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SUMMARY:First Wednesdays: We Are All Fast Food Workers Now
DESCRIPTION:Live Event\nMay 3\, 2023: 7:00 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLabor historian Annelise Orleck provides a close look at globalization and its costs from the perspective of low-wage workers themselves—berry pickers\, fast food servers\, garment workers\, cashiers\, hotel housekeepers\, home health care aides\, and even adjunct professors—who are fighting for respect\, safety\, and a living wage. \nAbout Annelise Orleck\nAnnelise Orleck is professor of history at Dartmouth College and the author of five books on the history of US women\, politics\, immigration\, and activism\, including Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty. \nUnderwriter: Anne Commire Fund for Women in the Humanities \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library \n \nStatewide Underwriters\n \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at info@vermonthumanities.org for information on disability services. To request a specific accommodation\, contact us at least three weeks prior to the event. Vermont Humanities strives to provide accommodations whenever possible. All event locations are ADA accessible.
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SUMMARY:First Wednesdays: Revolution in Our Time
DESCRIPTION:Live Event\nApril 5\, 2023: 7:00 pm\n\n\n\nNational Book Award finalist Kekla Magoon discusses her award-winning nonfiction book\, Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People. The Vermont author also considers the importance of reading as a tool for social change\, and our individual and collective power to transform our communities. \nAbout Kekla Magoon\nKekla Magoon is the author of many novels and nonfiction books for young readers\, including The Season of Styx Malone\, The Rock and the River\, How It Went Down\, and Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People. She has received the Margaret A. Edwards Award\, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award\, the John Steptoe New Talent Award\, four Coretta Scott King Honors\, the Walter Award Honor\, an NAACP Image Award\, and been a finalist for the National Book Award. \n  \nSponsored by the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library \n \nStatewide Underwriters\n \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at info@vermonthumanities.org for information on disability services. To request a specific accommodation\, contact us at least three weeks prior to the event. Vermont Humanities strives to provide accommodations whenever possible. All event locations are ADA accessible.
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SUMMARY:First Wednesdays: Biodiversity\, Conservation\, and Civic Participation in Paraguay
DESCRIPTION:Digital Event\n\nMarch 1\, 2023: 7:00 pm\n\n\n\nSouth America’s Atlantic Forest is one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. Cristian Fretes Ojeda\, technical trainer for Peace Corps Paraguay\, discusses how civic participation is leading the effort to conserve crucial natural areas like the Atlantic Forest and the Gran Chaco\, which span several South American countries. \nAbout Cristhian Fretes Ojeda\nCristhian Fretes Ojeda is a volunteer trainer for Peace Corps Paraguay and an active conservationist working with the nonprofit OPADES on biodiversity conservation and sustainable development across the country. \nRegister for this free event \nPhoto by Cristhian Fretes Ojeda \nSponsored by the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library \n \nStatewide Underwriters\n \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at info@vermonthumanities.org for information on disability services. To request a specific accommodation\, contact us at least three weeks prior to the event. Vermont Humanities strives to provide accommodations whenever possible. All event locations are ADA accessible.
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SUMMARY:First Wednesdays: Pandemic Architecture
DESCRIPTION:Two Centuries of Disease and Design\nLive Event\n\nDecember 7: 7:00 pm\n\n\n\nPublic health crises have prompted many changes to the buildings\, skylines\, and streetscapes of our cities. Champlain College professor David Mills explores two centuries’ worth of alterations to the built environment made in pursuit of health and well-being\, from modern to postmodern and beyond. \nAbout David Mills\nDavid Mills is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Dean of the Core Division and International Education at Champlain College in Burlington. His research and teaching explore the intersections of philosophy\, religion\, art\, and architecture. \nPhoto by Mika Baumeister. \n\n\nSponsored by the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library \n \nStatewide Underwriters\n \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at info@vermonthumanities.org for information on disability services. To request a specific accommodation\, contact us at least three weeks prior to the event. Vermont Humanities strives to provide accommodations whenever possible. All event locations are ADA accessible.
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SUMMARY:First Wednesdays: Drawing Community
DESCRIPTION:Creating Comics from Shared Stories\nLive Event\n\nNovember 2: 7:00 pm\n\n\n\nUsing examples from his work with the Vermont Reads 2022 book The Most Costly Journey (El Viaje Más Caro) and his Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby series\, cartoonist Marek Bennett explores how the act of cartooning can help us forge connections\, build empathy\, and challenge set definitions of identity and belonging. \nAbout Marek Bennett\nNew Hampshire-based cartoonist\, musician\, and educator Marek Bennett leads discovery-based Comics Workshops for all ages throughout New England and the world beyond! His comics work includes the graphic novel series\, The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby\, as well as drawing\, translating\, & editing for The Most Costly Journey (2021) with the bilingual El Viaje Project. Marek is the recipient of the 2021 New Hampshire Governor’s Arts Award for Art Education. His website is: www.MarekBennett.com. \n\n\n\n\n  \nSponsored by the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library \n \nStatewide Underwriters\n \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at info@vermonthumanities.org for information on disability services. To request a specific accommodation\, contact us at least three weeks prior to the event. Vermont Humanities strives to provide accommodations whenever possible. All event locations are ADA accessible.
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