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Networking Aloud! A Monthly Open Mic: Featuring Debra Busman
Tuesday 13 October 2015, 6-8pm: Our free monthly event open to the public every second Tuesday: NETWORKING ALOUD: A WRITERS OPEN MIKE. Come early & sign up for a five to seven minute reading from any genre: prose, screenplay, poetry & essay that follows 15 minutes from a featured published reader. We applaud one another, no critique allowed. Bring your work in progress, we want to hear your VOICE.
NETWORKING ALOUD: A WRITERS OPEN MIKE
2nd Tuesdays – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00
When: 6:00–8:00 p.m. TUESDAY Oct 13th
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Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Presents Jennifer Lagier & David Allen Sullivan
Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Presents Jennifer Lagier & David Allen Sullivan
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To Change Everything: The Promise of Anarchism – A Panel of International Speakers
Wednesday 21 October 2015, 6pm: A very exciting event is coming your way to your local friendly book store.Continue reading “To Change Everything: The Promise of Anarchism – A Panel of International Speakers”
A Night of Queer Film and Performance with Irwin Swirnoff
Friday October 9th 2015 – 6pm: Old Capitol Books is very excited to be hosting Irwin Swirnoff, professor in cinematic arts at CSU Monterey Bay, as part of the Monterey Peace and Justice Center’s series on Gender and Sexuality!
“we are bodies”
short films & writings by Irwin Swirnoff
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Step into Nature: Nurturing Imagination & Spirit in Everyday Life – an afternoon with Patrice Vecchione
Sunday October 25, 2015 – 3pm-5pm: Patrice Vecchione’s new book Step into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life was written in part while walking the trails at our local hidden treasure Jacks Peak Regional Park. Join Patrice, and two additional local authors Paola Berthoin, publisher of Passion for Place: Community Reflections on the Carmel River Watershed and Nikki Nedeff, one of the authors of Coastal California’s Living Legacy: The Monterey Pine Forest for a lively discussion about the wonders of Monterey’s natural world and the capacity nature to inspire us. They will also share the different routes they took to bring their books to light.
JERROLD LOMAX ARCHITECTURE BOOKS HAVE ARRIVED!!
Old Capitol Books is fortunate to obtain approximately 100 beautiful architecture books from the personal library of a local modernist architect Jerrold Lomax, FAIA. Although Mr. Lomax is no longer with us his outstanding works and library can still be seen and experienced. Most of the books purchased from his library represent the modernist genre.
Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Presents Bill Minor & Maggie Paul
Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Presents: Bill Minor & Maggie Paul
Sunday, September 13, 2:00 p.m.
$5.00 Admission
Old Capitol Books, 559 Tyler Street, Monterey
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Book Signing: Jeff Dwyer – author of “GHOST HUNTER’S GUIDE TO MONTEREY”
Saturday 3 October 2015, 1-3pm: When you combine three centuries of exploration and settlement; Spanish, Mexican, and Yankee influence; a handful of natural catastrophes and manmade disasters; and vast swaths of eerie and desolate shoreline, you have an environment ripe for a haunting. From Moss Beach south along Highway 1 to Santa Cruz and down the coast through Monterey, San Luis Obispo, and Lompoc, expert ghost hunter Jeff Dwyer guides locals and tourists alike through the most haunted and historic sites in the area.Continue reading “Book Signing: Jeff Dwyer – author of “GHOST HUNTER’S GUIDE TO MONTEREY””
Theory & Philosophy Reading Group XIII: Antonio Negri
Wednesday September 23rd 2015, 7pm: Our Theory & Philosophy reading groups with the Direct Action Monterey Network have been a great success for over a year, and we’re coming up on our thirteenth iteration with the works of Marxist theorist, Antonio Negri. We’re super excited to continue our readings highlighting theorists, thinkers, and philosophers who have been imprisoned. These reading groups have been chosen in solidarity with statewide actions against solitary confinement.
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