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Charis Circle Programs and Events
May 2010 |
"Natural Rhythms:" Terry Garthwaite, Becky Reardon, Elise Witt
Friday, May 7, 7:00-8:15pm
Imagine Laurie Anderson, Janis Joplin, and Edith Piaf taking a turn from Starhawk and then from Dr. Seuss, and you'll have some idea of the mad and moving musical adventures created with the rhythms of the natural world and experiments with language and sound. Bringing three uniquely different voices to the blend, Terry, Becky & Elise's harmonies spread a web of joy and the delight of singing together. Don't miss this free mini-concert and CD signing. |
"Soul of a Citizen:" with Paul Loeb
Sunday, May 9, 6:30-8:00pm
How do we keep on working for change in tough political and economic times, and overcome the political demoralization, frustration, and paralysis, that so many people are feeling these days? Paul Loeb, author of the bestselling books on citizen involvement Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in Challenging Times and The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear will explore how ordinary citizens can make their voices heard and actions count in a time when we're told neither matter. He'll talk about how people get involved in larger community issues and what stops them from getting involved; how they burn out in exhaustion or maintain their commitment for the long haul; what we can learn from the citizen movements of the past.
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Writing With Intent
Monday, May 10 & 24, 6:30-8:30
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 do in group 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. Please direct
inquiries to elizabeth@chariscircle.org. |
"Getting to the Root of the Problem:" Women and the Culture of Body Hair
Thursday, May 13, 7:30-9:00pm
Our Bodies, Ourselves contributor Alison Amoroso discusses her new book, Unwanted Hair and Hirsutism. Many women struggle with accepting or removing body hair, and the pain, expense and often feelings of embarrassment that come with it. Amoroso will discuss when "normal" hair growth becomes "unwanted" by cultural beauty standards, and our options for ourselves and for the girls in our lives who are becoming women. |
Pearl Cleage with Till You Hear From Me
Friday, May 14, 7:00-8:30pm
Charis favorite, Pearl Cleage, is back with a new novel about fathers, daughters, and Obama-era politics set in Atlanta's West End. Just when it appears that all her hard work on Barack Obama's presidential campaign is about to pay off with a White House job, thirty-five-year-old Ida B. Wells Dunbar finds herself coming home to deal with her father, the Reverend Horace A. Dunbar, Atlanta civil rights icon and self-described "foot soldier for freedom," when he is notoriously featured on an endlessly replayed YouTube clip in which his pronouncements don't exactly jibe with the new era in American politics. |
Akoma Book Club
Saturday, May 15, 10:30am-12:00pm
The Akoma Book Club (of Women Healing Women) 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. May's book pick is The Magic of Believing by Claude M. Bristol. For more than four decades people have learned from Bristol's motivational techniques how to achieve all their long and short-term goals: a better job, an increased income, a happier marriage, or simply a good night's sleep. |
Big Bang Symphony with Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Tuesday, May 17, 7:30-9:00pm
Lucy Jane Bledsoe is the author of several books including the novel, Biting the Apple. Her newest novel, The Big Bang Symphony: a Novel of Antarctica is a story about three women - a geologist, a composer, and a galley worker - who have taken jobs in Antarctica. As they each fall in love and into trouble, their lives become more and more entwined - until one crisis binds them in friendship for life. |
Change Your World With Be Present, Inc
Wednesday, May, 18 7:00-9:00pm
Join us for a very special interactive workshop with our community partner, Be Present, Inc at which you can learn more about the Be Present Empowerment model and find out how you can gain a deeper understanding of yourself and the experiences that have shaped you; appreciate all of who you are and validate your thinking, intelligence, and ability to live life, not just survive; and begin to create positive change for your life, your family and your community through self-awareness and personal power |
Cliterati Open No Mic with Danielle Sellers and Heather Cousins
Thursday, May 19, 7:30-9:00pm
Charis & Cliterati pair up to present an inviting and fierce open mic & 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 storytellers. May's featured poets are Danielle Sellers, author of Bone Key Elegies and Heather Cousins, author of Something in the Potato Room. Seller's Bone Key Elegies "animates the brackish world at this dangerous edge of America, where everything lives close to the bone." While the poems in Cousin's Something in the Potato Room "are genuinely exciting because they are both fanciful and menacing." Don't miss these exciting new voices in contemporary poetry.
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Queer Literary Fiction Group
Wednesday, May 26, 7:00-8:30pm
This facilitated group discusses books which feature queer characters/storylines as well as a strong attention to literary craft and style. May's book is More of this World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson, which maps the lives of several New Orleanians who orbit Delia Delahoussaye's Laundromat on Palmyra Street, where saying hello and fighting can sound just alike. The title story finds a stoned teenage Delia longing to kiss a girl named Chuck in the belly of an empty oil tank, a makeshift sense-deprivation chamber that Delia thinks shakes you loose from yourself. By the end of the second story, "Keeping Her Difficult Balance," it's unclear whether Delia will ever escape her childhood identity. |
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Faiths and Feminisms: Women of Color Pray
Thursday, May 27, 7:30-9:00pm
Why do people pray? For health or happiness? For guidance? Out of habit, or even a sense of duty? Perhaps, at times, for something worldly and material? Just what motivates prayer-and how does who a person is affect how she prays and what she prays for? Is prayer different for women of color than it is for others? Join Christal Jackson, editor of Women of Color Pray, to explore these questions and many more. |
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