10:00 AM – African American Writers Alliance: Readings
NOVA
African-American Writers’ Alliance will read on Black History and the Black Experience.
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10:00 AM – Carmela & Steve D’Amico: Ella the Elegant Elephant
Barnes & Noble, University Village
Youth Playday storytime. Personally, I think the hat is divine.
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7:00 PM – Dan Hinkley: “From Sechuan to Seattle: Dan Hinkley’s Plant Collection Trip to China and Vietnam”
UW, Tower Auditorium, $7-15
Celebrate Washington Park Arboretum’s 75th anniversary with a lecture and slideshow. Almost as much fun as your in-law’s vacation photos. Okay, I take that back, it’s probably way more fun than your in-laws.
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7:00 PM – David Suzuki: The Big Picture: Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet
Town Hall Seattle, Great Hall, $10
“Addressing suburban sprawl, sustainable transportation, food shortages, biodiversity, technology, public policy, and more, Suzuki helps set a course to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st century.” Also, he’s brilliant.
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7:00 PM – Mark Pendergrast: Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
UW, Kane Hall
“First in a series of lectures hosted by the UW Alumni Association entitled “Coffee: From the Grounds Up” which will look at the way coffee has dominated and shaped entire cultures. Pendergrast starts things off by talking about his definitive history of the enthusiasm-promoting beverage from 1999.”
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7:30 PM – Shilpa Agarwal: Haunting Bombay
Elliott Bay Book Co.
Agarwal will read and sign her spooky debut novel about the ghost of a drowned child.
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