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Come learn about Bill Naito, one of Portland's most impactful business and civic leaders, through a presentation with pictures and videos. Naito’s life spanned the Great Depression and World War II through Portland’s rebirth in the 1970s and its profound growth until his sudden death in 1996. Naito’s name became synonymous with dynamic civic leadership, whether growing Portland’s urban tree canopy, revitalizing its downtown, or preserving historic buildings.

Learn more about the event on the library's website.

Lake Oswego Public Library, 706 4th St Lake Oswego, OR 97034

Annie Bloom's Books welcomes back Portland writer Judith Barrington for a reading from her new book, Virginia's Apple: Collected Memoirs.

About Virginia's Apple:

The fourteen literary memoirs collected in Virginia's Apple explore pivotal episodes across poet and writer Judith Barrington's life. Artfully crafted, each one stands alone yet they are linked—characters reappear and, taken together, the pieces create a larger narrative. The content is wide-ranging: the early days of the Second Wave of feminism—the exhilaration, the wildness, the love affairs, the surprises, and the self-invention, as well as the confusion and conflicts of those heady times; navigating a sometimes precarious existence as an out lesbian long before it was commonplace; leaving England and becoming an American citizen; finding a life partner; and growing old with an inherited disability. The author's friendship with the distinguished poet Adrienne Rich is the subject of one story. In another, there’s an appearance by the notorious murderer, Lord Lucan, whose wife was a chance acquaintance. These stories are laced with humor and joy, while pulsing below the surface is the slow unfolding of delayed grief over her parents' drowning when she was nineteen, revealing how such a loss can shape a life.

For more information, visit the Annie Bloom's website.

Annie Bloom's Books, 7834 SW Capitol Hwy Portland, OR 97219-2466

The OSU Center for the Humanities presents a moderated book club conversation of Elizabeth Mehren's I Lived to Tell the World: Stories of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War. The book presents thirteen inspiring profiles of men and women who have fled from Rwanda, Myanmar, Bosnia, Syria, and more to make new homes in Oregon.

Copies of the book will be available to check out from the 2nd floor reference desk, while supplies last, beginning Tuesday, December 17th. 

Visit the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library website to learn more.

Corvallis-Benton County Library, 645 NW Monroe Ave Corvallis, OR 97330

The OSU Center for the Humanities presents a moderated book club conversation of Elizabeth Mehren's I Lived to Tell the World: Stories of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War. The book presents thirteen inspiring profiles of men and women who have fled from Rwanda, Myanmar, Bosnia, Syria, and more to make new homes in Oregon.

Copies of the book will be available to check out from the 2nd floor reference desk, while supplies last, beginning Tuesday, December 17th. 

Visit the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library website to learn more.

Corvallis-Benton County Library, 645 NW Monroe Ave Corvallis, OR 97330

Please join us for the opening of "I Lived to Tell the World," an exhibition featuring the stories of Oregon genocide survivors.

Through art, personal experience, and scholarship, audience members will explore the idea of using personal narratives to tell history. Photographs and short films document the experiences of genocide survivors, while a panel discussion brings together a survivor, an author, and a historian. What happens when we shift from a single version of history told in a textbook to a mosaic of individual experiences?

The exhibit will feature photographs by award-winning photographer and author Jim Lommasson. The accompanying panel discussion includes Elizabeth Mehren, author of I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War; Saron Khut, speaker and genocide survivor, and Katherine Hubler, OSU Historian and editor of Listening to Survivors: Four Decades of Holocaust Memorial Week at Oregon State University.

Visit prax.oregonstate.edu for more information.

Toomey Lobby, PRAx, 470 SW 15th St, Corvallis, OR 97331

The Immigrant Story is a Portland-based nonprofit that seeks to elevate the voices of immigrants and refugees through multimedia narratives. I Lived to Tell the World presents first-person stories of survival alongside memorable music.

Join us for a pre-show happy hour! PRAxPRELUDES feature food and drink for purchase and an equally tantalizing bit of programming related to the main event.

• February 1: The Immigrant Story Founder's Talk with Sankar Raman | Toomey Lobby | Doors 6 p.m

Buy tickets online here. To learn more, visit prax.oregonstate.edu.

Oregon State University, 470 SW 15th Street, Corvallis, OR 97331