BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:199@shaverscreek.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210429T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210429T203000 DTSTAMP:20210428T141402Z URL:https://www.shaverscreek.org/public-programs-and-events/upcoming-event s/black-faces-white-spaces-book-club-a-conversation-with-carolyn-finney/ SUMMARY:Black Faces\, White Spaces Book Club: A Conversation with Carolyn F inney DESCRIPTION:This month\, Shaver’s Creek has been hosting a book club feat uring Black Faces\, White Spaces by Dr. Carolyn Finney\, calling attention to the underrepresentation of African Americans in the outdoors. During o ur last session on April 29th\, Dr. Finney will join the book club to talk more in-depth about the book and what has changed since its publication i n 2014.\nThis session will be hosted as a Zoom webinar so that people outs ide of the book club can listen to both Dr. Finney’s presentation and th e Q&\;A with book club participants. To attend this webinar live\, or v iew the recording of this event\, please register below. The webinar link will be sent to your email address. The link will not be posted publicly.  \nLearn more about Black Faces\, White Spaces.\nThis event is free and o pen to the public thanks to the generous support of Shaver’s Creek membe rs and Webster's Bookstore Cafe.\nAbout the Author:\nCarolyn Finney\, PhD is a storyteller\, author and a cultural geographer. She is deeply interes ted in issues related to identity\, difference\, creativity\, and resilien ce. Carolyn is grounded in both artistic and intellectual ways of knowing — she pursued an acting career for eleven years\, spent five years backp acking through Africa and Asia\, and lived in Nepal which changed the cour se of her life. Motivated by these experiences\, Carolyn returned to schoo l after a 15-year absence to complete a BA\, MA (gender and environmental issues in Kenya and Nepal) and a PhD (where she was a Fulbright and a Cano n National Science Scholar Fellow). Along with public speaking\, writing\, media engagements\, consulting &\; teaching\, she served on the US Nat ional Parks Advisory Board for eight years. Her first book\, Black Faces\, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Gr eat Outdoors was released in 2014. Recent publications include Self-Eviden t: Reflections on the Invisibility of Black Bodies in Environmental Histor ies (BESIDE Magazine\, Spring 2020)\, and The Perils of Being Black in Pub lic: We are all Christian Cooper and George Floyd (The Guardian\, June 3rd 2020). She is currently working on a performance piece about John Muir (T he N Word: Nature Revisited) and is the new columnist at the Earth Island Journal while doing a two-year residency in the Franklin Environmental Cen ter at Middlebury College as the Environmental Studies Professor of Practi ce.\n\nYou registration is required. Those who register will receive via e mail a link to the live webinar ahead of the event\, as well as a recordin g of this event. You may register below.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.shaverscreek.org/wp-content/uploads/ 2021/04/black-faces-white-spaces.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR