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Writers! Is your forward motion stalled? Novel in the closet? Poems under the bed? Memoir in your mind? Despair in your creative heart? Bring your questions and issues to this open session with writer, editor, and literary agency veteran Leslie Daniels. Get answers and solutions. Leave with momentum and maybe a surprising next step. This event is co-hosted by Story ... Read More
Join Kate Manne and Adrienne Bitar as they discuss Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia. For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She’s been bullied and belittled for ... Read More
Join Deedi Brown at Buffalo Street Books for conversation about R.F. Kuang's Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Book club books are 10% off. About the ... Read More
Carol Van Den Hende, award-winning author of the Goodbye, Orchid series, will be at Buffalo Street Books signing copies of her trilogy. Come meet Carol, ask questions about her work, and get your books signed! Copies of the Goodbye, Orchid series are available to order at Buffalo Street Books.
About the Event Jenn M. Jackson--abolitionist, organizer, writer, and professor--will be at Buffalo Street Books with local leaders Shacoya Kidwell and Dr. Nia Nunn to discuss their new book, Black Women Taught Us. About the Author Jenn M. Jackson (they/them) is a genderflux androgynous Black woman, a lesbian, an abolitionist, a lover of all Black people, and an Assistant Professor ... Read More
New Roots invites you to join us for a Celebration of Learning, where students of all grade levels are excited to share their work from the Fall semester with you. Additionally, our immersive art class has constructed a tree in the Elevate Gallery. Many students are also displaying their photography and artwork from our photography studio art classes. Please join ... Read More
Join Mary Jumbelic and Joshua Jumbles for a conversation about Jumbelic's new memoir, Here, Where Death Delights. Mary Jumbelic, M.D., is a board-certified forensic pathologist who performed thousands of autopsies during her 25-year career. She received awards for her work from the National Transportation Safety Board and the New York State Senate and has been recognized as a trailblazer by ... Read More
Ithaca Murals is having a party!! CSMA 3rd floor, 330 E. MLK St. 💗 💗 Free & family friendly! 💗 DJ Spirit Posse, art making, dancing, painting, & more! 💗 Mocktails for sale by Open Spaces Cider 💗 Suggested Donation ($5-100) to support our mission to uplift artists inspiring a better Ithaca & world! https://www.givegab.com/nonprofits/ithaca-murals Mark your calendars! 💗 Spread ... Read More
Come get down with us and dance the night away to some funky Techno and House music! Forest City Lodge 180 536 W Green St, Ithaca, NY 14850-5252
Join Nancy K. Bereano, founding editor of Firebrand Books and an early publisher of Audre Lorde’s prose, for a discussion on Lorde's impact as one of the most influential lesbian-feminist thinkers and writers. Book club picks are 10% off at Buffalo Street Books both in store and online. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on ... Read More
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