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MARCH 2010 | |
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| Jennifer Woodlief Presents "A Wall of White" | ||
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| ***NOTE EARLY START TIME*** Jennifer Woodlief comes to Squaw Valley to speak on her book, A WALL OF WHITE. Jennifer Woodlief is the author of A WALL OF WHITE, the story of the deadly avalanche at Alpine Meadows Ski Area during the 1982/1983 ski season. She has worked as a reporter for Sports Illustrated as well as an assistant district attorney and a CIA case officer with a top-secret clearance. Her first book, Ski to Die: The Bill Johnson Story, was published in 2005 and optioned by Warner Bros. for a movie. She splits her time between Truckee and Tiburon, California. |
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Thursday, March 11, 2010 |
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| One Writer-Two Worlds: Award Winning Author, Ying Chang Compestine comes to Squaw Valley | ||
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| SPECIAL EVENT ***NOTE EARLY START TIME AND TICKET INFORMATION*** Ying Chang Compestine, author of "Revolution is Not a Dinner Party" will discuss her inspirational career as a successful writer who has been published in multiple genres that straddle the Chinese and American culture, as well as the challenges of writing in her second language. Award winning author and dynamic public speaker, Ying is the author of many children's books, cookbooks and novels. Ying has been featured on many national television programs and she has been profiled in national magazines and newspapers. Ying has visited schools throughout the US and abroad, sharing with students her journey as a writer, how her life in China inspired her writing, and the challenges of writing in her second language. Ying is the spokesperson for Nestle Maggi and Celestial Seasonings and a regular contributor to the national magazines Cooking Light, Ski, EatingWell, Self, Men's Health, and Delicious Living and Diablo. She was the food editor for Body & Soul, a Martha Stewart magazine that focuses on healthy living. |
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Friday, March 26, 2010 |
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APRIL 2010 | |
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| An Evening with Author Khaled Hosseini | ||
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| Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and History at a large high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Afghan Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then Afghanistan had already witnessed a bloody communist coup and the invasion of the Soviet army. The Hosseinis sought and were granted political asylum in the United States. While in medical practice, Hosseini began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner, in March of 2001. In 2003, The Kite Runner, was published and has since become an international bestseller, published in 48 countries. In 2006 he was named a goodwill envoy to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. His second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns was published in May of 2007. Currently, A Thousand Splendid Suns is published in 40 countries. Khaled has been working to provide humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan through The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The concept for The Khaled Hosseini Foundation was inspired by a trip to Afghanistan Khaled made in 2007 with the UNHCR. He lives in northern California. Video: Author and US Envoy for UNHCR, Khaled Hosseini, returns to Afghanistan to highlight the shelter needs of displaced families. |
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Saturday, April 10, 2010 |
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| Invisible Children | ||
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| ***NOTE EARLY START TIME*** An incredible evening, an incredible film. |
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In the spring of 2003, three young filmmakers traveled to Africa in search of a story. What began as a film making adventure transformed into much more when these boys from Southern California discovered the untold tragedy of Uganda. |
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Thursday, April 29, 2010 |
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MAY 2010 | |
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| Future of Lake Tahoe: Underwater a disturbing new world | ||
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| Join Phil Catarino as he discusses the changes in invasive species and the economic and environmental implications for Lake Tahoe. | ||
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When we are asked by tourists, What do you see under there? the most common response by divers with the Tahoe Divers Conservancy is not much . Swimming among beautiful waves of granite boulders the size of houses, bright reflections of light from mica studded sandy lake bottom and a generally stark but surreal crystal environment. |
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Thursday, May 13, 2010 |
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JUNE 2010 | |
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| Changing Range of Light: Portraits of the Sierra Nevada | ||
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| Elizabeth Carmel | ||
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Join author and photographer Elizabeth Carmel as she shares pictures from her latest book titled The Changing Ray of Light. In her second book, Elizabeth Carmel photographically explores the Range of Light in the 21st century and honors the important legacies of John Muir and Ansel Adams by highlighting 21st century environmental threats to the region. |
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Thursday, June 17, 2010 |
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AUGUST 2010 | |
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| Tango: A journey to happiness | ||
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| Camille Cusamano | ||
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In 2006 Camille Cusamano went to Buenos Aires planning to stay 2 months and breathe after a long relationship suddenly ended. But after two days, she knew she wouldn't leave until she was ready and happy again. That trip turned into a year and a half in Buenos Aires. |
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Thursday, August 5, 2010 |
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NOVEMBER 2010 | |
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| In Defense of Food: The Omnivore's Solution | ||
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| For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. He is the author, most recently, of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. His previous book, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award for best food writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Pollan's previous book, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, was also a New York Times bestseller, received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best non-fiction work of 2001, and was recognized as a best book of the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon.com. PBS is airing a two-hour special documentary based on The Botany of Desire in fall 2009. His next book, Food Rules: An Eater's Manual, will be published in December 2009. |
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Saturday, November 13, 2010 |
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Jennifer Woodlief will discuss her San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller A WALL OF WHITE, The True Story of Heroism and Survival in the Face of a Deadly Avalanche. Calling to mind the literary classics Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, A Wall of White is a gripping tale of man vs. nature. With the gasping suspense of a death-defying thriller, Jennifer Woodlief chronicles the once-in-a-century cataclysmic event that claimed seven lives, tested the mettle of a rowdy but resolute team of rescue workers and ultimately proved a tale of triumph over death with the rescue of Anna Conrad, a young woman saved after five harrowing days spent buried alive under the snow. Masterfully recounted by Woodlief, A Wall of White is an unparalleled look at one of the largest and most destructive avalanche disasters in U.S. history.
Learn about the exciting and creative world of being a writer and how to write captivating books inspired by your life experiences. 
Khaled will discuss his experience as an Afghan refugee, the inspiration for his two best selling books, and his experience in many parts of the world as a member of the UNHCR, the United Nations organization for refugees. 
Real food--the kind of food your great-grandmother would recognize as food is being undermined by science on one side and the food industry on the other, both of whom want us focus on nutrients, good and bad, rather than actual plants, animals and fungi. The rise of nutritionism has vastly complicated the lives of American eaters without doing anything for our health, except possibly to make it worse. Nutritionism arose to deal with a genuine problem--the fact that the modern American diet is responsible for an epidemic of chronic diseases, from obesity and type II diabetes to heart disease and many cancers--but it has obscured the real roots of that problem and stood in the way of a solution. That solution involves putting the focus back on foods and food chains, for it turns out our personal health cannot be divorced from the health of the soil, plants, and animals that make up the food chains in which we take part. In this talk, Pollan explores what the industrialization of food and agriculture has meant for our health and happiness as eaters, and looks at the growing national movement to renovate the food system.