This Week in Freeattle, April 25, 2010

Image via Flickr user MeaganThis Week in Freeattle is special because today, April 26, Freeattle is a bouncing and jolly one-year old. 

And of course, as we age, we grow, and this This Week in Freeattle entry shows signs of the age-appropriate development. It's time to split This Week in Freeattle into This Week in Free (Mon-Fri) and This Weekend in Free. So head here both Monday and Thursday to get your full weekly recommended allowance of free event listings.

Mon, April 26

• 5pm: Book Reception: "A New Balance or New Tradeoffs? Policies to Support Gender Equality in the Home and Market” at the West Coast Poverty Center. “Celebrating two new books on gender equality and policy by co-authors Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers; and by co-authors Becky Pettit and Jennifer L. Hook. Author remarks and refreshments.
• 7pm: Book Talk: "Obamistan! Land without Racism: Your Guide to the New America" by Damali Ayo.  This “smart, satirical tour guidebook…documents the utopia that (never) came about after the last presidential election, and poses this question: What might happen if Americans really did step up to the plate and take responsibility for making change happen?”
• 7pm: Live Music: Jazz Factory at the Third Place Commons Stage. “Marvel at the improvisational talents of director Dennis Ashcroft and his 6th grade beginning jazz players, representing all of the 9 elementary schools in the Shoreline District.”

Tue, April 27

• 7pm: Author Talk: Sherwin Bitsui & Sherman Alexie at Elliott Bay Book Company. “A very special night is at hand as two amazing poets, one new to Elliott Bay audiences, and the other, familiar but always, in the vital sense, new, give this reading of their work together.”
• 7pm: The Art of the Northwest Masters at the Bellevue Library. “In connection with the Tacoma Art Museum’s exhibit, A Concise History of Northwest Art, Susan Olds presents the art of the Northwest Masters Mark Tobey, Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, Paul Horuichi, George Tsutakawa and Guy Anderson.”
• 7pm: Book Talk: "Sin Eater" by William Reichard at Third Place Books. “William Reichard’s fourth collection of poems, is the final volume of a trilogy that opened with 2004’s How To and continued in 2007 with This Brightness.”
• 7:30pm: Trombone Choir Concert at Brechemin Auditorium.

Wed, April 28

• 10:30am: Caspar Babypants Music Concert at Mercer Island Library.
• 7pm: Best Hikes With Dogs at Seattle REI.

Thu, April 29

• 12pm: City Hall Concert: Seattle Celebrates Bernstein.
• 6:45pm: Gynecologic Cancer: Looking Back and Looking Forward. “There has been great progress in the last 25 years, and an even better future, for women with gynecologic cancer. Dr. Muntz, a 1984 graduate of Harvard Medical School, will share his personal perspective on the past and future of Gynecologic Oncology.”
• 7pm: Poetry Month Celebration at Third Place Books. “Lake Forest Park Arts Council presents winners of the annual poetry contest in student and adult categories, juried by poets Belle Randall and Janee J.Baugher. Published poets Jared Leising and Kelli Russell Agodon will read and discuss their work.”
• 7:30pm: Poetry Talk: Lana Hechtman Ayers & Lorraine Healy. “The relationship of Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf is cast in a new light in Lana Hechtman Ayers' chapbook What Big Teeth: Red Riding Hood’s Real Life, published by Kissena Park Press. The poems bring a contemporary psychological and carnal edge to the tale, the red of that famous cloak becoming an emblem of desire and rebellion..Born in Argentina, Lorraine Healy came into adulthood there during that country's dark recent history, and many of the poems in her new collection, The Habit of Buenos Aires, rise from that experience.”

Fri, April 30

• 6:30pm: Book Talk: "The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War" by Phil Jennings at Third Place Books. “After Nam-a-Rama and Goodbye, Mexico, Phil Jennings offers a clear eye to the truth about the Vietnam war in this The Politically Incorrect Guide, somehow assuring laughs in the process.”
• 6:30pm: Book Talk: "The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War" by Phil Jennings at Third Place Books. “After Nam-a-Rama and Goodbye, Mexico, Phil Jennings offers a clear eye to the truth about the Vietnam war in this The Politically Incorrect Guide, somehow assuring laughs in the process.”
• 7pm: Free Film: “Pray the Devil Back To Hell.”  The film “exposes the recent, but largely forgotten story, of the women of Liberia uniting to bring the end to their nation's civil war. Despite their religious differences, and using entirely nonviolent methods, they forced the stalled peace talks in their country to move forward.”
• 7pm: Book Talk: "Scent of the Missing: Love & Partnership w/a Search-and-Rescue Dog" by Susannah Charleson at Elliott Bay Book Company. “Susannah Charleson works as a handler for Dallas' Metro Area Rescue K9 unit with her partner, a Golden Retriever named Puzzle. She raised Puzzle from being a puppy on through training her to do search and rescue work.”