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Join the PBS Books Readers Club hosts Fred, Lauren, Heather, and Princess as they sit down with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Geraldine Books to discuss her bestselling novel HORSE.
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https://www.pbsbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Soheap-Pich-Feature-Image-800x450.png This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday, February 1, 2024 at 5:30 pm in the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI. Sopheap Pich is widely considered to be Cambodia’s most internationally prominent contemporary artist. In 1979, when the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia led to the ousting of the Khmer Rouge régime, he fled with his family to Thailand, spending four years in refugee camps before immigrating to the United States. Memories of traveling vast distances on foot and witnessing the devastation of war — broken bodies, ravaged landscapes, abandoned artillery, ruined buildings, and the breakdown of social and cultural institutions — underpin his early [...] |
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PBS Books sits down with Cheryl Wills to discuss her book "Isn't Her Grace Amazing!". |
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This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 5:30 pm in the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI. Nkeiru Okoye is an American-born composer of African American and Nigerian ancestry. After studying composition, music theory, piano, conducting, and Africana Studies at Oberlin Conservatory, she pursued graduate studies at Rutgers University and became one of the leading African American women composers. An activist through the arts, Okoye creates a body of work that welcomes and affirms both traditional and new audiences. Nkeiru Okoye’s new commission When the Caged Bird Sings premieres on Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 7:30 PM at UM’s Hill Auditorium, as a collaboration between UMS and the U‑M School of [...] |
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Kelli Anderson delivers her presentation "The Hidden Talents of Everyday Things" at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, MI. |
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PBS Books welcomes author, scholar, filmmaker Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to discuss his novels "The Black Box" and "The Black Church". |
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Uncovering African American Stories and Genealogy: Visiting the International African American Museum and Exploring Connections. |
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Artist Ken Aptekar toys with historical paintings by using the history of art as his playground. He time-travels works from the past into the present by his repainting joined to his own texts. Here’s the idea: Paintings are nothing on their own, they start meaning something only when you start talking back to them. |
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