Spring 2012

The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation About America

Sunday, January 22, 2012   |   Angelico Concert Hall   |   7 p.m.

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Tom Brokaw presents The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation about America; Who We Are, Where We've Been, and Where We Need to Go Now, to Recapture the American Dream. Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for his landmark work in American journalism and for the New York Times bestsellers The Greatest Generation and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America’s greatness.

Religion in Human Evolution

In collaboration with First Year Experience Big History

Thursday, February 9   |   Angelico Concert Hall   |   7 p.m.

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Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition—a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution. Religion in Human Evolution answers the call for a critical history of religion grounded in the full range of human constraints and possibilities.

I am an Emotional Creature

Friday, February 24   |   Angelico Concert Hall   |   7 p.m.

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Eve Ensler, Tony Award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues and founder of V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls, comes to Marin for a very special conversation with award-winning author and journalist Isabel Allende. Eve’s newest play Emotional Creature will world premiere at Berkeley Rep in June 2012. In I Am an Emotional Creature, Ensler offers fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe—a call to action for girls everywhere to become the women they’re meant to be.

A Governor’s Story: The Fight for Jobs and America’s Economic Future

Sunday, March 25, 2011   |   Angelico Concert Hall   |   7 p.m.

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A former governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm, and her husband Dan Mulhern present A Governor’s Story: The Fight for Jobs and America’s Economic Future. In January, 2002, Jennifer Granholm was the first woman ever to be sworn in as governor of Michigan—the eighth largest state in the nation. She swept into office armed with energy, optimism, and a determination to jump-start progress on several fronts, from diversifying the state’s economy to reforming its educational system. Then reality struck. This is a first-hand account from the front lines of a series of battles that exploded first in Michigan and that now are sweeping across America: the battle to create jobs, to repair health care and education, and infrastructure systems suffering from decades of neglect.

Photo: Sam Lamott

Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

Wednesday, April 11, 2012   |   Angelico Concert Hall   |  7:00 p.m.

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In Some Assembly Required, bestselling author Anne Lamott and her son, Sam, chronicle his first year as a father and her own evolution from mother to grandmother. Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at nineteen, Lamott begins a journal about her family's life during the first year of her grandson Jax’s life. By turns poignant and hilarious, honest and touching, Some Assembly Required is a true story of how the birth of a baby changes a family.

Anne Lamott is a past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame.

Photo: Jeffrey Cross

The Oracle of Stamboul

In cooperation with One Book One Marin

Wednesday, April 25, 2012   |   Angelico Concert Hall   |  7:00 p.m.

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This year's One Book One Marin (OBOM) selection by Bay Area author and Fulbright Scholar, Michael David Lukas, is his acclaimed debut novel, The Oracle of Stamboul. Influenced by Charles Dickens, Roald Dahl, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, this evocative, magical historical tale will transport readers to another time and place—romantic, exotic, yet remarkably similar to our own. Join the author and KQED host Michale Krasny in a discussion of the novel at this special OBOM culmination event.