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October 2009 Event Calendar
Capitola Book Cafe
1475 41st Ave, Capitola CA 95010
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Capitola Book Cafe
1475 41st Ave
Capitola CA 95010
At the corner of 41st Ave & Capitola Rd, next to the 41st Ave Cinema
(831) 462-4415
Open Mon-Sat 8am-10pm
Sun 8am-8pm
Lulu's at Capitola Book Cafe
Mon-Fri 6am-10pm
Sat 7am-10pm
Sun 7am-8pm |
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| World Affairs Book Club
Thursday, October 1 at 7:00pm |
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NEW READERS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME  This month's selection is Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness by Tracy Kidder. Please read the book and join the discussion.
Author Tracy Kidder will be at Capitola Book Café on Saturday, October 17 at 7:30pm. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains once again shows us what it means to be fully human by telling a story about the heroism inherent in ordinary people, a story about a life based on hope. Deo arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. Having survived a civil war and genocide, he lands at JFK airport with two hundred dollars, no English, and no contacts. He lives in Central Park and learns English by reading dictionaries in bookstores. Then Deo begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing. |
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WRITERS WORKSHOP
The Business of Writing: How to Promote Your Writing with Social Media
With Journalist and Social Media Pro Karen Kefauver
Saturday, October 3 from 10am-12pm
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 CONNECT YOUR WRITING TO AGENTS, EDITORS & READERS
Whether you are a published author, working on your memoir, or starting a blog, you need readers, reviewers, agents and editors to find your work. In this workshop-style class, Karen will explain how online tools can take your writing to the next level. Learn how to get started on the social networks of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and then leverage these sites to sell yourself and your writing projects. You will leave with valuable tips and resources that Karen has developed during her decade as a successful freelance journalist. Karen Kefauver's stories and photos on adventure travel have been published in San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, San Jose Mercury News, The Christian Science Monitor and dozens of other print and online publications. She currently blogs on bicycling for S anta Cruz Sentinel and is an expert on the outdoors for Orbitz's online travel site, Away.com. She has been presenting talks and consulting on social media with the City of Santa Cruz, The Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce and the Apple Store in Los Gatos. http://www.karenkefauver.com Cost: $20, includes hand-out of resources Limit: 15 people. Students should have a basic knowledge of how to use the Internet but can be completely new to social media. Prepayment is required at Capitola Book Cafe to guarantee your spot. Questions: Email Karen@karenkefauver.com or call the Book Cafe at 831-462-4415.
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STORYTIME FOR KIDS!
Mondays at 11am
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 Kids & adults listen to animated readings by former Shakespeare Santa Cruz actress Billie Harris and the fun-loving, boisterous Book Cafe manager Jill Rose. All ages are welcome as the readers enjoy making sure all listeners are engaged in the stories. |
The
Willing Suspension Armchair Theatre
Monday, October 5 at 7:30pm |
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CELEBRATION OF THE LITERARY ARTS AND THE BEAUTY OF THE SPOKEN WORD
The
Willing Suspension Armchair Theatre was founded by Wilma Marcus Chandler and
has been part of Actors' Theater in Santa Cruz for many years. It is now overseen
by local poet and playwright Patricia Grube. Each month a local director
creates an evening of prose and poetry and the works are performed by actors
skilled in readers' theater.
The
performances are free although donations are encouraged and gratefully
accepted.
Tonight,
TALES WITH A TWIST: featuring works by O.Henry, Saki, Fred Watson and Isaac
Asimov. Directors Rita Wadsworth and Stuart Serman will join Readers Claire Hodgin,
Carolyn Hyatt, Steve Brenner and Denny Vierra.
Coming
NOV. 9, FENCES AND BEYOND: poetry and prose directed by Donald Grube with a
cast of local theater artists as readers.
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Nancy Mellon & Ashley Ramsden
Body Eloquence: The Power of Myth and Story to Awaken the Body's Energies (Energy Psychology Press)
Tuesday, October 6 at 7:30pm |
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 PROFESSIONAL STORYTELLING FOR JOY & FOR HEALING
Storytelling is a healing art! Experience the body with fresh eyes through a combination of Western and Eastern medicine, myth and story. Which stories help us to see ourselves more as part of the whole evolving human drama? How can we learn to tap into these to bring healing? Body Eloquence offers powerful and refreshing perspectives for health practitioners, community leaders, creative artists, parents, teachers, and all who love stories.  Nancy Mellon is a psychotherapist, author, storyteller and a former Waldorf teacher who is a pioneer in therapeutic storytelling. Her workshops brim with creativity as she inspires deep listening and refreshing perspectives on the physical body.  Ashley Ramsden is the founding director of the School of Storytelling, the longest established center of its kind in the United Kingdom, has toured his remarkable storytelling programs on all five continents-as well as at Capitola Book Café!
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Jennifer Laskin
Teaching Hope: Stories from the Freedom Writing Teachers and Erin Gruwell (Broadway)
Tuesday, October 13 at 7:30pm |
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 A READING & PUBLIC DISCUSSION ON OUR HOPES FOR THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
Now depicted in a bestselling book and a feature film, the Freedom Writers phenomenon began when Erin Gruwell taught in a classroom where she faced the hopelessness of a community scarred by racial tensions and poverty. Undaunted, she fostered an educational philosophy that promoted diversity, tolerance, and communication. She continues to replicate her success in classrooms around the nation. Teaching Hope shares the stories of Freedom Writer teachers who provide insight into the struggles and triumphs of education in all of its forms. A teacher in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District, Jennifer Laskin has worked with Erin Gruwell on the development of The Freedom Writers Teacher Institute, co-authored The Freedom Writers Diary Teachers Guide and is a contributor to Teaching Hope. This event is open to all teachers, educators and people who care about the current state of public education. This will be a book reading, signing and public discussion meant to listen to and share stories while building our hope for the future of education.
Tonight, purchase all three featured titles (Teaching Hope, The Freedom Writers Diary & The Teachers Guide) and receive a discount of 20%.
Every day, local registered teachers receive a 20% discount on any books purchased for classroom use
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Richard's Book Club
Wednesday, September 14 at 6:30pm |
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 NEW READERS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME
This month's selection is Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard. Please read the book and join the discussion.
Transit of Venus tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in post-war England. What happens to these young women-seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal-becomes as moving and wonderful and yet as predestined as the transits of the planets themselves. Gorgeously written, it is a story of place: Sydney, London, New York, Stockholm; of time: from the fifties to the eighties; and above all, of women and men in their passage through the displacements and absurdities of modern life.
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Wine Tasting:
Haraszthy Family Cellars: Zinfandels & Only Zinfandels
Friday, October 16: open from 6-8pm |
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 Let the head of Haraszthy Family Cellars, Vallejo Haraszthy, fill your glasses with his distinct and alluring Zinfandels during this relaxed and fun evening. Taste his Amador County, Sonoma County and Napa Valley Zins. Along with the tasting, enjoy a little history, too: Vallejo Haraszthy's family has lived in Sonoma for six generations and the winery is directly linked to Agoston Haraszthy ("Father of California Viticulture and founder of our state's first winery, Buena Vista) and Marian Vallejo, both early pioneers with colorful histories and a notable devotion to wine.
The spirited ladies of wine, J ennifer from Classic Wines of California and Julie from Cava, will be leading the celebration. Come anytime between 6 and 8pm. Cost is $9 and will include cheese, bread and other edibles to balance out the liquid cheer. Advance sign-up is appreciated but not mandatory. | Tracy Kidder Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness (Random House)
Saturday, October 17 at 7:30pm |
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THE AUTHOR OF MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder once again shows us what it means to be fully human by telling a story about the heroism inherent in ordinary people, a story about a life based on hope. Deo arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. Having survived a civil war and genocide, he lands at JFK airport with two hundred dollars, no English, and no contacts. He lives in Central Park and learns English by reading dictionaries in bookstores. Then Deo begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing. |
WRITERS WORKSHOP
Putting Pen to Paper with Author & Artist
Erin Lee Gafill
Sunday, October 18 from 10am-12pm |
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 Author/artist Erin Gafill leads writers through a series of questions, selected readings of poetry and prose, and guided writing prompts to unearth the jewels of forgotten memory and meaning in each and everyone of us, writers or not. Erin Gafill is the author of Drinking From a Cold Spring: A Little Book of Hope, a non-fiction book exploring the creative path through life, death, and laundry. Co-founder of the Big Sur Arts Initiative, Erin was the first American artist-in-residence of the Hamada Children's International Art Museum of Hamada, Japan. She is on the creative arts faculties of Esalen Institute in Big Sur and Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico. Cost: $25 Limit: 20 people. Prepayment at Capitola Book Café is required to guarantee your spot. Questions? Email erinleegafill@yahoo.com
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Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright Dissent: Voices of Conscience (Koa
Books)
Monday, October 19 at 7:30pm |
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 DIPLOMAT WHO RESIGNED IN PROTEST OF IRAQ WAR CONTINUES TO WORK FOR PEACE
State Department diplomat Ann Wright was the highest-ranking member of the U.S. government to resign in dissent during the run-up to war in Iraq. Her book is an insider's story about her process reaching that decision, a detailed account of what was actually going on during the deceptive planning by Bush, Blair, and others, and profiles of those in government and the military who also resigned, spoke out, or blew the whistle.
Ann Wright is an army veteran who joined the Foreign Service and served as U.S. Deputy Ambassador in Micronesia, Afghanistan, Mongolia and Sierra Leone. She was on the first State Department team to go to Afghanistan and helped reopen the Embassy there in December 2001. Since her resignation in protest of the invasion of Iraq, Wright has been speaking out for peace, including efforts concerning Guantánamo Bay, Iran and Gaza. She is arguably the most informed and persuasive spokesperson about current conditions in Gaza.
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Liza Dalby, Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos & Todd Shimoda, OH! A Mystery of 'Mono No Aware'
Tuesday, October 20 at 7:30pm |
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TWO AUTHORS SEND READERS ON MYSTERIOUS JOURNEYS THROUGH JAPAN
 Liza Dalby is an anthropologist and writer ( Geisha, The Tale of Murasaki, Kimono, East Wind Melts the Ice) perhaps best known for being the first Westerner to become a geisha. She returns to Book Café with a novel that Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha, describes as "Liza Dalby's best work yet; with its fascinating story of characters caught up in a world they themselves don't understand." Hidden Buddhas explores the karmic connections between Japanese fashion, pilgrimage, dying honeybees, murder by blowfish, and the Buddhist apocalypse. Something of a Buddhist Da Vinci Code, Dalby's stunning new novel travels to the unknown corners of Japan and through time to expose a mystery you will never forget!
 OH!, by Todd Shimoda( 365 Views of Mt. Fuji, The Fourth Treasure), was selected as an NPR 2009 Summer Reading picks and combines visual artistry with patient and brilliant storytelling. Zack Hara is a technical writer trudging through life in LA until he leaves everything to travel to Japan. There, searching for an emotional life, Zack becomes entwined with a tragic poet, a sensual but disillusioned woman, and young people who form suicide clubs-all propelling him down a dangerous path. "The book itself is a fine work of art, with a gorgeous, embossed cover, rice-paper-thin pages, and textured paper inserts with illustrations that offer clues to Zack's fate - a triumphant kick in the pants for anyone who doubts the future of paper-and-ink books."-Lucia Silva
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Brad Matsen
Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King (Pantheon)
Tuesday, October 27 at 7:30pm |
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 THE FASCINATING MAN WHO CHANGED THE WAY THE WORLD VIEWS THE OCEAN
Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since, but not generally known is the fascinating story of the man behind the acclaimed television personality. With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau's collaborators and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this remarkable life: Cousteau working for the French resistance during World War II; risking his life to test the regulator he developed to make scuba diving possible; becoming the catalyst of the global environmental movement; marrying his life-long mistress, forty years his junior and the mother of his two children. Brad Matsen ( Titantic's Last Secrets, Descent) vividly conveys the adventure, the science, and the people that shaped Cousteau's life and illuminates how this one man changed the way we view our planet. |
Steve Winn
Come Back Como: Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog (Harper)
Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30pm |
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 ADOPTABLE DOGS SHOW OFF AT 7:00pm! BRING DONATIONS TO SUPPORT PUPS AT THE SPCA!
Steven Winn wanted a dog for his family, but when his daughter fell in love with a scraggly, man-hating terrier mix named Como from an animal shelter, Winn got far more than he'd bargained for. Traumatized, single-minded, and clever, Como was bent on breaking Winn's sanity, his bankbook, and his heart. Begun as a beloved series in the San Francisco Chronicle, Come Back, Comois the story of one man's valiant quest to win the love of a dog that wanted nothing to do with him. With humor and pathos, Winn describes his exasperation and the reward: that loving a dog can somehow make us more human. Steve Winn is an Award-winning journalist and fiction writer whose work has appeared in publications from Parenting and Sports Illustrated to the Utne Reader and National Lampoon. He has appeared on 20/20, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, A&E Biography, and NPR.
Come early to enjoy the wags and loves of dogs available for adoption. Please bring blankets, toys or food to donate to Santa Cruz SPCA, an organization that rescues shelter animals from across California that would otherwise be euthanized.
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HALLOWEEN STORYTIME & PARTY Saturday, October 31 from 3pm to 4pm |
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 Start off your treat-or-treating at the Book Café. Join the boisterous Jill Rose for a few ghost stories and book readings to get you in the mood for All Hallow's Eve. Wear your costume and enjoy a few giveaways plus lots of fun!
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We buy USED BOOKS!
Monday-Friday after 3:30pm or call 462-4415 for an appointment.
Cash and credit options.
We sell USED BOOKS, too!
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 Friends of Capitola Book Café
Annual Membership Program
Friends of Capitola Book Café get great perks, like discounts on books, cards, and gifts, Capitola Book Café gift certificates and Lulu Carpenter's gift cards (to use in the Café or at any Lulu Carpenter's location), and reserved event seating.
Support the AUTHOR EVENTS PROGRAM & YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE while getting a great deal for yourself!
JOIN TODAY!
To learn more, please call us at (831) 462-4415,
or come by the store.
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