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Fall 2008 Mark Your Calendar These Events Take Place in the Library Unless Otherwise Stated Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Bainbridge Is, WA Permit No. 106 *ECRWSS* Postal Customer Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Vol. 11, No. 2 Bainbridge Public Library, 1270 Madison Ave., Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Fall 2008 Mark your calendar These events take place in the library unless otherwise stated. SATURdaY, OCTOBER 25 • Bainbridge Island Living Library: Check out a New Point of View 9:00 a.m.-noon SUNdaY, OCTOBER 26 • BPL Speakers Forum. Mary Woodward presents “In Defense of Our Neighbors: the Walt and Milly Woodward Story” 4pm (Cost, $10 at the door) 1 2 3 4 TUEsdaY, OCTOBER 28 • Click! Computer Class. Open Lab 10-11:30 a.m. • Friends of the Library Book Sale 10 a.m.-3 • Inherit the Wind, BPA 7:30 p.m. THURsdaY, OCTOBER 30 • Estate Planning Series: Financial Planning for Retirement 9:00-11:00 a.m. • “Why do we (still) read To Kill a Mockingbird” with author David Guterson 7 p.m. • Spanish Language Book Discussion: El pais bajo mi piel by Gioconda Belli 7 p.m. SUNdaY, NOVEMBER 2 • “Trial by Fork : Formal Victorian Dining Demystified” with Tames Alan 2 p.m. TUEsdaY, NOVEMBER 4 5 6 7 8 • Click! Computer Class. Internet 101 (Preregister at the Library) 10 a.m. WEDNEsdaY, NOVEMBER 5 • Bainbridge Library Book Group: Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones 7 p.m. FRIdaY, NOVEMBER 7 • Film showing: Mostly Martha 3 p.m. SATURdaY, NOVEMBER 8 • Friends of the Library Book Sale 10 a.m.-3 SUNdaY, NOVEMBER 9 • BPL Speakers Forum. Hugh Spitzer presents “History of the Washington State Constitution” 4 p.m. (Cost, $10 at the door) TUEsdaY, NOVEMBER 11 • Library Closed for Veterans’ Day WEDNEsdaY, NOVEMBER 12 9 10 11 12 • Low Vision Support Group 1-3 p.m. THURsdaY, NOVEMBER 13 • Friends of the Library Book Sale 1-4 p.m. • A Good Yarn knitting and book group – Meet your friends at the library bring your work in progress 7-9 p.m. Do you know these people? They’re just a dozen of volunteers, and regular library patrons with a variety of TUEsdaY, NOVEMBER 18 • Book Discussion Group at the BI Senior the hundreds of Islanders who visit the Bainbridge interests (For more about them, please turn to Page 15.) Center 1:30 p.m. Public Library every week. They include staff members, (Library file photos) • Click! Computer Class. Internet 201 (Preregister at the Library) 2-3:30 p.m. • Field’s End Writers’ Roundtable: Warren Read explores “How do you go from vignettes to a meaningful memoir?” 7pm Everybody’s talking about— WEDNEsdaY, NOVEMBER 19 • Travelogue: “Odyssey Marco Polo” presented by Harry Rutstein. Co-sponsored by The Traveler Bookstore 7:30 p.m. The month of the book THURsdaY, NOVEMBER 20 Islanders of all ages are reading Harper thought-provoking comments and Islanders explore common stereotypes and different • Estate Planning Series: Charitable Planning Lee’s classic To Kill a Mockingbird. viewed the 1967 film In the Heat of the viewpoints in a structured environment at the Techniques, Tips on Getting Started with The official kickoff to this month’s One Night and discussed it afterward. first-ever Bainbridge Island Living Library. Personal Planning. 9:00-11:00 a.m. Community, One Book events was held Two Mockingbird events are scheduled At a Living Library, community members • Spanish Language Book Discussion 7 p.m. October 3, with a special Island Theatre for later this month. On Saturday, October are invited to “check out” a conversation with FRidaY, NOVEMBER 21 play reading of “Inherit the Wind”. Several 25, Islanders are invited to a Bainbridge a person who may seem, at least from the • Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society: book groups have discussed the book, Island Living Library: Check Out a New outside, very different from themselves. “Computer programs for the Genealogist” with Claire Smith 10-noon. Martha Bayley talked about what makes a Point of View, from 9 a.m. until noon, at Founded in 2000 by Danish book a classic, and the Lynwood Theatre the library meeting room. antiviolence campaigner Ronni Abergel, SATURdaY, NOVEMBER 22 showed the film To Kill a Mockingbird, “You never really understand a person who will be present at the October 25 • “Five things you don’t know about Yo-Yo Ma, the story of the world’s worst explorer, and with Gregory Peck. until you consider things from his point event, and now active in more than a dozen other adventures in writing biography” with Senior citizens have read and discussed of view,” says Atticus Finch in To Kill a countries, the Living Library makes its author Jim Whiting. For all ages. 2 p.m. the book, and parents have talked with Mockingbird. North American debut this month. TUEsdaY, NOVEMBER 25 children about it. A panel discussion, In the spirit of Harper Lee’s classic, As an official launch site, Bainbridge • Click! Computer Class. Open Lab. 10 a.m. “Cotton, Southern Comfort, and Jim Crow: the Bainbridge Library offers a unique WEDNEsdaY, NOVEMBER 26 The Culture of Harper Lee’s South” drew opportunity for Bainbridge Islanders to Continued on Page 2 • Library Closes at 5:30 p.m. for Thanksgiving Holiday THURsdaY & FRidaY Also in this issue: NOVEMBER 27 & 28 • Library Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday Books, books, more books .................................................Pages 13 & 14 WEDNEsdaY, DECEMBER 3 • Bainbridge Library Book Group: Shade of Travel: The home of Beatrix Potter ............................................ Page 12 My Own Tree by Sheila Williams 7 p.m. Continued on page 2 It’s One Call For All time again ................................................... Page 10 People page 2 Fall 2008 Field’s End offers winter classes By CINDY VANDERSLUIS Writers will find a wide range of topics to choose from this fall and winter at Field’s End. Some of the area’s most successful authors are set to share their approach to genres such as youth fiction, writing about what you love, and creating an original one-act play. Registration is required for each course. Forms may be found in the lobby of the Bainbridge Public Library or downloaded at www.fieldsend.org. For questions, write the Field’s End Registrar at [email protected]. Tuition assistance is available for all Field’s End classes through the Jack Olsen Memorial Writer’s Tuition Assistance Fund. Suzanne Selfors will lead a four- session course, “Writing the Middle Grade Novel”, on four consecutive Winter class instructors Mondays – February 23 and March 2, 9 and 16, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the library’s for Field’s End (left to right) large meeting room. Tuition is $160. The class is limited to 12 participants. Elizabeth Heffron, “The Play’s the Thing”; Greg Registration opens on December 8. Atkinson, Victoria Josslin, and Nick O’Connell, Three Puget Sound experts share “Food, Travel, & the Arts”; and Suzanne Selfors, writing fundamentals in “Food, Travel “Writing the Middle Grade Novel”. and The Arts; Bringing What You Love to Life on the Page.” Chef and commentator Greg Atkinson, travel writer Nick O’Connell and art critic Victoria Josslin will lead this class on three consecutive Mondays: January 19 and 26, and February 2, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the main library meeting room. Tuition —Photo by Kate deVeaux is $120; registration begins December 8. an interest in stories and theater as a writes the “Taste” column for Pacific of writing and theatrical exercises that Finally, join instructor Elizabeth child. After graduating with university Northwest Magazine in the Seattle Times. illustrate the basic principles of dramatic Heffron for “The Play’s the Thing.” honors in theater and film, she received a Nicholas O’Connell, M.F.A., Ph.D., structure. Outside readers will choose two a six-session course to be held on master’s degree in communications from is the author of On Sacred Ground: The plays to be produced by BPA as staged Saturdays, January 24, 31 and February the University of Washington. Once her Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest readings later in the spring. All students 7, 14, 21 and 28, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 children were in school, her passion for Literature (U.W. Press, 2003) and At the from the class are invited to observe, and p.m. at the Bainbridge Library. Tuition is writing was reawakened in 2002. She Field’s End: Interviews with 22 Pacific perhaps audition for, the rehearsals and $360; class is limited to 12 participants. is living her maxim: “Talent helps, but Northwest Writers (U.W. Press, 1998), workshops featuring the selected plays. Registration begins December 8. determination is mandatory.” among other collections. He contributes Elizabeth Heffron’s plays have been The three-person team of Atkinson, to Newsweek, Gourmet, Saveur, Outside, produced in the U.S. and Canada, including O’Connell and Josslin will blend lecture, GO, National Geographic Adventure and Seattle, New York and Vancouver, B.C. Her About the classes writing exercises and discussion as they Conde Nast Traveler, along with other work includes New Patgonia, produced by Using popular middle grade novels share their approach to writing about publications. O’Connell teaches writing the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Moses Lake as examples, Selfors will explore the their passions. The class is designed for classes for the Writer’s Workshop. Approaching PI, and Mitzi’s Abortion, unique aspects of this genre for the those who wish to enrich their memoirs, Victoria Josslin has been a freelance which just received a world-premiere reader age 8 – 12. Writers of all levels are essays and fiction, or simply compose a art critic for the Seattle P-I and has production at Seattle’s ACT Theater.
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