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<div align="center"> <p><br> </p> <img src="/2ndpagetitles/CALENDAR.gif" width="504" height="54" border="0" alt="Calendar of Events"><br> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="454" align="center"> <tr> <td> <div align="center"> <font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times" size="+4" color="#660000"><i>Lectures, Readings, and Forums</i></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" color="#660000"><i><br> </i></font><font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times"><i> Ann Arbor is an educated and educational community, providing an ample selection of brown bag lectures, seminars, and other colloquia. The Calendar covers events from authors on book signing tours to politicians on the stump. </i></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><br> <br> </font></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div align="center"> <a name="top"> <font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times" size="+4" color="#660000"><i>Highlights this week:</i></font></div> <div align="left"> <p><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> <A HREF="#event16107"><B>Elizabeth Ellen and Kim Chinquee: Shaman Drum Bookshop.</B></A><P> <A HREF="#event16108"><B>"Michigan Civilian Conservation Corps 75th Anniversary Celebration": Ann Arbor District Library.</B></A><P> <A HREF="#event16075"><B>"Losing Control: Loving a Black Child with Bipolar Disorder": Shaman Drum Bookshop.</B></A><P> <div align="center"> <font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times" size="+4" color="#660000"><i><img src="/2ndpagetitles/calendardates/C6.gif" width=55 height=43 alt="6" border="0" align="top"> Tuesday</i></font><br> <font color="#660000">May, 2008</font></div> <br> <a name="event16075"></a> <IMG SRC="/2ndpagetitles/free.gif" width=50 height=16 ALT="Free!"> 7 p.m. <br><b>"Losing Control: Loving a Black Child with Bipolar Disorder":</b> Shaman Drum Bookshop. Beverly Hills, Michigan, children's health advocate <b>Cassandra Joubert </b> reads from her memoir about her struggle with her daughter's mental illness. Signing. Shaman Drum, 315 S. State. Free. 662-7407.<br clear=left><br><br> <div align="center"> <font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times" size="+4" color="#660000"><i><img src="/2ndpagetitles/calendardates/C7.gif" width=55 height=43 alt="7" border="0" align="top"> Wednesday</i></font><br> <font color="#660000">May, 2008</font></div> <br> <a name="event16107"></a> <IMG SRC="/2ndpagetitles/free.gif" width=50 height=16 ALT="Free!"> 7 p.m. <br><b>Elizabeth Ellen and Kim Chinquee:</b> Shaman Drum Bookshop. Readings by these 2 Michigan fiction writers. Ellen, an Ann Arborite whose work has appeared widely on the Internet and in journals and anthologies, reads from Sixteen Miles Outside of Phoenix, her chapbook collection of lyrical, gritty short stories about reckless women, cold-shouldered men, unsupervised children, and other boldly wayward characters. <i>Sixteen Miles </i> is included in <i>A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness, </i> a new collection of 4 short fiction chapbooks by women. "Thanks to her lack of pretension, her focus on detail, and her willingness to explore the ugly stuff without judgment, Elizabeth Ellen's stories take nothing characters, nowhere towns, and turn them into something extraordinary," says <i>Pindeldyboz </i> literary magazine editor Whitney Pastorek. Chinquee, a CMU creative writing professor, reads from Oh Baby: Flash Fictions and Prose Poetry, her new collection of deftly constructed prose poems and very very short stories (known as "flash fictions") about failing relationships, childhood friendships, and the intricacies of family life. "One of the most thrilling things about reading Kim Chinquee's beautifully tiny stories is the great leaps that she takes between sentences - making a world of brief glimpses and bits of dialogue that are full of narrative implications, a world of perfectly chosen details that render the understated emotion of a character's whole life," says acclaimed novelist Michael Kimball. Signings. Shaman Drum, 315 S. State. Free. 662-7407.<br clear=right><br><br> <a name="event16106"></a> <IMG SRC="/2ndpagetitles/free.gif" width=50 height=16 ALT="Free!"> 7 p.m. <br><b>Leif Enger:</b> Waters Place Borders. This best-selling novelist discusses So Brave, Young, and Handsome , his saga set in 1915 about an aging train robber and fugitive heading west to reconcile with the wife he abandoned 20 years earlier. Signing. Borders, 3140 Lohr Rd. Free. 997-8884.<br clear=left><br><br> <a name="event16108"></a> <IMG SRC="/2ndpagetitles/free.gif" width=50 height=16 ALT="Free!"> 7-8:30 p.m. <br><b>"Michigan Civilian Conservation Corps 75th Anniversary Celebration":</b> Ann Arbor District Library. Escanaba musician and storyteller <b>Bill Jamerson </b> presents a program of stories and song about the work of the more than 100,000 young men who enlisted in the Michigan branch of the CCC during the Depression to plant trees, restore riverbanks, and make other natural improvements around the state. Also, a showing of a short clip from Jamerson's award-winning PBS film Camp Forgotten: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Michigan. AADL multipurpose room (lower level), 343 S. Fifth Ave. at William. Free. 327-4560.<br clear=right><br><br> <a name="event16111"></a> <IMG SRC="/2ndpagetitles/free.gif" width=50 height=16 ALT="Free!"> 7:30-9:30 p.m. <br><b>"Poetry Night":</b> Crazy Wisdom Bookstore & Tea Room. <i>May 7 & 21. </i> Tonight: poetry readings by EMU creative writing grad students, including <b>Bill Barr, Barry Graham, Gregory Heaney, Jamie Jones, Sarah Smarch, </b> and <b>Amandine Williams-Abraham. </b> Crazy Wisdom, 114 S. Main. Free. 665-2757.<br clear=left><br><br> <div align="center"> <font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times" size="+4" color="#660000"><i><img src="/2ndpagetitles/calendardates/C8.gif" width=55 height=43 alt="8" border="0" align="top"> Thursday</i></font><br> <font color="#660000">May, 2008</font></div> <br> <a name="event16124"></a> 10-11:30 a.m. <br><b>"Information Technology and Its Effects on Us":</b> U-M Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Distinguished Lecture Series. <i>Every Thursday, April 17-May 22. </i> A series of 6 lectures by U-M and visiting scholars. Today: U-M laboratory research scientist Klaus-Peter Beier discusses <b>"Virtual Reality: The Technology and Its Applications." </b> Best Western Executive Conference Center, 2900 Jackson Rd. $45 (members, $30) for the 6-lecture series. Memberships are $15 a year. Preregistration required. 998-9351.<br clear=right><br><br> <a name="event16141"></a> <IMG SRC="/2ndpagetitles/free.gif" width=50 height=16 ALT="Free!"> 7 p.m. <br><b>"Latin American Social Movements in the 21st Century: Resistance, Power, and Democracy":</b> Shaman Drum Bookshop. EMU political science professor Richard Stahler-Sholk reads from and discusses his new book. Signing. Shaman Drum, 315 S. State. Free. 662-7407.<br clear=left><br><br> <div align="center"> <font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times" size="+4" color="#660000"><i><img src="/2ndpagetitles/calendardates/C9.gif" width=55 height=43 alt="9" border="0" align="top"> Friday</i></font><br> <font color="#660000">May, 2008</font></div> <br> <a name="event16992"></a> <IMG SRC="/2ndpagetitles/free.gif" width=50 height=16 ALT="Free!"> 6:00 p.m. <br><b>Joan Bauer:</b> Nicola's Books This award-winning New York novelist discusses Peeled , her young adult novel about an aspiring teenage journalist who uncovers the truth behind a ghost story in her own small town. Signing. Nicola's, Westgate shopping center. Free. 662-0600<br clear=right><br><br> <a name="event16173"></a> <IMG SRC="/2ndpagetitles/free.gif" width=50 height=16 ALT="Free!"> 7-8:30 p.m. <br><b>"The Words of a Woman":</b> Ann Arbor District Library. Local writer <b>Christine McGinley </b> presents an interpretive reading of her monologue exploring the female voice through a mosaic of excerpts from the writings of more then 50 women writers and historical figures, including Hannah Arendt, Aung San Suu Kyi, Flannery O'Connor, Ayn Rand, Sappho, Isadora Duncan, and others. Following the performance, McGinley discusses the process of creating the work. Q&A. AADL multipurpose room (lower level), 343 S. Fifth Ave. at William. Free. 327-4560.<br clear=left><br><br> <div align="center"> <font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times" size="+4" color="#660000"><i><img src="/2ndpagetitles/calendardates/C10.gif" width=55 height=43 alt="10" border="0" align="top"> Saturday</i></font><br> <font color="#660000">May, 2008</font></div> <br> <a name="event16216"></a> <IMG SRC="/2ndpagetitles/free.gif" width=50 height=16 ALT="Free!"> Noon. <br><b>Amy Goodman:</b> Waters Place Borders. This journalist, host of TV show <i>Democracy Now! </i> , and best-selling author is on hand to sign copies of <i>Standing Up to the Madness </i> , a new book she cowrote with David Goodman. Borders, 3140 Lohr Rd. Free. 997-8884.<br clear=right><br><br> <a name="event16221"></a> <IMG SRC="/2ndpagetitles/free.gif" width=50 height=16 ALT="Free!"> <br><b>"Making Up with Mom: Why Mothers and Daughters Disagree about Kids, Careers, and Casseroles (and What to Do about It)":</b> Borders Express. Local freelance journalist <b>Julie Halpert </b> (See 4 Sunday listing) signs copies of this new book she cowrote with Deborah Carr. <i>2-4 p.m., Borders Express, Briarwood mall. Free. 669-0785 </i> .<br clear=left><br><br> <div align="center"> <font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times" size="+4" color="#660000"><i><img src="/2ndpagetitles/calendardates/C11.gif" width=55 height=43 alt="11" border="0" align="top"> Sunday</i></font><br> <font color="#660000">May, 2008</font></div> <br> <a name="event16260"></a> <IMG SRC="/2ndpagetitles/free.gif" width=50 height=16 ALT="Free!"> 11 a.m. <br><b>First Presbyterian Church Adult Education.:</b><i>May 11, & 18. </i> Today: <b>"Quantum Leaps of Faith," </b> a series of talks by former NASA scientist Michael Bodner on the relationship between science and theology. All invited. First Presbyterian Church Lewis Room, 1432 Washtenaw. Free. 662-4466.<br clear=right><br><br> <a name="event16277"></a> <IMG SRC="/2ndpagetitles/free.gif" width=50 height=16 ALT="Free!"> 2 p.m. <br><b>"Historical Mystery Mother's Day":</b> Aunt Agatha's. California writer <b>Sharan Newman </b> and New York City writer <b>Alan Gordon </b> discuss their new books and the challenges of writing historical mysteries. Newman's The Shanghai Tunnel is the first in her series, set in 1860s Portland, Oregon, about the widow of a wealthy merchant whose efforts to reform the local business community's addiction to the opium trade lead to a spate of murders, and Gordon's The Moneylender of Toulouse is the 7th in his series featuring Theophilos, a 13th-century court jester detective. Tea & cookies. Signing. Aunt Agatha's, 213 S. 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