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SUMMARY:Story Hour: Dinosaurs Galore (ages 3–5)
DESCRIPTION:For ages 3–5 \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n3–5 year-olds and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an interactive Story Hour outdoors in a small group! This program lasts one hour\, and features songs\, stories and hand rhymes in English. Each Story Hour is hosted by one of our children’s librarians with the help of a Library volunteer. In the event of rain the event will be moved indoors to our Children’s Library. \nFor this Story Hour\, enjoy stories and songs all about dinosaurs! This Story Hour will be hosted by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste\, with the help of Library volunteer Mary Wessels\, and Library Intern Pallas-Amenah Morgan. They will read books and lead you and your little one in songs and hand-rhymes during a live\, interactive session. This participatory program is intended to encourage children to actively engage with stories. Plan to join in\, sing along\, and move around\, and model movement and listening for your little one. \n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n\nThis Story Hour is free for Library members\, and registration is required. Each parent/guardian is responsible for their own child\, and is expected to remain with their child for the duration of this activity. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with these guidelines so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. If you have questions about events and/or collections for children and teens\, please contact Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \nWe are an independent\, nonprofit organization. With your continued support\, we are able to provide over 200 programs each year for ages 0-18. If you would like to support the Library\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service.  
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/story-hour-dinosaurs-galore-ages-3-5/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Entre Nous: Lauren Elkin & Lauren Collins
DESCRIPTION:Join The American Library in Paris\, Columbia Global Centers | Paris\, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination for the second in-person conversation of #EntreNousSeries.  \nA public transport vigil\, an observation of the world through the screen of her phone and from the height of her bus seat\, a study of the counterpoint between the everyday and the Event\, No. 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus follows Elkin on her daily commutes from her apartment in the 5th Arrondissement to her teaching job in the 7th. The book\, a love letter to Paris that unfolds over the course of the 2014-15 academic year\, is also a meditation on how the city has changed in two decades\, evolving from the twentieth century into the twenty-first\, from analog to digital. \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nAbout the speakers: \nLauren Elkin’s writing on books\, art\, and culture have appeared in a variety of international publications including the London Review of Books\, the New York Times\, and Le Monde\, among many others. A scholar of literature\, Elkin has taught at New York University\, the American University of Paris\, the University of Liverpool\, and the Université de Paris-Denis Diderot. Elkin’s last book\, Flâneuse: Women Walk the City\, was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay\, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017\, and a Radio 4 Book of the Week.  \nLauren Collins began contributing to the New Yorker in 2003 and became a staff writer in 2008. She is the author of When in French: Love in a Second Language\, which the Times named as one of its 100 Notable Books of 2016. She is working on a second book\, about a coup d’état perpetrated by white supremacists in Wilmington\, North Carolina in 1898\, and its effects on the city during the past 120 years. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Elkin and Collins will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant: on-site information regarding COVID-19 \nIn compliance with French regulations\, a pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. Visitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/elkincollins21/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211121T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211121T150000
DTSTAMP:20260418T035604
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SUMMARY:The Perfect Thank-You Letter (ages 12–18)
DESCRIPTION:ages 12–18 \n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n\n\n\nLearn how to craft the perfect thank-you letter with the help of Children’s and Teens’ Services Librarian Kirsty. We’ll provide all of the supplies you need to craft a heartfelt note in time to send for the Thanksgiving holiday!\n \n\n  \n\n\nAdvance registration is required. Participation in this book group is open to Library members\, and free of charge. If you are not yet a Library member\, but would like to participate\, please join the Library before this session.\n\n\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n\n\nFor questions about collections or events at the Library for Children and Teens contact Celeste Rhoads\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/the-perfect-thank-you-letter-ages-12-18/
CATEGORIES:Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211123T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211123T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) An Ideal Presence
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nAn Ideal Presence\nwith Eduardo Berti and Daniel Levin Becker  \nClick here to RSVP for the in person event \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nIn 2015\, the Argentinian novelist Eduardo Berti spent several weeks in a “medico-literary” residency at the University Hospital Centre in Rouen\, France\, observing and conversing with the staff and volunteers of its palliative care department. From that experience he created this series of lightly fictionalized testimonials from nurses\, nursing aides\, doctors\, administrators\, porters\, volunteer musicians\, and the other people who make the unit tick. The result is a distinctly intimate and often poignant portrait of sickness and care\, and unflinching look at death through the eyes of the people who work with it every day—but also a profound reflection on what it means to be alive. An Ideal Presence was translated from French into English by Daniel Levin Becker and published by Fern books. \nAbout the speakers: \nEduardo Berti\, born in Buenos Aires in 1964\, is the author of a vast body of work that includes novels\, stories\, music writing\, and various unclassifiable books. He has translated authors such as Gustave Flaubert\, Jane Austen\, and Marguerite Yourcenar into Spanish\, and is the editor of a Spanish edition of Henry James’s complete stories. A member of the OuLiPo since 2014\, he lives in Bordeaux. \nDaniel Levin Becker\, born in Chicago in 1984\, is the author of Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature and the translator of\, among others\, Georges Perec’s La Boutique Obscure. He has been a member of the OuLiPo since 2009. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Berti and Levin Becker will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP for the in person event \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant: on-site information regarding COVID-19 \nIn compliance with French regulations\, a pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. Visitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/berti21/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211127T110000
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SUMMARY:Focus on Julie Flett (ages 6–12)
DESCRIPTION:For ages 6–12\n \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \nJoin Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste and volunteers to explore the books of Cree-Metis author\, illustrator\, and artist Julie Flett\, then make your own artwork inspired by her creations. All supplies will be provided by the Library. \nThis event will be in-person. Face masks are required. Parents/chaperons are required to remain inside the Library for the duration of this activity. \n\nThis event is free for Library members\, and registration is required. Parents and other caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with these guidelines so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. If you have questions about events and/or collections for children and teens\, please contact Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n\nIf you would like to support the Library and our services\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/focus-on-julie-flett-ages-6-12/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211127T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211127T170000
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CREATED:20210924T140535Z
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SUMMARY:Graphic Novel Book Club: "Heartstopper" (ages 12–18)
DESCRIPTION:Join graphic novel fans to discuss great works with other readers.\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER. \nJoin us for animated discussion of Alice Osman’s Heartstopper\, plus its sequel. This book club meeting will be facilitated by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager (and fantasy fan) Celeste.\n\n\n  \n\n\nAdvance registration is required for this book group. Participation in this book group is open to Library members\, and free of charge. If you are not yet a Library member\, but would like to participate\, please join the Library before this session.\n\n\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER. \n\n\nFor questions about collections or events at the Library for Children and Teens contact Celeste Rhoads\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/graphic-novel-book-club-heartstopper-ages-12-18/
CATEGORIES:Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211130T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211130T203000
DTSTAMP:20260418T035604
CREATED:20211019T115520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211107T133739Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in-person and online*) to discuss \nThe Odyssey of Angela Merkel\nwith Kati Marton and Thomas Chatterton Williams \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nThis Fall\, Chancellor Merkel\, a pillar on the international stage\, is expected to step down after a remarkable 16 years in office. This is sure to be a consequential change for Germany\, Europe\, and the world at large\, and whoever takes her place will have very large (modest\, practical) shoes to fill. With this event on the horizon\, bestselling author\, award-winning journalist\, and connected political insider Kati Marton’s biography couldn’t be better timed. \nThe Chancellor is at once a riveting political biography and an intimate human story of a complete outsider—a research chemist and pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany—who rose to become the unofficial leader of the West. Marton set out to pierce the mystery of how Angela Merkel achieved all this. And she found the answer in Merkel’s political genius: in her willingness to talk with adversaries rather than over them\, her skill at negotiating without ever compromising on what’s most important to her\, her canniness in appointing political rivals to her cabinet and exacting their policies so they have no platform to run against her\, the humility to allow others to take credit for things done in tandem\, the wisdom to stay out of the papers and off Twitter\, and the vision to take advantage of crises to enact bold change. \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nAbout the speakers: \nKati Marton is the author of True Believer: Stalin’s Last American Spy; Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America\, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World; Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History; Wallenberg; The Polk Conspiracy; and A Death in Jerusalem. She is an award-winning former NPR and ABC News correspondent. She was born in Hungary and lives in New York City. \nThomas Chatterton Williams is the author of Losing My Cool and Self-Portrait in Black and White. He is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine\, a Columnist at Harper’s\, a 2019 New America Fellow and a visiting fellow at AEI. His work has appeared in the New Yorker\, the London Review of Books\, Le Monde and many other places\, and has been collected in The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel Writing. He has received support from Yaddo\, MacDowell and The American Academy in Berlin\, where he is a member of the Board of Trustees. His next book\, Nothing Was the Same: The Pandemic Summer of George Floyd and the Shift in Western Consciousness\, will be published by Knopf. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Marton and Chatterton Williams will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant: on-site information regarding COVID-19 \nIn compliance with French regulations\, a pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. Visitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/hybrid-the-remarkable-odyssey-of-angela-merkel/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:Story Hour: Ocean Tales (ages 3–5)
DESCRIPTION:For ages 3–5 \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n3–5 year-olds and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an interactive Story Hour in a small group! This program lasts an hour\, and features songs\, stories and hand rhymes in English. Each Story Hour is hosted by one of our children’s librarians with the help of a Library volunteer. \nFor this Story Hour\, enjoy stories and songs all about the ocean and creatures of the seas! This Story Hour will be hosted by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste\, with the help of Library volunteer Mary Wessels\, and Library Intern Pallas-Amenah Morgan. They will read books and lead you and your little one in songs and hand-rhymes during a live\, interactive session. This participatory program is intended to encourage children to actively engage with stories. Plan to join in\, sing along\, and move around\, and model movement and listening for your little one. \n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n\nThis event is open to Library members\, and registration is required. Each parent/guardian is responsible for their own child\, and is expected to remain with their child for the duration of this activity. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with these guidelines so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. If you have questions about events and/or collections for children and teens\, please contact Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \nWe are an independent\, nonprofit organization. With your continued support\, we are able to provide over 200 programs each year for ages 0-18. If you would like to support the Library\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service.  
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/story-hour-ocean-tales-ages-3-5/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211201T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211201T203000
DTSTAMP:20260418T035604
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Translating the Nights
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nTales from 1001 Nights\nwith translator and poet Yasmine Seale \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nA cornerstone of world literature and a monument to the power of storytelling\, the Arabian Nights has inspired countless authors\, from Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe to Naguib Mahfouz\, Clarice Lispector\, and Angela Carter. Now\, in this lavishly designed and illustrated edition of The Annotated Arabian Nights the acclaimed literary historian Paulo Lemos Horta and brilliant poet and translator Yasmine Seale present a new selection of tales from the Nights\, featuring treasured original stories as well as later additions including “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves\,” definitively bringing the Nights into the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\nAlthough readers have long been enchanted by the legendary tales\, the English-speaking world has relied on dated translations by Richard Burton\, Edward Lane\, and other nineteenth-century adventurers. Seale’s distinctly contemporary and lyrical translations – working from both Arabic and French sources – break decisively with this masculine dynasty\, stripping away the deliberate exoticism of Orientalist renderings and bringing an urgency to Shahrazad’s voice. \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nYasmine Seale is a British-Syrian writer and literary translator. Her essays\, poetry\, visual art\, and translations from Arabic and French have appeared widely — in Harper’s\, the Paris Review\, the Times Literary Supplement\, Apollo and elsewhere. Her first translated book\, Aladdin\, came out from W. W. Norton in 2018. Seale’s work has received a PEN America Literary Grant and the Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Seale will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/seale21/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211204T120000
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SUMMARY:Oliver Gee and Lina Nordin Gee reading "Roger the Liger in Paris" (ages 3–9)
DESCRIPTION:For ages 3–9\n \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n3–9 year-olds and their grown-ups are invited to join us for a reading with author Oliver Gee and illustrator Lina Nordin Gee as they read their new picture book Roger the Liger in Paris. Following the reading\, Lina will show participants how to draw a liger (a combination of a tiger and a lion!) and then the pair will answer questions about what inspired this fantastical tale. \nThis live\, interactive event will be hosted in the Children’s Library—Early. Library programs are created to encourage children to actively engage with stories. Children and adults will be invited to ask questions during the Q&A portion of the event. Books will be available for purchase at the event. \nAbout Oliver Gee and Lina Nordin Gee: Together\, Oliver Gee and Lina Nordin Gee created Kylie the Crocodile in Paris. Oliver Gee is the creator of the award-winning podcast about Paris and France\, The Earful Tower. He used to be a full-time journalist in Paris\, but switched to podcasting in December 2017. Lina Nordin Gee runs a chic shoe and handbag company\, Deuxième Studios\, and likes to draw and paint. You can see her illustrations on Instagram @ParisianPostcards.  Find out more about The Earful Tower or purchase your own copy of Roger the Liger in Paris\, their second picture book\, here. \n\nThis event is free for Library members\, and registration is required. Parents and other caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with these guidelines so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. If you have questions about events and/or collections for children and teens\, please contact Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n\nIf you would like to support the Library and our services\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service. \n CLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/oliver-gee-and-lina-nordin-gee-reading-roger-the-liger-in-paris-ages-3-9/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211204T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211204T150000
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CREATED:20211028T213737Z
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SUMMARY:Fantasy Book Club: "Daughter of Smoke and Bone" (ages 12–adult)
DESCRIPTION:Join fantasy fans to discuss new worlds and novels with like-minded readers.\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER. \n\n\n\nIn December\, we’ll be reading and discussing Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor. Some book club members will likely read the entire trilogy. Beware—there will be spoilers! This book club meeting will be facilitated by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager (and fantasy fan) Celeste Rhoads.\n \n\n  \n\n\nAdvance registration is required. Participation in this book group is open to Library members\, and free of charge. If you are not yet a Library member\, but would like to participate\, please join the Library before this session.\n\n\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER. \n\n\nFor questions about collections or events at the Library for Children and Teens contact Celeste Rhoads\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/fantasy-book-club-daughter-of-smoke-and-bone-ages-12-adult/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211207T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211207T203000
DTSTAMP:20260418T035604
CREATED:20211019T124136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T142819Z
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Too Much Noise with Olivier Sibony
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in person and online*) to discuss \nNoise: A Flaw in Human Judgment\nwith best-selling author Olivier Sibony and Professor of Strategy at HEC Laurence Lehmann Ortega \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nImagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients – or that two judges in the same court give different sentences to people who have committed matching crimes. Now imagine that the same doctor and the same judge make different decisions depending on whether it is morning or afternoon\, or Monday rather than Wednesday\, or they haven’t yet had lunch. These are examples of noise: variability in judgements that should be identical. \nIn Noise\, Daniel Kahneman\, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein show how noise produces errors in many fields\, including in medicine\, law\, public health\, economic forecasting\, forensic science\, child protection\, creative strategy\, performance review and hiring. And although noise can be found wherever people are making judgements and decisions\, individuals and organizations alike commonly ignore its impact\, at great cost. \nPacked with new ideas\, and drawing on the same kind of sharp analysis and breadth of case study that made Thinking\, Fast and Slow and Nudge international bestsellers\, Noise explains how and why humans are so susceptible to noise and bias in decision-making. We all make bad judgements more than we think. With a few simple remedies\, this groundbreaking book explores what we can do to make better ones. \nClick here to RSVP for the online event \nClick here to RSVP for the in-person event \nAbout the speakers: \nOlivier Sibony \nSibony is a professor\, author and advisor specializing in the quality of strategic thinking and the design of decision processes. Sibony is Professor of Strategy at HEC Paris. He is also an Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School in Oxford University\, and has taught at London Business School\, Ecole Polytechnique\, ENA\, IE Madrid\, and other institutions. Previously\, he spent 25 years with McKinsey & Company in France and in the U.S.\, where he was a Senior Partner. There\, he was\, at various times\, a leader of the Global Strategy Practice and of the Consumer Goods & Retail Sector. \nSibony’s latest book\, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment\, co-authored with Daniel Kahneman and Cass R. Sunstein\, has appeared on multiple bestseller lists worldwide\, including the New York Times list. His previous book\, You’re About to Make a Terrible Mistake!\, was awarded the 2019 Manpower Foundation Grand Prize for best management book of the year\, and is translated into multiple languages. Sibony builds on this research and experience to advise senior leaders on strategic and operational decision-making. He is a frequent keynote speaker and facilitator of top management and board meetings. He also serves as a member of corporate\, advisory and investment boards. Sibony is a graduate of HEC Paris and holds a Ph. D. from Université Paris-Dauphine. He is a knight in the French Order of the Légion d’Honneur. He is married and the father of two children. He lives in Paris. \nLaurence Lehmann Ortega \nAfter graduating from HEC (1993)\,Lehmann Ortega first worked as a consultant in strategy before joining Montpellier Business School as a Director of Graduate and MBA programs. Since 2009\, she is an Education Track Professor at the HEC Paris Strategy and Business Policy department. Besides teaching strategic and business model innovation in master programs\, at the MBA and in Executive Education\, she is he scientific director of the Master in Strategic Management and academic director of several corporate custom programs at HEC Executive Education. \nSince 2006\, she holds a PhD in Management from the University of Aix en Provence. Her research focuses on strategic innovation\, especially in incumbent firms in mature and low-tech industries. In this context\, she deals with business model innovation as a response to sustainable development constraints and with its consequences in multinational firms\, in particular the learning process and the questioning of mental schemes. Lehmann Ortega co-authored Strategor\, the leading strategic management textbook in France (translated into 4 languages). She has also published several articles in reviews and periodicals such as Long Range Planning and Management. She is the co-author of “Odyssey 3.14 Reinvent your business model”\, an original approach combining innovation and strategy. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Sibony and Lehmann Ortega will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nImportant: on-site information regarding COVID-19 \nIn compliance with French regulations\, a pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. Visitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe discussion is co-sponsored by AmCham France\, which was founded in 1894 to promote economic exchanges between France and the United States. As a platform for meetings\, reflection and exchange\, AmCham France acts as a link between the political\, economic andacademic communities. Today\, it brings together 200 leading French and American companies as well as numerous academic and economic partners committed to the transatlantic relationship. Independent of any government\, and convinced that businesses have a crucial role to play in bringing new ideas to the public debate\, it is a force for proposals to meet the major societal\, economic and environmental challenges. As such\, AmCham France is committed to strengthening the attractiveness of France. On behalf of its members\, AmCham France works with public decision-makers to develop and consolidate a French environment that is favorable to international companies\, particularly American companies\, which are the leading foreign investors and employers in France.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/sibony21/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:Music Together with James Elliott (ages 0–5)
DESCRIPTION:For ages 0–5\n \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \nJoin guest James Elliott of Music Together for a workshop dedicated to music and movement!\nToday\, it’s common for us to simply listen to music rather than create it ourselves. But actively making music—with our voices and our bodies—is important to children’s overall development. Since 1987\, Music Together\, has introduced millions of children\, parents\, and teachers to the joys of music-making and the powerful benefits of having music in their lives. In our family workshops children and parents learn together through active exploration and live\, meaningful interaction. So\, take out the earbuds and pick up the instruments we were all given at birth—ourselves! Each child (aged 0–5) should accompany one of their favorite grownups. \nThis live\, interactive event will be hosted in the Children’s Library—Early\, and is intended for children and their caregivers. \n CLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n\n\nThis event open to Library members\, and registration is required. Parents and other caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with these guidelines so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. If you have questions about events and/or collections for children and teens\, please contact Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n\nIf you would like to support the Library and our services\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service. \n CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/music-together-with-james-elliott-ages-0-5/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220108T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220108T120000
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SUMMARY:The Worries Book Group with Jion Sheibani (ages 5-9)
DESCRIPTION:For ages 5–9\n \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \nJoin us for a book group discussion about The Worries: Sohal Finds a Friend. Author and illustrator Jion Sheibani will host this book group\, and lead the discussion with participants. All participants should finish reading the chapter book before we meet!\n\n  \n\n\nAbout Jion Sheibani: Jion is the author and illustrator of Lily & The Polar Bears and The Worries young fiction series. She grew up in Brighton and now lives in Paris with her family. She’s a self-taught illustrator and studied English literature at Oxford University. When she moved to Paris\, she taught English to students at Sciences Po and ENSAE universities before opening her own language school for children\, Anglofun. Now\, she mainly draws and writes in her garden studio. As well as picture books and young fiction\, she also writes and illustrates for older readers. Her first YA novel\, The Silver Chain\, will  be released in April 2022. Find out more about Jion and her work here.\nEach child (aged 5–9) may participate in the program on their own\, while their chaperone remains inside the Library. \nThis live\, interactive event will be hosted in the Children’s Library—Juvenile. \n CLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n\nThis event open to Library members\, and registration is required. Parents and other caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with these guidelines so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. If you have questions about events and/or collections for children and teens\, please contact Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n\nIf you would like to support the Library and our services\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service. \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/the-worries-book-group-with-jion-sheibani-ages-5-9/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220112T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220112T153000
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SUMMARY:Story Hour: Seasons Change (ages 3–5)
DESCRIPTION:For ages 3–5 \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n3–5 year-olds and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an interactive Story Hour in a small group! This program lasts an hour\, and features songs\, stories and hand rhymes in English. Each Story Hour is hosted by one of our children’s librarians with the help of a Library volunteer. \nFor this Story Hour\, enjoy stories and songs all about the seasons and how they change. This Story Hour will be hosted by Children’s and Teens’ Services Librarian Kirsty\, with the help of Library volunteer Mary Wessels\, and Library Intern Pallas-Amenah Morgan. They will read books and lead you and your little one in songs and hand-rhymes during a live\, interactive session. This participatory program is intended to encourage children to actively engage with stories. Plan to join in\, sing along\, and move around\, and model movement and listening for your little one. \n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n\nThis event is open to Library members\, and registration is required. Each parent/guardian is responsible for their own child\, and is expected to remain with their child for the duration of this activity. Caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with these guidelines so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. If you have questions about events and/or collections for children and teens\, please contact Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \nWe are an independent\, nonprofit organization. With your continued support\, we are able to provide over 200 programs each year for ages 0-18. If you would like to support the Library\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service.  
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/story-hour-seasons-change-ages-3-5/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220112T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220112T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) Creating and Inventing with Ayşegül Savaş
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in-person and online*) to discuss \nWhite on White\nwith novelist Ayşegül Savaş \nClick here to RSVP\nUnder the watchful eye of the anonymous narrator in Ayşegül Savaş’s second novel\, White on White\, a picturesque setting begins to fall apart. Having arrived in an unnamed European city to study Gothic sculpture for her doctoral thesis\, our narrator is trained in observing inert bodies. What readers confront\, however\, is her struggle to see real life clearly–particularly in the case of her landlord-turned-friend\, whose experience and philosophy as a painter is juxtaposed with the narrator’s scholarly background. \nAs the story evolves\, the student finds herself caught in the same trappings of representation and revelation that she had intended to study. Ultimately\, Savaş pushes the boundaries between artistic creation and self-invention to the point of breaking. A compelling and deeply psychological story of identity\, connection\, and storytelling\, White on White been praised as an elegant and haunting masterpiece. Join Savaş as she discusses this immensely impressive new release: its inception\, its characters\, its commentary on the relationship between art and self.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nAyşegül Savaş is the author of Walking on the Ceiling\, published in 2019. She has been published in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and The Guardian\, among other outlets. Originally from Turkey\, Savaş currently resides in Paris.  \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Savaş will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant: on-site information regarding COVID-19 \nIn compliance with French regulations\, a pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. Visitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/savas22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220113T220000
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SUMMARY:(Online) The Life and Art of Kunihiko Moriguchi
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author and the Mechanics’ Institute (online) to discuss \nThe Life and Art of Moriguchi\nwith author and filmmaker Marc Petitjean  \nClick here to RSVP\nMarc Petitjean offers an intimate portrait of one of Japan’s most iconic artists\, master kimono painter and Living National Treasure Kunihiko Moriguchi. Moriguchi\, known for innovating the craft of yuzen (a 17th-century resist-dyeing method)\, through his visionary arrangement of abstraction in patterns\, understands the centuries-old Kimono to not just be an object to wear but a canvas on which to create art. As Moriguchi stated\, “We have to answer the challenge of modernity: what is a kimono\, or what will it become\, if it ceases to be a thing worn?”. Petitjean\, who formed a close friendship with Moriguchi while making a documentary about him (Trésor Vivant\, 2012)\, is uniquely suited to tell the story of this extraordinary artisan’s creative evolution. Moriguchi’s works are collected by museums around the world and held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art\, and National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto\, among others. \nClick here to RSVP\nBack to Japan begins when Moriguchi\, nicknamed “Kuni\,” is coming of age in mid-century Kyoto\, a place steeped in tradition. After graduating from Kyoto City University\, where he studied modern painting\, Moriguchi boldly decides to move to Paris to further his studies at the École des Arts Décoratifs rather than learn about yuzen from his father\, whose rigid\, almost feudal\, workshop holds little appeal to his son. It is a choice that changes Moriguchi’s trajectory as an artist. In France\, he encounters cutting-edge techniques such as Optical Art (in which repeated shapes are used to produce illusions) and becomes a friend and protégé of the French-Polish painter Balthus\, through whose network of connections he meets Joan Miró\, Marc Chagall\, Max Ernst and artistic luminaries of the time. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nMark Petitjean is a writer\, filmmaker\, and photographer. He is the author of The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris. He has directed several documentaries\, including From Hiroshima to Fukushima\, on Dr. Shuntaro Hida\, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima; Living Treasure\, about Japanese kimono painter Kunihiko Moriguchi; and Zones grises\, on his own search for information about the life of his father\, Michel Petitjean\, after his death. \nAdriana Hunter studied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated more than ninety books\, including Véronique Olmi’s Bakhita and Hervé Le Tellier’s Eléctrico W\, winner of the French-American Foundation’s 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction. She lives in Kent\, England. \nClick here to RSVP\nRegistration required. Free and open to the public.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/moriguchi22/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220114T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220114T203000
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SUMMARY:90s London\, Surveillance\, & Young Black Artists with Jamika Ajalon (ages 12–adult)
DESCRIPTION:For ages 12–adult \n\n“Skye Papers” may be Ajalon’s first novel\, but she is an experienced artist: a sonic slam poet\, musician\, multimedia performer and filmmaker with a deep back catalog\, evident on every page. From the rhythmic\, riffing\, incantatory prose to the novel’s cinematic crosscutting and recursive structure\, to the minutiae of Skye and her friends’ daily struggles as artists\, we get lost in a world that Ajalon renders with a precision and lyricism that elude her main character.” — New York Times \n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \nJoin us for an interview with novelist Jamika Ajalon\, the author of Skye Papers\, followed by a Q&A with the audience\, and a reception. Ajalon will be in conversation with three members of the Library’s Teen Writing Group for a discussion focused on her inspiration\, her research\, and her writing process. This event will take place in the Library’s reading room. \n\nSkye Papers is a debut novel by Jamika Ajalon that follows three Black queer artists\, musicians\, and poets-Skye\, Scottie\, and Pieces-as they meet in New York and travel to London\, navigating the 1990s underground art scene as it becomes increasingly threatened by the rise of CCTV and state surveillance. \n\nAbout the author: Jamika Ajalon is an interdisciplinary artist and lecturer\, fortunate enough to have collaborated with many brilliant creatives across the globe. She is a creative polymath; a writer at base (poet\, novelist\, essayist)\, she uses a melange of interdisciplinary practice as her pen\, (filmmaker\, producer\, songwriter\, electronic/digital artist/archivist). She has a BA Film/Video from Columbia University\, and a Masters in Communications in Culture and Society from Goldsmiths University\,London \nAdvance registration is required for this event. Participation is is free for Library members\, and 10€ per person for non-members. If you are not yet a Library member\, but would like to participate\, please join the Library. \n \n  \n\nImportant: on-site information regarding COVID-19: In compliance with French regulations\, a pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. Visitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n  \nQuestions about collections and programs for children and teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n  \nWe thank you for your continued support and for being a part of the Library community! If you would like to support the Library\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/90s-london-surveillance-young-black-artists-with-jamika-ajalon/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220115T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220115T170000
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SUMMARY:Winter Wonderland (all ages)
DESCRIPTION:For all ages\n \n  \nKick off the new year\, and meet fellow Library members during our annual winter and new year celebration! Join us for stories\, winter crafts\, games\, and surprises for all ages. Each child will go home with a special winter treat courtesy of the Library.\n  \nChildren ages 0–6 must be accompanied by an adult at all times when inside the Library\, and for the duration of this event. Children between the ages 7–12 may participate in the program on their own\, while their chaperone remains inside the Library. \nThis event open to Library members\, and registration is required. Parents and other caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with these guidelines so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. If you have questions about events and/or collections for children and teens\, please contact Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER for the 11h00 event for ages 0–4 \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER for the 14h00 event for ages 4–8\n \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER for the 16h00 event for ages 8–12\n \n\n  \n\nIf you would like to support the Library and our services\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service. \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/winter-wonderland-all-ages-5/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220118T203000
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SUMMARY:(Online) Getting Real with Claire Messud
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nA Dream Life\nwith novelist Claire Messud and journalist Christopher Beha \nClick here to RSVP\nA novella as much about the sharp bite of reality as about the allures of living in a dream\, A Dream Life is novelist and essayist Claire Messud’s newest addition to an impressive and diverse body of work. When a family moves from New York to a chateau of fairytale proportions in Australia\, the matriarch\, originally drawn to a Mrs. Dalloway-esque existence of hosting and managing the home\, finds herself trapped in the opulence and frivolity which had originally enticed her.  \nDrawing on tropes of the bourgeois novel–the grandiose estate\, the domestic affairs\, family drama and class relations–Messud has produced a book about confined spaces and the dynamics that emerge within them. Described by writer Helen Garner as “a perfect frolic of a book\,” the novella is a balanced take on fantasy\, deception\, and dissatisfaction\, all within the domestic realm. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nClaire Messud is a novelist and professor of creative writing. Her novel The Emperor’s Children is a New York Times bestseller and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Messud is a PEN/Faulkner Award nominee and recipient of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Addison Metcalf Award and its Strauss Living Award. She has taught creative writing at Harvard University\, Yale University\, and John Hopkins University\, among other institutions.  \nChristopher Beha is a novelist and memoirist\, and serves as the executive editor of Harper’s Magazine. The Index of Self-Destructive Acts\, his most recent novel\, was nominated for the 2020 National Book Award. Beha’s essays and reviews have been published in the New York Times\, New York Review of Books\, and London Review of Books. He received his MFA in creative writing from The New School in 2006.  \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/messud22/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220121T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220121T210000
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SUMMARY:Teen Night: Rock U. Trivia Night (ages 12–18)
DESCRIPTION:For ages 12–18 \n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n\nJoin Matt Black\, creator of Rock U.\, for a series of musical quizzes and games to test your musical knowledge. No need to be an expert at rock music to play—all teens are welcome: diehard music fans and those just looking to discover great music and great people. Participants should download the free app Kahoot ahead of time\, so we can play! Several devices will be available at the Library for those who do not have a device to download the app. \n\n\nAbout Matt Black: Matt Black has worked as an educator for more than 30 years\, and gets big thrills as a guitarist and vocalist with beloved Paris party band The Doodads. In 2012\, he searched Paris for a rock band program for his daughter—and when he couldn’t find one\, he created Rock U. instead! Matt works with Rock U. students on the techniques of playing together to craft a live band performance. Learn more about Matt Black and Rock U. here. \nAdvance registration is required for this event. Participation in teen events is free for Library members. If you are not yet a Library member\, but would like to participate\, please join the Library. A signed permission slip is required to attend this event.\n \n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \nQuestions about collections and programs for teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n  \nWe thank you for your continued support and for being a part of the Library community! If you would like to support the Library\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/teen-night-rock-u-trivia-night-ages-12-18/
CATEGORIES:Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220122T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220122T120000
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SUMMARY:Art and Collage with Alexandra Vangsnes (ages 6–12)
DESCRIPTION:For ages 6–12\n \nLearn how to make your own original collages with the help of artist and illustrator Alexandra Vangsnes. \nUsing the work of American author/illustrator Christian Robinson as inspiration\, Alexandra will show participants how to create collage pieces using painted paper\, cutouts\, and more. The Library will provide all the necessary supplies for this workshop! \nChildren ages 0–6 must be accompanied by an adult at all times when inside the Library\, and for the duration of this event. Children between the ages 7–12 may participate in the program on their own\, while their chaperone remains inside the Library. \nAbout Alexandra Vangsnes: Alexandra is originally from the state of Virginia\, and currently lives in Paris\, France with her husband and daughter. Her family is from Norway\, and she is very inspired by folk costumes and traditional knitting techniques from Norway and other Northern European countries. You’ll often find Alexandra reading\, writing\, drawing\, cooking\, listening to records\, doing yoga\, or knitting. You can see Alexandra’s Etsy shop here. \nThis event open to Library members\, and registration is required. Parents and other caregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with these guidelines so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. If you have questions about events and/or collections for children and teens\, please contact Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER  \n\n  \n\nIf you would like to support the Library and our services\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/art-and-collage-with-alexandra-vangsnes-ages-6-12/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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SUMMARY:Body Autonomy Workshop (ages 12–18)
DESCRIPTION:Through movement\, learn simple tools to understand and assert your own boundaries and needs\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER. \n\nBodily autonomy is the concept that individuals have the right to control what does and does not happen to their bodies. Full body autonomy means being empowered to make decisions about your health and future–without coercion or control by others. During this movement workshop\, participants will learn simple tools to understand and assert your own boundaries and needs\, under the guidance of Kyra Hauck & Lauren Hlubny\, co-directors of Danse Theatre Surreality (DTS). \nDTS works to cultivate performance and programming which emboldens women & tgnc artists of all colors and affirms the value of their diverse perspectives. With regular workshops and performances in the United States and France\, DTS diligently drives the conversation on inclusive gender rights by seeking to generate change in the arts community and beyond. Find out more about DTS here. Find out more about Hauck’s work on the Se risquer project here. \n\n\nAdvance registration is required for this event. Participation in this workshop is open to Library members\, and free of charge. If you are not yet a Library member\, but would like to participate\, please join the Library before this session.\n\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER.\n\n\nAbout Kyra Hauck: Kyra is a pluri-disciplinary choreographer\, dancer\, and teacher living in Paris\, where she has been creating since 2017. Her work is dynamic\, challenging\, and feminist. She began dancing at age 2\, tagging along to stretch class with her mother. Kyra has trained in styles ranging from classical ballet to contemporary and modern dance to contact improvisation with master teachers from the Eisenhower Dance Center\, the University of Michigan Dance Department\, and all around Paris. Kyra has performed in various BFA and MFA thesis works\, and with Ann Arbor Ballet Theatre and Ann Arbor Dance Works. In 2015\, Kyra moved to Paris to pursue a Master’s degree in translation. In 2016\, she met Lauren Hlubny\, and Danse Theatre Surreality was born. \n  \nAbout Lauren Hlubny: Lauren is a Brooklyn-based maker of dance-theatre. Hlubny’s professional directorial debut was at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg\, FL—an original 40-minute surrealist dance-theatre work titled DALI. Since then\, she has created and mounted experimental works for communities in San Francisco\, New York City\, Seattle\, Boston\, Birmingham\, Portland (ME)\, Paris\, and Florence. Hlubny’s theatre training is in Stanislavski\, Grotowski\, and Meyerhold\, with a distinct focus on the intersection of movement and storytelling. Hlubny has an extended background in classical ballet\, art history\, and anthropological research. These\, along with experience in music and circus arts\, give Hlubny a unique and informed hold on conducting creative rehearsals and shaping cohesive productions where people can speak completely different artistic “languages” while pushing the boundaries of contemporary performance and multi-disciplinary art. \n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER. \n\n\nThis event is free for Library members\, and registration is required. Library users are expected to familiarize themselves with these guidelines so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. If you have questions about events and/or collections for children and teens\, please contact Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.\n \nIf you would like to support the Library and our services\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/body-autonomy-workshop-ages-12-18/
CATEGORIES:Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220123T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220123T150000
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SUMMARY:Bookworms: "Echo" (ages 9-12)
DESCRIPTION:BOOKWORMS! \nThe book club for 9-12-year-olds! \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER. \nIn January\, we’ll be reading Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan\, which was a 2016 Newbery Honor Book. \nAbout the book: Lost in the Black Forest\, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy\, a promise\, and a harmonica. Decades later three children\, Friedrich in Germany\, Mike in Pennsylvania\, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century\, struggling to keep their families intact\, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica. \nHow Bookworms works: Sign-up HERE to reserve a spot for this book group. When we meet on 23 January\, each participant will be expected to have finished the book\, so that we can discuss the story in depth and create our own writing and artwork inspired by the story. This event is free for Library members\, and registration is required. \nCaregivers are expected to familiarize themselves with these guidelines so that we can provide a pleasant library environment for all patrons. If you have questions about events and/or collections for children and teens\, please contact Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \nIf you would like to support the Library and our services\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service. \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/bookworms-echo-ages-9-12-2/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220125T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220125T203000
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SUMMARY:(Online) The Subversive Simone Weil
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nSimone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas\nwith Professor Robert Zaretsky \nClick here to RSVP\nIn 1929\, Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil\, both students\, had a brief and heavily-mythologized confrontation. Having started the conversation\, de Beauvoir stressed her belief in human freedom. Weil responded that feeding humankind took priority. And when de Beauvoir maintained her initial point\, Weil told her\, quite simply\, “It is easy to see you have never gone hungry.”  \nSimone Weil was in a particularly suited position to make this retort\, having renounced her bourgeois background in order to\, among other pursuits\, work in a car factory and volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. A Marxist and an anarchist\, as well as\, later\, a Catholic mystic\, Weil and her life present many enigmas. The supreme achievement of researcher and writer Robert Zaretsky’s new book\, The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas\, is its reading of the complexities of Weil’s work as complementary contradictions of her life. Identifying five central concepts from Weil’s writing\, Zaretsky deftly explores each one by way of Weil’s biography\, demonstrating how her experience informed and inspired her politics and ethics. An original approach to an original philosopher\, Zaretsky unifies Weil’s actions with her thought\, arguing that\, above all\, the philosopher conceived of ideas as\, first of all\, practice.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nRobert Zaretsky is a professor of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston\, specializing in European political and intellectual history. He is the author of many works\, including A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest of Meaning (2013)\, Boswell’s Enlightenment (2015)\, and the forthcoming Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague (2022). Zaretsky is a frequent contributor to the New York Times\, Washington Post\, and Boston Globe\, and is the former history editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/weil22/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220126T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220126T203000
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SUMMARY:(Online) The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss \nWAKE: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts\nwith lawyer\, historian\, and writer Rebecca Hall \nClick here to RSVP\nIn her new graphic novel WAKE: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts\, Dr. Rebecca Hall asks what gaps exist in accepted historical narratives\, and what techniques we have at our disposal for not only making these gaps visible\, but for remedying them. Piecing together the lives and experiences of enslaved women at the front of slave revolts through painstaking archival work\, while also detailing her own experience bringing this history to light\, Hall reinserts Black female resistance into the very historical record which had previously excluded even the possibility of such a phenomenon.  \nWeaving together in-depth research with personal narrative\, the novel is both an historical account and a commentary on history. It embraces a practice of careful imagination–of the names of women\, of their biographies\, and of their outcomes–which in turn demonstrates the value of imagination as a tool in historical reconstruction. Rejecting the position of the distanced historian who describes history without participating in it\, Hall has deliberately inserted herself into the narrative\, assuming the responsibility and the emotional weight which her position as teller of these women’s stories entails. Frequently compared to other graphic novels such as Maus and Persepolis for its striking combination of image and text\, the work enacts a confrontation of the historical with the present\, showing readers that no one is exempt from the wake of the past.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speaker: \nRebecca Hall is a tenants’ rights lawyer and historian. She was a 2020-21 scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She has taught at UC Santa Cruz\, UC Berkeley\, and was a visiting professor of law at the University of Utah. Hall is a committed activist and has worked to support movements in women’s and LGBT rights\, Climate Justice\, and Black Lives Matter.  \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \nClick here to RSVP
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/hall22/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220201T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220201T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) From Slavery to Black Lives Matter with Pap Ndiaye
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author and Black History Month to discuss \nLes Noirs Américains\nwith Professor Pap Ndiaye and writer Jake Lamar \nClick here to RSVP\nIn March 2021\, many news outlets from Le Monde to the New York Times reported on a historic moment: Pap Ndiaye\, a French historian specializing in African American and Afro-French history\, had been appointed director of the National Museum of the History of Immigration in Paris. Built in 1931 to celebrate French colonialism\, the museum has a troubled historical identity which Ndiaye seeks to expose and transform.  \nDescribed as a “quiet revolutionary\,” Ndiaye’s appointment as director followed an immensely successful transatlantic academic career. Born and raised in Paris\, he first encountered African American history at the University of Virginia\, where he completed his master’s in history. His initial research led him to pioneer a comparative historical approach\, researching the African diaspora in France and America in order to conceive of a transnational philosophy of race as its intersectionality. An authority on questions of race and post-colonialism\, Ndiaye frequently consults on various cultural projects from the Musée d’Orsay’s exhibit “Black Models” to the Opéra Garnier’s diversity report. The author of many books\, including La Condition noire and Les Noirs américains:en marche pour l’égalité\, Ndiaye has also written for Le Monde and Libération. Ndiaye will be in conversation with writer Jake Lamar.  \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the interviewer: \nJake Lamar is a Paris-based author and professor of creative writing. He has received numerous awards for his work\, most notably the Lyndhurst Prize\, which was awarded to his début novel Bourgeois Blues and France’s Grand Prize for best foreign thriller for The Last Integrationist. He is also the recipient of the Centre National du Livre grant and the Beaumarchais fellowship.  \nClick here to RSVP\n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Ndiaye and Lamar will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. The conversation is organized and co-sponsored by Little Africa Paris. \nOn-site information regarding COVID-19: In compliance with French regulations\, a pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. Visitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/ndiaye22/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220202T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220202T203000
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SUMMARY:(Hybrid) What Really Troubles the 99% with Albena Azmanova
DESCRIPTION:Join Evenings with an Author (in-person and online*) to discuss \nWhat Really Troubles the 99%\nwith professors Albena Azmanova and Lucas Chancel \nClick here to RSVP\nA daring and unapologetic intervention in post-2008 financial crisis leftism\, Albena Azmanova’s Capitalism on the Edge offers a radical alternative to traditional anti-capitalist narratives which place inequality at the center of their critiques. Azmanova claims rather that the central contradiction of the modern age is the emergence of “precarity capitalism”: on one side\, ceaseless pursuit of profit on a corporate level; on the other\, a labor force living in constant financial insecurity. It is this perennial state of anxiety which fosters social and political division; and it is by way of political alliance and social policy aimed at developing trust that we can overcome it. \nBoth polemical and analytic\, Azmanova rejects tropes of capitalism in crisis\, as well as calls for revolution to combat. What we need\, she instead proposes\, is to abandon the rhetoric of utopia\, and to embrace reform beyond ideological boundaries. As such\, rather than asking how we might better capitalism or how we might dismantle it\, Azmanova presents a policy-based action plan aimed at subverting it from within. Azmanova will be in conversation with economist Lucas Chancel. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nAlbena Azmanova is a tenured Associate Professor of Political and Social Theory at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies and author of The Scandal of Reason: A Critical Theory of Political Judgment (2012). She has served as policy advisor for the United Nations\, the Council of Europe\, and the European Parliament\, among other institutions. Born in Bulgaria\, she has resided in Brussels since 1997. \nThe Co-Director of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris Scool of Economics\, and an Affiliate Professor at Sciences Po\, Lucas Chancel is an economist who specializes in inequality and in environmental policy. His work focuses on the measurement of economic inequality\, its interactions with sustainable development and on the implementation of social and ecological policies. Coverage of his research can be found in Science\, Nature\, The Guardian\, The Financial Times\, the New York Times\, CNN\, Le Monde\, Der Spiegel\, El Pais\, and several other publications. \nRegistration required. Free and open to the public. \n*The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Azmanova and Chancel will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nClick here to RSVP\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nImportant: on-site information regarding COVID-19 \nIn compliance with French regulations\, a pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. Visitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/azmanova22/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220204T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220204T210000
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SUMMARY:Teen Night: Movie Night with Clarence Tokely (ages 12–18)
DESCRIPTION:For ages 12–18 \n\nTeen Night: \nMovie Night with Clarence Tokley \n\nRegister here\n\n\nJoin us for a movie night! Vote on the contemporary film to you’d like to watch\, then enjoy a screening in the Library’s comfortable reading room\, and discuss the film as a group. Actor\, acting coach and filmmaker Clarence Tokley will lead the discussion after the film. \n\n\nAbout Clarence Tokley:Clarence Tokley is a Paris-based teacher\, filmmaker\, and writer. A native of New Jersey\, Clarence attended Rutgers University\, obtaining a degree in History and Film Studies. Clarence then attended the New York Film Academy in New York City\, before packing up everything and moving to Paris—he wanted to get a taste of the European style of storytelling. He fully immersed himself in the film industry and quickly landed his first job in Paris. Some of his credits include Rush Hour 3\, Truth in 24\, Exes\, and the Cherry Orchard. Clarence also does voice-over work in Paris. Along with his duties as teacher of the BAW Teen and Youth Acting courses\, he is the director of camps in France and provides workshops and private coaching. When he’s not teaching or coaching\, Clarence continues to work professionally in film and theater productions in and around Paris. \n\nAdvance registration is required for this event. Participation in teen events is free for Library members and 10 euros per person for non-members. A signed permission slip is required to attend this event. In compliance with French regulations\, a pass sanitaire is required for all visitors ages 12+. Visitors ages 6+\, staff\, and volunteers are required to wear masks on the premises.\n \nQuestions about collections and programs for teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \nWe thank you for your continued support and for being a part of the Library community! \nRegister here\n \nDownload a permission slip\n \n\nDonate to the Library
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/teen-night-movie-night-with-clarence-tokely-ages-12-18/
CATEGORIES:Teens
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220204T203000
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SUMMARY:(Online) Entre Nous: Black is the Journey\, Africana the Name
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Entre Nous series in partnership with Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination\, join professors Maboula Soumahoro and Kaiama L. Glover\, both specialists of Africana and Diaspora Studies\, for a discussion about Soumahoro’s recent book\, Black is the Journey\, Africana the Name.  \nIn this highly original book\, Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic\, where Africa\, Europe\, and the Americas were tied together by the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism. Each of these spaces has its own way of reading the Black body and the Black experience\, and its own modes of visibility\, invisibility\, silence\, and amplification of Black life. By weaving together her personal history with that of France and its abiding myth of color-blindness\, Soumahoro highlights the banality and persistence of structural racism in France today\, and shows that freedom will be found in the journey and movement between the sites of the Atlantic triangle. Africana is the name of that freedom. \nClick here to RSVP\nAbout the speakers: \nMaboula Soumahoro is an associate professor at the University of Tours and president of the Black History Month Association\, dedicated to celebrating Black history and cultures. A specialist in the field of Africana Studies\, she has conducted research and taught in several universities and prisons in the United States and France and was most recently a Villa Albertine Resident in Atlanta. She is the author of Le Triangle et l’Hexagone\, réflexions sur une identité noire (La Découverte\, 2021)\, translated in English by Dr. Kaiama L. Glover as Black Is the Journey\, Africana the Name (Polity\, 2021). This book received the FetKann! Maryse Condé literary prize in 2020. \nKaiama L. Glover is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French & Africana Studies and Faculty Director of the Barnard Digital Humanities Center at Barnard College. She is an awardee of the PEN/Heim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the New York Public Library Cullman Center. She is the founding co-editor of archipelagos | a journal of Caribbean digital praxis\, the founding co-organizer of “The Caribbean Digital\,” and the founding co-director of the digital humanities project In the Same Boats: Toward an Afro-Atlantic Intellectual Cartography. In 2018-2019 she was a resident Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris\, France where she began work on her new book project\, For the Love of Revolution: René Depestre and the Poetics of a Radical Life. \nClick here to RSVP
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/maboula22/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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