Event Listing - It's Electric: Wearable Technology Workshop

Join Progressive Arts Alliance for an exploration of electricity, creativity, and wearable technology. This workshop will allow teens ages 11 - 18 to experiment and tinker with fiber optic-filament as they explore how to make a circuit. Through this experiment, teens will create a wearable piece of art that incorporates fiber optic thread, a resistor, and an LED.

Event Listing - Play the Ukulele

Want to learn how to play the Ukulele?  Roots of American Music teaching artist Sheela Das will give you the basics of beginning ukulele in a 1-hour group lesson.  Basic chords, tuning, and memorable song will be covered during the session. 

A limited number of ukuleles are available for use during the workshop or you can bring your own!  All ages welcomed to this free event.

Event Listing - Book Discussion - *Where'd You Go, Bernadette?* by Maria Semple

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears.

Everyone is welcomed to attend the discussion

Event Listing - Book Discussion - *Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius* by Kristine Barnett

The mother of an autistic child who was eventually recognized as a genius recounts her rejection of basic life-skills instructors who counseled her family to expect very little of the boy, sharing the strategies she utilized for tapping her son's potential while describing his current achievements as a paid teenage researcher in quantum physics.

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