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Upcoming Future Events

All Events are at King's Books, Unless Otherwise Noted

 

March 3  *  7 pm.  Recess!

IHAF Club hosts a night of Double Dutch, Four Square, and Hopscotch as our ridiculous way to get fit.  Practice your playground chants and come play with us.

 

IHAF (Intermittent Health And Fitness) Club is a group of individuals concerned about your health.  Consisting of both lackadaisical and hardcore members, this open group meet intermittently to engage in fun fitness activities. Next event will be hulu hoop making/ twirling.  IHAF Club.  You join club?

 

 

 

 

March 4  *  6 - 9 pmBulletproof Mascara Book Launch.

Celebrate the release of Bethany Maines' new book Bulletproof Mascara, a female spy thriller.  Chémel Salon will be on hand to provide mini-makeovers.  There will be door prizes, uniformed staff and a donation bar provided by Doyle's Public HouseBulletproof Mascara follows linguist Nikki Lanier as she joins the "confidential side" of Carrie Mae Cosmetics, a front for a female spy organization that uses covert means to help women.  With gadgets such as flash grenade lipstick and acid nail polish, she sets off on her first mission to rescue an abducted activist outspoken in her work against the Asian sex trade.   

 

Bethany Maines is a Tacoma native who works as a graphic designer by day to cover for her other interests, including travel to exotic lands and kicking butt with her third degree black belt in karate.  Bulletproof Mascara is her debut novel and she's working on the sequel.

 

 

 

March 5  *  6 - 9 pm.  Art Opening.

Seventh grade students from Mason Middle School will present their work.  All proceeds from the sale of artwork go to the Red Cross to support relief work in Haiti

 

 

 

 

 

 

Every Saturday  *  10:30 am - 12 pm.  The Secret Circus!

The Secret Circus is a show for kids of all ages showcasing some of the best in family entertainment in the Northwest. Come and bring your entire family for a fun-filled Saturday morning, every Saturday in March!  Cost is $5 for adults and $2 for children.

 

 

 

March 6  *  2 - 4 pm.  Midge Raymond Workshop and Reading. 

Midge Raymond will lead a free workshop on Writing About Place.  A good photo instantly conveys what we need to know about a place, but how can we best accomplish this in our writing?  In this workshop, Midge will talk about how to use verbal images and sensory details to create a vivid landscape for readers.  The session will address how to map out journeys (both literal and emotional) on the page, how to go beyond mere description, and how to bring readers into the worlds you create. The hour-long workshop will be followed by a Q&A and a reading from Forgetting English.  The event is free, but please RSVP to sweet pea so we know how many to expect.

Midge Raymond's short-story collection, Forgetting English (Eastern Washington University Press, 2009), received the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in American Literary Review, Ontario Review, North American Review, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. Her current projects are supported by an Artist Trust/ Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship.

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March 8  *  7 pm.  Graphic Novel Book Club.

At 1022 South, 1022 S J St, Tacoma

Join this book club perfect for people just starting to read graphic novels or confirmed geeks. March's book is DMZ, Vol. 1: On the Ground by Brian Wood & Riccardo Burchielli.  Come join us! We meet the second Monday of every month at 1022 South, Hilltop's book-themed cocktail lounge. Note: Must be 21 to go to 1022 South. Email sweet pea or call 253.627.8588 for more information. The books are available for purchase at King's Books. To view books previously read, click here.  If you're on Facebook, join our group!  

 

 

 

March 11  *  7 pm.  Craft Night!

Tacoma Is For Lovers presents Craft Night on a to-be-determined topic.  Each month features an artist who will introduce a new craft.  The first 45 minutes will be devoted to learning the necessary techniques.  After which, people can continue working on the activity or work on other projects.  Please pre-register with sweet pea so that we know how many materials to bring!

 

Tacoma Is For Lovers is a community-based organization which annually produces an Artist Craft Fair which promotes the visibility of local artists and encourages reuse, intentionality, sustainability and high craft.

 

 

 

March 12  *  7 pm.  Distinguished Writer Series and Open Mic.

This monthly event features a Distinguished Writer and an Open Mic for poets.  This month features Allen Braden.  Open Mic sign-up is at 6:30 pm. Admission is free. The event occurs monthly the second Friday of every month at King's Books. Sponsored by the Tacoma Arts Commission and the Puget Sound Poetry Connection.

 

Allen Braden is a local poet who has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, an Artist Trust fellowship, an Artist Trust grant, the Emerging Writers Prize from Witness magazine, the Grolier Poetry Prize and other honors. His work is published in The New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Southern Review, Georgia Review and anthologized in Best New Poets 2005, and Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry and Family Matters: Poems of Our Families.  He is the former poet-in-residence for the Poetry Center and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and now teaches at Tacoma Community College.

 

 

 

March 12  *  6:30 - 9 pm.  Scrabble Rousers!

At UPS Rotunda, Wheelock Student Center, Tacoma, WA

Calling Word Nerds and Scrabble Sharks! Get ready for a special Alfred Hitchcock edition of Scrabble Rousers, a competition suitable for all levels. Participants establish their own skill level: beginner, intermediate, or expert. People are paired off to battle it out in two successive, exceedingly fun games. Entrance fee is $10 per person with proceeds directly benefit the Tacoma Community House Student Scholarship Fund, which assists students as they transfer from TCH to community college. Tacoma Community House is an 100 year old nonprofit that provides a variety of services to the community, including adult education, bilingual job assistance, and youth programming.  The MC for the night is King's Books own sweet peaNOTE: Not at King's Books. 

 

 

 

March 12  *  7 pm.  Talk on Ethnobotany and Traditional Ecological Knowledge.

At Manitou Community Center, 4806 S 66th St, Tacoma, WA

Sustainable Tacoma-Pierce presents on ongoing series of open-to-the-public presentations in conjunction with their Tacoma Permaculture Design Course.  March features Heidi Bohan, author of People of Cascadia: Pacific Northwest Native American History, as she talks about ethnobotany, traditional ecological knowledge, and sustainable living.  Cost is a sliding scale, $10 - $5, although students in the permaculture course pay no extra fee.  NOTE: Not at King's Books.     

Heidi Bohan is an ethnobotanist, cultural educator, sustainable living, permaculture designer, and freelance educator working with the Snoqualmie Tribe, Bastyr University, Northwest Indian College and through her own organization 'Native Arts & Cultural Center.  She is also the Carnation Farmers market manager and Executive Director of the Sno Valley Tilth.

 

 

 

March 16  *  7 pm.  Banned Book Club.

At Tempest Lounge, 913 MLK Way, Tacoma

Join this troubling book group reading books that have been banned or challenged.  March's selection is Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott.  Come join the discussion. We meet the third Tuesday of every month at Tempest Lounge. Note: Must be 21 to go to Tempest or accompanied by an adult. Call 253.272.4904 or email sweet pea for more information. The books are available for purchase at King's Books. For a list of the most frequently challenged books of 2008, click here. To view books previously read, click here.  

 

 

 

March 18  *  7 pm.  Langdon Cook Talk.

Langdon Cook will talk about his book Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager. A master forager, Cook crafts together delicious menus from wild nettles, freshly dug clams, berries, mushrooms galore and Dungeness crab.  He describes foraging, not as a throwback to our hunter-gatherer past, but as a way to reconnect with the landscape, and appreciate the bounties of the water and earth around us and use fresh, local, and seasonal palate pleasers.  Structured around the seasons of the year, each chapter focuses on a specific food type and concludes with a recipe featuring the author’s hard-won bounty.

Langdon Cook left his role as senior book editor at Amazon.com in 2004, to pursue life in a cabin off the grid with his wife and son.  Now a freelance writer and editor, Langdon has written for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Outside, Gray’s Sporting Journal, Fly Fisherman, the Stranger, Seattle Metropolitan, and Conservation Magazine His expertise in all matters of foraging has been profiled in Bon Appétit and the Wall Street Journal.  He lives in Seattle, Washington.  

 

 

 

March 19  *  7 pm.  Revels Spring Sing at King's.

Puget Sound Revels invites everyone to come sing!  Celebrate St. Patrick's Day and the Spring Equinox in song.  Song sheets and refreshments will be provided.  You are welcome to bring instruments.   

 

 

 

March 26  *  6 pm.  Pat Shannon Reading.

Pat Shannon will read from her new book Darwin's Prisoners, a short story collection.  Darwin's Prisoners is an exploration of how four women - Måire, The Broad, Lilith's Child, Mamaconas - maneuver within the physical limitations of the evolutionary cage. 

 

Pat Shannon lives with the wild creatures at the Bluebird Wetlands and Wildlife Sanctuary in southwest Montana. Previous books include The Man Who Stayed Home: A Conamara Memoir and Charles and Me: Notes in the Margin.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

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