BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20220827T173000Z DTEND:20220827T183000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Sonoma County Library Presents: Virtual Author Talk with Francisco Jimenez DESCRIPTION:Virtual Author Talk with Francisco Jim nez on his experience growing up in a family of migrant workers. He will describe his process used in writing his memoir series "The Circuit\," "Breaking Through\," Reaching Out" and Taking Hold" and explain why he writes.\n\n\n\nIn this presentation\, Francisco Jim nez will describe in detail the six-step process he used in writing his four-book memoirs series - The Circuit\, (Cajas de cart n)\, Breaking Through (Senderos fronterizos)\, Reaching Out (M s all de m )\, Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University (Pasos firmes: de ni ez migrante a la Universidad de Columbia) - and explain why he writes and why it is important to tell your story. This talk will be a useful guide for audiences to tell/write their own stories.\n\n\n\n"When we tell our stories\, we make connections and when we make connections we break down those walls that separate us from one another\," said Author Francisco Jim nez\, an upcoming speaker at one of the author talks. \n\n\n\nThis presentation will kick off a call for submissions of immigrant's stories of coming to the U.S. for an anthology called "Arrivals and Departures". For more information on how to participate in the anthology\, email: jayala@sonomalibrary.org\n\n\n\nAbout the Author: Author and educator\, Francisco Jim nez emigrated with his family from Tlaquepaque\, Mexico to California and as a child worked alongside his parents in the fields of California. He received his BA from Santa Clara University and an MA and Ph.D. in Latin American literature from Columbia University under a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.\n\n\n\nThe author talk events are made possible thanks to a California Humanities Grant.\n\n \n\nThe California Humanities Library Innovation Lab in partnership with the Sonoma County Library Adult Literacy Program are also creating an anthology entitled "Arrivals and Departures." This collection will feature stories of immigrants throughout Sonoma County and highlight their experience in their own words. \n\n \n\nShare your story about leaving your home country and seeking your future in the United States. Submissions are accepted in written and oral form and are due by September 30. Visit sonomalibrary.org/arrivals-departures to learn more. \n\n \n\nThe views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the Sonoma County Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Virtual Author Talk with Francisco Jimé\;nez on his experience growing up in a family of migrant workers. He will describe his process used in writing his memoir series&mdash\;&ldquo\;The Circuit\,&rdquo\; &ldquo\;Breaking Through\,&rdquo\; Reaching Out&rdquo\; and Taking Hold&rdquo\;&mdash\;and explain why he writes.
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\nIn this presentation\, Francisco Jimé\;nez will describe in detail the six-step process he used in writing his four-book memoirs series - The Circuit\, (Cajas de cartó\;n)\, Breaking Through (Senderos fronterizos)\, Reaching Out (Má\;s allá\; de mí\;)\, Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University (Pasos firmes: de niñ\;ez migrante a la Universidad de Columbia) - and explain why he writes and why it is important to tell your story. This talk will be a useful guide for audiences to tell/write their own stories.
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\n&ldquo\;When we tell our stories\, we make connections and when we make connections we break down those walls that separate us from one another\,&rdquo\; said Author Francisco Jimé\;nez\, an upcoming speaker at one of the author talks. \;
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\nThis presentation will kick off a call for submissions of immigrant&rsquo\;s stories of coming to the U.S. for an anthology called &ldquo\;Arrivals and Departures&rdquo\;. For more information on how to participate in the anthology\, email: jayala@sonomalibrary.org
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\nAbout the Author: Author and educator\, Francisco Jimé\;nez emigrated with his family from Tlaquepaque\, Mexico to California and as a child worked alongside his parents in the fields of California. He received his BA from Santa Clara University and an MA and Ph.D. in Latin American literature from Columbia University under a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.
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\nThe author talk events are made possible thanks to a California Humanities Grant.
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\nThe California Humanities Library Innovation Lab in partnership with the Sonoma County Library Adult Literacy Program are also creating an anthology entitled &ldquo\;Arrivals and Departures.&rdquo\; This collection will feature stories of immigrants throughout Sonoma County and highlight their experience in their own words.
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\nShare your story about leaving your home country and seeking your future in the United States. Submissions are accepted in written and oral form and are due by September 30. Visit sonomalibrary.org/arrivals-departures to learn more.
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\nThe views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the Sonoma County Library.
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