LIBRARY U's FALL 2024 HUMANITIES SPEAKER SERIES
Co-sponsored with Humanities Washington and Bainbridge Public Library
CANCELLATION !
We're sorry to announce that Humanities Washington speaker Trevor Bond has had to cancel his October 27 presentation at the Bainbridge Public Library entitled "Coming Home: How the Nez Perce Tribe Regained Its Cultural Heritage."
In additIon to the October 24th Sno-Isle Library program on "How to Talk
About Misinformation," described below, here is another upcoming
humanities event.
Island Theatre at the Library presents:
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, Adapted from the novel by Wilson Milam
Saturday, October 19 at 7:00 pm
Sunday matinee, October 20 at 3:00 pm
Bainbridge Public Library, 1270 Madison Ave. N.
Suggested donation: minimum $5 - No tickets or reservations necessary
Island Theatre at the Library presents It Can't Happen Here, a dramatic adaptation of the famous 1935 novel by the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sinclair Lewis. The story is set in the period just before World War II and is a fascinating cautionary, dark satire about the fragility of democracy and how fascism can take hold even in the land of liberty.
This dramatic presentation is helmed by well known local director Wilson Milam (the I.T. Ten Minute Play Festivals, InD Theatre, Seattle Rep, creator of the Irish Play Series; New Century Theatre Company - Festen at NCTC won the Gregory Award) Milam will be joined onstage by Island Theatre veterans, actors Jackie O'Brien, Helen Heaslip and Steve Stolee in a staged, script-in-hand performance.
IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE follows the ascent of a demagogue who becomes president of the United States by promising to return the country to greatness. Witnessing the new president's tyranny from the sidelines is a liberal, middle-class newspaper editor from Vermont who trusts the system will fix itself - until he ends up in a prison camp. Sinclair Lewis' eerily prescient 1935 novel gets a fresh update in this adaptation that examines what brings a citizenry to the point of sacrificing its own freedom and how a courageous few must prevail to overcome the fall.
Facts, Not Fighting: How to Talk About Misinformation
RECOMMENDED: The Sno-Isle Library is presenting a free Zoom presentation on October 24 at 5:30 p.m. entitled Facts, Not Fighting: How to Talk About Misinformation.
Don't miss this opportunity to hear from experts from the University of
Washington's Center for an Informed Public as they break down how
strategic misinformation spreads and what we can do to stop it! Registration required for the Oct. 24 program. This event will be
recorded for later viewing on the Sno-Isle Libraries YouTube channel.
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