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Trumps Deal of the Century touches upon most of the issues that must be dealt with if one wishes to reach a two-state solution.However, even though the deal speaks of a four-year transition period, it is constructed in such a way that the chances of the proposed process leading up to the establishment of a Palestinian state (according to Netanyahu, a Palestinian state minus) are virtually nil, and the only concrete element is the American explicit approval of an Israeli annexation of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank though it isnt absolutely clear whether these also include illegal settlements (i.e., outposts and settlements that were not approved by the Israeli authorities in advance or ex post facto) or only the settlement blocs over which there is a fairly broad Jewish consensus, and when exactly this annexation is to take place.What do I mean when I say that the deal includes all the elements that must be considered in a two-state solution? It delimits the territory within which the two states are to exist; it speaks of the territory to be included in each of them, including an exchange of territories between the two; it speaks of a tunnel that will connect the two halves of the Palestinian state 70% of the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip; and it lays down basic conditions that are necessary so that the two states will be able to live in peaceful coexistence.So what is the problem?The main problem is that while the deal takes full account of Israels legitimate concerns and aspirations, it does not take into account those of the Palestinians. It includes Israels basic demands, such as the Jordan River as Israels eastern security border, a united Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty, the annexation of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank to Israel, the total demilitarization of the Palestinian state and the disarmament of Hamas, Islamic Jihad etc., but doesnt include a single one of the basic Palestinian demands, such as that the Palestinian capital should be in east Jerusalem (not a few insignificant suburbs of Jerusalem and villages annexed by Israel to Jerusalem after 1967), the end of the Israeli occupation of all the territories occupied by it in 1967, and the right of return (or reparations) for the 1948/9 Palestinian refugees.The offer of $50 billion in foreign investments in the Palestinian state-to-be (little if any of it from the US itself) cannot compensate for this lacuna.Why do I suggest that it might be justified to consider the deal nothing more than deceit?In Trumps case, it is difficult to tell whether he really believes that the 181-page document has any chance of leading to a viable peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians, or whether he views it as casting bread upon the waters with the hope that sooner or later it might bring dividends or not.However, one cannot help wondering what immediate returns Trump hopes to receive. Is he concerned with the fulfillment of a promise he made when elected over three years ago? Is he trying, toward the November presidential elections, to please his Evangelical supporters who support Netanyahus annexationist ambitions for their own messianic reasons? Is he seeking to help Netanyahu finally win an election?No, I do not detect a deliberate attempt to deceive in Trumps possible motives at most, amateurism, ignorance, vanity and a soft place in his heart for Netanyahu, one of the few leaders in the world who enthusiastically supports him.Netanyahus case is different. I have no doubt that he does not believe the deal will lead to a Palestinian state (which he opposes) or a settlement of the conflict. What interests Netanyahu at the moment is to leave as much of a concrete heritage as possible, and since he has no way of knowing how his approaching trial on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of faith will end, time might be a rare commodity for him. The unilateral annexation of part of the territories occupied by Israel in 1967, but especially the Jewish settlements established in these territories since then, are considered by him a worthy heritage. Concealing this goal in Trumps deal increases the chances of realizing it more rapidly than any other way. In fact, Netanyahu was hoping to get the cabinet to approve his annexation plan yesterday, not only for the sake of his heritage, but also as an election campaign ploy toward next months general elections.BUT SOMETHING went wrong. Though US Ambassador David Friedman and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appear to actively support an immediate annexation (Pompeo without understanding the full political and international law implications of the move, and Friedman out of full identification with the Jewish settlers), Trumps son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, feels otherwise, and has insisted that a decision on annexation should not be taken before the elections, and should be preceded by discussions on the details between the US and Israel.Kushners motives might have to do with the expected negative reactions to the deal in the Arab world in general, and Jordan in particular, and with the understanding that Netanyahu might not remain prime minister after the elections, and that Benny Gantz does not share Netanyahus agenda.Incidentally, Netanyahus motives for enthusiastically praising and exalting Trumps deal are not completely clear, though there are those who argue that some of its premises seem to originate in his 1994 book A Place Among the Nations.Despite the fact that the deal might offer Netanyahu a fast track to annexation, he is certainly aware of the fact that even though the Likud MKs and the New Right are delighted with the prospect of annexation, they are totally opposed to a Palestinian state, or anything resembling a state, and are opposed to Israel adopting it as a basis for negotiations.Furthermore, the transfer of Israeli territories to the Palestinians in return for the 30% of the West Bank that Netanyahu seeks to annex is unlikely to receive the support of at least 80 MKs in the Knesset, or a majority in a referendum, as Israeli law requires before the government can relinquish any Israeli territory. The territories mentioned in the deal are an area south of Hebron on the Israeli side of the border, two stretches of land along the border with Egypt and adjacent to the Gaza Strip (one of them, the Halutza sand dunes, was considered by some of the Gush Katif evacuees as a possible location for resettlement), as well as most of the triangle the area in central Israel inhabited by over 300,000 Arabs.Finally, on a positive note, even though the Deal of the Century is unlikely to bring about a breakthrough in the peace process, which the Left desires, or major annexations, as the Right desires, at least it has placed all the pertinent issues on a future Israeli-Palestinian settlement on the table, and the election campaign in the coming month will not be only about yes Bibi or no Bibi.

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Last month, NYUs Gallatin School of Individualized Study opened its doors to student playwrights through the Gallatin Theater Lab. Run by Michael Dinwiddie, a playwright and professor at Gallatin, the lab encouraged students to submit a script for a one-act play for a chance to participate in an intensive two-week development program. This year, the lab opened applications to alumni for the first time.

The program pairs each student with a mentor, a director and a team of actors to develop their one-acts. The participants had one week to work on rewrites with their mentors, followed by another week to work with a director and actors in preparation for a reading.

Out of 17 applicants, Adi Eshman, Michael Zalta and Sage Molasky were selected to participate in the program. These talented writers highlighted important topics in their scripts while telling a captivating story. Each act captures the playwrights individuality, including their life experiences and their passions.

Adi Eshman started his undergraduate career at Gallatin in 2011, with a concentration called The Role of Narrative in American History, Society and Literature. According to Eshman, his focus was an intersection of dramatic writing, society and literature.

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Though he considered working in film and television, Eshman decided to explore the world of theater in his senior year of college. He took his first and only playwriting class during his last semester, and hes been creating plays ever since.

Eshmans act Bigger? Sugar? Figure? is based on an original piece he wrote in 2018. Inspired by plays that featured freestyle, he decided that he wanted to incorporate the art form into his script.

I was so blown away by the courage it takes to do that, and how fast you have to think on your feet, said Eshman.

The act is set at a dinner party, and it focuses on a discussion between a white couple and a black couple. Conversation topics at their dinner table revolves around politics and race, with a dramatic shift when one of the white characters makes a mistake while rapping Kendrick Lamars All Right. This character makes the same mistake over and over until he gets it right.

Over the course of the week, Eshman thought his play felt a little too much like Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which he referred to as the quintessential American dinner party play. In an effort to change the structure of the act, Eshman decided to underline repeating patterns by playing with time.

I went to a subway station after that rehearsal on Wednesday, and someone had carved a swastika into one of the subway ads, and it just triggered for me a lot of emotions about how we just keep repeating things in our history, said Eshman.

Eshmans play directs the audiences attention to the undeniable issue of racism in our society. Though the script only consists of one act, Eshman expressed his interest in continuing it.

Even since I was writing in 2015, Ive been really interested in how Americans look at race, how we look at gender and politics and how those things manifest themselves in very innocuous conversation, Eshman said.

Eshman is currently keeping busy with a series of projects, including more playwriting, teaching and freelance journalism. He even started a theater group in his community, and has started applying to graduate schools for playwriting.

I feel very lucky and very grateful that I can sort of figure myself out as an artist and as a teacher and as a writer, Eshman said. I think I have the courage to do those things in part because of what I learned in NYU, in my experiences in Gallatin.

While Eshman tackled issues of race, his fellow playwright and recent NYU graduate Michael Zalta turned his attention to issues of ethnicity.

Zalta graduated from Gallatin last May, where he concentrated on Arab Cultural studies, Media Theory and Playwriting. During his time at NYU, Zalta was involved in Jewish Voice for Peace and Gallatin Theater Troupe.

I sort of always used playwriting at NYU as a way to process everything that Im learning that is so highly, deeply theoretical and just how do you put that in real life? How do you put that in an arena of human beings? said Zalta.

Zaltas act is called Does it Explode?; Part II: Arab-Pessimism, and is part of a full-length play he had written. The act is set in Brooklyn in 2002, and it revolves around two Arab-American boys who are divided by their different experiences as Arabs in post-9/11 New York.

Inspired by Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun, Zalta highlighted heritage and xenophobia through an exploration of post-9/11 media technology on Arab-American theaters in Brooklyn.

The original piece also underwent some changes throughout the development process as a result of feedback from Zaltas mentor, as well as the director and the actors.

He was urging me, very interestingly, to explore the profound depths of my characters, whereas typically my work is way more cerebral, way more art, said Zalta.

Zalta plans to use the feedback to improve the rest of the play, but he is also working on other projects. Though he typically writes about Arab-American themes because he feels that he has to be a voice for Arab-Americans, Zalta wants to move away from these themes and expand his subject matter.

Unlike Eshman and Zalta, Sage Molasky is a current Gallatin sophomore. Molasky is originally from Las Vegas and she transferred from Scripps College to NYU this year. Her concentration is in Sexuality and Religion in the Renaissance, and she focuses on the effect of the Renaissance on contemporary writing.

Molaskys play Foraging focuses on conversations among three young women foraging in the desert. Although Molasky has acted and directed before, this was her first time writing a play.

Because a lot of my research focuses on sexuality and religion in the Renaissance, the natural world really comes in a lot, Molasky said. I grew up in Nevada, and so its kind of an exploration of young women in the desert but thats very much an idea that I work with in my concentration women in nature.

Molaskys play not only encompasses relevant themes, but it also dives into very sensitive topics through the characters stories. Molasky discusses the female body and female sexuality without holding back, topics, she noted, that are often uncomfortable for men.

I think that there will always be people who hear something like that and are uncomfortable because theyve never experienced it, and I think thats whats so beautiful about art and about performance, because what I write is particular to what I want to say, said Molasky.

Molasky also commented on the changes the script went through during the writing process. She said that the first draft and the final draft are almost completely different plays as a result of extensive rewriting.

Molasky started writing from a very young age, but she says that now she uses writing to confront issues instead of running away from them.

Moving forward, Molasky plans to continue writing plays. She wants to write more plays in connection to Foraging, but she also wants to experiment with other themes.

On January 25th, all three acts were performed at The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts. Though they were all very different, its safe to say that they tackled important issues. Through this program, Eshman, Zalta and Molasky have only shown us a glimpse of their talent and theres much more where that came from.

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Festivals

Pasco Blues and Food Festival: Noon to 7 p.m. Feb. 8, Land O Lakes Heritage Park, 5401 Land O Lakes Blvd., Land O Lakes. Bands include the Pasco Lefty Trio, Grimes Alley Blues Band and Home Cookin Band. Headliner Selwyn Birchwood takes the stage at 5:30 p.m. Birchwood is promoting his latest Alligator Records release, Pick Your Poison. The festival also includes food, wine, beer, vendors and a kids zone. No coolers. Dog-friendly (owners must pick up after their pets). Visit eventbrite.com/e/pasco-blues-festival-tickets-81982627245. Admission $10; children 11 and younger free. Free parking. (813) 929-1229.

Winterfest: Hernando County Parks and Recreation hosts the annual festival from 5 to 10 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Lake House, 1202 Kenlake Ave, Spring Hill. The headliner is Slippery When Wet, a Bon Jovi tribute band. There will be food trucks, crafts and merchant vendors. Admission is free; parking is $5. Call (352) 754-4031.

Celtic Family Jamboree FamJam: Gates open for noncampers at 3 p.m. Feb. 7 and 8 a.m. Feb. 8 at the Sertoma Youth Ranch, 85 Myers Road, Brooksville, on the Hernando/Pasco border. Music is 5 p.m. to midnight Friday and starts at noon Saturday, with continuous music on two stages. Friday performers include the Screaming Orphans, Albannach, Bing Futch, McIntyre, Marcille Wallis & Friends, Connor an Dearg, and the Legendary Flaming Caber. Most will perform again on Saturday, along with Trevlor Tanner, West of Galway Trio, Loch and Keys, and the Byrne Brothers. Saturday offers a variety of workshops in pennywhistle, fiddle, mountain dulcimer, hammer dulcimer, Bodhrn (Irish frame drum) and Irish dance. The weekend also will have food, childrens activities and vendors. Weekend passes are $35 in advance; ages under 18 admitted free. Visit celticheritageproductions.com/fj.htm or find the event on Facebook.

Hernando Harmonizers presents An Afternoon of Music: The Hernando Harmonizers, an a capella chorus, will perform at 2 p.m. Feb. 8 at Nativity Lutheran Church, 6363 Commercial Way, Weeki Wachee. A love offering will be collected. Call (352) 597-1456.

Billy Kemp Concert: The Nashville singer/songwriter will perform his original music, mostly roots music, in a free concert at 2 p.m. Feb. 8 at Hudson Regional Library, 8012 Library Road, Hudson. Visit bit.ly/PCLSEvents Call (727) 861-3040.

Bourbon Street Jazz: The Hernando Jazz Society will present Bourbon Street Jazz, featuring the Jazz Phools, at 2 p.m. Feb. 9, at the Wellington clubhouse, 400 Wexford Blvd., Spring Hill. Admission is free for members; nonmembers pay $10 each or $15 per couple. A cash bar and optional buffet meal will be available (separate fee). Call (352) 799-9690.

Richey Community Orchestra: 3 p.m. Feb. 9, Center for the Arts at River Ridge, 11646 Town Center Road, New Port Richey. Presenting Music from the Movies: A Celebration of John Williams. Join the orchestra as it celebrates the 88th birthday of the American composer. The show highlights will include award-winning music from Schindlers List. Also on the program is Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders March, Superman, Jurassic Park and others. $18, open seating. (727) 919-3866. richeycommunityorchestra.com

Art Annual Competition & Exhibition: A reception for the Pasco Fine Arts Councils annual exhibition and competition will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Pasco Fine Arts Center, 4145 Fairford Drive, New Port Richey. The exhibit continues through Feb. 29. Awards are given in two categories: professional and non-professional. Call (727) 845-7322. pascoarts.org

This is Our Story Black History Month Exhibit Reception: The exhibit, which will be featured throughout February, celebrates the history of black America, with art and artifacts from collections of several private collectors. The reception is 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Feb. 7, at Uptown Art Gallery (Brooksville City Hall), 201 Howell Ave., Brooksville. (352) 540-3811.

The Art in My Mind: The exhibit continues through April 4 at the Uptown Art Gallery (in Brooksville City Hall), 201 Howell Ave., Brooksville. Featuring works that are artist choice. Call (352) 540-3811.

Past Merges Now: The exhibit, featuring works by artist Michael Conway, continues through Feb. 19 at the Rao Musunuru, M.D., Art Gallery at Pasco-Hernando State College West Campus, 10230 Ridge Road, New Port Richey. The show features works that blend new and old, combining fine art, commercial and studio photography through a unique medium. It integrates mid-century and current photography with mixed media and a past generation world view with contemporary art disciplines. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday. Call (727) 816-3231.

Academia Hernando Spring Lecture Series: The topic is The Golden Age of Piracy, by Robert Jacobs. $10 at the door. 10 a.m.-noon. St. Andrews Episcopal Church Spring Hill, 2301 Deltona Blvd., Spring Hill. (352) 515-0300. academiahernando.org

Wonderful Water: Bring the kids to this educational program, where they will learn about the water cycle and take a walk to Mays Prairie to explore a native wetland. Wear shoes and clothes suitable for exploring in the woods, water and insect repellent. The walk to the wetland and back is 2 miles. No need to register. Program runs up to 2 hours. Free. 10 a.m. Chinsegut Conservation Center, 23212 Lake Lindsey Road, Brooksville. (352) 754-6722. outreach.myfwc.com

Night Hike Winter-breeding frogs: Adults and youth 8 and older are invited to participate in this guided night hiking/dip-netting journey to Mays Prairie to document what tadpoles can be found. Register online or call. Limited to 15 participants. 6 p.m. Chinsegut Conservation Center, 23212 Lake Lindsey Road, Brooksville. (352) 754-6722. outreach.myfwc.com

Good Neighbor Trail 5K: The Red Mule Runners host this annual run. Event day registration begins at 6:30 a.m. Parking available on the shoulder of Richbarn Road, in the grass near the trail. T-shirts given to those who preregister. The race is along the paved trail, shaded with oak trees and beautiful scenery. Fast out and back course. Advance $25 adults, $15 ages 18 and younger; $30 event day. Saturday 8 a.m. Race trailhead, corner of Richbarn and Weatherly roads, Brooksville. (352) 585-7495 or (352) 346-5182. active.com

Valentines Day Dance: The Latin American Civic and Cultural Association hosts, with music provided by DJ Kue. Small coolers permitted. Ice is available for a small fee. $10. Saturday 8 p.m. to midnight. Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 6193 Spring Hill Drive, Spring Hill. (352) 277-2915.

Nature Coast Botanical Garden: The gardens are free and open daily from dawn to dusk. Plant sales at the nursery are from 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays and Mondays, and include plants grown at the gardens. All proceeds go toward the upkeep of the nonprofit gardens. Pet-friendly. Nature Coast Botanical Gardens, 1489 Parker Ave., Spring Hill. (352) 683-9933. naturecoastgardens.com

Torah Tots celebration: Celebrate Tu BShevat, New Year of the trees. This free event is open to Jewish and interfaith families with children ages 2 to 5 years old. Festivities include music, stories, snacks and arts and crafts. 10:30 a.m. to noon. Temple Beth David, 13158 Antelope St., Spring Hill. RSVP to (352) 686-7034.

2020 Scholarship Fundraiser: Believe and Achieve Fashion Show: The Hernando County Business and Professional Women host this annual fashion show and luncheon. Fashions by La Boutique of Spring Hill. There will be a raffle auction and 50/50 drawing. Proceeds go to the scholarship fund, to provide scholarships to high school students and women returning to school in Hernando County. $40; runway seating is $45 (limited). 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Glen Lakes Country Club, 9000 Glen Lakes Blvd., Weeki Wachee. 352-346-1847 or 914-246-0400. facebook.com

Centralia Trip: This guided visit to the Centralia historic site will be Feb. 14 at the Chassahowitzka Wildlife Management Area on US 19. Meet at main check station at 9:30 a.m. or meet at Chinsegut to follow at 9 a.m. Space is limited, register by calling (352) 754-6722 or email Chinsegut@MyFWC.com or online at MyFWC.com/Chinsegut. Requires hike through heavily forested and swampy terrain off the beaten trail. The program runs three hours, including drive time. Free. Chinsegut Conservation Center, 23212 Lake Lindsey Road, Brooksville.

Friday Night Live: A monthly concert series in the park with food trucks, games, a night market and full bar. Februarys Valentines Day concert features music by Remember When (1950s through 70s); and Soulful, featuring tenor saxophonist Dell O Barnes Sr. and the Band. Free. 6 to 10 p.m. Feb. 14. Hernando Park, 205 E Fort Dade Ave., Brooksville. (352) 540-6409. historicdowntownbrooksville.com

Big Day Birdathon: Meet in the parking lot and join other birders to find as many species as possible before dusk. Free. 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Feb. 15. Big Lots, 20050 Cortez Blvd., Brooksville. (352) 848-5776. hernandoaudubon.org

Heritage Day Festival: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 15. Good Neighbor Trail, 70 Russell St., Brooksville. Hernando Countys 176th-birthday celebration will include demonstrators, performers and vendors. This event is held by the Hernando Historical Museum Association that works to preserve Hernando history. There will be a ceremonial cake-cutting, demonstrations of pioneer skills, such as weaving, spinning, chair caning and more. There will be a tour of historic homes available for $15 adults, $5 for children ages 6-12. Free admission. (352) 799-0129. hernandohistoricalmuseumassoc.com

Beginners Archery: 10 a.m. Feb. 15, Chinsegut Conservation Center, 23212 Lake Lindsey Road, Brooksville. Learn the basics of target archery using compound bows from skilled instructors. This program is for ages 12 and older; advance registration is required. All equipment is provided by Chinsegut Conservation Center. Register at (352) 754-6722 or online at MyFWC.com/Chinsegut.

Arts and Autos: 2 to 6 p.m. Feb. 15, at Brooksville City Hall, 201 Howell Ave., Brooksville. Cruise-in car show and artisan market, with live music and food and drink available. The Uptown Art Gallery at City Hall is open during the event. Vendors welcome; the cost is $15 for a 10x10 space. Artists can reserve a free spot in the gallery to demonstrate their craft live. Free admission. (352) 540-6476. historicdowntownbrooksville.com

Four Chaplains Ceremony: 3 p.m. Feb. 16, SpringLife Church, 9344 Spring Hill Drive, Spring Hill. The service honors four military chaplains, all of different faiths, who died aboard the USS Dorchester, which was torpedoed during World War II on Feb. 3, 1943. The chaplains handed out life jackets to the servicemen, and when there were none left, gave up their own. They were Methodist minister George Fox, Lutheran minister Clark Poling, Jewish rabbi Alexander Goode and Catholic priest Johnny Washington. Various veteran organizations will participate. Free. (352) 686-1820.

Believing In Girls Breakfast: 8 to 9 a.m. St. George Greek Orthodox Church, 9426 Little Road, New Port Richey. (727) 868-5911. northtampabaychamber.com

Vets Healing Vets: Veterans are invited to meet with other veterans to make crafts that increase public awareness of the important role veterans play in our community. Free. 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Hugh Embry Library, 14215 Fourth St., Dade City. (352) 567-3576. bit.ly

Shabbat 100 Community Dinner: Friday 5:56 p.m.. Chabad Jewish Centre, 2124 Ashley Oaks Circle, Wesley Chapel. (813) 642-3244. chabadatwiregrass.com

Watercolor Workshop with Joye Moon: The West Pasco Art Guild hosts this workshop with a nationally-recognized artist. Moon also will give a free demonstration at the guilds general meeting on Feb. 7. Visit her website for samplings of her work at joyemoon.com. Space is limited for the workshop; registration required. Email: jmetz@verizon.net. $80 for guild members, $95 for nonmembers. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.. West Pasco Art Guild and Gallery, 6206 Jefferson St., New Port Richey. (727) 842-8613. westpascoartguildandgallery.org

Ornamental Grasses: Learn what grasses grow best in central Florida and how to care for them in this free UF/IFAS Pasco County Extension seminar. Free. Saturday 9 to 10:30 a.m. Land O Lakes Heritage Park, 5401 Land O Lakes Boulevard, Land O Lakes. (352) 518-0156. eventbrite.com

Museum Open House: The West Pasco Historical Society will have an open house at the Rao Musunuru, M. D., Museum and Library. See the all-new exhibits. Extended hours, and no price for admission. Free. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sims Park, 5547 Main St., New Port Richey. (727) 847-0680.

Lawn Care and Weed Control: Discover the proper care and weed control your lawn needs to flourish in this free UF/IFAS Pasco County Extension seminar. Registration recommended. Visit ifas.ufl.edu/extension-calendar-events/ Free. Saturday 10 to 11 a.m.. Zephyrhills Public Library, 5347 Eighth St., Zephyrhills. (352) 518-0156. ifas.ufl.edu

Get Connected with Your Community Public Services Expo: Hosted by Pascos Public Services Branch and River Ridge Middle School PTSA. Includes bounces houses, music with a DJ; touch-a-truck with Fire Rescue, Pasco County Public Transportation and Pasco Schools buses; food trucks, and the Pasco Sheriffs Mounted Posse and K-9 unit. The expo will include information about a variety of county services. Free. Saturday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.. River Ridge Middle School, 11646 Town Center Road, New Port Richey.

Songwriting 101: Musician Billy Kemp gives you tips on how to write a melody. Free. 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.. Hudson Regional Library, 8012 Library Road, Hudson. (727) 861-3040.

Sunday in the City Wrights Farmers Market and Sale: Local growers join together for this farmers market. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wrights Natural Market & Cafe, 5800 Main St., New Port Richey. (727) 848-5140. facebook.com

Country Music Jam: Sonny Oden hosts this weekly jam. All are welcome. $3. 2 to 4 p.m. King of Kings Lutheran Church ELCA, 10337 U.S. 19, Port Richey. (727) 741-7470.

Hands-On Dulcimer Class: This is the first of a six-part course to learn traditional techniques for playing the mountain dulcimer. Bring a dulcimer. A limited number of instruments will be available. Registration is required; space is limited. Free. 10 to 11:45 a.m. Mondays. Hugh Embry Library, 14215 Fourth St., Dade City. (352) 567-3576.

The Buzz on Pollinators: This class explores how plants have adapted to ensure their flowers are pollinated, why it is important and the diversity of pollinators in the state. Presented by the UF/IFAS Pasco County Extension. Recommended for adults; registration recommended. Visit ifas.ufl.edu/extension-calendar-events/ Free. 2 to 3 p.m. South Holiday Library, 4649 Mile Stretch Road, Holiday. (352) 518-0156. ifas.ufl.edu

COPD Screenings: The screenings are offered monthly (second Tuesday) in the lobby of the medical arts building. Free. Tuesday 10 a.m. to noon. Morton Plant North Bay Hospital, 6600 Madison St., New Port Richey. (727) 953-6957.

Couples Partner Dance Classes: The first hour of these weekly dance lessons for couples is for beginners, who learn the basics. The second hour offers advanced ballroom and patterns steps. $6 per couple. Tuesday 1 to 3 p.m. CARES Elfers Center, 4136 Barker Drive, Elfers. (727) 645-5028. caresfl.org

Collage Workshop with Suzanne Natzke: This workshop is offered 1 to 3:30 p.m. Thursdays, Feb. 13-March 5. Free, but registration is required. Pasco Fine Arts Center, 4145 Fairford Drive, New Port Richey. (727) 845-7322. pascoarts.org

Painting with a Mocktail Twist: This Galentines Day event includes a mocktail (alcohol-free) and painting lesson for beginners to create silhouette art. For ages 18 and older; a signed waiver is required. Thursday, 4:30 to 5:45 p.m. Land O Lakes Library, 2818 Collier Parkway, Land O Lakes. (813) 929-1214.

Marchman Technical College Sneak Peek Open House: Prospective students can tour the campus and explore programs available. Free. Thursday 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Marchman Technical College, 7825 Campus Drive, New Port Richey. (727) 774-1703. Florida Friendly Lawn Care: Discover how to make your lawn part of a Florida-friendly landscape in this free UF/IFAS Pasco County extension seminar. Visit ifas.ufl.edu/extension-calendar-events/ Free. 6 to 7 p.m. New Port Richey Library, 5939 Main St., New Port Richey. (352) 518-0156. ifas.ufl.edu

Pasco NAACP Meet and Greet: The NAACP extends an invitation to Experience Our Diversity. Food and beverages will be served. Free. Thursday 7 to 9 p.m. St. Johns Missionary Baptist Church, 14549 8th St., Dade City. (813) 953-7263.

Standup Comedy Spectacular: The headliner is Bill Bull Ohse. Also featuring Johnny Hobbs. Guests may bring their own beverages; mixers and snacks available. Visit hofevent.com/product/feb-14-bill-bull-ohse-general-admission-vip-admission-matinee/ Tickets $15-$50; discounts available at ComedyHOF.com. 1 to 3 p.m. Feb. 14. Hall of Fame Comedy Theater, 2435 US Highway 19, Holiday. (727) 656-9867. hofevent.com

Valentines Day with The Florida Big Band: Join the Florida Big Band for this special performance featuring guest vocalist Katt Hefner. The Knights of Jazz from River Ridge High School will open. $20, reserved seating. 7 p.m. Feb. 14. Richey Suncoast Theatre, 6237 Grand Blvd., New Port Richey. (727) 434-8327. facebook.com/events/1002761903429663/

Rainwater Harvesting and Rain Barrel Making Workshop: 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 15, One Stop Shop and Stallings Building, 15029 14th St., Dade City. Learn how to install and use a rain barrel in this hands-on workshop provided by the UF/IFAS Pasco Extension Service. Preregistration and prepayment required. No refunds. ifas.ufl.edu/extension-calendar-events/ $40, includes rain barrel to take home. (352) 518-0156. ifas.ufl.edu

Peter Pan: 2 and 7 p.m. Feb. 15, Calvary Chapel Worship Center, 6825 Trouble Creek Road, New Port Richey. Dayspring Academy middle school performers present the story of the epic battle between Captain Hook, his pirates and Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up. $5-$75. (727) 238-5018. eventbrite.com

Jimmy Buffet Tribute: 7 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 15, Sims Park, 5547 Main St., New Port Richey. Caribbean Chillers perform. (727) 841-4560.

Pauly and the Goodfellas: 7 p.m. Feb. 15, Pasco-Hernando State College Performing Arts Center, 10230 Ridge Road, New Port Richey. Tickets $30-$35. Visit phsc.tix.com or call (727) 816-3707.

Cahal Dunne: 7 p.m. Feb. 15, Richey Suncoast Theatre, 6237 Grand Blvd., New Port Richey. $25. (727) 842-6777. richeysuncoasttheatre.com

Stargazing at Starkey: Join Pasco astronomers to study the stars. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Feb. 15, J.B. Starkey Wilderness Park, 10550 Wilderness Blvd., New Port Richey. (727) 255-3083.

Anclote Symphonic Winds presents Be My Valentine: 2:30 p.m. Feb. 16, Richey Suncoast Theatre, 6237 Grand Blvd., New Port Richey. $12 season members, $14 general. (727) 842-6777. richeysuncoasttheatre.com

Sunday Blues Music Showcase and Dinner: 4:30 p.m. Feb. 16, Colorama Music, 9302 Denton Ave, Hudson. The Hector Anchondo Band performs. Reserve tickets on eventbrite.com, then call to reserve a table. $15 for the show, $14.95 for the buffet dinner. (727) 619-3871. barrelhouseltalent.com

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Our music critics have already chosen the 46 best music shows this week, but now it's our arts & culture critics' turn to recommend the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genrefrom a reading with Garth Greenwell to the grand reopening of the Asian Art Museum, and from Disney's Frozen to Trixie Mattel: Grown Up 2020. See them all below, and find even more events on our complete EverOut Things To Do calendar. Jump to: Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday MONDAY FOOD & DRINK

Cocktails and Conversations with Leaders of ColorJames Beard Award-winning chef Edouardo Jordan's Black History Month events series kicks off with a conversation with leaders of color, including chef Nina Compton, police chief Carmen Best, fire chief Harold Scoggins, The Bush School head Percy Abram, and Jordan himself. Urban League president Michelle Merriweather will host the event.

Bon Apptit: The Julia Child ShowStrolling through the Smithsonian Museum one afternoon, I stumbled upon a full replica of Julia Child's kitchen. I walked in because I had recently finished watching some classic episodes ofThe French Chef, including her infamous lobster show. "You have to cut him right here," Child says as she sticks her knife into the lobster's neck, "where all of his brains and hearts and feelings are." Genius. Anyway, in the Smithsonian exhibit, I saw a picture of Child bent over a counter in a small French kitchen. On the placard next to the photo was a quote from the famously tall chef: "When I get my own kitchen, I'm going to build the counters up to my waist. I'm through with this French pygmy bullshit!" If you haven't figured it out yet, Child is one of the greatest and funniest people ever to wield an eight-inch knife. In this light opera, a shade of the chef will crack you up while also making a chocolate cake. A serving of cake is included in the ticket price. RICH SMITH

Dance NationWashington Ensemble Theatre's press materials promise "intense feminine energy" from Dance Nation, a Pulitzer Prizenominated play by Clare Barron about a preteen dance troupe gunning for nationals under the guidance of their frazzled coach. In an interview, Barron, a Yale grad who hails from Wenatchee (!), says the show was inspired by the complex portrait of ambition presented in Lifetime's reality television seriesDance Moms, which means there's no way this isn't going to be good. Extra insurance for this prediction comes from the fact that Bobbin Ramsey, who has a gift for organizing chaos onstage,is codirecting the performance with Alyza DelPan-Monley. RICH SMITH

Natalie Dupille Art Show and Book Release Party: In Spite of OurselvesAt one point inIn Spite of Ourselves, Seattle cartoonist and illustrator Natalie Dupille's character is struggling to maneuver around roadkill while riding her bike on a busy Oregon highway, watching her partner, Allie, get farther and farther ahead. Through the sweat and struggle, Dupille internally berates herself for not being able to keep up, angry about the bike trip she's on. It all finally explodes out when she catches up with her partner. They hash out the conflict, apologize, and come to an understanding with one anotherstronger in both a physical and emotional way, facing the rest of their journey together. It's a slender and intimate glimpse in the dynamics of a relationship, but also on the author's inner reflections on her body, nature, and self. It's a ruminative, funny, and touching read. JASMYNE KEIMIGClosing Wednesday

Golden Lady: A Retrospective into the Life & Loves of Catherine Harris-White to DateKnown best under her music-making moniker SassyBlack, Catherine Harris-White has many identities across disciplines. In conjunction with the release of her latest album,Ancient Mahogany Gold, the artist will present a multimedia exhibition that explores her complexitiesand the complexities of humans in generalwriting, "Now it is time for me to let you in a step closer to my being and to reveal another layer." Closing Friday

Our Country's GoodTimberlake Wertenbaker's play, staged here by Strawberry Theatre Workshop, depicts a group of convicts in 18th-century New South Wales who are encouraged by British Navy officers to put on George Farquhar's restoration comedy The Recruiting Officer.In the words ofthe Workshop, the play is especially relevant to the current day, because "The United States incarcerates more people than any country in the world; the US constitutes 4% of the world population, but keeps 22% of the world's prisoners behind bars. Many prison inmates haven't been convicted of anythingthey are jailed awaiting trial or a hearing on their immigration status."

Diane Ravitch: The Fight to Save America's Public SchoolsThis nationally respected NYU professor of education will present her book Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save Americas Public Schools. Get informed about the struggle to keep corporate interests out of schools to prevent the creation of "a gig economy in which students are treated like customers or products and teachers are incentivized with threats and bonuses."

Sarah Abrevaya Stein: Family PapersSarah Abrevaya Stein's ninth book tracks multiple generations of a Sephardic Jewish family through their personal correspondence. It starts inthe Ottoman Empire and moves through the Holocaust, which eviscerated whole branches of the family tree. Join the author for a discussion withDevin E. Naar, Sephardic Studies Chair at UW.

Spotlight Poetry: Unsun : f/11 by Andrew ZawackiJoin Andrew Zawacki as he continues to examine the "global pastoral" with a reading of his fifth collection of poetry.

NT Live: 'Fleabag'This stage show by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, about a mad and sexually hungry young woman trying to make sense of life, inspired the Emmy-nominated TV show of the same name. See it broadcast live from London.

'ScapesThe Totally Legit techno-art collective, joined by some friends, uses virtual and analog art to play with reality, color, and volume, with aspecial virtual reality painting installation by Nathan DiPietro called Bouquet Symmetry.Magic and biology meld to transform ordinary objects into glowing objets d'art. Closing Saturday

Li'l Woody's Burger MonthAs part of their yearly Burger Month collaboration, Li'l Woody's has assembled a crack lineup of four local chefs to each create their weekly burger specials for February. This year starts out strong with the "Good Old Burger"with fry sauce, American cheese, and yubeshi onions from chef Brady Williams ofCanlis.

The Best of Everything2014 Stranger Theater GeniusValerie Curtis-Newton directs UW graduate actors in Julie Kramer's adaptation of Rona Jaffe's novel about an ambitious woman in a 1950s typing pool who's determined to make her way to the top.

Trixie Mattel: Grown Up 2020Trixie Mattel once said that all her jokes are cries for help. If that's true, the poor girl needs an intervention. The drag queen and winner ofRuPaul's Drag Race: All Starshas built an empire on morbid and strange drag humor, racking up impressive accolades inside and outside the cult of RuPaul, like a TV show on Viceland, a top-selling country album, and a sell-out tour with music from said country album. Mattel, a small-town clown from Wisconsin, has become the gay world's popular girl. Get your tickets now if they're still available. CHASE BURNS

Donna Rifkin: The Sun and Her StarsYou may know the legendary screenwriter Salka Viertel for her work on such classic film as 1933'sQueen Christina, but she also provided housing, jobs, and financial support to Jewish artists fleeing Europe during the Holocaust. Film scholarDonna Rifkin will visit Seattle with the first complete biography of the writer.

Lidia Yuknavitch: VergeLidia Yuknavitch was lauded for her bookThe Misfit's Manifesto, the author's "love letter" to anyone who has ever struggled to find their place in the world. She'll return to Seattle with her new book of stories that press materials call "A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction."

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunnJournalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn dont just share a home (theyve been married for over 30 years); they also share a Pulitzer. The couple, who won the most coveted award in journalism for their coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1990, is out with a new book, Tightrope, about economic devastation ravaging American communities. In Yamhill, Oregon, where Kristof grew up, a quarter of the kids who rode his school bus eventually died from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or some kind of accidents. This book is about what happened in Yamhill, and other oft-neglected places in this country. KATIE HERZOG

Silent Reading PartyThe Silent Reading Party is one of the weirdest, most wonderful parties youll ever go to, because no one talks to you and you can get some reading done. You curl up on a couch or in a wingback chair with a book or magazine or whatever you feel like reading, while Paul Moore plays piano and waiters bring you things. Whenever Paul starts playing Erik Satie, I find myself staring into the fireplace or closing my eyes and melting into the couch. The reading party, which is now 10 years old, is so popular that there is often a line out the door just to get a seat. The people who know what theyre doing get there an hour before it starts. CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE

PeacockAn ambitious young man in 1920s Paris works his way up in a ritzy nightclub in Can Can's latest kitschy-glam, flesh-baring, plot-driven revue.

She Loves MeYou know the story: two people who hate each other in real life are unwittingly in love with each other in a different realm. It's based on the same 1937 play,Parfumerie, that Nora Ephron'sYou've Got Mailwas based on. InShe Loves Me, which is set in the 1930s, the romantic leads are Amalia Balash (Allison Standley) and Georg Nowack (Eric Ankrim). They spar in the perfume shop where they both work and while corresponding anonymously as pen pals connected through a Lonely Hearts Club. No one is as happy as they seem inShe Loves Meand everyone seems to be hiding something. Maybe love could fix all this. Through the constant hum of music that serves as the heartbeat toShe Loves Me, each character gets a breath of individuality. There are no showstoppers here. Some of the characters shine, and others fade into the background, all while telling us what they yearn for, or what they think they yearn for. Mostly, that's love. NATHALIE GRAHAM

True WestAmericas favorite masc4masc playwright Sam Shepard is dead. He passed away in 2017, but the swaggering cowboy, called the greatest American playwright of his generation by New York magazine, is continuing to get a retrospective on stages across the country. Now the celebration comes to the Seattle Rep, with the theater putting on True West, a gritty and funny play about two brothers and some identity theft. Expect brawls and belly laughs. CHASE BURNS

Marisa Williamson: 'The Angel of History' and 'The Runaway'The Jacob Lawrence Gallery and SOIL are coming together again to honor and exhibit the work of a resident Black artist. This year, the resident is Marisa Williamson, a New York-based artist who examines history, race, feminism, and technology through video, performance, and sculpture. Some of her most fascinating pieces involve Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman and mistress owned by Thomas Jefferson, and the connections she makes between Hemings experience and present-day conversations around race. Williamson will bring two different shows that will explore the past, not as it was, but, to quote Walter Benjamin as it flashes up in a moment of danger to the JLG and SOIL, respectively. JASMYNE KEIMIG Opening Wednesday

Norm MacdonaldMacdonald is simultaneously somewhat curmudgeonly and also, strangely, an avant-garde master of anti-humor. His delivery is something to beholdwatch his moth joke onConanfor a primer.

Free Screening: 'Ask Dr. Ruth"This documentary isn't about Dr. Ruth's advice, it's about Dr. Ruth. And damn, her story is long overdue for a good documentary. She is a pioneerand a very funny one. CHASE BURNS

Taylor Shellfish Oysters & Bubbles NightYour Thursdays just got classier thanks to fresh Shigoku oysters from Taylor Shellfish Farms and bubbly drink specials.

The Greatest Love of All: A Dedication to Whitney HoustonThe late, great superstar singer Whitney Houston will be honored by local drag artists Skarlet Dior Black and Londyn Bradshaw, with additional performances from Ladie Chabli, Gaysha Star, Alessandra Hunt, and Issa Man.

KUOW's 'Meet the Newsmakers'Tackling subjects from homelessness to the arts to education, KUOW's reporters will deliver free talks on their areas of expertise. This week, Bill Radke, host of KUOW's The Record and Week In Review, will talk about the process of putting together a daily news show.

Paisley RekdalIn 2017, Rich Smith wrote, "The best essay I read this year was called 'Nightingale: A Gloss,' and it was written by Seattle writer (but current University of Utah prof) Paisley Rekdal and published in theAmerican Poetry Review. In a straightforward, no-bullshit tone, and with her characteristically sharp eye for scholarly associations, Rekdal weaves the story of a sexual assault she experienced while hiking alone in Loch Ness with Ovids story of Philomela, other rapes of antiquity, and also with the story of her writing a poem called 'Philomela.' Her reckoning of the assault, and her reckoning of her own reckoning, reveals sexual violence for what it is: a pillar, not an aberration, of Western civilization. She has two new books coming out: a book of poems from Copper Canyon calledImaginary Vesselsand a book-length essay calledThe Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. So if she doesnt read 'Nightingale' at this event, seek it out."

Kijiji NightThe Seattle Art Museum and One Vibe Africa (a local nonprofit that aims to educate the general public about African culture and promote social welfare and economic empowerment) present this free art, music, poetry, and performance festival whose name means "village" in Swahili. This year's edition will include a fashion show curated by African firm KOELES, dance by Etienne Cakpo, and music by Jemere Morgan, Alana Bell, King Khazm, Kama, Nje, the Ancient Robotz, and DJ Topspin aka Blendiana Jones.

Pioneer Square Art WalkOnce a month, Seattleites flock to the streets in Pioneer Square for a chance to stroll, sip on booze, and attend as many art openings as possible at First Thursday. It's the city's central and oldest art walk, and takes place in a historic neighborhood known for its abundance of galleries. Wine and hobnobbing steal the scene for some, but at its core, it's an impressive communal unveiling of new artwork. Check out our list of suggested art openings here.

The Bridge ProjectLocal choreographers Alyssa Boone, Lucille Jun, and Peter Kohrin have each created a brand-newwork that tacklescollective liberation from exclusionary societal expectations.

CinderellaThe quintessential fairy tale, performed here by the dancers of Pacific Northwest Ballet, gets the Kent Stowell choreography treatment with music by Sergei Prokofiev performed by the great Pacific Northwest Ballet orchestra, a set by Tony Straiges, and fancy costumes by Martin Pakledinaz.

The RevolutionistsProlific director Kelly Kitchens will stageLauren Gunderson's comedy about four strong women in perilous revolutionary France: the feminist playwright Olympe de Gouges, the assassin Charlotte Corday, the prisoner Marie Antoinette, and the Haitian freedom fighter Marianne Angelle.

Snow WhiteTwo actors will portray Snow White, the evil queen, seven dwarfs, the talking mirror, and the huntsman in this ambitious children's theater production written by Greg Banks and directed by Desdemona Chiang.

Solo Fest 2020Rich Smith has written that solo performances "hold the attention of a room like nothing else in the world of performance," and this is true in theater as well as in dance. These four playsOver 140 Lbs. by Susan Lieu, Dare to Claim the Sky by Sharon Nyree Williams, Left on Yellow Brick Road by Sherif Amin, and Bread Crumbs by Jasmine Joshuaallow a single actor/playwright to delve into deeply personal experiences. From deadly beauty standards to non-binary identities, from Oz-ian fantasy to Black American trials and joys, the Solo Fest will invite you into others' realities.

The Undergraduate Theater Society Presents: 'Vietgone'So often we hear stories about the end of the American war in Vietnam that focus on the experiences of shell-shocked American soldiers returning to a country they don't quite understand anymore. But this ain't your typical play about the legacy of that war. Qui Nguyen's geeky, formally adventurous, and energetic love story centers on the lives of two Vietnamese immigrants as they travel around the US learning the language and navigating the complexities of refugee camps. RICH SMITH

Meaningful Movies: 'Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins'Join Meaningful Movies for their 17th anniversary with a screening of Raise Hell:The Life and Times of Molly Ivins. Here's what The Stranger's Nathalie Graham has to say about the film: "Did you know one of George W. Bushs most ardent critics was a journalist from his own state? Molly Ivins was the loudest liberal voice covering the Texas legislature. She eventually followed the Bush clan from the state house to the White House. But that was hardly the height of her career. Ivins had long made a name for herself as a journalist. Her sometimes abrasive style was unique and boisterous. In Raise Hell, Ivinss story clips along breezily, punctuated by her dry wit. Its an easy watch, but itll leave you wondering: What would the late Ivins have thought of the White Houses current tenant?"

Soul of SeattleBy now, youve probably heard of chef Edouardo Jordan, the James Beard Awardwinning mind behind acclaimed Ravenna restaurants Salare and JuneBaby, and newer venture Lucinda Grain Bar. For this cultural and culinary event, hell be teaming up with the Urban League of Seattle to showcase the tasty talents of 10 Seattle-area chefs of color who embody the diverse fabric of Seattles food scene. Among them are Makini Howell ofPlum Bistro,Trey Lamont of Jerk Shack, and Kristi Brown of That Brown Girl Cooks. Also on tap: a multicourse VIP dinner by Jordan, a reading by James Beard Award winner Toni Tipton-Martin from her new book,Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking, and a silent auction. All proceeds go to organizations that support youth of color. LEILANI POLK

Vietti DinnerThe historic Vietti Winery, located in Piedmont in the northwest corner of Italy, dates back to the late 1800s, and the Vietti family has been making wine there for four generations, achieving such notable accomplishments as producing one of the first-ever Barolo crus in 1965. Today, the winery is run by married couple Luca and Elena Currado Vietti. Elena is paying a visit to Cuoco for a dinner showcasing some of the winery's most outstanding wines, and Cuoco chef Ron Anderson will concoct a swoon-worthy supper to match, inspired by the flavors of northern Italy. JULIANNE BELL

Eoin Colfer: HighfireMeet the progenitor of the kid super-criminal Artemis Fowl as he presents his new book Highfire, his first fantasy for adults.

A Future WesternInterdisciplinary performance art companyClub Shamoun (C-LS) explores how our instincts are influenced by western themes of "power, love, redemption, and good versus evil."

The ChildrenIn this Tony Award-nominated play by Lucy Kirkwood, two retired nuclear scientists on the coast of an environmentally devastated England receive a disruptive visit from an old friend.

Disney's 'Frozen'Ive written in the past that I have a warm spot in my heart forFrozen,Disney's second-highest-grossing animated film, about a princess who sets out on a quest (with a group of helpful sidekicks, of course) to find her estranged older sister after said sister's icy magical powers accidentally bring eternal winter to their kingdom. Now the Tony-nominated Broadway show from Disney Theatrical Productions, directed by Michael Grandage, is coming to Seattle for an engagement that promises "sensational special effects, stunning sets and costumes, and powerhouse performances." Expect all those earwormy songs (including the relentlessly triumphant, hard-not-to-sing-along-and-make-dramatic-hand-gestures-to Let It Go), plus an expanded score that features a dozen new numbers by the films songwriters,Kristen Anderson-Lopezand EGOT winnerRobert Lopez. LEILANI POLK

The Tuba ThievesSee five film sequences directed by In Plain Sight artistAlison ODaniel in conjunction with her Tuba Thieves performance.

Warren Pope: Red Lines, Blood LinesThe artist continues to explore African heritage and systemic inequities in the West through minimalist lines, shapes, and color. Opening Friday

Gary Gulman: Peace of MindLocal rising comic Nikita Oster recently singled out Gary Gulman as one of the worlds greatest comedians, especially for his 2019 specialThe Great Depresh. The show earned a rare 100 rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It depicts how Gulman overcame clinical depressions daunting effects, and proves he can wring poignant humor from some of lifes darkest sources. On other topics, hes the poet laureate of mundane details and laziness, and a scintillating storyteller whose parenthetical thoughts and tangents are as hilarious as his punch lines. Hear him go off on grapefruit: The only reason grapefruits were invented was because god wanted us to have something to compare the size of a tumor to. DAVE SEGAL

Shot ProvWell, this sounds a little dangerous: Improvisers violate secret rules (secret from them, that is) as they play and must take a shot every time they do so. Poor things! After they reach their limit, they're booted off the stage, presumably for their own safety.

Chinatown-International District Lunar New YearRing in the Year of the Rat at this massive Lunar New Year celebration that showcases the diversity, richness, and culture of the Asian community. See traditional dragon and lion dances, Japanese Taiko drumming, martial arts, and other cultural performances on the Main Stage, plus arts and crafts and family activitiesand don't miss the $3 food walk.

The Art in Horror: Horror and the Director"Prestige horror" isn't new; great directors have worked in the genre since the existence of the motion picture. Esteemed local critic Robert Horton will head this screening series of horror masterpieces, from F.W. Murnau'sNosferatu(1922, screening tonight) to John Carpenter'sThe Thing(1982). Discover or revisit these classics and discuss them with your fellow movie nerds.

Big Fat Champagne TastingEnter the "Champagne Cave" to help Fatcork pop off 20 years of bubbly-pouring with three tasting sessions of grower champagne.

Jacks BBQs First Anniversary in SLUThe glorious Central Texasstyle smoked-meat mecca that is Jack's BBQ, started by former Microsoft employee and bona fide barbecue nerd Jack Timmons, is celebrating the first anniversary of its South Lake Union location. To mark the occasion, they're tossing an entire alligator into their smokertruly a strange sight to beholdand distributing free samples all day, along with house-made sauces for dipping. All beverages will be half-off throughout, including two special cocktails: the "Swamp Cooler" and the "Bog Marsh." Sounds refreshing. JULIANNE BELL

Temple Pastries Pop-UpScore some delicious pastries from baker Christina Wood's pop-up bakery Temple Pastries, which slings exquisite sourdough pastries (including croissants, croissant pretzels, and "cruffins") made with locally milled buckwheat, rye, and whole wheat.

Garth Greenwell: CleannessIntensity is the novelist Garth Greenwell's subject. The word itself appears twice on the first page of his second novel,Cleanness, a subtly ironic title for the dirtiest novel theNew Yorkerhas excerpted in ages.The narrator is an English teacher from the United States living in Bulgaria. The novel is full of beautiful writing about the pitfalls of teaching, the violence of politics, and the purpose of poetry, but the sex scenes are the most memorable. Few writers write about sex so well and with so much sensitivity. The brilliance and animal warmth of Greenwell's style, the depth of insight, and the range of empathy, confer on even gloomy subjects a kind of radiance. "Sex had never been joyful for me, or almost never, it had always been fraught with shame or anxiety or fear, all of which vanished at the sight of his smile, simply vanished, it poured a kind of cleanness over everything we did," the narrator says. CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE

Poems from Girlhood with Heidi Seaborn, Jane Wong, Michelle Pealoza & Veronica GolosPoetsHeidi Seaborn, Jane Wong, Michelle Pealoza, and Veronica Golos will read poems about girlhood.

Daniel ClowesDaniel Clowes, the author of Ghost World and Patience and a living legend in the realm of graphic novels, will sign the new Fantagraphics Studio collection of his work calledOriginal Art: Daniel Clowes. Get a copy of this compendium of pieces from the past 30 or so years, complete with a freshly scrawled signature from the man himself!

Georgetown Art AttackOnce a month, the art scene of the tiny airport hamlet of Georgetown ATTACKS all passersby. In more literal terms, it's the day of art openings and street wonderment. If the westerly locations are too far, there's a free Art Ride! Check out our critics' picks for this month here.

The Angel in the HouseDuring the Victorian era, Coventry Patmore wrote a poem describing the ideal wife as an "angel in the house" who lives to please her man, as it were. Nobody liked the poem at the time, but it became popular around the turn of the century, and its ideology was pervasive enough to spur Virginia Woolf to write a whole essay collection critiquing it. "Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer," she wrote. Quadruple-threat Sara Porkalob, who has built her career on a biographical trilogy about her cool family, said her love of Victorian-era literature and her passionate agreement with Woolf's takedown inspired her riff on this cursed character. Like her Dragon Cycle, The Angel in the House will serve as the first installment of a new play cycle based on "magic, the occult, revenge, blood, and sacrifice." Unlike the Dragon Cycle, the show is a thriller that looks like a murder mystery at first but ends up being something else entirely. Major reasons to be excited include local stars Ray Tagavilla and Ayo Tushinde, plus the joy of watching a writer/director exploring completely new territory. RICH SMITH

Asian Art Museum ReopeningThe Seattle Asian Art Museum will finally reopen to the public, after a $56 million, almost three-year renovation. The refurbished museumwhich had not been significantly overhauled since its building's construction in 1933features a new gallery, education studio, conservation center, and community room; a climate-control system so things don't rot on the walls; a new glass-enclosed park lobby; and the restoration of one interior and two exterior fountains. Another major change: The permanent collection will not be organized by country or time period, but by theme. Curator of Chinese art Ping Foong and curator of Japanese and Korean art Xiaojin Wu (both from Seattle Art Museum), along with consulting curator of South Asian art Darielle Mason, collaborated on refiguring SAAM's permanent collection into 13 different themes. They grouped the objects according to their relationship to concepts like spirituality, fashion, divinity, material, text, and storytellingmixing contemporary work with the ancient across cultures and regions. JASMYNE KEIMIGThis Saturday marks the openings of ongoing exhibitions Be/longing: Contemporary Asian Art and Boundless: Stories of Asian Art.

Bing Wright: Blow-upNew York-based artist Bing Wright's fifth solo exhibition, Blow-Up, inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni's 1967 movie of the same title, marks the artist's return to color photography.Opening Saturday

'Black Power Mixtape' Film ScreeningBlack Power Mixtape 19671975bears the pros and cons of its titular format: It never dwells overlong on any one subject, but it also sacrifices depth and cohesion. This mishmash of vintage footage of speeches, interviews, rallies, and rioting culled from various Swedish news organizations and recent interviews with black musicians like Erykah Badu, Talib Kweli, and Ahmir Questlove Thompson chronologicallyand sympatheticallyexamines the movements triumphs, defeats, and tenets. Director/writer Gran Olsson admits his film isnt comprehensive, but his outsiders perspective lendsBPMa piquant slant unavailable to American filmmakers. He devotes almost as much time to ordinary black citizens dealing with injustice, drugs, and poverty as he does to leaders like Martin Luther King, Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, and Eldridge Cleaver. And given the current Occupy Wall Street protests, Olsson makes us realize that black peoples grievances resonate as urgently today for all downtrodden Americans as they did 40 years ago. DAVE SEGAL

Chocofest 2020Dive headfirst into chocoholic bacchanalia with 10count em 10drink tickets in tow at this annual pre-Valentines Day bash. Indulge in libations from local breweries, cidermakers, wineries, and distilleries, and sate your sweet tooth with confections from Frans Chocolates, Theo Chocolate, Joe Chocolate Company, indi chocolate, and more. When you need to cut your sugar rush with something savory, there will also be bites from local restaurants like Honest Biscuits and Tankard & Tun. And know that all your hedonism supports a good causeproceeds go to Long Live the Kings, a local nonprofit working to restoring wild salmon and support sustainable fishing practices in the Pacific Northwest. JULIANNE BELL

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February 03, 2020 Events and Exhibitions

Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk at the V&A, London: from February 29, 2020A forthcoming exhibition at the V&A charts the widespread influence of the traditional Japanese garment, the kimono, a dynamic and constantly evolving icon of fashion. Looking back to the 1660s and tracing how the kimono has evolved through to the present day, and become prolific in the worlds of fashion and pop culture,Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk is a celebration of the historic and traditional Japanese gown.

Linderismat Kettles Yard, Cambridge: February 15 April 26, 2020A new exhibition at the Cambridge galleryKettles Yardcelebrates Linder Sterling, promising to highlight the punk artists varied and vibrant oeuvre: the exhibition is said to explore Linder as performance artist, zine-maker, musician, documentary photographer, collaborator, muse, guru, medium and bodybuilder.Linderismwill feature new work situated throughout the storied Modernist house and grounds of Kettles Yard, plus a new performance piece by the artist on March 12 at Cambridges women-only college Murray Edwards.

Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography at the Barbican, London: February 20 May 17, 2020Bringing together work by over 50 artists, the Barbicans upcoming exhibition Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography is one of this years most anticipated shows. The focus is on how both contemporary and historic image-makers Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Peter Hujar, Kenneth Anger, Sunil Gupta, and Collier Schorr are all included have dealt with masculinity, in its various complex forms and interpretations, throughout their work.

Harry Gruyaertat Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York: until March 14, 2020What I love is to make is order out of chaos, Magnum photographer Harry Gruyaerttold AnOther earlier this year. When things are complex, I am trying to make something which makes sense, which holds. I work for myself. Im not thinking I am making art. Gruyaerts vibrant colour photography is on show in New York the photographers first US solo exhibition in a celebration of his pioneering colour photography, which he first began to practise after a trip to America from his native Belgium in the 1960s.

The Real Thing at Fashion Space Gallery, London: February 7 May 2, 2020Bootlegging culture is at the centre of a new exhibition at Fashion Space Gallery, opening later this week. The Real Thing will showcase designs by the likes of Dr Noki and Dapper Dan who has collaborated with Gucci in recent years looking at the subversive nature of bootlegging, and how the concept of knock-offs became a disruptive creative force within fashion.

Senta Simond at Danziger Gallery, New York: until February 29, 2020Photographs from image-maker and AnOther Magazine contributor Senta Simonds series Rayon Vert are on show in New York this month. Simonds portraiture is a document of womanhood, her subjects mainly friends and acquaintances, some of whom she has photographed regularly over the last decade. Portraiture is the genre of photography that has always interested me, Simond previously told AnOther. I feel touched by looking at faces... I find [photography] is the best way for me to capture the emotion Im looking for.

Frieze Los Angeles: February 14 16, 2020International art fair Frieze returns to Paramount Pictures Studio in Los Angeles for the second time this month, after its inaugural edition in the Californian city last year. Acclaimed artist Barbara Kruger will celebrate the fair with a city-wide project: a series of questions will appear outside Los Angeles landmarks in Krugers signature graphic font, positing questionslike: Whose values? Whose beliefs? This year also sees the introduction of a Focus section at the fair, spotlighting emerging galleries in LA that have been open for 15 years or less, as well as the Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award, judged by the likes of Doug Aitken and Sam Taylor Johnson, which will celebrate the talents of young filmmakers working in the city.

James Turrell at Pace Gallery, London: February 11 March 27, 2020Londons Pace Gallery will celebrate the American artist James Turrells pioneering light works in an exhibition that coincides with the gallerys 60th anniversary. Turrell has long experimented with light and painting, his hypnotic and kaleidoscopic works having captivated viewers since the 1960s. Paces immersive exhibition will feature new work by the acclaimed artists series Constellations.

365 Days of Pasenau at Soft Opening, London: until March 29, 2020In the subterranean window-fronted gallery Soft Opening, work by the Norwegian artist Maria Pasenau is on view to passersby in Piccadilly tube station. 365 Days of Pasenau, curated by Dazeds editor in chief Isabella Burley, debuts a series that Pasenau created over the course of a year, in which she took a self-portrait every day the resulting images are shown on a screen in one of Soft Openings windows. Speaking to AnOther as the exhibition opened, Pasenau describes the series as some of her most intimate work yet, and something she embarked on out of curiosity: The series is very framed, from the beginning its more science-y, like a social project or an experiment. Its also not about me, its about time.

The Covering: Cathie Pilkington, Pierre Molinier and Morton Bartlett at Karsten Schubert, London: February 14 March 20, 2020Opening on Valentines Day, The Covering is an exhibition that brings together the work of erotic photo-collagist Pierre Molinier, contemporary artist Cathie Pilkington, and artist and photographer Morton Bartlett. Moliniers experimental 20th-century work was ahead of its time in exploring sexuality and erotica, and the series Cent photographes rotiques depicted the artist himself surrounded by S&M and fetish accessories. Within Pilkingtons new installation, crafted in response to the Soho townhouse the exhibition is staged in, one of Bartletts intricately rendered dolls, his photographs of which were only discovered afterhis death in the 90s, will also be on show.

February is a month of film fever, thanks to the BAFTA/Oscars double whammy. Academy-favourite Parasite, from South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho, finally lands in the UK this month a searing examination of class division that seamlessly swerves from black comedy to thriller to horror and back. Another long-awaited release comes courtesy of Cline Sciammas beautifully realised lesbian love story, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, about an 18th-century artist hired to secretly paint the portrait of a young lady of similar age whose mother is trying to marry her off. Speaking of matchmaking, we cant wait to see Autumn de Wildes take on Emma Jane Austens beloved meddler in the realms of love. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy as the titular heroine, it marks the American photographer and filmmakers first feature and looks positively dreamy.

Todd Haynes returns with a tense new drama, Dark Waters, the true story of a dogged attorney (a brilliant Mark Ruffalo) on a mission to expose one of the worlds largest corporations, and its seeming connection to a burgeoning number of unexplained deaths. Dont miss Japanese director Takashi Miikes excellently entertaining crime flick, First Love, which sees a young boxer and a call girl fall passionately in love, while getting accidentally ensnared in a dangerous drug-smuggling plot over the course of one night in Tokyo. Then theres End of the Century, the accomplished first feature from Argentine filmmaker Lucio Castro. Its a poignant, time-hopping tale of two men who find themselves drawn to one another when they meet on holiday in Barcelona, only to realise theyve crossed paths before. Documentary zealots, be sure to catch Midnight Familyby Luke Lorentzen. Described on Rotten Tomatoes as a disquieting glimpse of healthcare in modern Mexico, its the story of a Mexican familys quest to run a private ambulance service in a cutthroat industry.

Peckham Cellars, London: open nowSituated on Peckhams ever-changing Queens Road, Peckham Cellars is owned and run by three friends and long-time south London dwellers. Within its cosy and informal setting, the neighbourhood wine cellar and kitchen offers simple and delicious seasonal plates which change day to day depending on local markets and a carefully selected array of wines, many of which are organic or low-intervention. Marrying British heritage with modern sensibilities, Peckham Cellars menu reinterprets classic flavours with simple, contemporary finesse highlights include their irresistible Marmite butter (lovers or haters are both sure to enjoy), airy potato dauphines, Red Mullet and capers, and the sensational brioche butter pudding.

Casa do Frango, Shoreditch: open nowFollowing the success of its London Bridge outpost, Casa do Frango has opened a second site in the heart of Shoreditch. The Portuguese favourites the restaurant is loved for are just as delectable in the new East London haunt: from traditional Portuguese cocktails (white port and tonic is a refreshing choice) to spiced-to-perfection piri piri chicken. The Shoreditch restaurant also has a wine bar and tapas menu on its ground floor, as well as its own bakery dedicated to churning out traditional and highly moreish custard tarts.

Le Caf V at Louis Vuitton, Osaka: open nowLouis Vuitton has teamed up with the Japanese chef Yosuke Suga for the opening of its first restaurant and cafe, housed in the brands Osaka flagship store. With a cocktail bar and terrace on the top floor of the Japan store, Le Caf V also leads on to a restaurant, Sugalabo V, accessed through speakeasy-style doors and only open in the evenings.

There are lots of exciting productions to tempt you out of the house this month, from a revival of Endgame Samuel Becketts compelling one-act follow up to Waiting for Godot at the Old Vic, to Tom Stoppards new play Leopoldstadt at Wyndhams Theatre. Set in 1900s Vienna, its the first of the 82-year-old playwrights works to explore his Jewish heritage. Battersea Arts Centre kicks off its new Going Global season with Autoreverse from actor Florencia Cordeu, whose family fled Argentinas dictatorship for Chile in the 1970s. The play is an 80-minute audiovisual performance based on the recorded audio letters that her family sent to their loved ones during this time. Nora: A Dolls House at the Young Vic offers a radical take on Ibsens classic A Dolls House, courtesy of playwright Stef Smith, who has envisaged three incarnations of the independent-minded protagonist, in three different eras, to pertinent effect. Caryl Churchill fans will delight at the news of a new production of Far Away at the Donmar Warehouse. The explosive play about a world sliding into chaos first opened 20 years ago to rave reviews.

Dance lovers, rejoice: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch is back at Sadlers Wells this month with the UK premiere of Bluebeard. This early Bausch masterpiece which features a man compulsively play[ing] and replay[ing] a tape recording of Bla Bartks short opera has been absent from the companys repertoire for over 25 years. At the Barbican, meanwhile, catch a special evening paying homage to the American dancer and feminist icon Isadora Duncan by the Viviana Durante Company. Last but not least, for a hefty dose of heartfelt operatic delight, head to the Royal Opera House for Richard Jones production of La bohme, Puccinis masterful tale of two young lovers in Paris.

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Thousands participated in the hillulahs for the Baba Sali, ztl, on Thursday near his tzion in Netivot for his 36th yartzeit (4 Shevat).

The main speech was delivered by the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Harav Shlomo Amar, who stressed that we are living in the times of Moshiach, BChadrei Chareidim reported.

Were in a terrible situation, Harav Amar said. We were never in a situation like this regarding the elections. Im not a political person and I havent spoken about this, but theres another election and another election and we dont see a way out. Who knows what Hakadosh Baruch Hu is preparing for us. Who knows if Melech HaMoshiach isnt already on the way.

Also regarding what the US President Trump is doing things that we never dreamed in our best dreams and hes continuing and doing more. And all the leaders who came, Putin and others, spreading the name of Israel. Its impossible to ignore. These are things we never dreamed of. Isnt it the preparation for the coming of Moshiach?

This the preparation [for Moshiach], Harav Amar emphasized. I want to tell you something personal. A few weeks ago I went to a wedding in Bnei BrakMy mashgiach from yeshivah ketanah, Tiferes Tzion the yeshivah that the Chazon Ish established where Harav Chaim Greineman and Harav Chaim Kanievsky learned as well as others walked in.

[My mashgiach] told me that a little while ago he wanted to travel abroad for his kollel. He went to Harav Chaim Kanievsky to tell him. Harav Chaim said to him: Rebbi Yitzchak, youre traveling abroad? You dont know that Moshiach is standing next to the wall. Harav Chaim told him to remain and he did.

Rabbosai, all the Gedolei HaDor are saying that Moshiach is approaching. All the signs that the neviim gave, all the signs that the Gemara mentions, in the Mishnah, in the Midrash each one will come true. We only need more chizuk.

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US Senator Bernie Sanders and US Senator Elizabeth Warren speak on the first night of the second 2020 Democratic US presidential debate in Detroit, Michigan, US, July 30, 2019. Photo: REUTERS/Lucas Jackson.

I view Bernie Sanders from the perspective of a historian knowledgeable about Jews and the American Left. Historically considered, he is the ideological heir of a forgotten leftist sectarian named Daniel De Leon.

Born in 1852 to a Sephardic Jewish family in Curaao in the Dutch West Indies, De Leon studied in Europe before coming to the US. He received an advanced degree from Columbia University, but was denied a tenured teaching position. Then De Leon found his passion in radical politics. First involved in milder socialist movements and a radical mayoral campaign to topple Tammany Hall, De Leon moved on to lead the militant Socialist Labor Party (SLP).

Supporting the unionization of mass production workers, De Leon championed the International Workers of the World (IWW) before denouncing the IWW as insufficiently revolutionary. This move was typical of his rule or ruin doctrinaire Marxism.

De Leon died in 1914, but the SLP lived on, and his posthumous influence grew abroad. Lenin complimented him for influencing the Bolsheviks.

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Like De Leon, Sanders is a Jewish socialist. But the differences appear stark. Sanders is an American-born perennial candidate and officeholder, not a Marxist theoretician. De Leons faith in the coming classless society appears to have morphed for Sanders into his loathing of billionaires. Nevertheless, Sanders is a true believer in something very much like De Leons signature doctrine: Impossibilism, or knee-jerk rejection of anything short of revolutionary change.

De Leon believed that practical economic and political reforms for example, union campaigns for higher wages or governmental social welfare legislation were worse than useless. He wanted Revolution Now. He cheered for recessions and depressions, expecting they would accelerate the final collapse of capitalism.

Bernie Sanders early in his career joined the Socialist Workers Party, claiming that the source of war in the Mideast is the existence of Israel. As a campaigner, Sanders talks vaguely about Scandinavian-style democratic socialism; yet as a Vermont mayor, he honeymooned in the Soviet Union, admiringly visited Nicaraguas Sandinista regime, and lauded Castros Cuba. Sanders in those days disdained FDRs reformist New Deal. Now he hires young campaign staffers who identify as anarchists or Marxist-Leninists.

Sanders, as a congressman and US senator, has typically preferred radical purity to shaping practical legislation with a chance to pass. Daniel De Leon would have approved.

Sanders has, belatedly, rediscovered his Jewish roots. For the first time, he now reminds voters about his relatives killed in the Holocaust, and that as a young man, he spent a few months at Israeli kibbutz Shaar Haamakim. His shrill condemnations of Bibi Netanyahu as a racist, and his menacing threats of an aid cutoff to Israel tell a different story. Israel-haters like Linda Sarsour and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) are campaign surrogates. Jewish Democrats prefer Biden three-to-one.

During a different era, De Leon not only rejected Zionism but dismissed movements to end the persecution of Jews as distractions from fighting for the Socialist Revolution. Buoyed by utopian hopes for an unlikely youth revolution at the polls, Bernie Sanders resurrection of De Leons Impossibilism under a different name may prove the last hurrah of Jewish socialism in America.

Historian Harold Brackman is coauthor with Ephraim Isaac of From Abraham to Obama: A History of Jews, Africans, and African Americans (Africa World Press, 2015).

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The 26th annual Virginia Festival of the Book has added four new headlining programs to its schedule, bringing music, poetry and films to the interdisciplinary mix.

A screening of the film Dark Waters, director Todd Haynes thriller about author Robert Bilotts 20-year legal struggle with DuPont to expose environmental contamination, will begin at 8 p.m. March 21 at the Paramount Theater.

Bilott will participate in a discussion after the screening and will sign copies of his book, Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed and One Lawyers 20-Year Battle Against DuPont, after the talk. Books will be sold before and after the screening.

Tickets, which are required, can be purchased online at vabook.org. The event is sponsored by Bank of America, Virginia Film Festival, University of Virginia School of Law and the Paramount.

The event is preceded by Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges: Poetry, Music and International Exchange at 4 p.m. March 21, also at the Paramount. The Virginia Festival of the Book will team up with the Virginia Folklife Program to present poet Nina Murray reading from Alcestis into Underworld, a recent poetry collection based on her foreign service officer days.

Performers will include Shenandoah Valley multi-instrumentalist Danny Knicely, Cabo Verdery musician Zerui Delian, Sephardic ballad singers Susan Gaeta and Gina Sobel and Richmond gospel stars The Legendary Ingramettes. Virginia state folklorist Jon Lohman will serve as host.

Tickets are required; get them at vabook.org. The Charlottesville Sister Cities Commission and the Virginia Folklife Program are sponsoring the event.

A Conversation with Vashti Harrison is set for 6 p.m. March 20 at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. The 2020 festivals youth headliner, an author and illustrator of childrens books, will discuss her work, her time as a University of Virginia undergraduate and her future plans during a conversation with Claudrena Harold, her undergraduate mentor.

Book sales and signing time will follow. The event, which is sponsored by the CFA Institute and hosted by Delta Sigma Theta, is free.

Spirited Away & Miyazakiworld: A Screening and Talk gets started at 7:30 p.m. March 17 at Violet Crown Charlottesville. Its sponsored by the Virginia Film Festival as part of its VAFF at Violet Crown series.

Susan Napier, author of Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art, will introduce the screening and take part in a post-screening book signing. Tickets, which are required, will go on sale Feb. 19 at VioletCrown.com.

Napier and Shilpa Dave, assistant professor of media studies and American studies at UVa, will discuss the impact of animator Hayao Miyazakis films on popular culture around the world in a separate festival event. Japanese Animation and Global Popular Culture is scheduled for 4 p.m. March 18 at UVa Bookstore. After the free event will be a book signing and book sales.

Tickets remain available for the Read & Lead Lunch with Jonathan Eig, which is set for 11:45 a.m. March 18. For tickets and information, go to vabook.org.

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File- Children place flowers at the Holocaust Memorial commemorating the persecution of the Jewish people during World War II, in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

THESSALONIKI The 14th annual David Tiano lecture, established in memory of an American consulate staff member who was executed by Nazi occupation powers in February 1942, was dedicated this year to the Jewish students of Thessaloniki and of the Holocaust, at an event held in the city on Monday.

This years lecture was on Mapping the Memory: Jewish students of Salonica in WWII and the Holocaust and was delivered at the Leon Benmayor Hall of the Jewish Community by Angeliki Gavriiloglou and Christos Chadziioannidis, members of a joint research team of the Jewish Studies Chair of the University of Thessaloniki and of the Jewish Museum of the city. Our purpose is to keep alive the memory of thousands of children who perished at the concentration camps, they said.

Addressing the event, Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Athens David Burger said the event, organized by the consulate, uses Tianos story to encourage dialogue and further education about the Holocaust and Thessalonikis important and once vibrant Jewish community.

He spoke of the importance of the construction of the Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki, saying that when it is finished, it will be the only museum in the world that tells the story of the fate of the Sephardic Jews in the Holocaust. The museum will teach tolerance and diversity as part of its mandate.

Burger noted Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visit to Auschwitz as part of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Mitsotakis, he said, became the first Greek prime minister to visit Auschwitz in memory of all the Greek Jews who perished there. The Greek governments clear statements of solidarity and remembrance were appreciated around the world. Greece lost more than 80 percent of its Jewish population during the Holocaust.

He also noted that Greece became the first country to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliances (IHRA) working definition of Holocaust denial and distortion, a move warmly welcomed by top Jewish groups in the United States, and expressed the hope that Greece will continue to be able to set an example for other countries when it takes over the rotating presidency of the IHRA in 2021.

A memorandum of understanding between the Greek Ministry of Defense and the US Holocaust Museum signed in Washington last month during the PMs visit, he said, is an agreement that will allow researchers to examine records of Nazi atrocities in Greece between 1940 and 1945. In addition to sharing archives, the United States and Greece will collaborate on a joint effort to retrieve personal items belonging to Jewish refugees from the 1946 Athina shipwreck off of Astypalea for inclusion in the US Holocaust Museums permanent exhibition, he said.

David Saltiel, president of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece and of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, noted that we cannot remain indifferent before the rise of racism and bigotry, the relativisation of the Holocaust and the deliberate distortion of history. Every initiative in this direction () is important for us and for all.

The event was also attended by US Consul General in Thessaloniki Gregory W. Pfleger, Jr, former mayor of the city Yiannis Boutaris, and the family of Heinz Kunio, one of 11 Holocaust survivors.

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AUTHOR READINGS PRESENTED BY THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY IN FEBRUARY

The Seattle Public Library will feature writers and their work at several locations throughout Seattle in February.SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Sarah Abrevaya Stein 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4 at the Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium, 206-386-4636. Join us for a conversation between Stein and Devin E. Naar, Sephardic Studies Chair at UW, on her new book Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century. Steins ninth book uses the Levy familys correspondence to tell the story of their journey spanning generations and the globe. They wrote letters to share grief and to reveal secrets, to propose marriage and to plan for divorce, to maintain connection. This event is co-sponsored by the Sephardic Studies Program and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. Ejeris Dixon & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5 at the Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium, 206-386-4636. How can communities explore alternatives to policing and mass incarceration? Join editors Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha for an important conversation about transformative justice strategies. This interactive author program will include two readings from Beyond Survival: Stories & Strategies from the Transformative Justice Movement, followed by a community conversation and book signing.Courtenay Hameister & Luke Burbank 7 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12 at the Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium, 206-386-4636. Join us to hear Livewires hosts Hameister and Burbank talk about Okay Fine Whatever, Hameisters hilarious account of facing her fears. In her mid-forties, Hameister decided to fight back against her debilitating anxieties by spending a year doing little things that scared her things that the average person might consider doing for a half second before deciding: nope. Phil Hoffman 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13 at the Southwest Branch, 9010 35th Ave. S.W., 206-684-7455. Hoffman, director of the Alki History Project, Alki resident and historian, will present the story of Town of Alki: Great Hopes, Fountainhead for Tears. This program is part of the Words, Writers & Southwest Stories series which features writers connected to the Duwamish Peninsula and Puget Sound. It is presented in partnership with the Southwest Seattle Historical Society. Angelo Moore Is Dr Madd Vibe! 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15 at the Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium, 206-386-4636. Ready to kick off 2020 with the inimitable Dr Madd Vibe, aka Angelo Moore (front man of Fishbone)? Coupled with his forays into image and ink, this interdisciplinary live experience with Angelo Moore is not-to-be missed! Join us for an author reading and intimate concert with rare insights into Moores work in film and comics.Ginger Gaffney 11 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25 at the Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium, 206-386-4636. Join us to hear Gaffney, a top-ranked horse trainer, discuss her life-affirming memoir Half Broke that offers profound insight into the ways both horses and humans seek relationships to survive. The book tears at the heart of what it takes to find wholeness after years of trauma and addiction, and offers profound insight on how working with animals can satisfy our universal need for connection.

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Author readings at the Central Library are supported by The Seattle Public Library Foundation, author series sponsor Gary Kunis, Seattle City of Literature, media sponsor The Seattle Times and presented in partnership with Elliott Bay Book Company.

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The Library believes that the power of knowledge improves peoples lives. We promote literacy and a love of reading as we bring people, information and ideas together to enrich lives and build community.

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