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“These Precious Days”: Creative Collective Discussion Group (Virtual)
Tuesday, October 29
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Registration Required Below
Have fun and make friends while cultivating your creativity in our weekly group discussions about art, creativity and so much more! Our facilitated conversations invite participants to consider imaginative and alternative viewpoints about the creative process in a congenial, relaxed Zoom setting. Empower your creativity and feed your brain by joining us in the Creative Collective Discussion Group!
This fall, our exploration into the power of creativity continues with the book These Precious Days by legendary author Ann Patchett. Copies of the book will be available to checkout at the Library's front desk and both the ebook and audiobook are available to downloaded from Hoopla.
Please read the book's introduction and chapter 1 for the first meeting.
The Creative Collective meets weekly on Tuesdays. Register once for all eight weekly meetings in this session, September 10 through October 29.
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Richard Slotkin on American Myths — Conversations: Truth, Myth & Democracy (Virtual)
Tuesday, October 29
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Tonight's Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85914743947?pwd=Va5tsOikdRnubyef8zqJwMYTtkiQGD.1
Registration Required Below Myths are the main drivers of America's culture wars — pitting us against each other, shaping our identity and bringing us to the brink of an existential crisis. Richard Slotkin, widely regarded as one of the preeminent cultural critics of our time, engages in an important Conversations discussion with Dr. Daniel Barrett focusing on some foundational myths that have shaped American identity. Slotkin and Barrett will discuss how contemporary politics are heavily influenced by these myths, on both sides of the political aisle. Slotkin's most recent book, A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America, was published this year and longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Nonfiction. This virtual webinar will be hosted via Zoom. Registered participants will receive an invitation with link prior to the program. Please include a cell phone number to receive a text reminder. Panelists:
Richard Slotkin is an author, cultural critic and historian who is a three-time finalist for the National Book Award. In addition to his most recent work, he is the author of Lost Battalions, a New York Times Notable Book, and an award-winning trilogy on the myth of the frontier in America–Regeneration Through Violence, The Fatal Environment, and Gunfighter Nation–as well as three historical novels: The Crater: A Novel, The Return of Henry Starr, and Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln. He is the Olin Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University.
Dr. Daniel W. Barrett is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Western Connecticut State University. A former resident of Redding, he graduated with a BA from Wesleyan University, earned his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Arizona State University and served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Health Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Conversations: Truth, Myth & Democracy is a series of programs co-sponsored by Redding's League of Women Voters and The Mark Twain Library. Winner of the 2022 Connecticut Library Association’s Award for Excellence in Public Library Service, the series continues the community conversation on issues of race, justice and democracy.Many thanks to area Libraries and Leagues for their support of this series:
Easton Public Library Weston Public Library Friends of the Weston Public Library Newtown’s C.H. Booth Library Ridgefield Library Woodbury Public Library The League of Women Voters of Weston The League of Women Voters of Ridgefield The League of Women Voters of Northern Fairfield County