55+ Connections: Week of 10/9/23
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55+ Connections Friday Lunch
Friday, October 13
11:30 AM
North Liberty Rec Center – Classrooms 3 & 4
We’ll be having Hy Vee catering again this week for lunch. We will also have a nurse from the VNA to do free blood pressure checks and after lunch Angela McConville will be giving a Dementia Friends presentation. Registration for lunch just $5 and is required for all who attend. Participants must register before noon on Thursday, October 12th. Call the Rec Center to register (319)626-5716 or go online to your RecDesk Account and register yourself.
International Authors Panel: On the Body
Friday, October 13
12 PM
Iowa City Public Library – Meeting Rooms A, B, and C
The International Authors series provides an opportunity for the community to meet and converse with writers from around the world who are the Fall 2023 Writers in Residence at the University of Iowa International Writing Program. The series is sponsored by The UI International Writing Program and The Iowa City Public Library.
BYOBook Club
Thursday, October 19
6:30 PM
Blue Elephant Thai Restaurant – 2301 2nd St suite 2, Coralville
Pick up a copy of Fresh Off the Boat by Eddie Huang at the North Liberty Library, read it and then join us at Blue Elephant to dine and discuss!
Fresh Off the Boat Synopsis:
Assimilating ain’t easy. Eddie Huang was raised by a wild family of FOB (“fresh off the boat”) immigrants—his father a cocksure restaurateur with a dark past back in Taiwan, his mother a fierce protector and constant threat. Young Eddie tried his hand at everything mainstream America threw his way, from white Jesus to macaroni and cheese, but finally found his home as leader of a rainbow coalition of lost boys up to no good: skate punks, dealers, hip-hop junkies, and sneaker freaks. This is the story of a Chinese-American kid in a could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac blazing his way through America’s deviant subcultures, trying to find himself, ten thousand miles from his legacy and anchored only by his conflicted love for his family and his passion for food. Funny, moving, and stylistically inventive, Fresh Off the Boat is more than a radical reimagining of the immigrant memoir—it’s the exhilarating story of every American outsider who finds his destiny in the margins.
Paul Engle Prize Ceremony: Joan Naviyuk Kane
Thursday, October 19
7 PM
Coralville Public Library – Near Library Hearth
Joan Naviyuk Kane has been named the 12th recipient of the Paul Engle Prize. Please join us for a special ceremony where Kane will be presented the prize by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization, and will talk about her work. Library doors will open at 6:30 pm for this event which will begin at 7:00 pm, with a reception to follow. All are welcome to attend the ceremony which is free and open to the public.
Donate to the ICPL Arts & Crafts Bazaar
Until Friday, December 1
During Open Hours
Iowa City Public Library
Do you enjoy creating things? Would you like to donate your handmade items to support the Iowa City Public Library during the Arts & Crafts Bazaar on December 2, 2023? If so, they will gladly accept your items through December 1st. Please drop off your item(s) at the ICPL Library Help Desk on the first floor any time they are open through Friday, December 1, 2023. Have more questions or wonder what type of handmade items to donate? Check here!
