8:00 AM – 2009 NW Leadership Summit
Town Hall Seattle, Great Hall
Peter Senge, recently named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top 20 most influential business thinks and author of The Fifth Discipline, and a panel of Pacific Northwest business executives—Jim Sinegal (Costco), Dean Allen (McKinstry), Frank Blethen (Seattle Times), Julie Larson-Green (Microsoft), Pat Shanahan (Boeing)—discuss how companies around the world are leading the change from “business as usual” tactics towards transformative strategies that are essential for creating a flourishing economy and sustainable world. Presented by Seattle University’s Albers Scholl of Business and Economics. [Source: Town Hall Seattle}
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10:00 AM – “Surprise” Celebrity Reader from EMP: Children’s Storytime
Barnes & Noble, University Village
Jim Henson themed, according to the website
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12:00 PM – Poetry Appreciation Group
SPL Central Library
Join fellow poetry lovers to read and discuss poems.
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7:00 PM – John Bradshaw: Reclaiming Virtue: How We Can Develop the Moral Intelligence to Do the Right Thing at the Right Time for the Right Reason
Seattle First Baptist Church
Motivational speaker John Bradshaw makes the case for the development of “inborn moral intelligence” and provides guidance for living a life of integrity and well-being in his new book.
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7:00 PM – Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger
UW Bookstore, U-District
2003 British Author of the Year and perennial resident of the Man Booker prize shortlist, Sarah Waters, presents this post-WWII ghost story. A doctor pays a call on a crumbling estate and finds its occupants, the Ayres family, haunted by more than their home’s disrepair. He also finds his own story as entwined with the story of the family as the weeds choking the garden. [Source: UW Bookstore]
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7:30 PM – Idra Novey & Carey Salerno: Poetry Reading
Open Books
Idra Novey reads from The Next Country, from Alice James Books. Carey Salerno’s collection, Shelter, was also published by Alice James.
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7:30 PM – Will North: Water, Stone, Heart
Elliott Bay Book Co.
“A life-threatening storm in Cornwall has a silver lining, helping two attracted but procrastinating divorcees to commit. North places the North American central characters of his second novel in a lovingly described corner of England. His book is as much a hymn to Cornwall—its landscape, communities, history, beer, dry-stone walling—as it is to romance. Affairs of the heart do, however, play a central role …” – Kirkus Reviews.
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8:00 PM – Castalia: Readings
Richard Hugo House, Cabaret
UW creative writing program reading series featuring David Bosworth, Brian Christian, Kary Wayson, Elizabeth Cooperman and Kirsten Rue.
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