An Evening With Alix Dobkin
Saturday, March 13, 8:00-9:30pm
Charis Books and More

For her last 25 years as a professional folksinger, Alix Dobkin’s songs, albums, concerts, lectures and presentations have focused on women in general & lesbians in particular, frequently inspiring thought-provoking controversy. Alix will join us to read from her memoir, MY RED BLOOD: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement. You won’t want to miss a moment of this rare and intimate evening with a living legend!

Join Charis Books and More for a very special evening with historian Joe Gatins who chronicles his family’s remarkable history, including his great-grandfather who built and operated Atlanta’s famous Georgian Terrace Hotel and his French heiress grandmother, Egle Gatins, whose description of her own life between the wars in Paris gives the book its evocative title: We Were Dancing On a Volcano. In honor of women’s history month, Egle’s story will be the focus of Joe’s talk. Don’t miss this compelling discussion of the cross-currents of history and its effects on one Atlanta family.

Author (Between Two Worlds), activist, and social entrepreneur Zainab Salbi is the cofounder and president of Women for Women International. Since 1993, the organization has supported more than 120,000 women survivors of war. Salbi’s presentation is the keynote address for Emory University’s Women’s History Month sponsored by the Center for Women at Emory, with books provided by Charis.

Local author Peggy Vonsherie Allen will discuss The Pecan Orchard: Journey of a Sharecropper’s Daughter. This is the true story of the struggle, survival, and ultimate success of a large black family in south Alabama who, in the middle decades of the twentieth century, lifted themselves out of poverty to achieve the American dream of property ownership. Allen is the Deputy Director of Traffic and Engineering for DeKalb County.