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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201117T193000
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: François-Xavier Fauvelle [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease join us for a book talk on The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages\nClick here to sign up! \nFrom the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth\, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an African golden age in which places like Ghana\, Nubia\, and Zimbabwe became the crossroads of civilizations\, and where African royals\, thinkers\, and artists played celebrated roles in the globalized world of the Middle Ages.  Francois-Xavier Fauvelle brings this unsung era marvelously to life\, taking readers from the Sahara and the Nile River Valley to the Ethiopian highlands and southern Africa. Drawing on fragmented written sources as well as his many years of experience as an archaeologist\, Fauvelle painstakingly reconstructs an African past that is too often denied its place in history. \n  \nFrançois-Xavier Fauvelle received his PhD from the University of Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne\, where he specialized in the history of Africa. Since 2002\, he has been affiliated with the CNRS and the Institute for African Studies  in Aix-en-Provence. He spent time as a researcher in the US\, Ethiopia\, and South Africa. Since returning to France in 2009\, he joined a research team\, TRACES\, at the University of Toulouse-II-Jean-Jaurès. With his colleagues François Bon and Caroline Robion-Brunner\, he created “le Pôle Afrique\,” a research initiative bringing together archaologists specializing in Africa and doctoral students\, some originating from Africa\, pursuing doctoral research in the field. He has been a professor at the Collège de France since 2019. \nTo order the book at a special discounted rate\, please visit https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691181264/the-golden-rhinoceros \n(Use code FAU20 at checkout to receive a 30% discount on sterling and euro + p&p) \n  \nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-francois-xavier-fauvelle/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201110T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201110T203000
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Eula Biss in conversation with Susan Harlan [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease click here to register. \nJoin us for an interview with Eula Biss about her newest book\, Having and Being Had\, moderated by Susan Harlan. \n“My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts\,” Eula Biss writes\, “the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.” Having just purchased her first home\, the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into. Through a series of engaging exchanges— in libraries and laundromats\, over barstools and backyard fences— she examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism. Described by The New York Times as a writer who “advances from all sides\, like a chess player\,” Biss offers an uncommonly immersive and deeply revealing new portrait of work and luxury\, of accumulation and consumption\, of the value of time and how we spend it. Ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokemon\, Biss asks\, of both herself and her class\, “In what have we invested?” \nEula Biss is the author of four books\, most recently Having and Being Had\, which Cathy Park Hong calls “a revelatory and necessary primer on how late capitalism affects our daily lives.” Biss holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa and has been teaching writing at Northwestern University for fifteen years. Her book On Immunity was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2014 by the New York Times Book Review and Notes from No Man’s Land won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism in 2009. Her work has been translated into over ten languages and has been recognized by a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship\, a Howard Foundation Fellowship\, a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award\, a 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library\, and a Pushcart Prize. Her essays and poems have recently appeared in the New Yorker\, the Guardian\, the Times Literary Supplement\, The Believer\, Harper’s\, and the New York Times Magazine. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nSusan Harlan’s essays have appeared in venues including The Guardian US\, The Paris Review Daily\, Guernica\, Roads & Kingdoms\, Literary Hub\, The Common\, Racked\, The Brooklyn Quarterly\, The Bitter Southerner\, and Public Books. Her book Luggage takes readers on a journey with the suitcases that support\, accessorize\, and accompany our lives. She also writes satire for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, The Billfold\, Avidly\, Queen Mob’s Tea House\, The Hairpin\, The Belladonna\, Janice\, and The Establishment\, and her humor book Decorating a Room of One’s Own: Conversations on Interior Design with Miss Havisham\, Jane Eyre\, Victor Frankenstein\, Elizabeth Bennet\, Ishmael\, and Other Literary Notables was published by Abrams last October. She teaches English literature at Wake Forest University. \n  \n  \n  \nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-eula-biss-in-conversation-with-susan-harlan/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201104T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201104T203000
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Oliver Gee [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nJoin us for an evening with Oliver Gee!\nFollow this link to register. \nOliver Gee is an Australian who’s been in Paris since 2015. He arrived as a journalist\, but now makes a living as the host of the hugely popular Paris travel podcast “The Earful Tower”. This year\, he released his laugh-out-loud memoir\, Paris On Air\, which he will discuss with us live on Zoom. Oliver will give an entertaining performance and host a lively Q&A in which he’ll talk about publishing a book during a lockdown\, cancelling a mega US book tour and doing it virtually instead\, and the perks and perils of life as a podcaster in the City of Light.\n\n\n \nIn Paris On Air\, Oliver Gee tells of how five years in France taught him how to order cheese\, make a Parisian person smile\, and convince anyone you can fake French (even if\, like Oliver\, you speak the language like an Australian cow). \nA fresh voice on the Paris scene\, he shares the soaring highs and crushing lows that come with following your dreams to the French capital. \nHe also befriends the city’s too-cool-for-school basketballers\, chases runaway crocodiles\, and goes on a mammoth honeymoon trip around France on his little red scooter.\nTo order\, please visit www.theearfultower.com/memoir. \n  \n  \n  \nEvenings with an Author are generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-oliver-gee/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201029T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201029T203000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
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SUMMARY:Writers Reading during the Pandemic: A Panel with Joyce Carol Oates\, Edmund White\, and Sheila Kohler [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series and related panels will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nWriters Reading during the Pandemic\nPlease join us for a special panel in which we’ll discuss reading in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. We’ll be joined by acclaimed authors Joyce Carol Oates\, Edmund White\, and Sheila Kohler\, who will speak to us about what they have been reading and how it has shaped their response to the outbreak of the virus and resulting challenges\, including illness\, confinement and quarantine\, isolation and loneliness\, anxiety about the health of our loved ones\, and frustration stemming from the responses of our leaders. We hope attending this event and listening to our panelists trade insights and perspectives might give you a chance to reflect upon how your own reading habits have changed throughout the course of 2020 as well. We believe books have the power not only to captivate\, entertain\, and instruct\, but also to heal. \nPlease click here to register for this event. \n  \nPhoto by Geraint Lewis \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction\, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls\, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. Her most recent book\, Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars\, is out now. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPhoto by Andrew Fladeboe \nEdmund White has written thirty books\, taught at Princeton and won many awards. He lives in New York City. His most recent novel\, A Saint from Texas\, is out now. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPhoto by Beowulf Sheehan \n  \nSheila Kohler is the author of over ten novels\, three volumes of short fiction\, a memoir\, and many essays. Her most recent novel is Open Secrets\, out now. Her memoir Once we were sisters is just out with Penguin as well as Canongate in England. She has won numerous prizes including the O.Henry twice and been included in Best American Short Stories most recently in 2013. Her work has been published in thirteen countries. She has taught at Columbia\, Sarah Lawrence\, Bennington and at Princeton since 2007. Her novel\, Cracks was made into a film with directors Jordan and Ridley Scott with Eva Green playing Miss G. You can find her blog at Psychology Today under “Dreaming for Freud.” \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/writers-reading-during-the-pandemic-a-panel-with-joyce-carol-oates-edmund-white-and-sheila-kohler/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201022T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201022T203000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
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SUMMARY:Writing Workshop with Susan Tiberghien [Virtual Event\, Library members only\, RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s programs will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. This event is limited to Library members and requires advance reservation. Please use this form to sign up. \nInterested in moving forward with a writing project in the wake of what has been an extremely turbulent year?  \nLibrary members are invited to join us for a multi-genre workshop\, “Finding Our Stories for a New Tomorrow\,” with author and writing instructor Susan Tiberghien. Susan will share her approach\, guide us through writing prompts\, and answer any questions you might have about technique and/or practice. Read her workshop description and more about work below to learn more: \nWhere is the story?  Margaret Atwood writes\, “The story is in the dark.” We will find our way into the dark\, into the unconscious and bring our stories into the light. As we read excerpts from Atwood\, Toni Morrison\, Orhan Pamuk\, and Terry Tempest Williams\, we will start to craft our own stories. Our voices will bear witness in these turbulent times. \nSusan M. Tiberghien\, an American writer living in Geneva\, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature and Philosophy with graduate work at the Université de Grenoble and the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich. She is the author of four memoirs: Looking for Gold: A Year in Jungian Analysis\, Circling to the Center\, Side by Side\, Footsteps; two writing books: One Year to a Writing Life\, Writing Toward Wholeness: Lessons Inspired by C.G. Jung; and most recently\, the 20th Anniversary Edition of Circling to the Center\, An Invitation to Silent Prayer.  \nFor over 20 years Tiberghien has been teaching workshops at C.G. Jung Societies\, at the International Women’s Writing Guild\, and at writers’ centers and conferences\, in the U.S. and Europe. Recently she recorded online master classes for the Jung Society of Washington DC: Writing to the Soul\, Seeing Beauty with Words\, and Through Darkness to Light. An active member of International PEN\, Tiberghien founded and directed the Geneva Writers’ Group for 25 years\, bringing together over 230 English language writers. She is married\, with six children\, fifteen grandchildren\, and one great grandchild. \nWebsite: www.susantiberghien.com \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/writing-workshop-with-susan-tiberghien/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201017T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201017T123000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
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SUMMARY:Scary Stories: Write Your Own (ages 6-12) [VIRTUAL–RSVP REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:For ages 6-12 \n  \nCreate your own haunted tale during this writing workshop – not for the faint of heart!\n \n  \nChildren and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an interactive writing workshop direct to your living room\, kitchen\, bedroom\, or wherever you connect. Caregivers are requested to join in with their children and participate in the program. \n  \nChildren’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste and volunteers will read two short scary stories from the book In a Dark\, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz\, then lead you through as you write your own spooky tale – just in time for Halloween! \n  \nThis event requires advance registration. Click HERE to register. \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. \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/scary-stories-write-your-own-ages-6-12-virtual-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201014T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201014T203000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Dalia Sofer [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up (follow this link!). Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \n  \nPlease join us for a reading and interview with author Dalia Sofer to learn more about her latest novel\, Man of My Time. \nSet in Tehran and New York\, Man of My Time is the story of Hamid Mozaffarian\, a man as alienated from himself as he is from the world. After decades of working with ambivalence for the Iranian government\, Hamid travels on a diplomatic mission to New York\, where he encounters his estranged family and retrieves the ashes of his father. Tucked into a mint tin in Hamid’s pocket\, the ashes propel him into an excavation of a lifetime of betrayals\, forcing him to confront his past. Exploring variations of loss\, Man of My Time is not only about family and memory\, but also about the relationship between captor and captive\, country and citizen\, and individual and history. \n  \nDalia Sofer is the author of the novels Man of My Time—a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, and The Septembers of Shiraz—selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and published in sixteen countries. A recipient of a Whiting Award and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize\, she has contributed essays and reviews to various publications\, including The New York Times Book Review\, The LA Review of Books\, and The Believer. Born in Tehran\, Iran\, Sofer currently lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-dalia-sofer/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201013T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201013T203000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200916T120310Z
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Harriet Welty Rochefort in conversation with Alan Riding [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up (follow this link!). Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease join us for a conversation between Harriet Welty Rochefort and Alan Riding about Harriet’s new book\, Final Transgression. \n \nTwo sisters\, two different destinies. In Final Transgression\, 85-year-old Caroline Aubry tells the tale of the tragic wartime destiny of her beloved younger sister\, Séverine. From their humble beginnings in a hamlet in the southwest of France to a château where Séverine becomes the protegée of the beautiful countess who employs their parents\, their trajectories differ. After they move to Paris\, the pragmatic Caroline becomes a successful designer and the high-spirited Severine marries a rich jeweler. When WW2 breaks out and her collaborationist husband betrays her\, the headstrong Séverine flees to the chateau and the countess –– in spite of warnings about the risk of traveling to an area that is a fierce battleground for rival groups of résistants\, Nazis and collaborators. Severine is beautiful\, intelligent but obstinate – and it is that obstinacy that will ultimately seal her fate. The end of the war in France was a time for settling scores. Séverine\, an ordinary woman living in extraordinary times\, unwittingly hands the hangman’s noose to her enemies in one egregious act—her final transgression. \nHarriet Welty Rochefort grew up in Iowa\, traveled to France after graduating from college\, and never left. She is the author of three nonfiction books about the French: French Toast\, French Fried and Joie de Vivre\, all published by St. Martin’s Press. Final Transgression is her first work of fiction. Learn more at www.harrietweltyrochefort.com \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAlan Riding is the former Paris bureau chief and European cultural correspondent for The New York Times. Still living in Paris and now devoted to writing plays\, he is author of several books\, most recently And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-harriet-welty-rochefort-in-conversation-with-alan-riding/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201002T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20201002T210000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
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SUMMARY:Bilingual-ish: A Language-Exploring Comic Workshop with Kate Gavino (ages 12-18) [VIRTUAL—RSVP REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:For ages 12-18 \n\n  \n\nJoin graphic novel author and artist Kate Gavino for a virtual workshop that explores the highs and lows of being bilingual\, whether you’re perfectly fluent in many languages or struggling to get by in more than one. By making our own short comics\, we’ll explore different language personalities\, un-translatable words\, and more. Come prepared to share a little about your second (or third or fourth) tongue\, but don’t worry: there’s no need to be perfectly fluent in those languages. In fact\, misunderstandings and mix-ups will be encouraged in our comics! \n\n  \nAbout Kate: Kate Gavino is a writer and illustrator. She is the creator of the website\, Last Night’s Reading\, which was compiled into a published collection by Penguin Books in 2015. Her work has been featured in BuzzFeed\, Lenny Letter\, Oprah.com\, Rookie\, and more. She was recently named one of Brooklyn Magazine’s 30 Under 30. Her second book\, Sanpaku\, was published by BOOM! Studios in 2018. \n\nThis event is free and open to Library members ages 12-18 and will be hosted virtually via Zoom. Advance registration is required (sign-up HERE). Registered participants will be sent a link to join the event via email.\n \nSend an email to Celeste\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions about events and collections for children and teens: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/bilingual-ishl-a-language-exploring-comic-workshop-with-kate-gavino-ages-12-18-virtual-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200926T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200926T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
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SUMMARY:The Art of the Scary Story: Write the Haunted Paris Script (ages 14-adult) [VIRTUAL—BY RSVP]
DESCRIPTION:For ages 14-adult \n\n  \n\nWork on your craft in a fun\, creative atmosphere with other writers and help us build the script for our Haunted Library! \n  \nScripts are an art form. Just like short stories and novels\, they must be crafted carefully. Join us in crafting the script for the evening portion of the Library’s Halloween event. We will have a basic outline drafted of the route tours will take through the 7th arrondissement on the evening of 31 October 2020. During this workshop\, we’ll create scary vignettes for actors to perform\, and a tale for our tour guides to recount during the evening. Help us create an evening of scares for visitors who attend the event on Saturday 31 October. New writers\, fans of scary stories and professionals are all welcome to attend! \n\n  \n  \n\nThis event is free and open to Library members ages 12-adult and will be hosted virtually. Advance registration is required (sign-up HERE). Registered participants will be sent the info about how to join the meeting.\n \nSend an email to Celeste\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions about this event\, or any of our events for children and teens: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/the-art-of-the-scary-story-write-the-haunted-paris-script-ages-14-adult-virtual-by-rsvp/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200924T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200924T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
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SUMMARY:[FULL] Mindfulness Workshop with Daria Steketee [Virtual Event\, Library members only\, RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This event has filled; thank you for your understanding. \n  \n*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s programs will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nMindfulness Workshop for Creatives (1 hour in length) \nPlease join us for a relaxing and informative session in which you’ll get a preview of Mindfulness Meditation techniques\, all of which can be used for writers and other creatives looking to find their flow. \nThis workshop presents a secular approach to Mindfulness that focuses on how it can be practical and helpful in our daily lives. Participants will take away practical and accessible ways to reduce stress\, increase enjoyment of the present moment\, and promote resilience. No prior experience in meditation necessary. \nThis workshop will include:\n• an overview of the global phenomenon that mindfulness has become\n• simple techniques to get you started\n• a few short guided meditations\n• a Q&A \nDaria Steketee began meditating over 30 years ago in New York City\, where she grew up. She studied meditation in the Buddhist and Yogic traditions\, while pursuing studies in Comparative Religion\, Theatre\, and Art at Bryn Mawr College and New York University. Working as a visual artist in Paris\, she continued meditation training in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition before discovering Mindfulness through a series of classes\, silent retreats\, and books. A graduate of Mindfulness Training Institute\, she has been certified to teach meditation in a variety of formats and settings (for companies\, associations\, individuals\, etc.). \nFor more\, please visit Daria’s website: https://www.mindfultoday.fr.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/mindfulness-workshop-with-daria-steketee/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200922T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200922T203000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200824T084939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200917T090633Z
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Clara Oropeza [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \n  \nPlease join us for an evening with Clara Oropeza\, author of Anaïs Nin: A Myth of Her Own\, which traces Nin’s literary craft by following the intimacy of self-exploration and poetic expression attained in the details of the quotidian\, transfigured into fiction. By digging into the mythic tropes that permeate both her literary diaries and fiction\, this book demonstrates that Nin constructed a mythic method of her own\, revealing the extensive possibilities of an opulent feminine psyche. \nIn this work\, Clara demonstrates that the literary diary\, for Nin\, is a genre that with its traces of trickster archetype\, among others\, reveals a mercurial\, yet particular understanding of an embodied and at times mystical experience of a writer. The cogent analysis of Nin’s fiction alongside the posthumously published unexpurgated diaries\, within the backdrop of emerging psychological theories\, further illuminates Nin’s contributions as an experimental and important modernist writer whose daring and poetic voice has not been fully appreciated. By extending research on diary writing and anchoring Nin’s literary style within modernist traditions\, this book contributes to the redefinition of what literary modernism was comprised\, who participated and how it was defined. \nDr. Clara Oropeza is a Latina writer and Professor of English Literature at Santa Barbara City College\, California. Clara’s research combines comparative mythology\, feminist and literary studies and cultural theory. She has contributed various essays to Sagewoman and Between. Clara earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Mythology and Literature from Pacifica Graduate Institute and an MA in English Literature from California State University\, Los Angeles. \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-clara-oropeza/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200917T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200917T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200727T135736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200829T101259Z
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SUMMARY:Fantasy Book Club (ages 12-adult) [VIRTUAL—RSVP REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:ages 12-adult\n \n  \n\nJoin fantasy fans to discuss new worlds and novels with like-minded readers.\n\n  \n\nBring along your current or most recent fantasy read to talk about with the group during our online meeting. Participants are also encouraged to prepare a cup of tea or coffee to enjoy during the meeting. Each participant will be asked to read the first line of the fantasy novel they’ve selected and share a bit about the book. High and low fantasy\, contemporary or classic–it’s all perfect to bring along to discuss during these book club meetings. New members are welcome! This book club is facilitated by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLooking for your next great fantasy read? Stop by and browse our extensive collections! These titles are available for Library members in e-book format: \nThe Cruel Prince by Holly Black\, The Inquisitor’s Tale by Adam Gidwitz\, A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin\, Coraline by Neil Gaiman\, The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien\, and The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\nAdvance registration is required for this book group (sign-up HERE). Once registered\, participants will be sent an email with instructions to join the online meeting. 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 the first session. Send an email to Celeste Rhoads\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions about this event: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n  \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/ya-fantasy-book-club-ages-12-adult-virtual-rsvp-required-4/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200916T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200916T203000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200124T131017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200915T144453Z
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Mamta Chaudhry in conversation with Russell Banks [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nMamta Chaudhry’s debut novel\, Haunting Paris\, is set in Paris in 1989. Alone in her luminous apartment on Île Saint-Louis\, Sylvie discovers a mysterious letter among her late lover’s possessions\, launching her into a decades-old search for a child who vanished in the turbulence of the Second World War. She is unaware that she is watched over by Julien’s ghost\, his love for her powerful enough to draw him back to this world\, though doomed now to remain a silent observer. Sylvie’s quest leads her deep into the secrets of Julien’s past\, shedding new light on the dark days of Nazi-occupied Paris. A timeless story of love and loss\, Haunting Paris matches emotional intensity with lyrical storytelling to explore grief\, family secrets\, and the undeniable power of memory. \nThe book has been praised as “elegantly wrought” by The New York Times Book Review\, “extraordinarily beautiful” by Bonjour Paris\, and “a heart-wrenching love letter to Paris” by Publishers Weekly. Marilynne Robinson called “this fine first novel . . . a small parable\, pondering the nature of civilization itself\,” and Russell Banks described it as “powerful and moving . . . with a heartbreaking\, profoundly adult love story at its center.” \nMamta Chaudhry lives with her husband in Coral Gables\, Florida. They spend part of each year in India and in France. Much of her professional career was in television and classical radio at stations in Calcutta\, Gainesville\, Dallas\, and Miami. Mamta has studied with Marilynne Robinson and has also taught literature and creative writing at the University of Miami. Her early fiction\, poetry\, and feature articles have been published in newspapers and magazines in the States and in India. She is currently working on a second novel. \n  \n  \nPhoto by Nancie Battaglia \nFor her virtual evening at the Library\, Mamta will be in conversation with Russell Banks. Russell is the author of Cloudsplitter and Continental Drift\, and is one of America’s most prestigious fiction writers\, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers\, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous prizes and awards. He lives in upstate New York and Miami\, Florida.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-mamta-chaudhry/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200908T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200908T203000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200609T151152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T162251Z
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Alice Jardine [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \n \n  \nPlease join us as we welcome Alice Jardine\, author of At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva. \nAt the Risk of Thinking is the first biography of Julia Kristeva–one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice Jardine brings Kristeva’s work to a broader readership by connecting Kristeva’s personal journey\, from her childhood in Communist Bulgaria to her adult life as an international public intellectual based in Paris\, with the history of her ideas. Informed by extensive interviews with Kristeva herself\, this telling of a remarkable woman’s life story also draws out the complexities of Kristeva’s writing\, emphasizing her call for an urgent revival of bold interdisciplinary thinking in order to understand–and to act in–today’s world. \nDr. Jardine is Professor of Studies of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality and of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her publications include The Future of Difference\, Gynesis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity\, Living Attention: On Teresa Brennan\, and\, as translator\, Julia Kristeva’s Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-alice-jardine/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200901T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200901T203000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20191220T172742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200901T145142Z
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SUMMARY:[FULL] Evenings with an Author: Hollis Clayson [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This event is now FULL\, thank you for your understanding.\n\n*Covid-19 Update: This fall\, the Library’s Evening with an Author series will continue to meet virtually\, via Zoom. These events\, which are free and open to the public\, require advance sign up. Evenings with an Author programs begin at 19h30 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up.\n\nHollis Clayson will be speaking about her latest book\, Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Epoque. She will explain her interest in artificial lighting technologies and highlight the artworks that most fascinated her and informed her work.\n\nDr. Clayson is Professor of Art History and Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University\, where she has taught for 30+ years. Trained at Wellesley and UCLA\, she specializes in Paris-based art practices. Her books include Painted Love\, Paris in Despair\, and Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? In 2014\, she was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Ministry of Culture.\n\n*The Library has a limited number of copies of Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Epoque available for purchase\, at a special discounted rate of 20 euros (list price 50 euros). Please email programs@americanlibraryinparis.org to reserve yours. Payment and pick up at the Library\, with details to be communicated by email upon reservation of the book.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-holly-clayson/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200822T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200822T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200729T132434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200805T125216Z
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SUMMARY:Gift-making and Crafting (ages 6-12) [VIRTUAL - RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:Ages 6-12 \nJoin us for an hour dedicated to crafting and making fun gifts to give to friends and loved ones.  \nGet your paper\, pencils and scissors at the read and join Children’s and Teens’ Services Librarian Kirsty for some summer inspired crafts!  We’ll make some cool presents to give out and all crafting abilities are welcome! \nCrafts will be made using paper\, scissors\, coloring pens (or pencils or crayons!) and glue. Any other craft supplies you have at home can also be used. \nThis program requires advance registration\, and is open to Library members. Click HERE to register. Registered participants will be sent a link to join the event via Zoom. Parents and caregivers are responsible for connecting to the meeting\, and monitoring their children’s use of the internet.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/gift-making-craft-party-ages-6-12-virtual-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200816
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200817
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200116T163534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250727T073259Z
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SUMMARY:Library is closed
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/library-is-closed-75/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200731T230000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200731T230000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200423T120811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200704T142620Z
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SUMMARY:Teen Advisory Group (ages 12-18): deadline to apply
DESCRIPTION:Open to Library members ages 12-18 \n  \nProvide valuable feedback and earn community service hours! \n  \n  \nProvide feedback and earn community service hours by joining the Teen Advisory Group. Members of this group are asked to read widely and offer opinions on a selection of new books that we are considering adding to our collections. you may also be asked to offer input and suggestions about programs\, policies and more. Your feedback will be valued\, and you will learn about the behind-the-scenes work of the Library and its staff while getting a sneak peek at some of the newest YA reads. Meetings will be held one Friday a month from 17h00-18h30\, and members of the group are expected to commit to attending all meetings. \n  \nMeetings will be held one Friday a month at The American Library in Paris from 17h00-18h30 (dates TBC)\n \n  \nIf you are interested in joining the Teen Advisory Group\, fill in the ONLINE APPLICATION (HERE) by 31 July at 23h00. You can expect to write one to two paragraphs about your reading\, and why you would like to join the group. \n  \n If you know what you want to see in the Library\, and if you want to have more input in our collections and programs for teens\, submit an application today! \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/teen-advisory-group-ages-12-18-deadline-to-apply-click-here/
CATEGORIES:Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200715T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200715T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200609T151909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200617T124051Z
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SUMMARY:Ask the Doctor: COVID-19 update by Dr. Rob Murphy [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom (please RSVP here to receive meeting details and password). We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nAsk the Doctor- COVID-19 update by Dr. Rob Murphy\n\nAmerican Library in Paris member\, Dr. Robert L. Murphy has been at the forefront of every infectious disease global crisis since the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s. In this special Zoom session\, Dr. Murphy will share with us the latest updates in the fight against COVID-19. He will also answer questions from the audience. He will join us from Chicago\, where he is the Executive Director\, Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Murphy is currently involved in cutting edge research in diagnostics and treatment of COVID-19.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-dr-rob-murphy/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200714
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200715
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200116T162612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250727T073407Z
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SUMMARY:Library is closed
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/library-is-closed-69/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200709T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200709T183000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200622T135009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200623T100906Z
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SUMMARY:Writing Workshop with Anissa Bouziane [Virtual Event\, Library members only\, RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is FREE and open to Library members. \nSpace is limited and registration is required. Please RSVP here. \nThis event will run via Zoom from 17h00-18h30 on Thursday 9 July. \nWriting our Way out of Confinement\nMany of us see the process of deconfinement as a new beginning\, much like a blank page. This writing workshop will encourage participants to reflect upon their personal experiences of confinement and imagine their way out through writing. With Anissa as our guide\, we will consider what confinement has taught us about our own powers of observation and imagination\, and how these might be translated onto the page. We will explore how isolation has variously challenged and/or nourished our writing and creative practices. This workshop will feature a mix of instruction and quiet time for reflection and writing prompts. We hope you come away from the course with a seed or an idea for a piece of writing that you can continue to develop independently. \nAnissa Bouziane was born in Tennessee\, daughter of a Moroccan father and a French mother.  She grew up in Morocco\, but returned to the US to attend Wellesley College\, and went on to earn an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. Her debut novel\, Dune Song\, is rooted in her experience of witnessing the collapse of the Twin Towers. She now works and teaches in Paris.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/writing-workshop-with-anissa-bouziane-2/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200701T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200701T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200608T133514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T074520Z
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SUMMARY:[FULL] Evenings with an Author: Lindsey Tramuta and Thomas Chatterton Williams [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This event has filled. Those who signed up will receive meeting details tomorrow (1 July). Those who were unable to sign up should look out for a YouTube video of the Zoom recording of the event which will be posted to the Library’s YouTube channel later this week.  \n*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom. We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease join us for a conversation between Lindsey Tramuta and Thomas Chatterton Williams as they speak about her much-anticipated book\, The New Parisienne\, to be released by Abrams on 7 July 2020. \nLifting the veil on the mythologized Parisian woman—white\, lithe\, ever fashionable—The New Parisienne demystifies this oversimplified archetype and recasts the women of Paris as they truly are\, in all their complexity. Featuring 50 activists\, creators\, educators\, visionaries\, and disruptors—such as Leïla Slimani\, Lauren Bastide\, and Mayor Anne Hidalgo—the book reveals Paris as a blossoming cultural center of feminine power and showcases those who are bucking tradition\, making names for themselves\, and transforming the city.\n\nLindsey Tramuta is also the author of the bestselling book The New Paris and a regular contributor to the New York Times\, Condé Nast Traveler\, Afar and Fortune Magazine.\n\nLinks to pre-order The New Parisienne\nhttps://www.abramsbooks.com/product/new-parisienne_9781419742811/\nhttps://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781419742811/the-new-parisienne-the-women-ideas-shaping-paris\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThomas Chatterton Williams is the author of Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race (2019) and Losing My Cool: Love\, Literature\, and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd (2010). He is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine\, a columnist at Harper’s\, and a 2019 New America Fellow. Reach him on Twitter @ThomasChattWill.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-lindsey-tramuta/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200630T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200630T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200607T125916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T140401Z
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SUMMARY:[FULL] Evenings with an Author: Emilio Williams [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This event is now full\, thank you for your understanding. A recording will be released in our Podcast series\, “Evenings with an Author.” \n*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom. We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \n\nEmilio Williams presents\n“Empty Streets\, Busy Lives:\nA surprising historical tour of le Septième through the iconic photos of Eugène Atget (1857–1927)”\n\nA century ago\, ex-pat American photographers Man Ray and Berenice Abbott discovered a treasure trove of photos that an unknown commercial photographer\, Eugène Atget\, had taken of the empty streets of Old Paris. The surrealists became enthralled by his uncanny and eerie images\, now regarded as the foundational masterpieces of street photography. During his research on the history of 7th arrondissement\, Emilio found an album of forgotten photos of the district taken by Atget. For his lecture\, Emilio has combined those rarely seen photos with surprising discoveries of the colorful figures who lived in the neighborhood and walked the streets around the American Library in Paris.\n\nEmilio Williams divides his time between Paris and Chicago\, where he is a playwright resident and faculty member at Chicago Dramatists. This fall he will be teaching at Columbia College\, Dominican University\, and Georgia State University. He is currently working on a non-fiction book about the forgotten stories of the 7th arrondissement in the Parisian Left Bank. His award-winning theater plays have been produced and published internationally to much critical acclaim. In his previous life as a journalist\, he worked for CNN in Atlanta and Washington DC.\n\n\nPhoto: “Fontaine de Mars” Eugène Atget\, 1903.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-emilio-williams-virtual-public-event-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200627T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200627T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200618T115840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200619T080205Z
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SUMMARY:Mixed-Up Fairy Tales (ages 6-12) [VIRTUAL - RSVP REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:Ages 6-10\n\n\n \n\n\n\nYou know the original fairy tales. Now\, tune in for a few new takes on the classic stories! This event will be hosted by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste\, who will read several new spins on classic stories\, and then lead participants in the creation of their own fairy-tale inspired character art.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis program requires advance registration\, and is open to Library members. Click HERE to register. Registered participants will be sent a link to join the event via Zoom. Parents and caregivers are responsible for connecting to the meeting\, and monitoring their children’s use of the internet.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/mixed-up-fairy-tales-ages-6-12-virtual-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200626T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200626T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
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SUMMARY:Friday Night Poets (a workshop with National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman) (ages 12-18) [VIRTUAL EVENT - REGISTRATION REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:for ages 12-18 \n  \nJoin us for a writing workshop and Q & A with National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman. During this interactive virtual workshop\, Amanda will guide participants in a poetry exercise\, then answer questions about her work. Participants will be required to provide their own writing materials. We’ll provide the inspiration. \nCheck out Amanda’s performance on CBS here\, or her appearance on SGN with John Krasinski here. \nAbout Amanda: At 22\, Amanda Gorman is heralded as “the next great figure in American poetry.” Amanda made history in 2017 by being named the first ever National Youth Poet Laureate in the United States. Born and raised in Los Angeles\, she is a recent graduate of Harvard\, where she studied Sociology. Since publishing a poetry collection at 16\, her writing has won her invitations to the Obama White House and to perform for Lin-Manuel Miranda\, Al Gore\, Secretary Hillary Clinton\, Malala Yousafzai\, and others. Amanda has performed 4th of July and Thanksgiving poems for CBS and she has spoken at events and venues across the country\, including the Library of Congress and Lincoln Center. She has received a Genius Grant from OZY Media\, as well as recognition from Scholastic Inc.\, YoungArts\, the Glamour magazine College Women of the Year Awards\, and the Webby Awards. She currently writes for the New York Times newsletter The Edit and recently signed a two-book deal with Viking (a division of Penguin Random House) after a bidding war involving eight publishers. Most recently\, she traveled to Slovenia with Prada as a reporter on the company’s latest sustainability project\, and penned the manifesto for Nike’s 2020 Black History Month campaign. She is the youngest board member of 826 National\, the largest youth writing network in the United States. \nAmanda had been invited as the Library’s summer Writer in Residence and she has graciously offered to host this virtual event since she can no longer be in Paris this June. We look forward to welcoming her in person when that is possible. \nThis event is free and open to the public (ages 12-18). This event will be hosted virtually via Zoom. Registered participants will be sent a link to join the event. Advance registration is required for Teen Nights (register HERE).  \nSend an email to Celeste\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions about events and collections for ages 0-18: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. Participation in teen events is free for Library members. \n  \nPhoto courtesy of Kelia Anne. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/friday-night-poets-a-workshop-with-national-youth-poet-laureate-amanda-gorman-ages-12-18-virtual-event-registration-required/
CATEGORIES:Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200625T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200625T173000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200612T143525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200612T144453Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Bookworms: A book club for ages 9-12 [VIRTUAL - RSVP REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:A book club for 9-12-year-olds! \n  \nThis month\, we’re trying out a new book group for kids! The aim of this group is to create a space for strong readers to share books they’ve enjoyed\, and to foster discussion among our community of young readers. Bring along your current or most recent fiction or nonfiction read in English to talk about with the group during our online meeting. \n  \nDuring the meeting\, each child will be asked to: \n\nread the first line of the book they’ve selected\nbriefly tell the rest of the group about the book (genre\, favorite characters\, setting…)\ntell the group whether they recommend the book and why\n\nThis book group is intended for children who read independently\, although parents are welcome to join. Parents and caregivers who participate alongside their children will be expected to have read the novel with their children or to bring along their own children’s book to share and discuss. \n  \n  \nThis program requires advance registration\, and is open to Library members. Click HERE to register. This program is free for Library members. Each child attending must have their own Library card\, or be covered by a family membership. Registered participants will be sent a link to join the event via Zoom. Parents and caregivers are responsible for connecting to the meeting\, and monitoring their children’s use of the internet.\n \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/virtual-bookworms-a-book-club-for-ages-9-12-virtual-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200624T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200624T183000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200607T131212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200622T122757Z
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SUMMARY:Cause of Death: COVID-19\, Police Violence\, or Racism?: A Conversation about Racial Inequalities in France and the United States with Dr. Jean Beaman and Inès Seddiki [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom (please RSVP here to receive meeting details and password). We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \n  \n \n  \nCause of Death: COVID-19\, Police Violence\, or Racism?: A Conversation about Racial Inequalities in France and the United States with Dr. Jean Beaman and Inès Seddiki. \nFor this evening of conversation\, Inès will interview Jean about her research\, including her book\, Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France. Jean will then pose some questions to Inès about her organization\, GHETT’UP. Finally\, the two will discuss racism in France more broadly re COVID-19 and police violence. They will also offer their thoughts and perspectives on the recent protests in France for Adama Traoré and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. \nThere will be limited time for questions after the conversation. \nJean Beaman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She was previously on the faculty at Purdue University and has held visiting fellowships at Duke University and the European University Institute (Florence\, Italy). Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on race/ethnicity\, racism\, international migration\, and state-sponsored violence in both France and the United States. She is an Editor of H-Net Black Europe\, an Associate Editor of the journal\, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power\, and Corresponding Editor for the journal Metropolitics/Metropolitiques. She earned her B.A.\, M.A.\, and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. \n \n  \n  \nInès Seddiki is a French-Moroccan activist and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) professional living in the banlieues of Paris. Inès graduated with a masters degree in corporate social responsibility from Grenoble Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Pierre Mendès-France University. In 2016\, she founded GHETT’UP\, an organization dealing with youth empowerment and leadership in the underprivileged areas of Paris\, the banlieues. 5000+ youth have been impacted by the organization’s programs.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/cause-of-death-covid-19-police-violence-or-racism/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200623T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200623T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200607T105240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200618T132928Z
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Visiting Fellow Mark Braude [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom (please RSVP here to receive meeting details and password). We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease join us for a discussion with author and American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow Mark Braude about his recent book\, The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Exile to Escape\,  a “coup de coeur” for the 2019 American Library in Paris Book Award and a community favorite. \nAs many of us continue to follow confinement or quarantine measures in the fight against covid-19\, themes of exile\, banishment\, and separation are at the forefront of our minds. Indeed\, Mark’s interest in Napoleon stems from this very specific experience of his off the main stage of Europe in 1814-15. In finding a novel approach to a larger than life personality\, Mark gives us something unexpected and fresh–he takes us far beyond those chapters of Napoleon’s life that have received extensive treatment and analysis. In our discussion\, Mark will tell us more about his research and findings\, and provide his reflections on how exile affected one of the most famous historical figures of all time\, reminding us that despite having lived an extraordinary life\, Napoleon was\, after all\, a human being who often found himself separated from or at the mercy of others\, as was the case during his exile on Elba. \nMark was selected as an American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow for Spring 2020. Though Mark was unable to join us at the Library in May 2020 as originally planned\, we look forward to welcoming him sometime in 2020-21\, during which time he will write\, research\, and engage further with our community by offering another lecture as well as a workshop. \nMARK BRAUDE is the author of The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba From Exile to Escape and Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle. He is currently at work on a book of narrative nonfiction about the French artist and model Kiki de Montparnasse\, focusing on her professional and romantic entanglement with the American photographer Man Ray in 1920s Paris\, to be published by W.W. Norton. 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-visiting-fellow-mark-braude-virtual-public-event-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200619T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200619T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T111422
CREATED:20200523T104104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200617T143100Z
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SUMMARY:Teen Lit Taboo (ages 12-18) [VIRTUAL - RSVP REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:Show off your fabulous memory of all things related to teen literature by competing in an evening of this custom made guessing game!\n \n  \n \nYou will be placed in teams before the event\, and you’ll work in groups to compete in a Teen Lit Trivia game specially created by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads and Children’s and Teens’ Services Librarian Kirsty McCulloch Reid. Check out the game Taboo\, which inspired this event. \n  \nThis game will be played much like the Taboo game from Hasbro. The objective of the game is for a player to have their team members guess the word on the player’s card without using the word itself or five additional words listed on the card. All game cards will feature characters\, settings and themes from YA literature. This event will take place virtually via Zoom\, and participants will need to have microphones and video enabled. Cards will be sent via the chat box. We’ve tested this. It works. \n  \nThe object of the game is for a player to have their partners/team members guess the word on their card without using the word itself or any of the six additional words listed on the card. Players should be timed so that each person has 1 or 2 minutes to get their team members to guess the words on as many cards as possible. The team to reach a defined score first wins (i.e.: first player to reach 25 points). \n  \nPrizes will be available for pickup at the Library following the event for all participants. \n  \nAdvance registration is required for Teen Nights (sign-up HERE for Teen Lit Taboo). Send an email to Celeste\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions about events and collections for ages 0-18: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. Participation in teen events is free for Library members and 10€ for non-members.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/teen-lit-taboo-ages-12-18-virtual-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Teens
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