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With authors Susan Crawford, Astra Taylor, Micah Sifry & Alissa Quart.
Tue, Apr 28, 2015 @ 08:30 AM   FREE   Civic Hall, 156 Fifth Ave, 2nd Fl
 
     
 
 
              

    
 
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<P STYLE="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: gotham-book, Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Civic Hall is a new home for civic technology in New York City that opened in February 2016. We are a beautiful, vibrant community center and event space where anyone interested in making the world a better place using technology and social innovation can come together to collaborate, connect and solve civic problems at scale. We seek to celebrate and elevate our growing community of change-makers, organizations, entrepreneurs, government employees, engineers, academics, journalists, hackers, organizers, artists and more... <BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: gotham-book, Arial; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">We're thrilled feature the published authors in our community with our first BOOK DAY! Join us for an all day celebration. <BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: gotham-book, Arial; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">CIVIC HALL BOOK DAY<BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.38; font-family: gotham-book, Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">8:30 AM - Breakfast with </SPAN><STRONG STYLE="line-height: 1.38; font-family: gotham-book, Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Susan Crawford,</STRONG><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.38; font-family: gotham-book, Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> author of </SPAN><EM STYLE="line-height: 1.38; font-family: gotham-book, Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Captive Audience</EM><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.38; font-family: gotham-book, Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> and </SPAN><EM STYLE="line-height: 1.38; font-family: gotham-book, Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Responsive City<BR><BR></EM><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;">12:00 PM - Lunch with </SPAN><STRONG STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;">Astra Taylor</STRONG><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;">, author of </SPAN><EM STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;">The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age<BR><BR></EM><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;">2:00 PM - Unconference Sessions for Civic Hall Member Authors - </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: gotham-book, Arial; color: #2f85ff; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><A STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.9400005340576px; text-decoration: none;" HREF="https://docs.google.com/a/civichall.org/forms/d/1cM6elcE3chlqWY17dqZKc0srasdVipsFRyoJeFboslk/viewform" REL="nofollow">fill out this form<BR><BR></A></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;">5:00 PM - Book Talk with </SPAN><STRONG STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;">Micah L. Sifry</STRONG><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;">, author of </SPAN><EM STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;">The Big Disconnect, Why the Internet Hasn't Transformed Politics (Yet)</EM><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;"> discussing the </SPAN><EM STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;">how </EM><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;">of writing a book.<BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;">6:00 PM - 7:30 PM - Poetry in the Cafe and Happy Hour featuring </SPAN><STRONG STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;">Alissa Quart</STRONG><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;">, author of </SPAN><EM STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;">Monetized<BR><BR></EM><SPAN STYLE="font-family: gotham-book, Arial; line-height: 17.9400005340576px; white-space: pre-wrap;">CIVIC HALL BOOK DRIVE<BR><BR></SPAN><STRONG STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;">Donate</STRONG><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: gotham-book, Arial;"> your civic tech and social innovation books to our Civic Hall Library. We are the place where great ideas - and books - have a home. </SPAN></P>
 
 
 
 
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