May Book Club
|
 |
|
| Date: |
May 26, 6:30 pm-8:00pm |
| Continues Until: |
|
| Location: |
Townie Books |
| Details: |
 Our first IN PERSON (as in we'll meet in person on the Rumors patio!) event since you-know-when! Join us to discuss Noe Alvarez' story. "Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who “slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives.” A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At nineteen, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys, epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across North America. He dropped out of school and joined a group of Dené, Secwépemc, Gitxsan, Dakelh, Apache, Tohono O’odham, Seri, Purépecha, and Maya runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories alongside his own, Álvarez writes about a four-month-long journey from Canada to Guatemala that pushed him to his limits. He writes not only of overcoming hunger, thirst, and fear—dangers included stone-throwing motorists and a mountain lion—but also of asserting Indigenous and working-class humanity in a capitalist society where oil extraction, deforestation, and substance abuse wreck communities. Running through mountains, deserts, and cities, and through the Mexican territory his parents left behind, Álvarez forges a new relationship with the land, and with the act of running, carrying with him the knowledge of his parents’ migration, and—against all odds in a society that exploits his body and rejects his spirit—the dream of a liberated future." NOÉ ÁLVAREZ was born to Mexican immigrant parents and raised working-class in Yakima, Washington. He holds degrees in philosophy and creative writing from Whitman College and Emerson College, respectively. He studied conflict analysis, peacemaking, and conflict resolution at American University and in Northern Ireland, received a fellowship at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and researched U.S. drug policy, military aid, and human rights issues in Colombia’s Putumayo jungles. He lives in Boston, where, until recently, he worked as a security officer at the Boston Athenæum.
Click here for the event website |
|
|
Upcoming Events
|
| TIME |
EVENT |
LOCATION |
| Wednesday, May 26 |
| 5:30pm-7:30pm |
Women's Networking Night |
A Daily Dose - 330 Elk Avenue, Crested Butte |
| 6:30pm-8:00pm |
May Book Club |
Townie Books |
| Friday, May 28 |
| -12:00am |
Mountain Words Literary Festival |
Crested Butte Center, Gunnison Arts Center |
| 7:00pm-11:00pm |
Easy Jim Live @ Tully's |
Tully's, Crested Butte South |
| Saturday, May 29 |
| 9:00am-5:00pm |
The Original Growler |
Hartman Rocks, Gunnison, CO |
| 3:00pm-12:00am |
Memroial Day Weekend Par Tay |
www.ibarranch.com |
| Sunday, May 30 |
| -12:00am |
Crested Butte Arts Festival |
Crested Butte Community School |
| 4:20pm-11:30pm |
KBUT Kampout |
I Bar Ranch |
| Monday, May 31 |
| 11:00am-4:00pm |
Crested Butte Annual Memorial Day Luncheon |
504 Sopris |
| Tuesday, Jun 1 |
| 5:00pm-10:00pm |
Songwriter Shuffle |
Ohio Creek locations |
| 6:00pm-8:00pm |
Functional Pottery |
Gunnison Arts Center Clay Studio |
| Wednesday, Jun 2 |
| 5:00pm-7:30pm |
Shred Prep mountain bike clinic series |
Crested Butte |
| SHOW MORE EVENTS >>> |
|
|
