Upcoming Poetry & Literature Events
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Aug 26, 2019
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Open Mic at Village BooksLocation: Village Books and Paper Dreams, Village Books and Paper Dreams,Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Village Books invites everyone to enjoy local talents as they share their own stories, poems, and essays! Sign up at our main counter on the first floor or call (360) 671-2626.More |
 Aug 27, 2019
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Books and Brews - Handmaid's TaleLocation: Overflow Taps, Overflow Taps,Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Our August Books and Brews read is Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. This book was selected based on request from current Books and Brews participants! Overflow Taps and Village Books & Paper Dreams in Lynden have partnered for a monthly [...]More |
 Aug 30, 2019
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An Evening with Louise PennyLocation: Mount Baker Theatre, BellinghamMount Baker Theatre, BellinghamTime: 7:00 pm Louise Penny, a former CBC radio journalist, is the #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels. She has been awarded the CWA Dagger, Nero, Macavity and Barry Awards, as well [...]More |
 Aug 30, 2019
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Booked at the Baker: Louise PennyLocation: Village Books, Village Books,Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Village Books is proud to present Louise Penny in partnership with the Mount Baker Theatre, as part of our Booked at the Baker series. Tickets are available at the Mount Baker Theatre Box Office, or online at mountbakertheatre.com and come [...]More |
 Sep 6, 2019 - Sep 8, 2019
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Sh’Bang! A Festival of IdeasLocation: Lookout Arts Quarry, Lookout Arts Quarry,Time: 6:00 pm - 11:30 pm Sh’Bang! A Festival of Ideas is back for the 12th year of a wildly unique weekend of art installations, workshops, carnival games, wood-fired sauna, trapeze zip-line into the lake, all flavors of eye-candy, a water slide, puppet shows, storytelling, and [...]More |
 Sep 6, 2019
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John Keeble - The AppointmentLocation: Village Books and Paper Dreams, Village Books and Paper Dreams,Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Join John Keeble as he presents his book which, while about the daughter of the famed frontiersman Kit Carson, is not a western, nor is it a biography. Set in the time of the California gold rush, it is a [...]More |
 Sep 7, 2019
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Steve Toutonghi - Side LifeLocation: Village Books, Village Books,Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Vin, a down-on-his-luck young tech entrepreneur, takes a job house-sitting an ultramodern Seattle mansion. There he discovers a secret basement lab with an array of computers and three large, smooth caskets. Inside one he finds a woman in a state [...]More |
 Sep 8, 2019
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Rebecca Mabanglo-MayorLocation: Village Books, Village Books,Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Dancing Between Bamboo Poles Poetry! Filipino-American Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor—whose parents did not teach her to speak or understand their native Tagalog language—uses redaction and disclosure to explore what has been hidden, even within herself, as she navigates a world where skin [...]More |
 Sep 12, 2019
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Cheryl McCarthy: Many Hands Make Light WorkLocation: Village Books, Village Books,Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm A Memoir is the rollicking true story of a family of nine children growing up in the college town of Ames, Iowa in the ’60s and ’70s. Inspiring, full of surprises, and laugh-out-loud funny, this real-life family champions diversity and [...]More |
 Sep 13, 2019
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Diana Dodds- SecretsLocation: Village Books, Village Books,Time: 12:00 am Join us in the readings gallery as Diana Dodds presents her memoir written to demonstrate how and why families keep secrets related to mental illness. Dodds uses her life’s story and the story of her father’s extended family to shed [...]More |
 Sep 14, 2019
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Sara Donati - Where the Light EntersLocation: Village Books, Village Books,Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm From Bellingham’s own international bestselling author of The Gilded Hour, comes Sara Donati's enthralling epic about two trailblazing female doctors in nineteenth-century New York. Obstetrician Dr. Sophie Savard returns home to the achingly familiar rhythms of Manhattan in the early [...]More |
 Sep 14, 2019
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Fred Brown - The City is More Than HumanLocation: Village Books, Village Books,Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Cities like Seattle would not exist without animals. Although usually absent from history books, creatures such as cows, horses, chickens, dogs, and salmon have played crucial roles in struggles over property and power in the changing city. They have accompanied [...]More |
 Sep 15, 2019
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Clyde Ford - Think Black Launch Party!Location: Village Books, Village Books,Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Village Books and Evolve Chocolate + Cafe are pleased to announce this special event celebrating the long-awaited memoir from Bellingham favorite, Clyde Ford. Join us for a presentation by the author and music provided by Skip Williams & Soul Shadows, [...]More |
 Sep 18, 2019
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Shepherd Seigel - Disruptive PlayLocation: Village Books, Village Books,Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm The Trickster in Politics and Culture journeys from ancient folkloric appearances of Tricksters such as Raven and Èṣù-Elegba, to their confined role in Western civilization, and then on to Trickster’s 20th century jailbreak as led by dada and the hippies. [...]More |
 Sep 19, 2019
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Joy Wiggins - Sabotage to SupportLocation: Village Books, Village Books,Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm From Sabotage to Support offers vital strategies for not only working women, but also for business leaders who want to understand patriarchy’s toll and learn how to create an inclusive, diverse and better working environment for everyone. Along with research, [...]More |
 Sep 20, 2019
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Heather Hansman - DownriverLocation: Village Books, Village Books,Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm In Downriver, Heather Hansman chronicles the history and contemporary problem of water usage along the Green River, the major tributary of the Colorado River. Hansman tells this story from the river itself as she paddles the Green from source to [...]More |
 Sep 21, 2019
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Matt Pentz - Sound & the GloryLocation: Village Books, Village Books,Time: 12:00 am To reach the ambitious goals the club set for itself, the Seattle Sounders needed the jolt of a championship. To get there would require tumult previously unknown to a club built on stability, a clash of egos, and a title [...]More |
 Sep 22, 2019
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Betsy Bell - Open BordersLocation: Village Books, Village Books,Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm It is 1983, and the anti-war movement Target Seattle is preparing for a trip to Tashkent, Seattle’s Sister City in Uzbekistan. Travelling with three thousand copies of a peace petition, as well as her husband, seventeen-year-old daughter and thirty others, [...]More |
 Sep 24, 2019
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Chuckanut Radio Hour - Karl Marlantes, Deep RiverLocation: Whatcom Community College Heiner Theater, Whatcom Community College Heiner Theater,Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Karl Marlantes made his name with the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller, the “powerful and moving” (James Fallows, Atlantic) Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War. Now with his new novel, Deep River, Marlantes applies the epic narrative sweep [...]More |
 Sep 25, 2019 - Sep 28, 2019
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Friends of the Bellingham Public Library Fall BookLocation: Bellingham Public Library, WashingtonBellingham Public Library, WashingtonTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm The Friends of the Bellingham Public Library are having their Fall Book Sale. It begins on Wednesday, September 25 and runs through Saturday, September 28. As usual, there is a large selection of books and media for all ages. Tables [...]More |