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  School Integration in America: A Conversation with American Experience

  6:30pm Wed, Nov 29, 2023

  American Experience PBS presents a conversation with the filmmakers of our two new films The Busing Battleground and The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools exploring the struggle for school integration in the United States. The conversation will feature clips from both films and discussions with the filmmakers on the progress of educational equity and the work that remains to be done.
  
  The event will be held at the Jack Morton Auditorium on the campus of the George Washington University, 805 21st St NW, Washington, DC 20052 and will be livestreamed on the American Experience YouTube channel.
  
  Both The Busing Battlegroundand The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools are available to stream now on PBS.org, the American Experience YouTube channel, and on the free PBS App.
  
  Panelists:
  Sharon Grimberg is an award-winning filmmaker with 25 years of experience working for public television. According to The Baltimore Sun, her 2020 film McCarthy, about the infamous Wisconsin senator, met “the highest hopes that the most enlightened founders of public broadcasting had for the medium.” From 2003-2015, Grimberg was the senior producer of AMERICAN EXPERIENCE where, she played a key role in the origination, development, acquisition, and editorial oversight of more than 130 films.
  
  Cyndee Readdean is an award-winning director, producer, and writer. Her films have appeared on PBS, ABC, MSNBC and EPIX. Readdean directed and produced episode two of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award-winning series Reconstruction: America after the Civil War and the Emmy-nominated film The FBI & the Panther. Readdean is a member of DGA, PGA and WGA.
  
  Douglas A. Blackmon is a Pulitzer-Prize winning author, journalist, and filmmaker. His bestselling first book, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009. He was co-executive producer of the acclaimed documentary film based on Slavery by Another Name, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. A native of the Mississippi Delta, he directs the Narrating Justice Project and teaches in the Creative Media Industries Institute at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
  
  The event will be moderated by Dr. Ivory Toldson. Dr. Toldson is the national director of Education Innovation and Research for the NAACP, professor of counseling psychology at Howard University and editor-in-chief of The Journal of Negro Education. Previously, Dr. Toldson was appointed by President Barack Obama to devise national strategies to sustain and expand federal support to HBCUs as the executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
  
  

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  A Conversation with Jacques Pépin

  12:00pm Thu, Nov 30, 2023

  You are invited to attend an exclusive event with legendary French chef, Jacques Pépin--author, television personality and educator. Jacques will be here live in the GBH Studios for this very special event. The wide-ranging conversation, led by award-winning BostonChef Jeremy Sewall, partner of Row 34 Restaurants, will touch upon Jacques’s career and culinary experiences cooking in some of the finest French restaurants in Paris and New York City. Guests will learn more about Jacques’s friendship with chef and GBH television personality Julia Child, his involvement in a dozen PBS television programs and much more!
  
  Jacques Pépin will also share more about his newest book, Cooking My Way, published in September 2023. He will be signing copies of this book during the post-reception in our Atrium that follows the formal program.
  
  Guests will have the opportunity to ask questions directly to Jacques during the discussion. The event will be moderated by Stephanie Leydon, Executive Producer of Digital Video at GBH News.
  
  
  12-1pm Formal program featuring Jacques Pépin (for both in-person and remote guests )
  1-1:30pm Jacques Pépin book signing and meet & greet in the Atrium (in-person only)
  
  
  This is a hybrid event. You have four ticket options: 
  
  The In-Studio Experience (in-person) is SOLD OUT
  
  *Join the virtual event from 12 to 1 pm. This event is free, but registration is required.
  *Order an autographed hardcover Cooking My Way book for $75which includes shipping and handling fees.
  
  Photo credit: Tom Hopkins
  

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  Empire and Its Discontent: Could the Empire Have Been Saved?

  6:00pm Fri, Dec 01, 2023

  The approach of the 250th anniversary of American independence has led scholars to reexamine the British Empire and the events of the imperial crisis that are generally understood to have led to the American Revolution.   The panelists of the keynote session  “Could the Empire Have Been Saved?”  engage this issue by discussing the problems in the empire revealed by resistance to imperial authority in British America between 1764 and 1774.  What kind of empire was it?  What was the character of British policy in the colonies?   Was the imperial crisis really a general crisis that touched all colonies and all members of British American society?  What was driving events forward?  Was the American Revolution really inevitable?  And might better decisions have avoided it?   In engaging  these questions, the panelists aim to reveal the broader implications of new thinking about the British empire and the coming of the American Revolution.
  
  This keynote is part of the conference on the theme "Empire and Its Discontent" hosted by The David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society
  
  Please note that in-person attendance has reached capacity and virtual attendance is the only option available for the keynote at this time. Click here to access the livestream on Youtube

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  December Outspoken Saturdays

  2:00pm Sat, Dec 02, 2023

  The GBH BPL studio will host Outspoken Saturdays, a spoken word poetry event for emerging artists. Every first Saturday of the month, the series will be created in collaboration with spoken word artist Amanda Shea.
  
  
  Registration is encouraged for this free event.
  

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  The History of Chocolate (Event on Demand with Kit)

  8:00am Mon, Dec 04, 2023

  SOLD OUT
  
  
  This special chocolate tasting experience includes a drinking chocolate kit and a one-hour pre-recorded virtual tasting class that you can enjoy at your leisure. Gather a loved one, get cozy and learn more from a local chocolatier.
  
  The companion video recording features Bonnie Bennett, co-owner of Kakawa Chocolate House in Salem, MA demonstrating how to set up your tasting station. She will also present a brief history of chocolate. In the video class Bonnie will elaborate on the migration of chocolate from the European continent to North America, focusing on the history of the late 1700s to the present day. She will explore the influences of the first chocolate factory in the United States, located in Massachusetts, and the spice trade influences of the region as well.
  
  The chocolate kit will be mailed to you directly and will include two liquid drinking chocolates and some of Kakawa’s signature eating chocolates that are representative of the last three centuries of chocolate history.
  
  IMPORTANT NOTES: 
  
  We can not deliver these kits to PO Boxes. Only physical street addresses are allowed.
  
  Supplies are limited. Last year this event sold out quickly. Purchase your chocolate tasting kit and companion video in time for the holiday season.
  
  You must purchase your kit by Tuesday, November 28, 2023 at 5pm ET. We will ship the chocolate kit to your preferred shipping address in early December. The companion video with instructions to this chocolate class will be sent to the contact email address provided when you registered.
  
  By RSVPing for this event, you agree to receive timely news and updates on events, films, and special offers from GBH.
  
  Photo credit: Can Stock Photo
  

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  Charlotte Gray with Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons

  6:00pm Mon, Dec 04, 2023

  In this dual biography of two famous women whose sons changed the course of the 20th century, the award-winning historian Charlotte Gray breathes new life into Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt. Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons offers a fulsome portrait of how leaders are not just born but made. 
  
  Sara Delano, the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Jennie Jerome, the mother of Winston Churchill, were both born into upper-class America in 1854. A vivacious extrovert, Jennie married Lord Randolph Churchill, a rising politician and scion of a noble British family. Deeply conventional Sara Delano married a man as old as her father. As mothers, both woman turned their energies toward enabling their sons to reach the epicenter of political power on two continents. Set against one hundred years of history and filled with intriguing social insight, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons reveals how these two remarkable individuals with dramatically different personalities shaped the characters of their adoring sons, men who would go on to change the world. 
  

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  The Urban Future: On Earth…and Elsewhere

  12:00pm Tue, Dec 05, 2023

  Today, more than 50 percent of the world’s population lives in cities. By 2050, some 75 percent will be urbanites. Future urban design will emphasize not only innovative architecture and engineering, but the environmental, health, and social aspects of city dwelling also. And the plans anticipate potential settlements beyond Earth -- Mars in particular. Justin Hollander is an internationally recognized expert on urban planning, with many academic and media contributions. He discusses the evolving concern for healthy urban design and the numerous challenges involved in this transition. Dr. Hollander also discusses his recent book on the prospect of Mars colonization: The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner’s Guide to Settling the Red Planet
  

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  Crushed Wild Mint: Language Rooted in Landscape

  5:00pm Tue, Dec 05, 2023

  Cambridge Forum explores some indigenous thinking mixed with a little magic, talking to Jess Housty about her debut poetry collection, CRUSHED WILD MINT.
  
  Jess Housty is a Haíɫzaqv parent, writer, and land-based educator from the community of Bella Bella, BC. Housty lives in unceded ancestral homelands where she works in community building, food sovereignty, and leadership development. She is a freelance contributor to The Tyee and in addition to her debut poetry collection from Nightwood Editions, she has a forthcoming collection of essays due out shortly from Magic Canoe Press.
  
  Housty’s writing is enmeshed in her indigenous roots and values, “wealth is measured not by what you’ve accumulated but by what you give away. True abundance comes from community and turning a gift into more gifts”. She demonstrates this beautifully in “Sixty-Eight Plums”, a surprise bag of plums appears on her doorstep and provides an opportunity for her to carry the joy forward by making jars of plum jam, to leave at neighbors’ doors.
  
  
  Sixty-Eight Plums (by Jess Housty)
  
  When sixty-eight golden plums appear like a bowl of phosphorescence on your stoop, look both upward
  and all around you
  when you give a little thanks.
  
  It is no small feat
  that they have arrived here:
  
  Someone planted trees,
  smiling to themselves at the foolishness of growing plums in this climate
  where the rain makes everything soft— makes everyone soft.
  
  And for more than one hundred years the trees have probably not been tended but certainly been spared the axe
  and the lightning and unhappy accidents, and survived to delight you.
  
  And this week, this week of softening
  and relentless rain, someone lifted their hand level with their heart or higher—
  sixty-eight times to the branches
  while shaking the weather
  out of their hair—
  and doing this, they thought of you.
  
  So plunge your clean hands in the bowl (What else is there to do?)
  and pick out the stems and leaves;
  tear into the rain-soft flesh,
  
  the sun-bright flesh, to pry out the pits;
  and think of how you will carry forward joy when you leave jars of warm jam
  on many doorsteps in the morning.

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  Life After Prison : Long Journey Home

  6:00pm Wed, Dec 06, 2023

  GBH hosts a panel with local experts about challenges and success for the recently released from incarceration, part of its ongoing series Life After Prison.
  
  Each year thousands of people return from the state’s prisons and county jails facing challenges in finding work, housing and, in general re-integrating into society. Our series has focused on struggles of prisoners seeking education on the inside and, on the outside, staying out of trouble. We’ve looked at the rising multimillion-dollar state prison budget amidst a plummeting population. We’ve talked to dozens of returning citizens, experts and government officials about what needs to be done to help people succeed.
  
  Chris Burrell, investigative reporter, will host a conversation with State Senator Liz Miranda, Leslie Credle, Executive Director of Justice For housing and Armand Coleman, Executive Director of Transformational Prison Project (TPP). They will explore the challenges of re-entry after a time in prison and discuss solutions to be implemented.
  
  Join us for a panel discussion with local experts. Following the discussion, please join for a community engagement session with our investigative team and organizations that work on the re-entry process.
  
  Doors open at 5:30pm
  Click here to register for virtual attendance
  

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  13th Annual Streettalk 10-in-1

  6:00pm Thu, Dec 07, 2023

  LivableStreets' is back with the annual StreetTalk. Returning to the Old South Meeting House, ten speakers on ten different topics in one location to talk about issues regarding transit advocacy, climate justice, protecting our greenways, equitable housing + land use policies, and more!
  Each speaker will present for seven minutes.
  
  Doors open at 5:30PM and the event starts promptly at 6:00PM. There will be an intermission in between speakers with appetizers and beverages served.
  
  We will be capping the in person attendance to 150 people, so make sure to RSVP online and secure a spot.
  Click here to attend virtually.

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  Lounge Thursdays featuring Ken Field Trio

  6:00pm Thu, Dec 07, 2023

  Ken Field is a saxophonist & composer. He leads the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, an experimental & improvisational brass band, and is a longtime member of the electronic modern music ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. His solo releases document his work for layered saxophones and his soundtracks for dance and film. Field's music is heard regularly on the children's television program Sesame Street. He is the host of WMBR Radio’s “The New Edge”, former President of the Board of Tutoring Plus of Cambridge, Member of the HONK! Festival Organizing Committee, President of the Board of JazzBoston, and former member & chair of the Cambridge Bicycle Committee. Field was named a Finalist in Music Composition by the Mass Cultural Council.
  
  Join us for an evening of music, wine, and food. Registration is encouraged for this free event.
  
  Registration is encouraged for this free event.
  

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  Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773–1776

  6:00pm Mon, Dec 11, 2023

  Join Revolutionary Spaces on Monday, December 11 at the Old South Meeting House for a discussion with Dr. James Fichter of the University of Hong Kong to mark the publication of his new book Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773–1776. Dr. Fichter will be joined in conversation with Dr. Nathaniel Sheidley, President and CEO of Revolutionary Spaces.
  
  In his new book, Dr. Fichter reveals a new dimension of the Boston Tea Party by exploring a story largely overlooked for the last 250 years—The fate of two large shipments of East India Company tea that survived and were drunk in North America. The book challenges the prevailing wisdom around the tea protests and consumer boycotts while showing the economic reality behind political rhetoric: Colonists did not turn away from tea as they became revolutionary Americans. While history records the noisy protests and prohibitions of patriots, merchant ledgers reveal that tea and British goods continued to be widely sold and consumed.
  
  By bringing different locations and events into the story and reinterpreting old ones, Dr. Fichter shows how the continuing risk that these shipments would be sold shaped colonial politics in the years ahead. He also hints at the enduring potency of consumerism in revolutionary politics.
  
  Following the reading and discussion, guests will have the opportunity to purchase their own copy of the book. Dr. Fichter will be available to sign copies and answer questions.
  
  This program is free and open to the public. Doors will open at 5:30 pm and the program will begin at 6:00 pm. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.
  Click here for more information about Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773–1776.
  
  This program is made possible by the generous support of The Lowell Institute.
  
  Click here to attend virtually.
  

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