In this installment of 40 Years of Washington Stories, we look at The Clemente Course, which brought college-level humanities classes to lower-income students.
Join engineer-turned-poet Kathleen Flenniken as she shares her personal history growing up in Richland and working at Hanford Thursday (April 17) in Kennewick. Also coming up: Speakers Bureau presentations, Traveling Exhibits programming and Washington State Poet Laureate events all around the state.
Join The Spokane County Library and Whitworth University for a talk by National Book Award winner Timothy Egan on the Great Depression. Also upcoming: Speakers Bureau presentations and readings with the state poet laureate all around the state.
Join us for our next Think & Drink, A History of Protest: Civil Rights Movements in Seattle from the 1960s to 1980s, this Wednesday in Seattle.
The Port Townsend Public Library presents discussions and events as part of its month-long community read. Also upcoming: Speakers Bureau and grant-funded events around the state and Seattle’s first Think & Drink of 2014.
Join Speakers Bureau’s Hank Cramer for One Trail, Many Voices: Songs of the Oregon Trail in Spokane Tuesday. Also upcoming: grant-funded events and Speakers Bureau presentations all around the state.
The community read program presents the author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. Also upcoming; Speakers Bureau presentations and grant-funded events around the state.
Join Speakers Bureau’s Alex Alben for Analog Days: How Technology Changed our Culture in Seattle and Richland.
Speakers Bureau’s Harriet Baskas presents Hidden Treasures in Washington’s Museums in Seattle. Plus: other Speakers Bureau events and the first reading with the 2014-16 Washington State Poet Laureate.
The traveling exhibit on the Great Depression opens at The Kirkman House Museum Friday (Jan. 17). Also around the state, Speakers Bureau presentations and grant-funded Whatcom Reads events abound.