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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
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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
DTSTAMP:20260526T122948
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220113T210000
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
DTSTAMP:20260526T122948
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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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CREATED:20211201T114350Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220118T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220118T203000
DTSTAMP:20260526T122948
CREATED:20211213T083548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211213T083830Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260526T122948
CREATED:20211203T163936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211204T150332Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260526T122948
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220122T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220122T173000
DTSTAMP:20260526T122948
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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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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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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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