We’ll meet to discuss "The Heart of Redness," a 2003 novel by a South
African writer, Zakes Mda. For more information and the Zoom link, email us at atlantapbkalumni@gmail.com

Time/Date: Saturday, May 20, at 7:00-9:00 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30. Seating is first come, first served.)

Location: Manuel’s Tavern, 602 North Highland Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307

RSVP: First, reserve a spot on the event organizer’s ticket page: www.meetup.com/atlantasciencetavern/events/293308183

Second, RSVP to pbkatlanta@yahoo.com by May 19 with your name and telephone number. The day of the event, we will email a reminder that includes pictures of our PBK event host and co-host and their contact info so you can find our group at the event.

Event Description:

The Metropolitan Atlanta Alumni Association of Phi Beta Kappa invites you to our monthly "PBK Members' Mingle" event for May.

Join your fellow PBK members for a free Atlanta Science Tavern event at Manuel's Tavern. Tanjuria Willis will be giving a talk, “Are My Clothes Killing Me? The Battle between Fast and Slow Fashion.” The fashion industry is one of the largest contributors to global warming, creating greenhouse gas emissions that exceed both aviation and shipping. Textile pollution is the #2 pollutant to the landfill (right behind oil). The discussion will explore the difference between fast and slow fashion as well as solutions on what we can do differently.

The featured speaker, Tanjuria Willis, is the founder and creative force behind Atlanta Sustainable Fashion Week (ATSFW), and owner of eKlozet Luxury Consignment Boutique.

Time/Date: Wednesday, April 12 at 7pm 

Location: Decatur Library, 215 Sycamore Street, Decatur, GA 30030 (followed by drinks at Leon's one block away)

RSVP: Please RSVP with the Georgia Center for the Book https://www.eventbrite.com/e/half-life-of-a-secret-emily-strasser-in-conversation-with-hannah-palmer-tickets-567130290967

Please also RSVP to pbkatlanta@yahoo.com by April 11 with your name, telephone number, and number of people (come alone or bring a friend)

Event Description:

Join your fellow PBK members on for a literary event hosted by the Georgia Center for the Book at the Decatur Library followed by some convivial discussion over drinks at Leon’s just a block away. 

The Georgia Center for the Book presents an evening with authors Emily Strasser and Hannah Palmer in conversation about Strasser’s debut book Half-Life Of A Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History in which she exposes the toxic legacies of the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee—political, environmental, and personal—that forever polluted her family, a community, the nation, and the world. Sifting through archives and family memories and traveling to the deserts of Nevada and the living rooms of Hiroshima, she grapples with the far-reaching ramifications of her grandfather's work.

Please note that the Georgia Center for the Book strongly encourages that masks be worn for the duration of this event.

Location: Moe's and Joe's, 1033 North Highland Ave NE, Atlanta, 30306

RSVP: pbkatlanta@yahoo.com by February 28. Include your name, telephone number, and number of people (come alone or bring a friend).

We will assemble our team(s) at 7 p.m. Trivia starts at 8 p.m.

Our organization will provide snacks, but drinks are on your own.

The event is open to all members who have paid their dues for 2023 (on or after January 1, 2023). If you graduated within the last three years, your membership is free. (If you are eligible for free membership, please include your college and induction year when you RSVP for events.)

Team Trivia info: https://teamtrivia.com/locations/location.php?loc_ID=28763

We will be discussing Damon Galgut's "The Promise," winner of the 2021 Booker Prize.  Hope you can join us! Email us for the Zoom link.

We'll join other area book clubs to discuss Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" as part of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Foundations's One Book, One Read event. Email us for more information.

We’ll meet to discuss Abdulrazak Gurnah’s "Paradise" - email us to be added to our email list and get the Zoom link.

Join us for our discussion of Brandon Taylor’s “Real Life: A Novel,” nominated for the 2020 Booker Prize. We meet via Zoom - email for details.

Join us for our discussion of Lola Shoneyin's "The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives" via Zoom. Email us for more information.

We are completing reading Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions trilogy, with the third book, "This Mournable Body," which was nominated for the 2020 Booker Prize. It picks up right where the second book, "The Book of Not," leaves off, but don't be deterred if you haven't read the other two (the first one is "Nervous Conditions.") Email us for the Zoom link.

We’re discussing “Nervous Conditions” by Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga via Zoom. Email us for Zoom link.

Join us for a virtual happy hour hosted in conjunction with the annual Phi Beta Kappa Key Connections programming series. Free but registration required. Tickets at www.eventbrite.com/e/pbk-atlanta-key-connections-virtual-panel-discussion-tickets-116123539633