Evening facilitated by Patrisse Cullors featuring a workshop rooted in a chapter of The Abolitionist’s Handbook– “Courageous Conversations”This Juneteenth we are holding a space that leaves us Black folks at the Center feeling empowered, joyful, and celebrated. We are thrilled to announce that Patrisse Cullors—author, artist, abolitionist and co-founder of The Black Lives Matter movement—will join us to celebrate in community. Taking place at The Village, Patrisse will co-host a conversation with us about the importance of Juneteenth and while attending a workshop based on her new book—The Abolitionist’s Handbook.On Friday, June 21st from 530pm-730pm Black staff, youth, and seniors from The Center are invited to attend. We will commune, learn, eat, and celebrate the ways in which we’ve always fought for and imagined freedom for ourselves.

Join us for a night with author J. Ryan Stradal, Alison Turner, and Lou Mathews reading their fiction and poetry.New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal delivers a story of a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, and the legacy of love and tragedy, of hardship and hope, that unites and divides them. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club is a window into a colorful, vanishing world of relish trays and brandy Old Fashioneds; J. Ryan Stradal has once again given us a story full of his signature honest, lovable yet fallible Midwestern characters as they grapple with love, loss, and marriage; what we hold onto and what we leave behind; and what our legacy will be when we are gone.The author will be reading alongside L.A.’s literary couple Alison Turner (author of The Second Split Between) and Lou Mathews (author of Shaky Town and L.A. Breakdown). Book signings to follow the readings.Doors Open: 7:30 PM I Readings: 8:00 PMJ. Ryan Stradal is the author of New York Times bestseller Kitchens of the Great Midwest, which won the American Booksellers Association Indie's Choice Award for Adult Debut Book of the Year, and the Midwest Read More ...