This Week at Bookworks Features A Bicycle Built for Two Billion, Opera in NM, Zig Zag Zen and More!
By: BWW News Desk May. 15, 2015
This week's events at Bookworks are listed below. For more information, visit bkwrks.com/event.
Friday, May 15
7pm • Jamie Bianchini • A Bicycle Built for Two Billion
Jamie Bianchini needed a lift. A big one. After a series of spectacular business flops drove him into bankruptcy and the love of his life kissed him goodbye, Jamie knew he needed a world of help. But instead of seeking assistance from a counselor or support group, Jamie sought comfort where he'd always found it...on his bicycle.
Saturday, May 16
3pm • Sean Prentiss • Finding Abbey
When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. In this book a young writer who went looking for Abbey's grave combines an account of his quest with a creative biography of Abbey.
Sunday, May 17
1pm • Zachary Kluckman & Rob Sturma •Multiverse Anthology Reading
Poets in the new Multiverse anthology read at Bookworks.
3pm • Ron Chapman • Breathing, Releasing & Breaking Through: Practice for Seeing True
Ron Chapman speaks about his approach to breath work as a healing and transformational practice. In a highly interactive session, he described the underpinnings of the practice as well as engaging the audience in that same practice.
Tuesday, May 19
7pm • Dodici Azpadu & Bob Kidera Read New Fiction •Traces of a Woman / Red Gold
Traces of a Woman is a novel that follows a multi-national cast of characters whose stories unfold in Portland, New York, Geneva, and Algiers from 1945 to the late 1950s. Red Gold is a contemporary mystery, in which grieving ex-professor Gabe McKenna arrives in Albuquerque to claim an inheritance and finds himself engaged in a struggle for a 19th century fortune.
Wednesday, May 20
7pm • Craig Smith • A Vision of Voices: John Crosby & the Santa Fe Opera
The Santa Fe Opera owes its existence to the vision and hard work of one man: John O'Hea Crosby (1926-2002), who created the company when he was only thirty years old and guided its fortunes for the next forty-five years.
Thursday, May 21
7pm • Allan Badiner & Alex Grey • Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism & Psychedelics
Buddhism and psychedelic exploration share a common concern: the liberation of the mind. This new edition of Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics has substantially evolved from the landmark anthology that launched the first serious inquiry into the moral, ethical, doctrinal, and transcendental considerations of the intersection of Buddhism and psychedelics.
Saturday, May 23
1pm • Nasario Garcia • Hoe, Heaven & Hell
In this account of his boyhood, García writes unforgettably about his family's village life telling story after story, all of them true, and fascinating everyone interested in New Mexico history and culture.
3pm • Ruth Francis • More Voices of New Mexico
More Voices of New Mexico is the third edition of the Voices award-winning series for the New Mexico Book Co-op. It gives writers a chance to express themselves and get their essays out to the public.
For Kids
Saturday, May 16
10:30am • BOA (Big on Animals)
Wednesday, May 20
4:30pm • American Girl Book Club
We will be having a birthday party 1923 style! Come prepared to talk about your favorite Kit book. New members are always welcome.
Thursday, May 21
10:30am • Story Time! Outer Space!
Today we will read stories and do a craft devoted to space!
Clubs
Monday, May 18
7pm • Reading Purls Knitting Group • A Knitter's Home Companion by Michelle Edwards, Jen Gotch
A Knitter's Home Companion is an illustrated collection of stories, patterns, and recipes from beloved knitter and essayist Michelle Edwards. Bring your knitting joys and woes to Reading Purls.
Looking Ahead
Tuesday, June 2
7pm • Diane Thomas • In Wilderness
After she is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Katherine abandons her successful advertising firm and seeks refuge in the solitude of her wilderness cabin. Living off the land in complete isolation brings Katherine peace--until the day she realizes she is not alone, and never was. Katherine's sudden and unanticipated arrival at the cabin unsettles Danny, a Vietnam veteran tormented by the demons of his past, who has been squatting in the previously abandoned cabin.
Thursday, June 4
6pm • Albuquerque Film & Music Experience: A Night of Poetry with Jimmy Baca at the National Hispanic Cultural Center 1701 4th SW
Bookworks sells books at a Night of Poetry, part of this year's Albuquerque Film and Music Experience. Authors include Jimmy Baca, Jessica Helen Lopez, Adam Jones, Hawah Kasat, Jose Ponce, Nicole Gramlich, Hakim Bellamy, Lucia Ortega. Tickets are $10 and are available at the link to the right.
Tuesday, June 9
7pm • Deborah Harkness at the new Central & Unser Library I40 at Central • The Book of Life
Bookworks in conjunction with ABC Library features Deborah Harkness on paperback tour for her novel, The Book of Life, at the new state of the art library located at I-40 and Central at Unser. After traveling through time inShadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies.Tickets are FREE and can be reserved by clicking on the link or picked up at Bookworks. ore »
Saturday, June 13
7pm • A Word With Writers Mira Jacob & Kirstin Valdez Quade at the KiMo Theatre 423 Central NW •
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob and
Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade
With intensity and emotional precision, Kirstin Valdez Quade's unforgettable stories in Night at the Fiestas plunge us into the fierce, troubled hearts of characters defined by the desire to escape the past or else to plumb its depths. Click on the link to reserve your tickets.
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