BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:Hoover Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:Hoover Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:83fdd00e-18d5-4af7-8eb4-7af5835ebb53 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260924T202225Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231017T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231017T200000 SUMMARY:Stories of Exile: Writing Memoirs of Exile LOCATION:Hoover Public Library\nHoover Public Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Hoover Public Library;X-AP PLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Hoover Public Library:geo:33.3879503,-86.8046606 GEO:33.3879503;-86.8046606 DESCRIPTION:Writing workshop focusing on developing our own stories of exi le\, banishment\, expulsion or being ostracized from family\, community or any place that we call home.\nhttps://hoover.libnet.info/event/8774268 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Generational stories of relocation or disp lacement live on in us today. We may also have our own version of being di stanced from others. Learn to develop and write stories that bring your tr uth to light. Instructor Miriam Calleja Shaw\, originally from Malta\, lea ds this workshop.

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This workshop is part of the ongoing "Stories of Exile" program series. The Yiddish Book Center&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;Stories o f Exile&rdquo\; Reading Groups for Public Libraries is a reading and discu ssion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about experiences of displacement\, migration\, and diaspora. In this program\, librarians orga nize reading groups to discuss three books of Yiddish literature in transl ation\, and one book related to the experience of a community served by th eir library.

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Live-stream this event on the Hoover Library \;Facebook \;an d YouTube  \;pages.

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