The Maine Humanities Council, a statewide non-profit organization and Maine’s affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is bringing together Mainers from across the state for its annual Readers Retreat.
The public book event is set from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 6, at the University of Maine’s Wells Conference Center, 131 Munson Road in Orono.
Readers Retreat also is being streamed live at two satellite locations — Scarborough High School and Cobscook Institute — as well as online via Zoom.
This year’s event is featuring “There There,” the national bestselling novel by Tommy Orange, as well as talks by three Indigenous writers: Julian Brave NoiseCat, Morgan Talty, and Brendan Shay Basham, according to a news release from the Maine Humanities Council.
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist and winner of the 2019 American Book Award, “There There” follows 12 characters from Native communities, all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Together, this chorus of urban Native American voices grapples with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism.
Tickets for Readers Retreat are being sold until March 31 and available at mainehumanities.org.
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