Southern Oregon Pachamama Alliance (SOPA) is launching a Winter Reading Group. We will be reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer, Jackson County Library’s choice for this year’s Rogue Reads program. While everyone in the community is urged to read this book, and many will read the book on their own, this bi-weekly gathering on Zoom, hosted by SOPA, is for anyone who wants to talk with others about what we’re learning from this book.
In her nonfiction book, Dr. Kimmerer lays out her philosophy regarding humanity’s relationship with the earth and how humans can work together to avoid a climate crisis. She draws on knowledge gained from her role as a mother, a scientist, an inheritor of Indigenous wisdom, a decorated professor, and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, in order to highlight humanity’s true teachers: the nonhuman beings that have inhabited this world long before humans and will likely inhabit it long after humans are gone.
The Library is also hosting a Virtual Author Talk with Dr. Kimmerer on Feb 23. Sign up early to receive the link because “seating” will be limited by how many the Library’s online platform can host.
RSVP for author’s talk: jcls.org/roguereads
Virtual Author Talk with Dr. Kimmerer
on Wednesday, Feb 23 at 5 pm
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SOPA Winter Reading Group
First Session: Saturday, Jan 8 from 12-1:30 pm PST
Following sessions: Jan 22, Feb 5 & 19
REGISTER HERE to attend Jan 8 Session