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SUMMARY:FAN: Class: A Memoir of Motherhood\, Hunger\, and Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid\, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019\, it was called “an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor” (People). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid\, which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix’s fourth most-watched show in 2021. Land’s escape out of poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions. \nMaid was a story about a housecleaner\, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In Class: A Memoir of Motherhood\, Hunger\, and Higher Education\, Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system\, not having enough money for food\, navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn’t understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line—Land finds a way to survive once again\, finally graduating in her mid-thirties. \nClass paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear\, candid\, and moving prose\, Class grapples with these questions\, offering a searing indictment of America’s educational system and an inspiring testimony of a mother’s triumph against all odds. \nLand will be in conversation with award-winning playwright and screenwriter Molly Smith Metzler\, the creator\, writer\, and executive producer of the Netflix limited series Maid\, which earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing of a Limited Series. Maid was nominated for three Emmy Awards\, three Golden Globe Awards\, two Critics Choice Awards\, two TCA Awards\, The Humanitas Prize\, and more. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \n \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Class to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-class-a-memoir-of-motherhood-hunger-and-higher-education/
LOCATION:IL
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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SUMMARY:FAN: The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
DESCRIPTION:In The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year\, award-winning bestselling author Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons—from a crow spied on New Year’s Day\, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year\, to the lingering bluebirds of December\, revisiting the nest box they used in spring—what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world\, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer. \nAlong the way\, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children\, unexpectedly home during the pandemic\, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world\, now in visible flux\, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author—and from us. For\, as Renkl writes\, “radiant things are bursting forth in the darkest places\, in the smallest nooks and deepest cracks of the hidden world.” \nWith fifty-two original color artworks by the author’s brother\, Billy Renkl\, The Comfort of Crows is a lovely and deeply moving book from a cherished observer of the natural world. \nRenkl lives in Nashville and is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times\, where her essays appear weekly. She will be in conversation with Mary Laura Philpott\, the nationally bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink and the memoir Bomb Shelter: Love\, Time\, and Other Explosives\, which won the Southern Book Prize and was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and one of NPR’s “Favorite Books of 2022.” \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \n \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Comfort of Crows from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Renkl and Philpott that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-the-comfort-of-crows-a-backyard-year/
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CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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SUMMARY:FAN: The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are
DESCRIPTION:Today Tariq Trotter—better known as Black Thought—is the platinum-selling\, three-time Grammy-winning co-founder of The Roots\, and one of the most exhilaratingly skillful and profound rappers the culture has ever produced. But his story begins with a tragedy: as a child\, Trotter burned down his family’s home. The years that followed are the story of a life snatched from the flames\, forged in fire. \nIn The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are\, Trotter doesn’t just narrate a riveting and moving portrait of the artist as a young man but gives readers a courageous model of what it means to live an examined life. In vivid vignettes\, he tells the dramatic stories of the four powerful relationships that shaped him—community\, friends\, art\, and family—each a complex weave of love\, discovery\, trauma\, and loss. \nBut beyond offering the compellingly poetic account of one artist’s creative and emotional origins\, Trotter explores the vital questions we all must confront about our formative years: How can we see the story of our young lives clearly? How do we use that story to understand who we’ve become? How do we forgive the people who loved and hurt us? How do we rediscover and honor our first dreams? And finally\, what do we take forward\, what do we pass on\, what do we leave behind? This is the beautifully bluesy story of a boy genius’s coming of age that illuminates the redemptive power of the upcycle. \nTrotter is one of the most powerful voices in hip-hop and the winner of three NAACP Image Awards and leads the house band on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\, joined by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (FAN ’21)\, co-founder of The Roots. \nTrotter will be in conversation with artist\, archivist\, and curator Theaster Gates\, a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Visual Arts and the College. Prof. Gates creates work that focuses on space theory and land development\, sculpture\, and performance. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of The Upcycled Self to randomly selected Zoom attendees.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-the-upcycled-self-a-memoir-on-the-art-of-becoming-who-we-are/
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CATEGORIES:Adults,Age,Events,Family & Kids,Family Action Network
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