Join food expert, television producer, and bestselling author Padma Lakshmi in a trip across the United States in Padma’s All American.

This four-part reading series features acclaimed poets, writers, and comics artists who teach in SAL’s Writers in the Schools (WITS) program. In addition to cultivating the next generation of writers, WITS writers are their own creative forces.

From internationally renowned, award-winning author Salman Rushdie comes a spellbinding exploration of life, death, and what comes into focus at the proverbial eleventh hour of life. Tickets with “& Book” include a copy of The Eleventh Hour, shipped to your door by our bookstore partner Elliott Bay Book Company. Q&A with Tessa Hulls. PLEASE NOTE: There will be metal detection and bag checks at the lobby doors. No bags larger than 8.5″ x 11″ will be allowed into the lobby or auditorium. The lobby and box office will open at 5:30 p.m. Please plan to arrive early in order to allow more time for entering the venue.

Join us for a celebratory poetry reading featuring SAL’s talented Youth Poetry Fellows.

The Things We Carry: A Professional Development Training for Educators This professional development is designed to offer strategies for critical thinking & deep self inquiry, encourage writing, and foster a sense of resilience by way of writing exercises, idea generators, and utilizing Social constructivist pedagogy as a lens for learning and play. Participants can expect to leave the workshop with a selection of new methodologies and prompts, a recursive strategy for classroom use, and suggestions for bringing innovative literature into the learning space. This two-hour workshop will fulfill OSPI’s Continuing Education clock hours (2) for all state educators and meets the requirements for ongoing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) for teacher certification. This course will offer free resources and is suitable for teachers and learners of all ages including adult learners. Writers may also find the content useful.

The Irish writer Colm Tóibín grew up in a home where, he once said, there was “a great deal of silence.” He has since made a career of telling stories—clear and human—to the world through his many volumes of fiction and non-fiction, drama, and poetry, including works like the bestselling, critically acclaimed Brooklyn and its sequel Long Island.