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    The Magic of Masterpiece – “All Creatures Great and Small” Filmmaker Talk with Ben Vanstone

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    Talk streams live on Monday, Oct. 23 at 8pm ET | 5pm PT Program Description: For eight years, Martin Baron served as executive editor of The Washington Post, leading its newsroom from Jeff Bezos’s purchase of the paper to the election and presidency of Donald Trump. Join Baron in conversation with Stephen Henderson for a discussion on Baron’s new book, “Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post,” as he details his tenure at The Post and examines larger issues of the press and its role in democracy.   The author’s book will be available for sale onsite [...]

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    What to Read in 2024 with Booklist Reader

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    Join PBS Books and experts from Booklist Reader to discover some of the great new book releases of 2024. Find your next read, right here!

  • Yolanda Renee King program information

    Author Talk with Yolanda Renee King – We Dream A World

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    PBS Books invites you to hear from the next generation that is building on the legacy of Dr. Martain Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King. Heather-Marie Montilla sits down with Author Yolanda Renee King and Illustrator Nicole Tadgell to discuss Miss King’s debut book Carrying the Light from My Grandparents Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King: We Dream a World.

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    Soheap Pich | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series

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    https://www.pbsbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Soheap-Pich-Feature-Image-800x450.png This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday, February 1, 2024 at 5:30 pm in the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI. Sopheap Pich is widely considered to be Cambodia’s most internationally prominent contemporary artist. In 1979, when the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia led to the ousting of the Khmer Rouge régime, he fled with his family to Thailand, spending four years in refugee camps before immigrating to the United States. Memories of traveling vast distances on foot and witnessing the devastation of war — broken bodies, ravaged landscapes, abandoned artillery, ruined buildings, and the breakdown of social and cultural institutions — underpin his early [...]

  • Event info - Author Talk with Cheryl Wills

    Author Talk with Cheryl Wills

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    PBS Books sits down with Cheryl Wills to discuss her book "Isn't Her Grace Amazing!".

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    Nkeiru Okoye | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series

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    This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 5:30 pm in the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI. Nkeiru Okoye is an American-born composer of African American and Nigerian ancestry. After studying composition, music theory, piano, conducting, and Africana Studies at Oberlin Conservatory, she pursued graduate studies at Rutgers University and became one of the leading African American women composers. An activist through the arts, Okoye creates a body of work that welcomes and affirms both traditional and new audiences. Nkeiru Okoye’s new commission When the Caged Bird Sings premieres on Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 7:30 PM at UM’s Hill Auditorium, as a collaboration between UMS and the U‑M School of [...]

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    Ken Aptekar | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series

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    Artist Ken Aptekar toys with historical paintings by using the history of art as his playground. He time-travels works from the past into the present by his repainting joined to his own texts. Here’s the idea: Paintings are nothing on their own, they start meaning something only when you start talking back to them.