Halls curious and engaged seattleites. Everyone is willing to stare or talk into their computers now, i want to thank rich cordray for helping us keep the conversation aloft here at town hall. To view a closed caption version of tonights program, please watch if our Youtube Watch the from our youtube page. Ill come back to ask the questions from the field at the center of your screen in crowd cast. You can also vote on which questions our speakers answer first by clicking the air to upload it. Arrow to upload it. Well try to get to as many as possible, and 20 minutes is not a long time people, so you best get to work. Upcoming events include new yorker editor and Pulitzer Prize winner david rhodes with the true story of americas deep state, cocoproduction with our friends at pcc ors farmland trust on climate change, Clifford Thompson on race and family as well as michael shermer, frank wilderson, welcome to night vail as well as more events being released as podcasts, and many of our p
Particularly the due homage, we think of for our continuing use of the Natural Resources of the ancestral homeland. And we thank you all for tuning and whether on crowd cast or Youtube Channel or a facebook page. In these awfully strange times were thrilled to present and Live Streaming of a digital stage for town hall communities societal light. Folks well beyond seattle were finding, everyone is willing to stare or talking to the computers, some for the first time, i want to thank rich for helping us keep the conversation here at town hall. To view the closed caption version please watch from a youtube page. Ritual speaker to enter 20 minutes and after that ill come back to pose your questions to ask a question field at the Bottom Center of your screen and crowd cast. You can also go to which questions are speakers entered first by clicking the arrow next to the question to upload. We cannot guarantee that rich will be able to address every question but will try to get as many as pos
Areas on the Youtube Channel or Facebook Page and it is awfully strange times to use Live Streaming to create the stage of curious i want to thank you for keeping the conversation alive. To view a closedcaptioned version please watch the youtube page. He will speak tonight about 20 minutes after that after the ik to do questions and those that have submitted yield at the Bottom Center of the screen. You can also vote on which questions the speakers answer by clicking the air annex to the questions. We cannot guarantee he will be able to answer every question but we will try to get to as many as possible and 20 minutes isnt a long time so you better get to work. Bearing witness the new york editor and prizewinner with the true story of the deep state in production with our friends at the farmland trust on climate change, Clifford Thompson on race and family as well as frank, welcome, helen [inaudible] video or podcas podcast forms ie Digital Media library so in short you can look around
Artists and creative writers for nine months. Of sustained work at the library the peerless collections of this library while they make their own work. Giving me the freedom to read nothing or nothing immediately clear to me. To deal with what i thought i was doing. A history in 19th century paris. The next i tried of old maps of berlin. I kept reading. The third floor you will find made at ny pl which shows the products of 34 writers who read wildly here over the last century and more. Most of them, half of them are Common Center fellows and you will see the new and lasting books that they made through their research. The words are displayed alongside some of the Collection Items that inspired and informed them including the 2016 novel alongside a 1960s arab berlin tourist map that is in our archives. The show is free and it will stay up until june of next year. We welcome you on the occasion, my goodness, the new collection busted in new york. In which we follow his roving and orthod
Includes nighthawks, doctor kings refrigerator, dreamer, facing a good thing and Middle Passage for which he won the National Book award in 25 years ago now. 1990. Wow. In 2002 he received the arthur letters award in literature from the American Academy of arts and letters. In the format tonight will beam remarks by Clifford Thompson and a conversation by doctor johnson and mr. Thompson and then we have time for your questions. Without further ado, help me welcome Clifford Thompson. [applause] thank you, thank you all for coming. And thanks to the library for hosting this, its great to appear with doctor johnson. I thought what i would do is read the first few pages of the introduction to my book what it is and then lay out the way the rest of the book is set up. Put on my old man specs so i can see. This is from the introduction. I am a black man, brooklynbased, 54 years old as i write this, for many years as i can remember there has been at the core of my being making me who i am or