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Thursday, October 6, 2022 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain: 2801 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009
Program includes a conversation between Medel and Chavez, followed by a wine reception and book signing in partnership with Politics & Prose Bookstore.
Thursday, October 6, 2022 7:30 PM EDT
Johnson Center, Cinema, Ground Floor
Michael E. Mann, one of the most famous science communicators in the world, is back with his new book The New Climate War, which reveals the thirty year campaign major polluters have run to deflect blame for climate change onto individuals, and away from their own toxic practices.
Saturday, October 8, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
Off-Campus Location, Main Room, Old Town Hall
ROAR those ABCs with Chiêu Anh Urban in an interactive storytelling session with crafts! Kids 5 and under will delight in this romp through the animal kingdom as they learn the alphabet.
Saturday, October 8, 2022 11:00 AM EDT
Off-Campus Location, Old Town Hall, City of Fairfax
Elementary-aged kids will love the playful primate facts and paper plate monkey craft that Debra Kempf Shumaker has in store after reading her book Peculiar Primates: Fun Facts About These Curious Creatures.
Saturday, October 8, 2022 12:00 PM EDT
Off-Campus Location, Old Town Hall, City of Fairfax
Young sports lovers will learn how to become sportswriters in this interactive event for kids 8-12 with Fred Bowen. In his newest book, Hardcourt, Bowen follows NBA heroes like LeBron James through 75 years of wild b-ball history.
Saturday, October 8, 2022 1:00 PM EDT
Off-Campus Location, Old Town Hall, City of Fairfax
Get creative with Jonathan Roth, author of the comic-style graphic novel, Rover and Speck: This Planet Rocks! In this hands-on workshop, Roth takes students aged 7-12 on a ride through creating their own compelling characters, and putting them into a cool graphic novel of their very own.
Saturday, October 8, 2022 2:00 PM EDT
Off-Campus Location, Old Town Hall, City of Fairfax
How do filters work? Enjoy a hands-on, absorbing science project with Shana Keller, author of the picture book The Peach Pit Parade: A WWI Story - which follows a young girl helping find resources to make mask filters!
Monday, October 10, 2022 7:00 PM EDT
Off-Campus Location, Kings Park Library, 9000 Burke Lake Road, Burke
In her biography, The Princess of Albemarle: Amélie Rives, Author and Celebrity at the Fin de Siècle, Jane Turner Censer sheds light on Rive’s substantial literary career and her personal saga providing insight into the limits of being a woman in the late nineteenth-century South. Sponsored by the Friends of Kings Park Library.
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 5:00 PM to 6:15 PM EDT
Art & Design Building, Gillespie Gallery
Featuring Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, whose work embodies the extremes of a woman's life under brutal colonial regime, this event will be held in the Gillespie Gallery amongst the backdrop of current school of art artist-in-residence Abdulrahman Naanseh. Including readings by SWANA poets: Zeina Azzam, Danielle Badra, Holly Mason Badra, Zein El-Amine, & Leeya Mehta.
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 7:00 PM EDT
Off-Campus Location, Pohick Regional Library, 6450 Sydenstricker Road, Burke, VA
Laurie Loewenstein, author of the acclaimed Dust Bowl Mystery Death of a Rainmaker, is back with the sequel, Funeral Train. Set in 1935 Oklahoma, when a train derails, and a local recluse is murdered, Sheriff Temple Jennnings must solve the crime while waiting to hear news on his wife.
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 7:00 PM EDT
Off-Campus Location, City of Fairfax Regional Library, 10360 North Street, Fairfax
In The Unquiet Dead, Stacie Murphy unfurls Gilded Age New York City through the eyes of medium Amelia Matthew, as she races against the clock, using her spirit connections to exonerate an innocent boy of a murder that would send him to Sing Sing Prison.
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 7:00 PM EDT
Off-Campus Location, Richard Byrd Library, 7250 Commerce St, Springfield, VA
In Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020, Elisabeth Griffith presents a sweeping, diverse perspective on what happened after women won the right to vote with the Nineteenth Amendment, because it was an incomplete victory.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 11:50 AM EDT
Off-Campus Location, Tallwood House, 4200 Roberts Road, Fairfax
Justin Gest’s timely and groundbreaking book, Majority Minority, studies six of the world’s societies that have undergone a monumental demographic shift to understand the power of perception and reaction and the paths governments take to reduce the appeal of nativism. Sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 12:00 PM EDT
Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room C
In her “techno-lit” poetry collection, Breakpoint, game designer Betsy Aoki leads readers into a world of Halo, Japanese folklore, robot factories, and code as poetry. Machines speak in Aoki’s work and attendees will too as they use their own tech to generate poetry in this interactive event.
