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september 2020
Time
(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Online Via Zoom
Online Via Zoom
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Our book club selection for the month of September is The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper’s Women by Hallie Rubenhold. The
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Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden, and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers.
What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women.
For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that “the Ripper” preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, revealing a world not just of Dickens and Queen Victoria, but of poverty, homelessness and rampant misogyny. They died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time—but their greatest misfortune was to be born a woman.
Organizer
Tracey Del Ducatdelduca@interchurch-center.org 61 Claremont Avenue
october 2020
Time
(Wednesday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
To Be Viewed Online
Online Via Youtube
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Reflections on “Home” Christopher Johnson, piano and organ.
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Reflections on “Home” Christopher Johnson, piano and organ.
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Christopher Johnson, Director of Musiccjohnson@interchurch-center.org
Time
(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
Online Via Zoom
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The October selection for our Book Club is My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. About the Book: My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is
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The October selection for our Book Club is My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.
About the Book:
My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker – and more difficult to get out of the carpet – than water…
When Korede’s dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This’ll be the third boyfriend Ayoola’s dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away. She should probably go to the police for the good of the menfolk of Nigeria, but she loves her sister and, as they say, family always comes first. Until, that is, Ayoola starts dating the doctor where Korede works as a nurse. Korede’s long been in love with him, and isn’t prepared to see him wind up with a knife in his back: but to save one would mean sacrificing the other…
Organizer
Tracey Del Ducatdelduca@interchurch-center.org 61 Claremont Avenue
wed28oct12:00 pmwed12:35 pmVirtual Noonday ConcertsVirtual Concert12:00 pm - 12:35 pm
Time
(Wednesday) 12:00 pm - 12:35 pm
Location
To Be Viewed Online
Online Via Youtube
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A Feast of Sacred Vocal Music Meghann Vaughn, mezzo-soprano Christopher Johnson, piano and organ Including selections from John Carter’s electrifying work “Cantata”, based on African American Spirituals, and timeless classics of the sacred
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A Feast of Sacred Vocal Music
Meghann Vaughn, mezzo-soprano
Christopher Johnson, piano and organ
Including selections from John Carter’s electrifying work “Cantata”, based on African American Spirituals, and timeless classics of the sacred vocal repertoire.
See it on Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCwYSeG2u09tnzroDdoOq5aw
november 2020
Time
(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Online Via Zoom
Online Via Zoom
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The November selection for our monthly book club is Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev. It is a truth universally acknowledged that only in an overachieving Indian American family
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The November selection for our monthly book club is Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that only in an overachieving Indian American family can a genius daughter be considered a black sheep.
Dr. Trisha Raje is San Francisco’s most acclaimed neurosurgeon. But that’s not enough for the Rajes, her influential immigrant family who’s achieved power by making its own non-negotiable rules:
· Never trust an outsider
· Never do anything to jeopardize your brother’s political aspirations
· And never, ever, defy your family
Trisha is guilty of breaking all three rules. But now she has a chance to redeem herself. So long as she doesn’t repeat old mistakes.
Up-and-coming chef DJ Caine has known people like Trisha before, people who judge him by his rough beginnings and place pedigree above character. He needs the lucrative job the Rajes offer, but he values his pride too much to indulge Trisha’s arrogance. And then he discovers that she’s the only surgeon who can save his sister’s life.
As the two clash, their assumptions crumble like the spun sugar on one of DJ’s stunning desserts. But before a future can be savored there’s a past to be reckoned with…
A family trying to build home in a new land.
A man who has never felt at home anywhere.
And a choice to be made between the two.
Organizer
Tracey Del Ducatdelduca@interchurch-center.org 61 Claremont Avenue
december 2020
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