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SUMMARY:The Dark Room: A Memoir of Triumph will be discussed by the author - Claudia Chotzen
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday July 17th 7:00 to 8:00 pm \nThe Dark Room weaves a complex family tapestry\, the author’s personal experience growing up in the 1950s\, 60s\, and 70s as one of eight children of parents who fled Nazi Germany separately\, met and married quickly\, then re-started their lives as Americans in Seattle. Her mother juggled raising her eight children with her career as a photographer and her passion as a civil rights activist. To the outside world she was an icon\, a hero. \nInside the family home\, a different story unraveled. Claudia’s mother violated her trust and her body\, a betrayal of the most profound maternal bond. \nAnd yet\, The Dark Room is not a story of hatred\, revenge\, or bitterness; rather it is\, by turns\, healing\, funny\, and inspirational. Ultimately\, it is a testament about the ability to break the cycle of abuse\, to thrive and to love. \nPrior to writing The Dark Room\, Claudia was an attorney and a law clerk for a justice on the Hawaii Supreme Court.  Later she became a television producer\, creating award-winning documentaries for the NBC and CBS affiliates in Honolulu.   She is a mother to two sons\, a grandmother to four grandsons\, and a partner to her husband for almost 50 years.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/the-dark-room-a-memoir-of-triumph-will-be-discussed-by-the-author-claudia-chotzen/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Barry Vitcov and Jennifer Rood read their Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Monday July 15th  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nJennifer Rood has been writing poems and stories since first grade\, when her teacher would set aside time for her to read her work to the class. After bringing her love of learning and literature to thousands of students over 30 years of teaching in Grants Pass schools\, she retired last summer in order to spend the fall of 2023 to write poetry as the Oregon Caves National Monument’s Artist in Residence. She is a past Board Member and President of the Oregon Poetry Association\, and her poetry appears in dozens of journals and anthologies. In 2023 she released What the Heart Says\, a chapbook collection of found poetry and art. Present and Speaking Everywhere (Not a Pipe Publishing\, 2024) is her first full-length collection. \nBarry Vitcov is a retired educator having spent 45 years as a middle school English teacher\, school administrator\, leadership coach\, and adjunct university professor. He lives in Ashland\, Oregon with his wife and exceptionally brilliant standard poodle. Finishing Line Press has published three of his books: a poetry collection Where I Live Some of the Time (2021)\, a collection of short stories The Wilbur Stories & More (2022)\, and a poetry chapbook Structures (2024). A novella The Boy with Six Fingers will be released by FLP in June 2025.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/barry-vitcov-and-jennifer-rood-read-their-poetry/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Catherine Butterfield (former actress at OSF) talks about her novel The Serpent and the Rose
DESCRIPTION:Sunday July 14th  4:00 to 5:00 pm \nThe Serpent and the Rose is a captivating tale that skillfully weaves together historical\, dramatic and personal elements. Catherine Butterfield brings to life a fascinating period in French history and paints a complex and memorable portrait of Queen Marguerite de Valois. \nIn 16th century France\, Marguerite de Valois is growing up in one of Europe’s most dysfunctional families – the Medici clan. Their extreme inbreeding has led to an alarming number of genetic defects in France’s kings. Marguerite alone has escaped this curse. Uncharacteristically beautiful\, intelligent\, and sane\, she is seen as a useful pawn by her mother\, Catherine de Medici. In a scheme to unite the country during the raging religious wars\, the queen decides to marry her Catholic daughter to Protestant Henri\, Prince of Navarre\, a charming libertine. De Medici’s plan backfires\, however\, when the populace recoils at the union. Immediately following the wedding a key Huguenot figure is murdered\, which leads to the deaths of thousands of Huguenots in Paris\, slaughtered by their neighbors in what has come to be known as the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre. Henri barely escapes Paris with his life and Marguerite\, sequestered at court by order of de Medici\, finds herself a newlywed without a husband. \nAs an actress\, Catherine Butterfield  spent her early career acting regionally (Seattle Rep\, Pittsburgh Public\, Long Wharf\, Oregon Shakespeare Festival are a few) and then started writing for the stage. Her first break as a playwright came with the Manhattan Theatre Club production of JOINED AT THE HEAD\, which she wrote and starred in\, leading to other productions of her plays in the city and the beginnings of her TV career. She has been a writer or writer/producer on the television programs “The Ghost Whisperer\,” “Grimm”\, “Party of Five\, and “FAME LA” and has done uncredited work on a number of feature films. Two of her short films\, “Faultless” and “Just Another BIrthday in Bedlam\,” have won Telly awards\, a gold and a bronze for Best Remote Production. Her Youtube channel has a large number of the short films she shot during the pandemic under the heading “Life During Lockdown\,” as well as readings of a few of her plays. \n“The Serpent and the Rose” is Ms. Butterfield’s first novel. She lives in Santa Monica\, California.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/catherine-butterfield-former-actress-at-osf-talks-about-her-novel-the-serpent-and-the-rose/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tapping: Self-Healing with the Transformative Power of Energy Psychology with authors Donna Eden and David Feinstein
DESCRIPTION:Monday July 8th 7:00 to 8:30 pm \nWhat if the answer to what’s holding you back was at your very fingertips? That’s exactly the solution presented in Tapping. \nWe all face a range of issues in common areas of life\, from worry\, depression\, and trauma to self-defeating habits\, addictions\, and relationships. Thankfully\, Tapping is an accessible and authoritative new work that offers a vibrant response to the psychological and spiritual trials presented by a world in unprecedented distress. \nRenowned clinical psychologist Dr. David Feinstein\, along with the world’s most sought-after expert on energy medicine\, Donna Eden\, promise: “Whether the emotional issue at hand is caused by stress or anxiety\, physical ailments\, aging\, the pressures of parenting\, work\, or staying centered and grounded in this world\, we offer a framework and a set of tools to help you show up at your best.” \nTapping energy points on the skin while bringing problems and goals to mind changes the brain in ways that help to overcome those challenges and support those aspirations. This stimulating practice places an astonishingly effective tool into your hands\, quite literally. \nEmerging from time-honored healing traditions\, the procedure signals your nervous system to reduce fear\, anger\, stress\, and grief while activating brain regions involved with problem-solving and managing emotions–to help you find inner balance and take charge of the internal models that govern your life. \nAs cultural historian Dr. Jean Houston declares in her foreword\, this “is a stunning call to action at a time of desperate personal and collective need.” Created for everyday and professional readers alike\, here is an unprecedented resource for self-care and personal growth. Through their extensive research and field-tested refinements on this method\, Eden and Feinstein combine the scientifically validated effectiveness of tapping with the best practices of psychotherapy\, helping you move forward to a healthier and happier life.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/tapping-self-healing-with-the-transformative-power-of-energy-psychology-with-authors-donna-eden-and-david-feinstein/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:At The Ashland Library - Christopher Briscoe - Beyond the Comfort Zone: A Photographer's Journey into Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:Saturday June 29th 3:00 to 4:00 pm at the Ashland Library \nWhile journalism documents the initial chapters of history\, it’s Christopher Briscoe’s lens and first-person accounts that bring those moments into sharp focus\, immortalizing them in vivid detail. As a seasoned photojournalist\, Briscoe delves into compelling stories no matter where he is: from a tense visit to Oregon’s Death Row to photo-essays of New Orleans\, Ethiopia\, and Cambodia. In the 2nd edition of his gripping book\, The Child on the Train\, Briscoe returns to war-torn Ukraine\, navigating perilous routes to uncover the poignant narratives of ordinary people grappling with the harsh realities of the Russian invasion. Through his evocative photographs and narratives\, Briscoe illuminates the resilience and spirit of a nation under siege\, shining a light in a time of darkness. \nCopies of The Child on The Train will be for sale at the talk. Books will be supplied by Bloomsbury Books
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/at-the-ashland-library-christopher-briscoe-beyond-the-comfort-zone-a-photographers-journey-into-ukraine/
LOCATION:Ashland Library\, 410 Siskiyou Blvd\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sandra Scofield talks about her new novel Little Ships
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday June 26th  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nAfter adolescent sisters Juni and Tilde Becker wake up one morning to find their mother dead\, their grandmothers appear the very next day to scoop up the girls and their inconsolable father\, Nick\, and take them home to small-town Oregon. The women are full of loving resolve\, but good intentions are small guns against the waves of adolescence and the young family’s shocking history. Besides\, the women\, at ages sixty and seventy\, are at their own crossroads. Across the months of spring\, Nick reels from heartbreak and guilt; the sisters drift apart in the shoals of middle school; three marriages are tested; and the grandmothers seek new footing–in their own lives and with each other. There’s no best way forward\, but making-do offers the girls–who need it most–a path to the future; and the women discover they have surprising futures of their own yet to live. \nSandra Scofield is the author 8 novels\, a memoir (Occasions of Sin)\, a book of essays\, a book of stories (Swim: Stories of the Sixties)\, a chapbook\, This Is Not a Novel\, and the craft books The Scene Book and The Last Draft: A Novelist’s Guide to Revision. She is the recipient of numerous awards\, including nominations for the NBA (finalist)\, Oregon Book Award (finalist)\, the Willa Cather Award (finalist) and the Texas Institute of Letters Book Award (winner). She has taught in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival for 30 years\, and is one of the founding faculty of Lasell University’s Solstice MFA Program.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/sandra-scofield-talks-about-her-new-novel-little-ships/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:MARIA’S SCARF: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love\, a Son’s Perseverance\, and Dreaming Big by Zoro
DESCRIPTION:Thursday  June 20th 7:00 to 8:00 pm \nAs the fatherless\, biracial child of a Mexican immigrant\, Danny Donnelly was never expected to amount to much. Before the age of nine\, his single mother had moved her seven children more than thirty times—from the impoverished streets of South Central Los Angeles to rural Oregon and everywhere in between. \nSometimes\, there was no home to go to\, so they slept in their ’62 Chevy; sometimes dinner was a slice of bread; sometimes they showered in a nearby park. Desperate yet ever hopeful\, they clung to the only thing they had—each other. Through it all\, Danny longed for his father’s love and approval\, ultimately channeling his pain and transforming himself into Zoro\, one of the world’s greatest drummers. \nEloquent\, hilarious\, and remarkably tender\, Maria’s Scarf: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love\, a Son’s Perseverance\, and Dreaming Big\, tells the story of a family fighting for survival against almost insurmountable odds. Through laughter\, tears\, and many misadventures\, Zoro touches the heart of every reader—young or old\, citizen or immigrant—and speaks to the dreamer in all of us\, emboldening everyone to live fantazmical lives. \n ABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nZoro has spent four decades performing with artists such as Lenny Kravitz\, Bobby Brown\, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons\, New Edition\, Sean Lennon\, Lisa Marie Presley\, and Philip Bailey of Earth\, Wind & Fire. He has been voted the number one R&B drummer in the world numerous times and is the author of The Big Gig: Big-Picture Thinking for Success and SOAR! 9 Proven Keys for Unlocking Your Limitless Potential. His engaging personality\, ability to speak on a wide range of subjects\, and authentic way of inspiring others have also established him as a sought-after speaker.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/marias-scarf-a-memoir-of-a-mothers-love-a-sons-perseverance-and-dreaming-big-by-zoro/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:HOGAN’S HEROES:  The Definitive Episode Guide With author Brian R. Young and Special Guest Star: Marlyn Mason (veteran motion picture\, stage\, and television actress).
DESCRIPTION:Sunday June 16th  4:00 to 5:00 pm \nA situation comedy set in a World War II\, German Prisoner of War camp?  Unbelievable but true.  For six network seasons\, CBS television presented the outrageous missions and schemes of Colonel Robert Hogan (Bob Crane) and his international gang of Allied freedom fighters.  And all right under the nose of their clueless Kommodant\, Colonel Klink (Werner Klemperer)! \nPortland author Brian Young chronicles all 168 episodes of this one of a kind\, farcical series with complete plot summaries\, production notes\, and critical assessments of each entry.  Included specifically for this book are all new commentary from Hogan’s alumni:  producer/director Jerry London\, Emmy award winning director Bruce Bilson\, and guest star performers Victoria Carroll\, Ruta Lee\, Alan Oppenheimer\, and\, live in person\, Ms. Marlyn Mason (Bonanza\, Ben Casey\, Perry Mason\, The Invaders\, Mannix\, Mission: Impossible\, two guest star appearances on Hogan’s Heroes).  Ms. Mason also co-starred opposite Elvis Presley in The Trouble with Girls (1969).  This is just a small fraction of Ms. Mason’s wonderfully successful film\, television\, and stage career! \nOn Father’s Day 2024\, author Young will conduct a question and answer session with Ms. Mason\, allowing for Bloomsbury guests to also participate in the discussion.  Young will also be screening a “best of Hogan’s Heroes” clip reel featuring the wonderful work of all of his interview subjects including\, of course\, Ms. Mason.  Young and Mason will happily be available to dually personalize any copies purchased in softbound ($32.00) or hardbound formats ($42.00). \nThis Father’s Day\, get ready to tunnel your way back to Stalag 13 and Bloomsbury Books with Marlyn Mason and \nHogan’s Heroes:  The Definitive Episode Guide.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/hogans-heroes-the-definitive-episode-guide-with-author-brian-r-young-and-special-guest-star-marlyn-mason-veteran-motion-picture-stage-and-television-actress/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Amy Hagstrom will be reading and discussing her writing process for her novel The Wild Between Us
DESCRIPTION:Monday June 10th  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nThe rescue of two missing boys in the Sierra Nevada mountains relies on unraveling the mysteries of the past in an addictive novel of heartrending suspense. \nAfter inheriting his uncle’s lodge\, Silas Matheson hopes the grandeur of the California Sierra Nevada will be a fresh start for his two young sons\, and a chance to finally face his demons. It was here\, fifteen years ago\, that Silas and his friends Jessica\, Danny\, and Meg ventured into the mountain wilderness and Jessica vanished without a trace. When his boys go missing in the same dark woods\, the fear and guilt that Silas has been running from ever since come crashing back. \nSilas’s panicked call brings in the local search-and-rescue unit\, and two familiar faces: Danny and Meg. As the frantic search gets underway\, the three friends are plunged into a painfully recurring nightmare\, each of them thinking\, This can’t be happening again. \nWith a storm brewing and the boys’ fates threatened with every desperate hour\, the secrets of the past begin to surface\, and this time\, for Silas\, Danny\, and Meg\, there’s no escaping the truth.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/amy-hagstrom-will-be-reading-and-discussing-her-writing-process-for-her-novel-the-wild-between-us/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Eli Jaxon-Bear discusses his book An Outlaw Makes It Home
DESCRIPTION:Monday June 3rd  7:00 to 8:00 pm \n“An Outlaw Makes It Home bares it all in this rapid-fire compilation of adventures…a serious quest for spiritual wisdom and enlightenment with a startling turn in his heartwarming discovery after an eighteen-year search. Jaxon-Bear does not spare himself or try to polish his flaws and mistakes\, and in that regard\, he is a warrior. I consumed this book in huge gulps and would do it again. I urge others to read it.” \n— Peter Coyote\, Emmy award winning actor and author of The Rainman’s Third Cave \n“…A coming-of-age story\, a modern journey of self-discovery\, but also a classic hero’s journey\, an odyssey\, and a return home…Eli takes us from a shattering moment in his Brooklyn childhood through radical and sometimes terrifying times in the sixties\, his escape to Peru and later travels in Japan\, Morocco\, and India … all leading to his waking up and discovering what home truly is. His honesty about fear and failure are moving\, but what really shines forth in these pages is a fierce love and commitment to the truth.\nI absolutely loved his story!” \n— Nancy Baker\, Zen Roshi and Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Sarah Lawrence College
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/eli-jaxon-bear-discusses-his-book-an-outlaw-makes-it-home/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Barry Kraft reads from the short writings of Franz Kafka
DESCRIPTION:Sunday June 2nd 4:00 pm\n\nBarry Kraft reads from the short writings of Franz Kafka (1883 — 1924) on the 100th anniversary of his demise.\n\n\nA major figure of 20th Century literature\, Kafka has found his way into current dictionaries under the the adjective\, “Kafkaesque” — being variously defined as “having a nightmarishly complex\, bizarre\, or illogical quality”; “in his vision of man’s isolated existence in a dehumanized world”; “characterized by surreal distortion and usually by a sense of impending danger”.\n\n\nIf this were all there was to Franz Kafka\, I’d have little inclination of giving a public reading of his writings\, nor you (probably) of hearing them.  However\,  Kafka is a kaleidoscope\, whose every turn reveals a different configuration — sometimes bleak\, sometimes delightful.  Enjoy the unexpected vistas!
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/barry-kraft-reads-from-the-short-writings-of-franz-kafka/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Libby Gill reads and discusses her novel Malibu Summer
DESCRIPTION:Monday May 27th 7 to 8 pm \nLose yourself in this enemies-to-lovers romance set on a sunny Malibu hillside Ivy Bauer is a young\, bright environmental scientist\, PhD candidate\, and inventor of a game-changing organic irrigation system. She’s on top of the world when\, suddenly\, her husband is killed in a biking accident. Needing space to grieve\, she takes a summer job as a gardener in Malibu. Conrad Reed is a wealthy Hollywood has-been who\, after the death of his young wife\, feels overwhelmed by the care of his rambunctious stepson Hudson\, massive beach estate\, and deteriorating career. Enter Ivy with her gig as gardener-for-the-summer\, who-he hopes-will help take at least one thing off his plate. But the bossy\, opinionated Ivy isn’t making things any easier for him. When she starts cutting back his late wife’s prized rose bushes to plant indigenous grasses\, sparks fly between these two uber-driven people-and not the good kind of sparks. It’s when Ivy finds the key to Hudson’s heart that Conrad’s own heart begins to melt as well. . . and then the sparks that fly are the ones that kindle the best kind of love affair. \nLibby Gill lives in Medford Oregon.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/libby-gill-reads-and-discusses-her-novel-malibu-summer/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Children's Puppet Show by Nancy Wilkinson
DESCRIPTION:Sunday May 26th 3:00 pm \nA children’s  puppet show will be performed on May 26th at 3:00. The puppet stories will be told by Nancy. She may need your help with controlling the puppets. They can be unruly but are always playful!
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/a-childrens-puppet-show-by-nancy-wilkinson/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240523T190000
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SUMMARY:Nina St Pierre discusses her memoir - Love is a Burning Thing
DESCRIPTION:Thursday May 23rd  7 to 8 pm \nA riveting memoir about a daughter’s investigation into the wirings of her loving\, unpredictable mother: a woman who lived her life in pursuit of the divine\, and who started two big fires\, decades apart. \nTen years before Nina was born\, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt. During her recovery in the burn-unit\, a nurse initiated her into Transcendental Meditation. From that day on\, her mother’s pain became intertwined with the pursuit of enlightenment. \nGrowing up\, Nina longed for a normal life; instead\, she and her brother were at the whims of their mother\, who chased ascension up and down the state of California\, swapping out spiritual practices as often as apartments. When they finally settled at the foot of a mountain–reputed to be cosmic–in Northern California\, Nina hoped life would stabilize. But after another fire\, and a tragic fallout\, she was forced to confront the shadow side of her mother’s mystical narratives. With obsessive dedication\, Nina began to knit together the truth that would eventually release her. \nIn Love Is a Burning Thing\, Nina interrogates what happens to those undiagnosed and unseen. This is a transfixing\, moving portrait of a mother-daughter relationship that also examines mental health\, stigma\, poverty\, and gender–and the role that spirituality plays within each. Nina’s writing skirts the mystical\, untangles it\, and ultimately illuminates it with brilliance.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/nina-st-pierre-discusses-her-memoir-love-is-a-burning-thing/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240520T190000
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SUMMARY:The Sacred Cell with author Diane Tegtmeier and Circle Culture Tools for Cooperative Work with author Lauren Oliver
DESCRIPTION:Monday May 20th 7 to 8 pm \nJoin two friends\, Lauren Oliver and Diane Tegtmeier\, who have just published two books that they discovered carry complementary messages. Dr. Oliver’s book\, Circle Culture: Tools for Cooperative Work\, exemplifies the principles Diane Tegtmeier describes in The Sacred Cell: What Nature Teaches Us About Relationships.  \nCome to hear them read and discuss how their books offer co-creative approaches to healthy relationships that follow Nature’s principles to activate a paradigm shift toward our collective well-being.  If you struggle in relationships and long to work with others to co-create solutions to the challenges we face\, this event is for you.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/the-sacred-cell-with-author-diane-tegtmeier-and-circle-culture-tools-for-cooperative-work-with-author-lauren-oliver/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240513T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240513T200000
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SUMMARY:Karen Spears Zacharias discusses her novel No Perfect Mothers - a fictional take on 1920s SCOTUS case re: Reproductive Rights
DESCRIPTION:Monday May 13th  7 to 8 pm \nWhile 1920s Charlottesville\, Virginia\, is a charming place to grow up\, there’s one thing Carrie Buck doesn’t like about her hometown–her home. Taken from her mother\, Carrie is put up for fostering as a toddler. At age ten\, Carrie is forced to leave school to work as a domestic. But when Carrie turns up pregnant at seventeen\, it is Miss Mora\, a Scottish immigrant and Charlottesville’s most competent midwife\, who she turns to. Fearing their nephew’s assault of Carrie will be discovered\, Carrie’s foster parents claim custody of her infant daughter and fraudulently commit her to the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded. Dr. Priddy\, the colony’s superintendent\, deceptively labels Carrie an imbecile\, unfit to bear children. In pursuit of a legal argument granting states the right to forcibly sterilize individuals\, he exploits her. NO PERFECT MOTHERS explores characters\, historical and imagined\, who were parties to the infamous Buck v. Bell U.S. Supreme Court case of 1927. \n“Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation”  Virginia Woolf \nhttps://www.salon.com/2024/02/26/the-case-of-carrie-buck-and-the-courts-century-old-crusade-to-control-women/
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/karen-spears-zacharias-discusses-her-novel-no-perfect-mothers-a-fictional-take-on-1920s-scotus-case-re-reproductive-rights/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240506T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240506T200000
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SUMMARY:Wendy Williams discusses her memoir Autobiography of a Sea Creature: Healing the Trauma of Infant Surgery
DESCRIPTION:Monday May 6th  7 to 8 pm \nOperated on as an infant\, without anesthesia\, Wendy began life at war with her body. There were tubes everywhere\, in and out of every opening\, her mother reminded her on every anniversary of her surgery. Autobiography of a Sea Creature: Healing the Trauma of Infant Surgery takes readers on Williams’ difficult sensory journey toward healing as she communes along the way with horseshoe crabs\, dolphins\, and other marine life that taught her the restorative power of beauty\, resilience\, and interdependence. At times luscious and lyrical\, at other times analytical and reflective\, this literary memoir portrays the dissociative experience of trauma and the roots of self-destructive cycles as well as the tragic results of medical beliefs at the time that infants could not feel pain. Autobiography of a Sea Creature is both a love letter to the earth and a hopeful testament of humans’ capacity to heal our deepest wounds. \nWendy will be introducing the book\, giving background about why she wrote it. She will read excerpts and after each one\, she will discuss the issues it brings up and give background information on the medical practices back in the 1950s.  She will discuss more about the consequences of infant surgery without anesthesia in today’s society.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/wendy-williams-discusses-her-memoir-autobiography-of-a-sea-creature-healing-the-trauma-of-infant-surgery/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240422T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240422T200000
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SUMMARY:Ancient Secrets of the Rogue Valley with author Mahmoud Shelton
DESCRIPTION:Monday April 22nd  7 to 8 pm \n“Ashland is a threshold.” – Grandma Aggie \nThe historic settlement of the Rogue Valley in Oregon brought genocide\, but Native elder Agnes Baker Pilgrim offered a way towards healing for everyone. Despite her recent passing\, it may not be too late to recognize the importance of the Rogue Valley as a sacred landscape for healing. Join the author of Mysteries of Dune to explore hidden history\, Pythagorean symbolism\, Shakespeare and recent events\, and discover ancient secrets coming to light that have profound implications for a greater world.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/ancient-secrets-of-the-rogue-valley-with-author-mahmoud-shelton/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240416T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240416T200000
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SUMMARY:Victor Lodato will be reading and signing his new novel Honey
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday April 16th \n7 to 8 pm \nMeet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean Greer’s Arthur Less: Honey Fasinga\, the glamorous daughter of a notorious New Jersey mobster\, is returning home at last\, ready to reckon with her violent past. \nAs a rebellious teenager\, Honey managed to escape her father’s circle of influence and reinvent herself in a world of art and beauty\, working for a high-end auction house in Los Angeles. Now in her twilight years\, she decides to return home and unexpectedly falls in love. But in her family\, nothing has changed. When her grandnephew Michael bursts into her life in what appears to be a drug-fueled frenzy\, and her Lexus gets jacked\, it’s hard to keep minding her own business. As old cruelties begin to resurface\, Honey is no longer sure what she really wants–to forgive or to avenge. \nThis electrifying literary breakout from PEN USA Award-winning author Victor Lodato is a masterful and deeply moving portrait of love in all its forms\, of moral ambiguity\, and of inspiring change–a story of female rage that asks the question: What are the limits of compassion in a world gone mad? \nVictor Lodato is a playwright and the author of the novels Edgar and Lucy and Mathilda Savitch\, winner of the PEN USA Award for Fiction. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts\, his stories and essays regularly appear in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Granta\, and elsewhere. His novels and plays have been translated into eighteen languages. Born and raised in New Jersey\, he now lives in Oregon and Arizona.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/victor-lodato-will-be-reading-and-signing-his-new-novel-honey/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240415T200000
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SUMMARY:David Evans reads from his new book of poetry Light Like No Other
DESCRIPTION:Monday April 15th  7 to 8 pm \nDavid Evans brings his wisdom\, immense heart\, and deep reverence for life to his second collection of poems\, Light Like No Other. In this intimate collection\, Evans explores his evolving relationship with self\, spirituality\, and the natural world.\nWith a conversational lyricism he meditates on healing from childhood trauma\, shame\, regret\, and self-judgment. His poems embody what it means to love fully\, move towards peace with our lives\, and find a tender acceptance of our mortality. The vulnerable pieces reveal a growing courage to feel deeply and face life as it is.\nEvans’ poems come alive with imagery of circling hawks\, flocks of geese\, soaring gulls\, chatting finches and talking mountains. On long walks over coastal beaches\, wetland paths\, along river banks\, and trails through headland forests\, his beloved Oregon sings with startling clarity\, providing the backdrop for his emerging self-love and a profoundly awakened relationship to life. He revises his old ideas about God and embraces a deep sense of gratitude and joy through a deeply felt inter-connectedness with the creative energy of the natural world. “Is this prayer enough?” he muses. “Where are you now Lord?” “Ask the sparrows. They will tell you. The whole universe is singing!” \nA gorgeous book for all seasons of life\, Light Like No Other will newly awaken you to the luminous beauty of the world and leave you tenderhearted and brimming with gratitude. –Rebecca Jamieson\, author of The Body of All Things
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/david-evans-reads-from-his-new-book-of-poetry-light-like-no-other/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240408T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240408T200000
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SUMMARY:Maureen Hicks discusses her new biography The Gift Shop at the DMZ
DESCRIPTION:Monday April 8th  7 to 8 pm \nWhen a Buddhist therapist contracts to counsel soldiers around the world\, her ingrained opposition to war stands in the way of happiness. Repelled but curious about military culture\, her careful listening to servicemembers and families leads to empathy and understanding for their challenges. In postings from the US to Germany to Korea\, serving soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan\, she learns to respect and serve those enduring trauma. Forced to practice informal counseling\, she wonders how she can make an impact. When the too-rare sessions lead to a struggle with depression\, she must reach out with letters to friends. Can a deeper study of Buddhism steady her? The immersion in military culture grows more savvy\, sanguine beliefs – so she might wrest deep meaning from absurdity. \nMaureen Hicks\, Ph.D. is a psychologist with thirty years of therapy experience.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/maureen-hicks-discusses-her-new-biography-the-gift-shop-at-the-dmz/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240407T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240407T170000
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SUMMARY:From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace with author Mitzi Asai Loftus
DESCRIPTION:Sunday April 7th  4 to 5 pm \n“Mitsuko “Mitzi” Asai was not yet ten years old in the spring of 1942 when President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 sent 120\,000 people of Japanese ancestry–about two-thirds of them US citizens–from their homes on the West Coast to inland prison camps. They included Mitzi and most of her family\, who operated a fruit orchard in Hood River\, Oregon. The Asais spent much of World War II in the camps while two of the older sons served in the Pacific in the US Army. Three years later\, when the camps began to close\, the family returned to Hood River to find an altered community. Shop owners refused to serve neighbors they had known for decades; racism and hostility were open and largely unchecked. Humiliation and shame drove teenaged Mitzi to reject her Japanese heritage\, including her birth name. More than a decade later\, her life took another turn when a Fulbright grant sent her to teach in Japan\, where she reconnected with her roots. In From Thorns to Blossoms\, Mitzi recounts her rich and varied life\, from a childhood surrounded by barbed wire and hatred to a successful career as a high school English teacher and college instructor in English as a Second Language. Today\, Asai descendants continue to tend the Hood River farm while the town confronts its shameful history.  It’s the remarkable story of a transformation from thorns into blossoms\, pain into healing. \nBorn on a fruit orchard in Hood River\, Oregon\, in 1932\, Mitzi Asai Loftus spent three years of her childhood in government incarceration camps in California and Wyoming. For more than seventy years\, she has given public talks about her family’s experience to audiences of all ages. Having lived much of her adult life in Eugene and Coos Bay\, she now resides in Ashland.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/from-thorns-to-blossoms-a-japanese-american-family-in-war-and-peace-with-author-mitzi-asai-loftus/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240404T190000
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SUMMARY:A Reading and Conversation with Novelist and Poet Charles Goodrich and Naturalist and Poet\, Pepper Trail.
DESCRIPTION:Thursday April 4th   7 to 8 pm \nPlease join us for a reading and conversation with novelist and poet Charles Goodrich and naturalist and poet\, Pepper Trail. \nGoodrich’s new novel\, Weave Me a Crooked Basket\, tells the story of Ursula\, Bodie\, and Nu–scientist\, farmer\, and artist–trying to save a beloved farm from unscrupulous developers. Molly Gloss\, author of The Hearts of Horses\, says\, “I haven’t read a novel in a long time that felt this hopeful\, this authentic in feeling\, in landscape\, in the complexities of the lives of its people—ordinary people who are not only farmers and gardeners but artists and biologists and immigrants\, wives and husbands\, sisters and brothers.  It’s a marvelous book\, written with immense compassion and honesty\, insight and detail. I loved it.” Kathleen Dean Moore writes\, “Charles Goodrich is the Wendell Berry of the evergreen Northwest\, drawing unforgettable characters and a powerful story from the green hills and oxbow lakes of his valley. Part praise-song\, part social protest\, part page-turning plot\, Weave Me a Crooked Basket is deeply wise and beautifully written. For those who are weary of doom\, the book weaves a triumphant vision of the redemptive power of caring–for the land and for each other.” \nGoodrich will be joined by Ashland poet Pepper Trail\, author of Cascade-Siskiyou\, a finalist for the Oregon Book Award\, who has just returned from a stint as on-board naturalist for a National Geographic round-the-world tour.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/a-reading-and-conversation-with-novelist-and-poet-charles-goodrich-and-naturalist-and-poet-pepper-trail/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240401T190000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading with Philip Runia and Destinee
DESCRIPTION:Monday April 1st\n7 to 8 pm\n\nPhilip Runia is a writer and editor based in Portland\, OR. Their work has been published in the Daily Iowan\, Little Village Magazine\, Fools Magazine\, and their debut poetry collection Curses & Prayers.They enjoy serving literary reviews; they were Fiction Editor for Earthwords and are currently Associate Fiction Editor of Brink. As an editor\, they find purpose in facilitating the shine of underrepresented and innovative writers while growing in their own writing. Philip’s writing focuses on ideas of generational trauma and belonging\, affectation\, and the awkward balance between individual planes of existence.\n\n\nDestinee (she/her) began writing and performing spoken word poetry mid-2023 but has always been drawn to and enjoyed writing generally. spoken word\, is a medium that allows her to practice intentional vulnerability\, process life experiences and explore complex emotions\, thoughts\, and feelings. with her writing she hopes to encourage self expression as well as open a space for others to expand their minds by provoking thought and inner reflection.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/poetry-reading-with-philip-runia-and-destinee/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240325T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240325T200000
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SUMMARY:CLOSE TO HOME: Sexual Abusers and Serial Killers\, Memoir and Murder with author Janine O'Neill
DESCRIPTION:Monday March 25th 7 to 8 pm \n On February 5\, 1981\, a young couple passed by Ashland as they drove from Edmonds\, Washington to Nellis Air Force Base\, near Las Vegas\, for the man’s first military assignment. Late that night\, they were murdered by a long-haul trucker and self-proclaimed serial killer named Ward Weaver Jr. after their car broke down in California’s Tehachapi Mountains.\n      Twenty-one years later\, Weaver’s eponymously named son\, Ward Weaver III\, murdered two girls in Clackamas County\, Oregon. Then he buried one of the girl’s bodies under concrete in his own backyard\, just as his father had done with the young woman he’d kidnapped near Tehachapi.\n      In 2016\, while Ward Weaver Jr. was on death row in California and Ward III was serving life sentences in Oregon\, their son/grandson\, Francis Weaver\, was also convicted of murder in Clackamas County.\nMy book uses the Weaver family’s unique history as a hook from which to hang a broader story about why some people are more likely than others to become victims of violent crime\, perpetrators of violent crime or both. \n\nBiography\nAs an attorney\, I prosecuted crimes committed against children in Clackamas County for seven years. Had I not left the district attorney’s office there\, I would have expected to be one of the deputy DAs assigned to Ward Weaver III’s case. As it was\, I covered the story in my second career as a reporter for the Portland Tribune. I also am the former executive director of the Oregon Crime Victims Law Center and the mother of a child who—like Weaver III’s victims—was sexually assaulted by a known\, trusted adult. (My family’s experience is part of the memoir aspect of my book\, which I published under my unmarried name\, O’Neill\, to protect my family’s privacy.) \nWhat one reviewer said about the book \n“Best book\, local and true crime edition: Janine O’Neill’s Close to Home\, in which the Portland journalist and attorney who covered the 2002 Oregon City disappearances of Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis takes a look at those murders (and others) through a multi-faceted lens: historical\, biological\, legal\, personal and intensely analytical. O’Neill tells several extremely difficult yet well-organized stories through her excellent and tight writing and top-notch investigative chops\, along with a dash of\, somehow\, self-effacing wit.” From the Portland Business Journal‘s “The PBJ’s best of 2023 in arts and culture.”
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/close-to-home-sexual-abusers-and-serial-killers-memoir-and-murder-with-author-janine-oneill/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240318T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240318T193000
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SUMMARY:At the Ashland Library -TOUGH BROAD: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking\, How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age.
DESCRIPTION:Please join actress Alexandra Paul in conversation with her twin\, New York Times best-selling author Caroline Paul\, as they discuss Caroline’s newly published book\, TOUGH BROAD: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking\, How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age. \nMonday\, March 18th\n6 pm -7:30 pm\nAshland Public Library\, Gresham Room\nFood\, drinks\, and milling around provided\nBooks Provided by Bloomsbury Books \nAlso present to answer questions and offer insights will be two Ashland residents highlighted in the book: Dot Fisher-Smith\, solo hiker and camper\, and Sarah Paul (aka Mom)\, longtime member of the local bike group the Rogue Recyclers and one-time skydiver. \nTOUGH BROAD is author Caroline Paul’s (she/her) quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body\, but why we must. She dives deep into the current research on getting older\, highlighting the results with outdoor adventures that range from flying a gyrocopter\, to scuba diving\, to learning to swim\, to walking in a park. TOUGH BROAD is a high-spirited call for women to embrace the outdoors\, not back away from it\, in our fifties\, sixties\, seventies and beyond\, casting our futures in a new and dazzling light.\nAlexandra Paul is an actress with over 100 TV and movie credits.  She is most known for starring on the TV series Baywatch\, but she has also worked alongside the likes of Tom Hanks\, Pierce Brosnan\, Kevin Costner.  She currently hosts the healthy lifestyle vegan podcast Switch4Good.  With an Ironman triathlon\, marathons and long distance ocean swims under her belt\, Alexandra is inspired after reading TOUGH BROAD to continue outdoor adventures into her 60s and beyond. To keep up with her twin\, she will have to!
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/at-the-ashland-library-tough-broad-from-boogie-boarding-to-wing-walking-how-outdoor-adventure-improves-our-lives-as-we-age/
LOCATION:Ashland Library\, 410 Siskiyou Blvd\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Carmen Portnoy discusses and reads from her new book The Women of Solemnity
DESCRIPTION:Monday March 11th  7 to 8 pm \nTHE WOMEN OF SOLEMNITY\, set in the 1990’s\, in Los Angeles\, Paris\, Ibiza and New York\, displays Carmen’s incomparable wit and perception as she explores the souls of seventeen women in this astonishing collection of short stories.\n\nMESMERIZING characters like Maria di Magenti\, the last daughter of the house of Solemnity\, whose skin smells like frangipani and hearts of palm. Darsala Murex\, the infamous nude of ‘Woman of the Flowers.” Frieda\, a true white-blond Norwegian\, who thought she could find and also lose herself by living in Paris. Lily\, an exquisite model who had made a million dollars by sixteen and at twenty\, had written her epitaph: “All she wanted was to waste into air\, without nightmares or staring eyes or tears. Now she is dead and happy\, my dears.”
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/carmen-portnoy-discusses-and-reads-from-her-new-book-the-women-of-solemnity/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T200000
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SUMMARY:Legacy Lost: Passing Across the Color Line by S. Barbara Hilyer
DESCRIPTION:Monday March 4th 7 to 8 pm \nLegacy Lost: Passing Across the Color Line  \nby S. Barbara Hilyer \nGrowing up white in Washington state\, Barbara’s dad never told her anything about his family—except that his mother was “crazy.” Ten years after his death\, she learned his sister was living in Hawai’i. Discovering “the family secret” introduced her to the concept of passing\, and the complex nature of race and identity. Uncommon in the white world\, passing is a familiar concept among African Americans. \nThis story challenges America’s oversimplified view of race and explores how different individuals across generations pursued all available avenues of opportunity to define their lives in a race-conscious society. American history is not white history\, although it has been presented that way. The times call for a truth telling. \nS. Barbara Hilyer spent her public school teaching career in Ashland\, Oregon\, where she taught elementary school as well as middle and high school social studies\, including American History. She holds a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instructional Leadership.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/legacy-lost-passing-across-the-color-line-by-s-barbara-hilyer/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gavin Frye will discuss his new book - The Real You: Leading Your Life From Your Authentic Self
DESCRIPTION:Monday February 26th  7 to 8 pm \nTHE REAL YOU\nLeading Your Life From Your Authentic Self\nby Gavin Frye\, M.A.\, M.F.T.\nThis groundbreaking exploration of the Authentic Self flows from Gavin’s 45 years of experience as a licensed spiritual therapist and leadership mentor to entrepreneurs. The Real You is a comprehensive work that illuminates and makes accessible the universal path of the Authentic Self. It incorporates an in-depth understanding of trauma through the prism of the false self\, and makes the bold claim that one can only find joy and fulfillment by embracing and transcending the false self. This path of inner work is also immensely relevant on a macro level\, for as we own our Soul’s curriculum we are empowered to solve the major challenges unfolding in the world around us. \nIn addition to briefly reading from his new book\, THE REAL YOU: Leading Your Life From Your Authentic Self\, this dynamic talk will inform and inspire you into new levels of self-leadership\, and will include time for 1-on-1 personalized mentoring. Gavin brings 40 years experience as a spiritual therapist and leadership mentor for entrepreneurs. He will guide you in learning essential keys for facilitating empowerment within self and others:\n\n– Transforming imposter syndrome\, people pleasing\, insecurity around self-promotion\, and self-doubt into genuine confidence\n\n– Approaching entrepreneurship as an opportunity to mature in leadership\n\n– Embracing the multi-dimensional nature of your inner life and learn the unifying craft of facilitating empowering internal dialogue\n\n– Connecting with your intuition through self-observation and trust\n\n– Liberating your authentic voice in the day-to-day activities of your chosen profession\n\nDuring the talk\, you’ll be invited to see your current business expression as a powerful mirror and ally to your growth. You can choose to embrace the idea that challenges in business invariably invite you towards new levels of personal and business evolution.\n\nWith time for group sharing\, the skills and wisdom Gavin presents are designed to support you in practicing new tools for compassionate self-reflection\, cultivating creativity\, and steadily accomplishing your goals.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/gavin-frye-will-discuss-his-new-book-the-real-you-leading-your-life-from-your-authentic-self/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Raising Resilient Bees with local authors Eric and Joy McEwen
DESCRIPTION:Monday February 19th  7 to 8 pm \nWith over 100 color photographs and illustrations\, Raising Resilient Bees is the comprehensive source for new and experienced beekeepers\, offering a sustainable\, natural\, and repeatable model of care for hive health and production. Global pests and diseases present an unprecedented challenge for the modern honey bee. Hobby and commercial beekeepers alike continue to experience troubling rates of mortality for their colonies\, with potentially deleterious consequences for the stability of our wider ecosystems and overall food security. It is time for a global focus on restoring the health of the shared apiary through naturally reared\, genetically diverse\, and resilient lines of bees. Raising Resilient Bees establishes these parameters and provides guidance for new and experienced beekeepers alike to translate these goals into real practice\, thereby safeguarding the honey bee from the unknown threats of the future. \nAuthors Eric and Joy McEwen take two decades worth of beekeeping experience\, experiments\, and professional production to deliver groundbreaking methods in queen-rearing\, varroa mite management\, and Natural Nest hive design. Inside\, you’ll discover: -Revived and adapted heritage Integrated Pest Management techniques -How to naturally rear queens and select for resilient\, mite-resistant genetic lines without relying on swarming or grafting -Key tenets of apicentric beekeeping -Advice for establishing a flourishing and sustainable business with beekeeping at the center -How to naturally rear bees with distinctive characteristics suitable to their locale As in large-scale agriculture\, the trend toward genetic homogenization is having long-term implications for bees’ capacity to withstand diverse environmental stressors. With expert advice\, enthusiasm\, and easy-to-follow instructions\, Raising Resilient Bees delivers important and timely information for every beekeeper to create a healthier future
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/raising-resilient-bees-with-local-authors-eric-and-joy-mcewen/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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