TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2021 | 7:00 PM
Baby, Unplugged: One Mother's Search for Balance, Reason, and Sanity in the Digital Age
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AND: "After-Hours" at 8:00 PM!
PURCHASE a copy of Baby, Unplugged to gain admission to "After-Hours," a lively post-event conversation with Morton.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2021 | 8:00 PM (not the later-than-typical start time)
Music Is History: An Evening with Questlove
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Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson: Drummer, DJ, producer, director, culinary entrepreneur,
New York Times best-selling author, and member of The Roots.
Hanif Abdurraqib: Poet, essayist, cultural critic, 2021 MacArthur Fellow, and finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
IT'S A BOOK GIVEAWAY! FAN is giving away copies of
Music Is History to attendees randomly selected from the Zoom attendance report. Books can be picked up at our bookseller if you live locally; or shipped as necessary. All details are on the registration page.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2021 | 7:00 PM
Unprotected: An Evening with Billy Porter
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Billy Porter: Award-winning actor, singer, director, composer, playwright, and author.
Jamal Jordan: Mixed-media documentarian, journalist, educator, and author,
Queer Love in Color.
IT'S A BOOK GIVEAWAY! FAN is giving away copies of
Unprotected to attendees randomly selected from the Zoom attendance report. Books can be picked up at our bookseller if you live locally; or shipped as necessary. All details are on the registration page.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2021 | 7:00 PM
Who Gets in and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions
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Jeff Selingo: Journalist,
FutureU podcast co-host, and
New York Times bestselling author of
Who Gets In and Why.
Adam Harris: Staff writer for
The Atlantic and author,
The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal - And How to Set Them Right.
AND: "After-Hours" at 8:00 PM
PURCHASE a copy of
Who Gets In and Why to gain admission to "After-Hours," a lively post-event conversation with Selingo and Harris.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2021 | 7:00 PM
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
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Dawn Turner: Award-winning journalist and author of three books, including the brand-new
Three Girls from Bronzeville.
Heidi Stevens: Creative director at Parent Nation at the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health.
AND: "After-Hours" at 8:00 PM!
PURCHASE a copy of
Three Girls from Bronzeville to gain admission to "After-Hours," a lively post-event conversation with Turner and Stevens.
AMPLIFY AVOCA
View the Amplify Avoca, Season 2 Premiere here
Directors: Max Smith, Tyler Molloy, and Loukya Prabhu
Editors: Vaughn Prahl and Ethan Fannin
Performers: Ezra Morrow, Connor Saavedra, and Naeem Sylvestre