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:185@shaverscreek.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T203000 DTSTAMP:20210223T191230Z URL:https://www.shaverscreek.org/public-programs-and-events/upcoming-event s/book-club-black-faces-white-spaces/ SUMMARY:Book Club: Black Faces\, White Spaces DESCRIPTION:Shaver's Creek's first-ever book club will conclude with an exc lusive meet-the-author event!\nRegistration required to participate.  \nI n Black Face\, White Spaces\, Dr. Carolyn Finney dives deep into the under -representation of African Americans in nature\, outdoor recreation\, and environmentalism through the lenses of environmental history\, studies on race and culture\, and geography.\nStarting on April 8th\, participants wi ll meet virtually once a week for four weeks for in-depth discussions led by our very own team development facilitators. Dr. Carolyn Finney will joi n us for the last meeting to engage in an intimate and thought-provoking c onversation. Attendance for this special meet-the-author event will be lim ited to book club participants. Meetings are held Thursday evenings from 7 :00–8:30 pm via Zoom.\n\nThese meetings are meant to provide spaces for thoughtful and honest conversation. Hostility of any kind will not be tole rated.\nThis book club is free and open to the public thanks to the genero us support of Shaver’s Creek members and through a wonderful partnership with Webster's Bookstore Cafe. All that is required to participate is a c opy of the book. \nAbout the author\nCarolyn Finney\, PhD is a storytelle r\, author and a cultural geographer. She is deeply interested in issues r elated to identity\, difference\, creativity\, and resilience. Carolyn is grounded in both artistic and intellectual ways of knowing — she pursued an acting career for eleven years\, spent five years backpacking through Africa and Asia\, and lived in Nepal which changed the course of her life. Motivated by these experiences\, Carolyn returned to school after a 15-ye ar absence to complete a BA\, MA (gender and environmental issues in Kenya and Nepal) and a PhD (where she was a Fulbright and a Canon National Scie nce Scholar Fellow). Along with public speaking\, writing\, media engageme nts\, consulting &\; teaching\, she served on the US National Parks Adv isory Board for eight years. Her first book\, Black Faces\, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors wa s released in 2014. Recent publications include Self-Evident: Reflections on the Invisibility of Black Bodies in Environmental Histories (BESIDE Mag azine\, Spring 2020)\, and The Perils of Being Black in Public: We are all Christian Cooper and George Floyd (The Guardian\, June 3rd 2020). She is currently working on a performance piece about John Muir (The N Word: Natu re Revisited) and is the new columnist at the Earth Island Journal while d oing a two-year residency in the Franklin Environmental Center at Middlebu ry College as the Environmental Studies Professor of Practice.\nGet your c opy of Black Faces\, White Spaces\nSeveral options to access the book incl ude:\n\n Ordering a copy from our local partner Webster’s Bookstore Cafe here\n [Penn State students and staff] accessing an online copy of the bo ok for free through Penn State libraries\n or by purchasing the book from your own local bookstore or another retailer of your choosing\n\n\nNeed a hand?\nOur local partner\, Webster’s Bookstore Cafe\, is providing a set amount of free copies to anyone who would like to join us and is otherwis e unable to access the book using one of the options listed above. If you would like to receive one of these copies\, email Olivia in confidence at ogs5011@psu.edu. The deadline for requesting a free copy of the book is Fr iday\, March 26.\n\nRegistration is required to participate. Those who reg ister will receive via email important information such as discussion ques tions and links to the appropriate Zoom room — look for emails with more information closer to the program's start date. You may register below. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.shaverscreek.org/wp-content/uploads/ 2021/02/BookClubTemplateWB.png 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