Event AADL Writing to Save the World

Writing to Save the World, with Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Friday November 14, 2025: 5:30pm to 7:30pm 

Ann Arbor District Library Downtown Library: Lower Level Program Room

How do we use our writing to create real world change? How do we find our voices and get our message out? How do we use writing to touch, inspire, persuade, and provoke readers to action? Learn simple but powerful methods to get the ideas out of our heads and onto the page. Part writing, part activism, a lot of heart, this class aspires to use the written word to create the change you want to see in the world. Bring a notebook and a pen.

Big thanks to CultureSource and Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation (AAACF) for the Washtenaw Artist Grant to help develop this writing workshop. 

And Thanks to AADL the best library there is!

https://aadl.org/node/646269

1990 Institute newsletter, October 2025, Volume 5, Issue 10

1990 Institute newsletter

October 10, 2025, Volume 5, Issue 10

How can historical mooncakes inspire us in America today?

https://1990institute.salsalabs.org/1990newsletter_vol5_issue10?wvpId=3472bc42-b4b5-46d4-8347-f928d14e9f4f

Event How to Live the Time of Your Life: Author Reading at CLUSTER

How to Live the Time of Your Life: Author Reading

Thursday, October 9, 2025, 7:00 PM  8:30 PM

CLUSTER

307 North Main StreetAnn Arbor, MI, 48104United States (map)

How to Live the Time of Your Life is from a Zadie Smith quote who questions, within our fragile, short existences, how do we spend our time, what is our truth, what guides meaning in our lives?

This inaugural literary event features 9 writers whose pieces are inspired by the 20 Lessons from Timothy Snyder’s book, On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century. 

Authors include Mouna Ammar, Ashwini Bhasi, A.E., Zilka Joseph, Ryan McCarty, Ruth Mella, Molly Raynor, Ciatta Tucker, and Frances Kai-Hwa Wang. This event is guest-curated by writer Kyunghee Kim and Cam Finch, writer & founder of PoetTreeTown.

“The question is: How to live the time of your life - the intimate time of your life- alongside the time of history. Which do you devote yourself to? Which deserves your attention? Which is real?” - Zadie Smith

*Author Events are best for ages 14 year and up unless noted. Learn more about our gallery on our Contact page.

https://clustermuseum.org/events/howtolivethetimeofyourlife

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