UPCOMING EVENTS

Farmers Market Every Saturday through November 1st, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm at Toby's Feed Barn

Our Market is the only all-local, all-certified organic produce market in Northern California. It features West Marin's best: fresh, locally-grown organic produce, baked goods, artisan cheeses and olive oils, eggs, grass-fed beef products, homemade preserves, oysters, bee products, flowers, locally-produced wool clothing, yarn and body care products. A fabulous time is guaranteed! Enjoy live music, cooking demonstrations and book signings by renowned chefs; be part of the community, meeting your neighbors and friends, our local farmers, and enjoy the finest organic food that can be grown! Sponsored by Point Reyes Books, Marin Organic, Toby's, County of Marin

Monday, June 28th at 7:00 pm
Spanish Reading Group

The Spanish Reading Group meets on the last Monday of each month at the bookstore. The group is currently reading Luisa Valenzuela's Cambio De Armas.

Saturday, August 9th from 12 noon until 2:00 pm
Alice Waters

Slow Food Come to the table for lunch and Conversation with Alice Waters
As the warmth of summer refines the land’s bounty Chef Margaret Gradé and Chef Daniel DeLong of Manka’s will be serving lunch amongst the crops of Peter Worsley’s Farm, 12073 Highway One, Point Reyes Station

$125.00 tickets for limited seating

A Benefit for Slow Food Nation & The Point Reyes Farmers’ Market

Hosted by:Point Reyes Books, Marin Organic, Marin Agricultural Land Trust, Point Reyes Farmers’ Market
Produced by: Green Girl Events.
For reservations call: Point Reyes Books at 415-663-1542

Perfect Piano Saturday, August 9th at 7:30 pm
at the bookstore, Kate Hafner

author of, A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano.

Sunday, August 10th at 4:00 pm
Lost in my backyard Tim Cahill

Tim Cahill Tim Cahill is a founding editor of Outside and for years wrote the "Out There" column. The travel adventure writer knows no limits when it comes to picking his assignments: he's gotten up-close with great white sharks, sailed in 30-below-zero Antarctic weather, and trekked through Death Valley on a grueling summer day. Cahill's books include Road Fever, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh, and A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg. His work has appeared in Esquire, National Geographic Adventure, the New York Times Book Review, and other national publications. He won a National Magazine Award in 2003, the same year he received a Lowell Thomas Gold Award from the Society of American Travel Writers. He also co-authored the Academy Award nominated documentary, The Living Sea. Cahill lives in Montana, in the shadow of the Crazy Mountains.

Saturday, August 23rd
Charles Halpern

Making Waves This reading is cosponsored by Pt. Reyes Books and the New School at Commonweal. Halpern will be introduced by Michael Lerner, the President and Founder of Commonweal, who will also offer comments on some of the main themes of the book after Halpern's reading.

Charles Halpern is social entrepreneur and a pioneer in legal education, public interest advocacy, and philanthropy. The founder of the nation's first public interest law firm, and a major public interest law school, he ran the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and was the founder of Demos, a New York-based think tank. During his years of activism, he began to see ways to develop his inner resources to complement his cognitive and adversarial skill, a journey described in his book, Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom (Berrett-Koehler). This book illustrates the life-enhancing benefits of integrating a commitment to social justice with the cultivation of wisdom.

Saturday, October 4th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Is Ennybody Home?
Unlocking The Enneagram

A lively theatre presentation of the Nine Personality Types
Performed by Sheilah Glover

The Enneagram is an insightful map of the nine personality types derived from traditional Sufi ideas about spiritual transformation. Through clever and playful enactments, skits, and songs we glimpse who we are and how we see ourselves in this hilarious one-woman performance.
A fundraiser sponsored by Lucid Art Foundation and Pt. Reyes Books for the Gallery Route One Artists in the School program.
$15 – $35 sliding scale

Writers in the Schools Program
We are in a crisis of literacy. The National Endowment of the Arts reports that 15 -24 year olds spend seven minutes a day on voluntary reading. (The Week 12/7/07) Therefore, it is every community's challenge to sponsor access to good writing so that the young too can be moved, inspired, and guided by the great lights of literature, especially in a time when the values of the enlightenment are being tested. In this spirit, we want to institute a Writers in the School's program in West Marin so that practicing accomplished writers / large minded people can spend time with our kids to model and inspire writing as well as encourage perceptiveness, presence and attention in observing the world. Wallace Stegner noted that literature can enhance life when a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth: In his talks, he said," All a teacher can do is encourage the will to explore plus a few do's and don'ts of voyaging. These observations are recorded in (Italics, please) On the Teaching of Writing published by Dartmouth in 1988. He says: "Writing is not a function of intelligence or application. It is a function of gift. All any teacher can do is work with what is given. But I believe that everyone born should be given the best he is capable of and that many have undeveloped or obscured gifts that, like spores, will grow if they are given waters...Let young people begin with what moves them...and let them discover many things themselves. Through contact, students discover the love and uses of language, "its tools, techniques, strategies and stances and ways of getting at the narrative essence ... or the memorable ness of a poetically honed thought. " We believe that the conversation generated by practitioners and novices will yield enormous rewards, knowing that being touched by an authentic being opens us up and helps us inhabit large rather than small minds, open rather than closed ones. We want our students to claim their birthright, the practice of engaging their awareness, understanding, and take on life through the vehicle of language.

To this end, we propose to solicit applications from Northern California writers for a residency of two months in Point Reyes during which time the writer will give, in the spirit of Stegner, creative and environmental writing classes and workshops to middle school and high school classes in our area: West Marin, Tomales, Stinson -Bolinas, San Geronimo Valley, Tomales High. There will be workshop opportunities for West Marin home schoolers and high school students matriculated elsewhere. We will provide room board and a stipend as well as time to contemplate or actively write. At the end of the program, there will be readings at each of the schools and a West Marin Anthology which we hope will be the first of many. Applications will be available Summer 2008 for a Spring 2009 residency.

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