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PubliCalendar: Crack the Code of Racial Inequity

Today's picks for civic nerds

By Darren Davis January 16, 2015

For Friday

Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity

Shakti Butler is a multiracial speaker, filmmaker, and founder of World Trust, a resource for education on issues surrounding racial diversity. She leads interactive workshops that strive to provide participants with the tools to develop strategies against racial inequity in everyday life.

Her workshops are of the mixed-media variety, often combining film, dialogue and the number one compassionate educator buzz word: deep listening. If the large number organizations that have hired Dr. Butler are any indication, there is something to these workshops.

Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity, Fri, Jan 16, 2pm, Seattle Central Library, 1000 Fourth Avenue, $30

For Friday (Extra Cal)

David Shields and Caleb Powell

"If you want to work on your art, work on your life," said prolific Russian author Anton Chekhov.

In I Think You're Totally Wrong, a collaboration from UW professor/nonfiction dynamo David Shields and former Shields graduate student/family man Caleb Powell, they debate the point: You can either work on your art or you can work on your life.

The book, which is actually a transcribed argument between Shields and Powell, features many other stand offs on the life versus art front, all played out in the spry, entertaining elegance of educated conversation.

The two appear together at Elliot Bay Book Company to presumably duke it out further.

David Shields and Caleb Powell, Fri, Jan 16, 7pm, Elliot Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Avenue, Free

For Saturday

Martin Luther King Jr. March

Honor the legacy of MLK a few days early with this march, organized by the Seattle department of parks and recreation. The march will begin at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park and end at the Rainier Community Center.

Martin Luther King Jr. March, Sat, Jan 17, 11am, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park, 200 Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Free

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