Book calendar
Published 1:30 am Sunday, November 6, 2016
Marcie Sillman
3:15 p.m. Nov. 13, McCaw Hall, Seattle Center
Regional arts journalist Marcie Sillman has written about beloved Pacific Northwest Ballet dancer Jonathan Porretta in her new book “Out There: Jonathan Porretta’s Life in Dance.” Porretta, Sillman and photographer Angela Sterling will be on hand to talk about and sign copies of the book in the McCaw Hall gift shop. The book’s message is “be yourself and people will love you for who you are.” No tickets are required.
Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring
7 p.m. Nov. 16, Third Place Books
The artists will talk about their new book “Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color” published by Sasquatch at the book store in Lake Forest Park. The book looks at 27 women who changed the world through art, lettering, archival photos and ephemera.
EDxSnoIsleLibraries
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 18
The second annual TEDx talks hosted by Sno Isle Libraries is Nov. 18 at Edmonds Center for the Arts, where all the seats already are taken. The event will be streamed live into 13 Sno-Isle libraries, the PUD auditorium in Everett, EvCC, EdCC and UWBothell. More information is at sno-isle.org/tedx.
Ingrid Osterhaug
Noon Nov. 19, Edmonds Bookshop
The author will talk about and sign copies of her memoir “Kari’s Bog: A mother’s journey through her daughter life, tragic death and legacy” at the store on Fifth Avenue S. On the morning of Jan. 5, 2003, Kari, 31 and pregnant, was murdered by her mentally ill husband.
Megan Snyder Camp
6 p.m. Dec. 1, Hibulb Cultural Center, Tulalip
The Seattle poet has written three books of poetry. She will read as part of the Hibulb’s First Thursday poetry series. Free. The reading is followed by a poetry open microphone.
— Gale Fiege, Herald staff
