Calendar

Jun
24
Sun
Ann Arbor Storytellers Guild @ AADL 3rd floor
Jun 24 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

All invited to listen to guild members swap stories or bring their own to tell.
2-4 p.m., AADL Downtown 3rd-floor freespace rm., 343 S. Fifth Ave. Free. annarborstorytelling.org, 997-5388

 

 

Shutta Crum: Mousling’s Words, and Rhonda Gowler Greene: Let’s Go ABC! Things That Go, from A to Z @ Nicola's Books
Jun 24 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

These 2 Michigan picture book writers read from their new books. Crum’s Mousling’s Words is about a young mouse’s first trip out of the nest. Greene’s Let’s Go ABC! Things That Go, from A to Z celebrates machines that move, from airplanes to zeppelins. Refreshments, prizes, signings.
2 p.m., Nicola’s, Westgate shopping center. Free. 662-0600.

RC Production: Romeo and Juliet @ Arboretum (Peony Garden entrance)
Jun 24 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

June 7-10, 14-17, & 21-24. U-M Residential College drama lecturer Kate Mendeloff directs students and local actors in an alfresco production of Shakespeare’s vividly poetic love story, a romantic tragedy about “star-crossed lovers” defying their feuding families. Initially lightheartedly comic, then dire, this perennially popular drama is the heart-wrenching tale of 2 impetuous young lovers destroyed by the intransigence of their feuding families, their own mistakes, and some incredibly bad timing. The RC’s annual Shakespeare in the Arb productions have become a hugely popular local summer tradition. Director Mendeloff takes special care to make the shifting Arb environments an active force in the performance. Bring a blanket or portable chair to sit on; dress for the weather.
6:30 p.m., meet at the Peony Garden entrance at 1610 Washington Heights. $20 (Friends of Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum, $15; students, $15; seniors age 62 & over, $17; youth under age 18, $10; kids under 5, free) at the gate only. Tickets go on sale at 5:30 p.m. Space limited; come early. 998-9540.

Jun
25
Mon
Peter Gabel: The Desire for Mutual Recognition: Social Movements and the Dissolution of the False Self @ Crazy Wisdom
Jun 25 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
 Social Theorist Peter Gabel will speak about his new book The Desire for Mutual Recognition: Social Movements and the Dissolution of the False Self, published by Routledge Press, 2018. Free to attend. For more info: (415) 694-8821or ptrgabel@gmail.com

 

Skazat! Poetry Series: Janice Leach and James Frederick Leach @ Sweetwaters
Jun 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

This local husband-and-wife writing team reads from ‘Til Death: Marriage Poems, their jointly written collection exploring the ups and downs of suburban monogamy from their dual perspectives. The program begins with open mike readings.
7-8:30 p.m., Sweetwaters, 123 W. Washington. Free. 994-6663.

Summer Reading Series: Sarah Zettel: An Exchange of Two Flowers @ AADL Multipurpose Room
Jun 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Local writer Sarah Zettel reads from her new historical fiction novella set in 1839 China at the outset of the 1st Anglo-Chinese Opium War. Tea & snacks.
7-8:30 p.m., AADL Downtown multipurpose rm., 343 S. Fifth Ave. Free. 327-4200.

Jun
26
Tue
Fiction at Literati: Fatima Farheen Mirza: A Place For Us @ Literati
Jun 26 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Literati Bookstore is excited to welcome author Fatima Farheen Mirza, who will read and discuss her debut novel, A Place for Us.

About A Place for Us:
Fatima Farheen Mirza’s masterful debut novel gathers together the lives of an Indian Muslim family in California on the eve of its eldest daughter’s wedding. As Hadia’s marriage—one chosen of love, not tradition—brings the family back together, her parents, Rafiq and Layla, must come to terms with the choices that their two daughters, and their estranged son, Amar, have made.

In a narrative that spans decades and sees family life through the eyes of each member, A Place for Us charts the crucial moments in the family’s past, from the bonds that hold them together to the differences that pull them apart.

And as Hadia, Huda, and Amar attempt to carve out lives for themselves, they must reconcile their present culture with their parents’ faith, tread a path between the old world and the new, and learn how the smallest decisions can lead to the deepest of betrayals.

This is a deeply moving and resonant story for our times: a masterful novel of love, identity, and belonging—one that eloquently examines what it means to be both American and Muslim—and announces Fatima Farheen Mirza as a major new literary talent.

Fatima Farheen Mirza was born and raised in the Bay Area, and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a teaching-writing fellow. She currently lives in Brooklyn.

Jun
27
Wed
Michael Ferro: Title 13 and Susan DeFreitas: Hot Season @ Bookbound
Jun 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Readings by these 2 novelists. Title 13 is local writer Ferro’s satirical debut novel about an alcoholic bureaucrat who struggles with mounting paranoia, his relationships with concerned family members, his dying grandmother, and a budding office romance. Portland writer DeFreitas’s Hot Season is about 3 college roommates whose lives change when the FBI comes to campus in pursuit of an alum wanted for politically motivated crimes. Signing.
7 p.m., Bookbound, Courtyard Shops. Free. 369-4345.

Poetry and the Written Word: Lauren Bernstein-Machlay: Travelers @ Crazy Wisdom
Jun 27 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Widely-published Detroit poet Lauren Bernstein-Machlay reads from her latest book, Travelers, a collection of autobiographical poems. Foreword (Traverse City) writer Susan Waggoner notes “it’s through the bravery of the concept-going back to the place where you grew up to plant your flag in uncertain turf-that the book most delivers. Poised between sinking back into nature and leaping forward to revival, flashing glimpses of Detroit stand out.” Followed by a poetry and short fiction open mike.
7-9 p.m., Crazy Wisdom, 114 S. Main. Free. 665-2757.

 

Toastmasters Meeting @ Sweetwaters
Jun 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Toastmasters is an international group devoted to helping each other grow in our abilities to give speeches. The Sweetwaters Toastmasters Club meets twice monthly. We are a fun and friendly group! Toastmasters also helps you develop leadership skills if you wish to do that. Come as many times as you want for free, and decide later if you want to join. In the meantime, come make new friends and have fun!
Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea on Washington Street, 123 West Washington Street. Free. 323-286-3999. https://www.facebook.com/groups/TMSweet/

 

 

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