NCW Library Virtual Events:

Remarkable Women of the Past Century

Writer Mayumi Tsutakawa presents five inspirational women in the arts and journalism in a free virtual talk at 7 p.m. March 4.  Learn about the pioneering photographer Imogen Cunningham, Black American jazz musician Ruby Bishop, Chinese American artist Priscilla Chong Jue, leftist journalist Anna Louise Strong, and Native American linguist Vi Hilbert. Drawing on her own experience as an activist and writer, Tsutakawa explores how these women inspired others and changed our state and our society.

 

NCW Virtual Reads With Imbolo Mbue

Bestselling author Imbolo Mbue presents a free virtual talk at 7 p.m. March 11. Mbue is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Behold the Dreamers, which tells the story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy. The book won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Blue Metropolis Words to Change Award, and was an Oprah's Book Club selection. Please register at: info@ncwlibraries.org or Visit www.ncwlibraries.org for more information on all these programs and more.