Urban Sustainability: Biodiesel Basics
Wednesday, November 5, 7:00-8:30pm 
Please join us for the next installment of our Urban Sustainability Series as we learn about the basics behind bio-diesel fuel, and how it impacts our communities and our planet in the short and long term. Robert Del Bueno is the founder of Atlanta-based Refuel Biodiesel who's focus is on sustainable, LOCAL, bio-diesel production exclusively from waste cooking oils. Robert will give a presentation about the nuts and bolts (and vegetable matter) of bio-diesel, and answer all your questions about this particular source for cleaner energy.  
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Jiggle: Author Event & Underwear Party
Thursday, November 6, 7:30-9:00pm 
Charis is turning 34, and it's time to let it all hang out! Just in time for our birthday celebration, Charis is pleased to welcome author Wendy Burns-Ardonlino and her book, Jiggle: (Re)Shaping American Women. While honoring this women's studies professor and author, as well as her academic exploration of the role of foundation garments in women's lives, we invite YOU to display your own foundation garments. Wear your undies on the outside, or just cast aside your street clothes and come sporting your skivvies (vintage foundation garments encouraged but not required). It's a book party like you've never imagined... 
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Telling Stories to Change the World
Friday, November 7, 8:00-9:30pm
Charis Books, Charis Circle  & Deeper Waters invite you to an evening of prophets and poets to introduce the new book, Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims, edited by Rickie Solinger & Madeline Fox. National & local poets, as well as featured writers in the book, will tell the true story about the controlling of our bodies for war, profit, and oppression.  This event will transform the notion that the bodies of people of color, people with disabilities, and queer people, among other communities, are "wrong" and "expendable."   
Some featured Artists/Writers will include:  Leroy Moore, a Berkeley, CA based artist, broadcaster and activist and founder/producer of the Krip Hop Project; Mia Mingus, a queer, disabled woman of color who is a South Korean transracial adoptee and reproductive justice organizer; Yolo Akili, a spirit expressing human through the lens of a poet, activist and astrologer who is also a student of Iyengar Yoga at Yoga of India and the author of the critically acclaimed chapbook "Poems in the Key of Green"; Cara Page, a Black queer organizer, healer, artist & founder/producer of Deeper Waters; and some special guest appearances. 
We will also be inviting the audience to participate in a "telling truth" exercise on expendable bodies, inspired by a Deeper Waters Project called, Third Story/Third Voice.  So come!  You won't want to miss this!
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Charis Books & More is 34! Birthday Party and Store-wide Sale
Saturday, November 8, 11:00am-8:00pm
It's our birthday-- come celebrate with us and shop all day! You are invited to our 34th birthday party and sale, Saturday, Nov. 8th  from 11:00am-8pm. Featuring store-wide discounts, food, drinks, and of course a big Charis birthday cake! Drop in to share your memories of Charis through the years and enjoy the company of our lovely friends and neighbors. You might even want to get a jump on your holiday gift list with everything in the store discounted 10%-50%!
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Young Women* Writers
Monday, November 10, 5:00-6:15pm
This group is open to all young women* writers ages 14-19. Through facilitated writing prompts and supportive critique, participants are encouraged to raise their voices and express themselves through a variety of written mediums. Writers of all skill levels and genres are encouraged to stop in and see if the group works for them. This group meets the second and fourth Mondays of every month from 5-6:15pm. Please direct inquiries to elizabeth@chariscircle.org. *Trans inclusive

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Writing with Intent
Monday, November 10, 6:30-8:30pm
This facilitated group is open to all writers of fiction and creative non-fiction who want a serious group to provide constructive criticism, motivational exercises, and interpersonal accountability to keep their writing on track. We will do monthly exercises and critiques with an eye towards individual improvement and the eventual goal of publication. Writers are encouraged to bring copies of their work to share for critique. The group meets the second Monday of each month from 7:00-8:30pm. Please direct inquiries to elizabeth@chariscircle.org
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Exploring Genders Through Reading
Wednesday, November 12, 7:00-8:30pm
This facilitated book group meets on the second Wednesday of each month to discuss books that explore gender identity and representation. Join us in November to discuss That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
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Rosemary Daniell & Connie Baechler w/ Desire: Women Write About Wanting
Thursday, November 13, 7:30-8:00pm
n the collection Desire: Women Write About Wanting, the contributors delve headfirst into the raw truth and gritty complexity of what women want, crave, lust after, & covet. Charis is pleased to present two of the Desire contributors, Rosemary Daniell (author of Secrets of the Zona Rosa) and Connie Baechler, reading together. Come experience the similarities and differences between these two authors as they explore their various yearnings with us.
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See Jaen Read: Author S. Jaen Black with her novel, Bastante
Friday, November 14, 8:00-9:30pm
Author S. Jaen Black first began writing and publishing at the age of 6. Since then she's come a long way, and besides publishing her new novel, Bastante, Jaen keeps herself busy as a rock and roll musician and champion weight lifter. A former Atlanta resident, you might recognize Jaen from her performances with Moral Hazard and the Red Dyke Theater. Since she currently lives in the Pacific Northwest, this is your big chance to see Jaen read!
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Akoma Book Club
Saturday, November 15, 10:30am-noon
The Akoma Book Club (of Women Healing Women) meets at Charis Books & More on the third Saturday of each month. This book club is open to any woman seeking camaraderie with like-minded women for fun, self-empowerment and growth. Even if you haven't read the book, but are willing to talk about the principles in the book, you can join us for a lively discussion. In November the group will meet to talk about The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.

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Building Feminist Consciousness in Disability Activism
Tuesday, November 18, 7:00-8:30pm
The November installment of the Disability Activism will take place on Tuesday instead of Wednesday to accomodate our speaker's travel schedule. Amber Smock is a Chicago-based feminist disability rights organizer with Feminist Response In Disability Activism (FRIDA) and ADAPT. In her day job, she organizes young people with disabilities through Access Living, Chicago's Center for Independent Living. Amber is conducting a yearlong project to help build the feminist disability rights movement in the US. Luckily for us, she is including Charis and the Disability Activism series in her project. Join Amber in a lively discussion for feminists with disabilities (and allies) who want to unite and take action to make real change happen.
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Cliterati Open No-Mic
Thursday, November 20, 7:30-9:00pm
Charis & Cliterati pair up to present an inviting and fierce, openmic & reading series on the 3rd Thursday of every month. Hosted by the anarchic spoken word team of Karen G and Theresa Davis, members of the Art Amok Slam Team, this series cultivates the voices of authors, novices and an assortment of poets, songstresses and story tellers. Cliterati is 7years old and counting, open to all because ALL OPEN MOUTHS HAVE A VOICE.
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