Our summer picnic, originally schedule for June 29, is being postponed but here are some summer opportunities for fellowship and learning:
June 9, 7-9 p.m. on Zoom: WTB Book Club discusses We Had a Little Real Estate Problem. How Native Americans influenced and advanced art forms in the entertainment industry. Contact Jennifer Roberts-Crittenden for the Zoom link: 315 345 9217.
June 5, 12, 19, 26 (Thursdays) 6:30 – 7:30. Musicians are leading a drumming class at the Community Folk Art Center, 805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse. It’s open to anyone and some WTB members plan to attend. $10 per session.
June 19, 1 p.m. : Join your WTB friends for the June Schmai (lunch and conversation) at Kabab Guys, 3179 Erie Blvd E, Syracuse. We each order and pay for ourselves. This is your chance to try some yummy Mediterranean food. [And it is Juneteenth!]
June 27: The Rhythms of the Diaspora set for June 27, and listed in our newsletter at the Community Folk Art Center has been cancelled.
July 15, 7-9 p.m. on Zoom: WTB Book Club discussion of “The Henna Artist: A Novel.” Ten years in the making, author Alka Joshi said her mother was studying psychology in college when her father told her it was time to get married and introduced her to the man she was to marry.
“My mother never had the decision-making powers, but she gave me so much latitude, so much freedom. I wanted to give her that gift back,” Joshi told the New York Times. “I can’t change her life, but I can change it in fiction. I can create a character who leaves her marriage and goes off and finds herself and finds her destiny, and her financial and emotional independence. That’s where ‘The Henna Artist’ came from.”