Author Talk: Tuesday, January 11 @6pm

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For more information about The Gatherings, click here.

Multiple copies of The Gatherings are available through the library catalog.

Barb Martin is a Mi’kmaq woman from the community of Esgenoôpetitj/Burnt Church, New Brunswick. Since 1995, she has co-owned Han Martin Associates, a consulting firm helping communities and organizations achieve their goals, particularly when these involve building relationships and working with diversity.

Barb is currently the program manager of Oeliangitsoltigo Mental Wellness Team (MWT), serving four Indigenous communities. She was the recipient of the 2011 Honouring Our Peoples Award from the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs for her work with residential school survivors and in recognition of her contributions to improving the health of First Nations people in Atlantic Canada. She is a co-author of The Gatherings.

Shirley N. Hager lives in Chesterville, Maine. She is a retired associate professor with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Currently, she serves with the Friends (Quaker) Committee on Maine Public Policy and chairs its Committee on Tribal-State Relations. She is a trained facilitator with the Center for Courage and Renewal. Shirley coordinated the Gatherings that are the subject of this book, and is the book’s lead author.

The Camden Conference is an annual event whose mission is to foster informed discourse on world issues. Every year, satellite events are held in communities around Maine. Merrill Memorial Library will host a film discussion and book discussion via Zoom in January 2022. Check back here for details about how to sign up for the Zoom discussions.

For now save these dates:

January 12, 2022. 8pm. THURSDAY, January 13, 2022, 8pm. A discussion of the 2019 documentary Collective. See the film on your own and join us for discussion. DVD available through Minerva.

Tuesday, January 18, 2022. 7pm. A discussion of the 2018 book How Democracies Die by Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky. We have ten copies of the paperback here at MML, and the hardcover is widely available through Minerva.

The theme of the 2022 conference is Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad.