolonization work, which readers, donors, volunteers, community partners, library personnel, and we intend to continue deepening through reading, civic dialogue, library teachers in Philadelphia who from the program’s inception have provided programming, and community partnerships. generous support, encouragement, and enthusiastic participation in our region-wide book club, enabling One Book to thrive and become a favorite annual tradition. Special thanks to the many institutions and individuals who have given their time, expertise, and creativity to develop programs that add depth and breadth to our shared reading and programming experience. We look forward to a long future in which everyone in Philadelphia is reading, ENHANCE YOUR READING EXPERIENCE BY VISITING growing, and learning together. THE ONLINE ONE BOOK RESOURCE GUIDE AT FREELIBRARY.ORG/ONEBOOK. EXPLORE BLOG Marie Field POSTS, PLAYLISTS, A CHARACTER MAP, DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR THE COMPANION SELECTIONS, Chair, One Book, One Philadelphia AND MORE. 2 3 2020 FEATURED TITLES ABOUT THE AUTHORS There There Tommy Orange BY TOMMY ORANGE Tommy Orange received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the National Book Critics Set against a backdrop of sacred traditions, historical Circle John Leonard Prize, and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize for There violence, and the metropolis of Oakland, California, Tommy There. A New York Times bestselling author and recent graduate from the MFA Orange’s debut novel is “a comic vision haunted by program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he is profound sadness” (Louise Erdrich). A finalist for the 2019 a 2014 MacDowell Fellow and a 2016 Writing By Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled Pulitzer Prize, There There is a multi-voiced epic of 12 Native member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and was born and American characters whose lives intertwine across the urban raised in Oakland, California. landscape. They’re all headed to the Big Oakland Powwow and toward a crescendo of sacrifice, unspeakable loss, and loving heroism. Hailed as an instant classic, There There is Eric Gansworth “funny and profane and conscious of the violence that runs like a scar through American culture” (Seattle Times). Eric Gansworth is a member of the Onondaga Nation and the author of several books of poetry and fiction for adults, including the American Book Award– winning novel Extra Indians as well as Mending Skins, which received the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. His latest young adult novel, Give Me If I Ever Get Out of Here BY ERIC GANSWORTH Some Truth, was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR and School Library Journal. What do you do when you’re Native American, so nobody in your class talks to you; dirt poor, like snow-blowing-through- David A. Robertson the-roof poor; small for your age, so bullies like Evan Reiniger make you their punching bag; and a Beatles fan, David A. Robertson is a national bestselling author of children’s books, graphic meaning your favorite band broke up years ago? Well, you novels, and novels and a member of Norway House Cree Nation. He received the make friends like George Haddonfield, a new kid in town; tell McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award for When We Were Alone, and for lies because what George doesn’t know about your house his young adult novel Strangers, he was awarded the Indigenous Writer prize at the won’t hurt him; tell truths, ’cause someone’s going to listen High Plains Book Awards. to you about Evan, right?; and make your own music, since in the end your friends and family are all you have. Julie Flett Julie Flett is a Cree-Métis author, illustrator, and artist who has received many awards, When We Were Alone including a 2017 Governor General’s Award for Young People’s Literature (Illustrated BY DAVID A. ROBERTSON, ILLUSTRATED BY JULIE FLETT Books) for When We Were Alone and the 2016 American Indian Youth Literature When young Nósisim helps tend her grandmother’s Award for Best Picture Book for Little You, by Richard Van Camp. Her own Wild garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Berries was a Kirkus Best Children’s Book of 2013 and a title selection for Canada’s Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and First Nation Communities Read program. beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story about a difficult time in history and, ultimately, one of empowerment and strength. 4 FREELIBRARY.ORG/ONEBOOK 5 FEATURED EVENTS FEATURED EVENTS One Book, This workshop will begin at what is now Penn Treaty Park, a significant One Philadelphia place where the Great Elm Tree of KICKOFF EVENT Shackamaxon once stood and where many sachems of the Lenni-Lenape and other tribes from the Lenapehoking territory met for council. Conversation will continue at the Fishtown Community Library, guided by Nanticoke Lenni- Lenape voices and opened up to all pan-Native experiences as well. PHOTO OF TRINITY NORWOOD BY ZEIN NAKHODA BY NORWOOD TRINITY OF PHOTO WORKSHOP TWO: TAINO IN LENAPEHOKING Archive Dive: Me escuchas? / Can You Hear Reinterpreting History with Me? Listening to Experiences SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1:00–3:00 P.M., FREE Native American Collections of Indigenous Erasure Kensington Library, 104 W. Dauphin St., 215-685-9996 The Taino Arawak peoples, indigenous WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 6:30 P.M., There There shows how historical to the Caribbean, have made huge $25 GENERAL ADMISSION, $12.50 Indigenous erasure—the deliberate contributions to modern society, yet IMAGE BY ELENA SEIBERT ELENA BY IMAGE FOR ROSENBACH MEMBERS, FREE and systematic destruction of cultures they and their descendants continue to FOR DELANCEY SOCIETY MEMBERS and violent displacement of peoples— experience cultural erasure, including here The Rosenbach, 2008–2010 Delancey Pl., A Conversation with continues today. Join the Counter in Philadelphia’s Boricua community. This rosenbach.org/archivedive Narrative Society (CNS) and collaborators workshop will explore Taino culture, with Tommy Orange During this hands-on event, turn for workshops that explore the history conversations guided by contemporary the pages of preserved rare books and impacts of pan-Indigenous erasure Taino and Lenape experiences as well as written by Indigenous peoples, here in Philadelphia. Dialogues will center by Native communities in the diaspora. manuscripts penned by some of the the lived, hyper-present experiences of WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, Lenni-Lenape today—whose traditional WORKSHOP THREE: first European colonists, and early SOUTH PHILLY IN LENAPEHOKING 7:30 P.M., FREE printed U.S. government documents homeland is where Philadelphia now Parkway Central Library, Montgomery related to Native American tribes. stands—as well as the experiences of SATURDAY, MARCH 14 Auditorium, 1901 Vine St., 215-814-3514 Guided by passages from There Taino (Indigenous Caribbean) and other 1:00–3:00 P.M., FREE The 18th season of One Book kicks There, we will handle historical Native communities living in the region. South Philadelphia Library, off with a reading and conversation artifacts while discussing erasure, Non-Native participants are invited to 1700 S. Broad St., 215-685-1866 with Tommy Orange and 6abc’s privilege, authorship, access to the listen, learn, and join in collaborative conversations about healing.
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