9:00 AM – Real Change Booksale Party
University Congregational Church
Annual booksale
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11:30 AM – Free Comic Book Day!: Love & Rockets: New Stories
Fantagraphics Books & Gallery
Fantagraphics Books is offering a free sampler of Love and Rockets: New Stories by eminent alternative cartoonists Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez. Included is a special preview of Gilbert’s “Sad Girl” saga, which introduces the character “Killer.” Also free is a limited supply of the coveted Unseen Peanuts comic from the 2007 Free Comic Book Day promotion, featuring rare strips by American master Charles M. Schulz. Not to mention the I.G.N.A.T.Z. sampler from last year’s Free Comic Book Day featuring comics by David B., Zak Sally, Kevin Huizenga, Richard Sala and more. If that’s not enough, we’ll be handing out Comic Strip Masterpieces, a cool collection of classics including Little Nemo, Popeye, Krazy Kat, Terry & the Pirates and more presented in their original tabloid newsprint format.’ [Source: Fantagraphics]
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2:00 PM – Heather Stark: Why Doesn’t She Just Leave? A New Perspective on Domestic Violence
Elliott Bay Book Co.
Rhianna, Robin Givens, the woman down the street, and maybe even your own sister, friend or mother—these are some of those abused by husbands and partners. Health journalist and broadcaster Heather Stark talks today about domestic violence and shares some of the stories and research compiled in her book.
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2:00 PM – Joan Hockaday: Greenscapes: Olmsted’s Pacific Northwest
SPL Central Library, Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium
In the early 1900’s, the meticulous, visionary protege brought the pastoral aesthetic of his famous stepfather, Frederick Law Olmsted, to premier park systems throughout the Pacific Northwest–designing verdant havens that still refresh urban souls in Portand, Seattle, and Spokane.
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4:00 PM – Poets West: Open Mic
SPL Green Lake Branch
Poets West has programs with open mike sessions on the first three Saturdays of May.
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