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Silicon Valley Reads 2018 NoNo MatterMatter WhatWhat CARING • COPING • COMPASSION Calendar of Events February – March Authors • Panels • Films • Art Exhibit • Discussions Activities for children and teens Free events for all ages throughout Santa Clara County PRESENTED BY: SiliconValleyReads.org Dear Community, Silicon Valley Reads 2018 Community Advisory Board Each year the Silicon Valley Reads team works very hard to select books and Diana Bautista a theme that will engage our community in a conversation about an issue Arlene Biala relevant to our region. Our criteria are many and our standards are high. Manny Barbara Chris Brown For 2018, we considered more than 60 books in a variety of themes before Mark Coker deciding upon our final selections. Jacquie Davidson Silicon Valley Reads 2018 Kick-Off Event Joseph DiSalvo Thursday, Feb 1, 7:30 p.m. Caregiving is a topic that touches us all at one time or another. It can Rhonda Farber, Ph.D. be challenging . joyful . stressful . and critical to the well-being of Alice Gosak Visual & Performing Arts Center Stacey Greenwell ourselves, our families and our community. There is much to discuss and Margaret Hengel De Anza College, Cupertino we hope that our selected books help you read, think and engage with Kara Iwahashi others. Bob Kieve Mark Lukach, author of My Lovely Doors open at 6:45 p.m. No tickets or Free parking in Lots A and B beginning at Deepka Lalwani Wife in the Psych Ward, and Rachel reservations required. First come, first 5 p.m. See campus map at DeAnza.edu/ Jane Light There are more than 100 events scheduled for all ages throughout Santa Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin are seated. The adjacent Euphrat Museum of map. Information: [email protected] Jack Lucas, Ed.D. Clara County in February and March. All are free and we welcome you to Rosanne Macek interviewed on stage by Art will be open from 6:30-7:30 p.m. and participate in as many as you can. Michelle McGurk Mercury News columnist during book signing for free viewing of A video of this program will be posted Mary McLane Sal Pizarro. Co-sponsored the exhibit “Showing Up with Care.” The in the Video Library of the website Thank you for your continued support and involvement with Silicon Valley Diane McNutt by Commonwealth Club campus bookstore will sell books before SiliconValleyReads.org later in February. Reads. We look forward to seeing you at this year’s events. Shannon Miller, Ph.D. Silicon Valley and De Anza and after the program and the authors Judy Mitchell College. Sal Pizarro will sign books after the program. Nancy Howe Mary Ann Dewan, Ph.D. Jill Bourne Alyce Parsons Sal Pizarro County Librarian Interim County Library Director Diane Roche Santa Clara County Superintendent of Schools City of San José Josh Russell Library District Santa Clara County Office Marisa Spatafore of Education Geri Weimers “Showing Up with Care” Art Exhibit No Matter What: Feb. 1-March 22 Caring, Coping, Compassion Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino “Showing Up with Care” explores caregiving, healing and the power of FEATURED SELECTIONS expression. The artists draw from personal experience, advocate for caregiver rights, and look at how art can be a vehicle for healing and transformation. Artworks include documentary photography, augmented reality videos, Named a Best International large scale collaborative paintings, narrative quilts, ceramic and mixed media Book of 2017 by bestseller. “An sculpture, an interactive mandala, and more. NPR, O-The Oprah honest and Magazine, Vogue, rewarding memoir Artists include Chris Bunz, Annabel Clark, Brett San Francisco of a couple’s Cook, Marion Coleman, Kate DeCiccio, Marisa Chronicle, Esquire, compassion and Jahn, Pantea Karimi, Kristin Lindseth Rivera, Huffington Post, love for each other.” Diwa Malaya, Mark Messenger, Adan Perez, Entertainment (Kirkus Reviews) George Rivera, Cynthia Siegel and Tony Stroman. Weekly, Buzzfeed, Special project with De Anza College art and Booklist and others. sociology students. On Saturday, March 3, the public is invited to a “Radical Self Care Mandalas” workshop. Make your own self care mandala incorporating personal and cultural symbols for health/well being COMPANION BOOKS FOR CHILDREN & TEENS and healing. Drop-in, free of charge with ongoing activities 10 “A poignant tale of Winner of the Josette A Kirkus Best Teen a.m. - 1 p.m. intergenerational Frank Award. “Effectively Books of 2015 selection, Euphrat Museum of Art on the De Anza College campus is open Monday - Thursday, 10 a.m. connection, transition, and portrays the frustrations an Amazon Best Books - 3 p.m. (closed Monday February 19 for Presidents Day), Saturday, March 3, 10 a.m. - patience. The language and of aging and memory loss of December 2015 1 p.m., Thursday, March 1, 5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. for open mic night. Additional open hours by vivid illustrations … are through a mix of humor, selection, Top 10 Winter appointment. Information: 408-864-5464. There is no admission fee. infused with warmth and sharp-eyed observations, 2015 Indie Next List expression.” (Booklist) and compassion.” selection, a 2016 CCBC PreK-Gr 3 Gr 4-7 (Publishers Weekly) Teens Children’s Choice. 2 3 Event listings in date order at SiliconValleyReads.org Event location addresses on page 11 Events with Mark Lukach Events with Rachel Khong Author of My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward Author of Goodbye, Vitamin Mark and Giulia’s life together began Sat, Feb 3, 11 a.m., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Freshly disengaged from her fiancé Sat, Feb 17, 11 a.m., Vineland Branch Library as a storybook romance. They fell Co-sponsored by Friends of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library and feeling that life has not turned Sat, Feb 17, 2 p.m., Joyce Ellington Branch Library in love at 18, married at 24, and Sat, Feb 3, 2 p.m., Campbell Library out quite the way she planned, Co-sponsored by Friends of Joyce Ellington Branch Library were living their dream life in San Co-sponsored by Friends of Campbell Library 30-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves Francisco. When Giulia was 27, she town and arrives at her parents’ Sun, Feb 18, 2 p.m., Santa Clara Central Park Library suffered a terrifying and unexpected Wed, Feb 7, 6 p.m., West Valley Branch Library home to find that situation more Co-sponsored by Santa Clara City Library Foundation & psychotic break that landed her in Sun, Feb 11, 3 p.m., Palo Alto Library – Rinconada complicated than she’d realized. Friends and the Santa Clara City Library the psych ward for nearly a month. Co-sponsored by Friends of Palo Alto Library Her father, a prominent history Sun, Feb 18, 4 p.m., Cupertino Community Hall One day she was vibrant and Join the Brown Bag Lunch Book Group (without Mark Lukach) professor, is losing his memory and is Co-sponsored by Friends of Cupertino Library well-adjusted – the next she was only erratically lucid. Ruth’s mother, to discuss My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward on Tue, Feb 13, Sat, March 24, 11 a.m., Gilroy Library delusional and suicidal, convinced meanwhile, is lucidly erratic. But as 12 noon, Palo Alto Library-Rinconada Co-sponsored by Friends of Gilroy Library that her loved ones were not safe. Ruth’s father’s condition intensifies, Sat, Feb 17, 1 p.m., Almaden Branch Library the comedy in her situation takes Sat, March 24, 3 p.m., Morgan Hill Library A story of the fragility of the mind, Sat, Feb 24, 10:30 a.m., Saratoga Library hold, gently transforming her and Co-sponsored by Friends of Morgan Hill Library and the tenacity of the human spirit, Co-sponsored by Friends of the Saratoga Libraries her grief. Told in captivating glimpses and drawn from a deep well My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward is, above all, a love story that raises Sun, March 25, 2 p.m., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library of insight, humor and unexpected tenderness, Goodbye, Vitamin profound questions: How do we care for the people we love? What Co-sponsored by Friends of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pilots through the loss, love, and absurdity of finding one’s footing and who do we live for? Library in this life. Book Group Discussions of Goodbye, Vitamin In conversation with In conversation In conversation with Tue, Feb 6, 7:30 p.m., Morgan Hill Library Mon, March 5, 7:30 p.m., Saratoga Library Dr. Lucy Kalanithi with Jeff Bell Lissa Kreisler Tue, Feb 27, 7 p.m., Gilroy Library Thur, March 29, 7:30 p.m., Palo Alto Library – Mark discusses Mark discusses adversity Mark discusses his book Fri, March 2, 10:15 a.m., Gilroy Library Mitchell Park caregiving, coping and advocacy with KCBS with Lissa Kreisler, and compassion with broadcaster Jeff Bell, author host of the KCAT Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, of Rewind, Reply, Repeat and series “Community a Clinical Assistant founder of The A2A Alliance. Storytelling” and Bay Professor of Medicine Co-sponsored by Los Altos Area Radio Hall of Fame Programs on Memory at the Stanford School Library Endowment. honoree. Audience Q&A of Medicine and widow of Dr. Paul Fri, Feb 16, 7 p.m., Los Altos Library follows. Co-sponsored by Friends of Healthy Living for The Brain and Maximizing Your Kalanithi, author of the #1 New York Los Gatos Library. Times-bestselling memoir When Breath Sat, Feb 24, 1:30 p.m., Los Gatos Library Your Brain and Body Transformation Memory: Tips and Becomes Air. Co-sponsored by Friends of Presented in English and Mandarin, this Professor Nick Fortino, Milpitas Library.