1:00 PM – Free for All!
Town Hall Seattle
Imagine an entire Town Hall season rolled into one rich, raucous day, and you’re at Free for All. Every hour on the hour, our two stages will host local musicians, scientists, writers, thinkers, and civic leaders in programs drawn from across the wide expanse of the Town Hall calendar. Highlights include a family concert by Caspar Babypants (Chris Ballew, of The Presidents of the United States of America); a TownMusic concert; Short Stories Live; a debate between King County Executive candidates; science historian George Dyson, with his acclaimed consideration of the kayak; and the thundering drums of Seattle Kokon Taiko. Light food and drinks will be served throughout the day in Town Hall’s new café space. Come for a taste, or stay the whole afternoon—and celebrate ten years of programs that reflect and inspire Seattle’s best impulses: creativity, empathy, expansive thinking, and an ever-stronger community.
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2:00 PM – Lynda Mapes: Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village
SPL Central Library, Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium
Award-winning Seattle Times journalist Lynda Mapes spent over a year interviewing the people involved in the 2003 discovery of the oldest and largest Indian village ever unearthed in the Northwest. It began with a backhoe digging out a space for a massive local dry dock and stumbling upon the long-buried village of Tse-whit-zen, the central city to the Klallam people. The book looks at the history and culture of the Klallam, and the controversy that surrounded the cessation of the dig, which had already cost the state $70 million.
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2:00 PM – Wendy Wahman: Don’t Lick the Dog: Making Friends with Dogs
Queen Anne Books
In celebration of National Children’s Book Week and Page Ahead’s Book Drive, author Wendy Wahman joins Charles to share her new picture book, Don’t Lick the Dog. Learn how to approach pooches, meet a real, live author and illustrator, and enjoy the reading stylings of Charles during this festive event!
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6:30 PM – Prof. Yael Zerbavel: “Encounters with the Past: Remembering the ‘Bygone’ in Israeli Culture”
UW Kane Hall, Room 220
34th Annual Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies presents Zerbavel, author of Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition. Zerbavel is the director of The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life and a professor of Jewish Studies and History at Rutgers University. There will be a kosher dessert dessert reception honoring Mrs. Althea Stroum and celebrating the naming of the Samuel & Althea Stroum Jewish Studies Program following the first lecture. RSVP requested for only the first lecture because of the special nature of this event.
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