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Join us to celebrate the book Juxtapositions: Images from the Newseum Ted Polumbaum photo collection,a global tour of humanity that includes glimpses of 1980s China.  Author Judy Polumbaum will share stories and pictures from the life and work of her photojournalist father.

Ted Polumbaum (1924-2001), blacklisted from newswriting during the height of Cold War hysteria for defying U.S. Congressional inquisitors, took up photography instead. As a photojournalist in the heyday of the great picture magazines, working for LIFE, Time, Look, Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times Magazine and many other publications, he documented some of the most important news events and social movements of the twentieth century with compassion, conviction, stunning beauty and often whimsy.

His photography features seldom-seen cameos of political and cultural icons, from Martin Luther King Jr., and the Kennedys to regional artist Thomas Hart Benton and TV chef Julia Child, as well as never before published portrayals of labor, leisure, love and life across generations and cultures.  Judy Polumbaum, in the womb when Ted was blacklisted, is professor emerita of journalism and mass communication at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, USA. A scholar of Chinese media, she has been coming to China since 1975.

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Join The Bookworm’s weekly SciFi Book Club to talk about your favorite science fiction short stories! Each meeting we choose a short story to read and discuss. Authors we’ve talked about so far include Greg Egan, Iain M. Banks, Cory Doctorow, Andy Weir, Liu Cixin, Peter Watts, Neal Stephenson, Ted Chiang, and many others. The club meets every Thursday at 8pm. Add Olga on WeChat @Merukaba for more information.

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Meitheal will play a set of Irish traditional music and dances handed down from generation to generation. It will include indigenous instruments such as the pipes, the fiddle and the bodhán and traditional dances including the slipjig and the hornpipe.

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