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SUMMARY:Empowering Equity Conference
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our 2023 Empowering Equity Conference. Over the course of five half-day virtual workshops\, learn how your business\, organization\, or non-profit can engage more thoughtfully and effectively with staff\, clients\, and the community in an increasingly global and intercultural society. \nThe United States is in the midst of a demographic shift in the workplace. With a more diverse workforce and customer-base\, intercultural competency and comprehensive diversity\, equity\, and inclusion programs are essential. These will ensure the success and effective management of organizations and businesses\, and they uplift communities. \nThis online event will feature speakers and workshop leaders in the fields of Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion\, Law Enforcement\, Human Resources\, and Healthcare. \nThe Empowering Equity Conference will be offered as virtual half-day offerings starting Wednesday\, February 22\, 2023 through Wednesday\, March 22\, 2023 from 1–4 pm EST.
URL:https://pearlsbuck.org/event/empowering-equity-conference/2023-03-01/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Special Events,Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Memoir Writing Class - Virtual
DESCRIPTION:This class will guide you towards centering on one segment of your life and turning it into a compelling story\, whether your goal is to share it with family and friends or to publish it for a wider audience. Each session includes time to practice writing that month’s lesson and to give and receive gentle\, constructive feedback. Between class sessions\, you will also have the opportunity to discuss articles on memoir writing and to share your writing with other students and the instructor for a more comprehensive response. Linda C. Wisniewski writes about life and the connections we make by giving each other the space and time to be heard. A former feature writer and columnist for the Bucks County Herald and the Bucks County Women’s Journal\, Linda’s work has been published widely in literary magazines\, newspapers and anthologies and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the author of the memoir\, Off Kilter\, published by Pearlsong Press\, and a novel\, Where the Stork Flies\, published by Sand Hill Review Press. More about her at http://www.lindawis.com. \n$200 registration fee \nWe have a 2-step Registration Process for ALL of our Classes. \n1) Please send Cindy Louden your complete address & your Home/Cell Phone\, \n2) When I receive that information\, I will forward your information to our PSB Volunteer Association\, Nancy McElwee\, who will call you asking for your credit card information to process and return a receipt.
URL:https://pearlsbuck.org/event/memoir-writing-class-virtual/2023-03-06/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event,Writing Center
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SUMMARY:Empowering Equity Conference
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our 2023 Empowering Equity Conference. Over the course of five half-day virtual workshops\, learn how your business\, organization\, or non-profit can engage more thoughtfully and effectively with staff\, clients\, and the community in an increasingly global and intercultural society. \nThe United States is in the midst of a demographic shift in the workplace. With a more diverse workforce and customer-base\, intercultural competency and comprehensive diversity\, equity\, and inclusion programs are essential. These will ensure the success and effective management of organizations and businesses\, and they uplift communities. \nThis online event will feature speakers and workshop leaders in the fields of Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion\, Law Enforcement\, Human Resources\, and Healthcare. \nThe Empowering Equity Conference will be offered as virtual half-day offerings starting Wednesday\, February 22\, 2023 through Wednesday\, March 22\, 2023 from 1–4 pm EST.
URL:https://pearlsbuck.org/event/empowering-equity-conference/2023-03-08/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Special Events,Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Empowering Equity Conference
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our 2023 Empowering Equity Conference. Over the course of five half-day virtual workshops\, learn how your business\, organization\, or non-profit can engage more thoughtfully and effectively with staff\, clients\, and the community in an increasingly global and intercultural society. \nThe United States is in the midst of a demographic shift in the workplace. With a more diverse workforce and customer-base\, intercultural competency and comprehensive diversity\, equity\, and inclusion programs are essential. These will ensure the success and effective management of organizations and businesses\, and they uplift communities. \nThis online event will feature speakers and workshop leaders in the fields of Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion\, Law Enforcement\, Human Resources\, and Healthcare. \nThe Empowering Equity Conference will be offered as virtual half-day offerings starting Wednesday\, February 22\, 2023 through Wednesday\, March 22\, 2023 from 1–4 pm EST.
URL:https://pearlsbuck.org/event/empowering-equity-conference/2023-03-15/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Special Events,Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Guild
DESCRIPTION:The Pearl S. Buck Writing Center’s Writers Guild will zoom meet on the 3rd Sundays\, monthly from March 19th through October 15th\, from 1-3 pm to share and critique our writing work-in-progress. In a friendly atmosphere\, we encourage\, support and challenge our adult writers to improve\, whether they are experienced writers or beginners. All genres of literature are welcome from novels and short fiction to memoirs\, essays and poetry by all levels of writers. \nVisit our blog at www.psbwritingcenter.org  become a follower and you’ll receive an email notification of any new blog posts. Many past issues of our Pearl S. Buck Literary Journal – containing writing in a wide variety of genres – can be accessed from our blog. \nRegistered Guild members must send writings for editing consideration and distribution to lindadonaldson@verizon.net 2 weeks prior to our meetings so all attendees can read and be prepared to discuss. Please consult our blog at psbwritingcenter.org for more details. On behalf of all the editors\, we welcome your participation and look forward to meeting you this Spring at our March 20th Zoom meeting from 1-3pm.  Keep writing! \nThe Writers Guild Editors \nLinda Donaldson – lindadonaldson@verizon.net \nCynthia L. Louden – cllouden@verizon.net \nDr. Anne K. Kaler – akkaler@verizon.net \nSusan E. Wagner – swagner001@gmail.com \n$80 registration fee. \nTo register or for more information\, please contact Cindy Louden at 267-421-6203 or clouden@verizon.net. \nThere is a 2-step Registration process:  Cindy needs 1) your request for registration\, 2) Name\, Email\, Cell #\, complete address.  She will send that information to Nancy McElwee\, PSBVA Gift Shop Manager\, who will call you for your credit card information.
URL:https://pearlsbuck.org/event/writers-guild/2023-03-19/
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion Group - FREE
DESCRIPTION:All classes will meet online via Zoom\n3rd Mondays\, 7-8:30 pm\nJanuary 16 – The Living Reed: History of Korea that Pearl suggested to JFK at White House Dinner\nFebruary 20 – Imperial Woman: Last empress of China who Pearl greatly admired.\nMarch 20 – Peony: Love story of Jewish life in Chi\nApril 17 –The Eternal Wonder: most recently found in storage locker – biography of a brilliant genius. \nJune In-Person Discussion – Date TBD: The Exile & Fighting Angel: two biographical novels about her parents \nFor more information\, email facilitator Cindy Louden\, clouden@pearlsbuck.org. You don’t have to have read the book to enjoy the discussions. Wonderful information can be gathered from Pearl’s novels\, her non-fiction\, and from her biographers for anyone who wants to know and share about “our Pearl.”
URL:https://pearlsbuck.org/event/book-discussion-group-free/2023-03-20/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event,Writing Center
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SUMMARY:Empowering Equity Conference
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our 2023 Empowering Equity Conference. Over the course of five half-day virtual workshops\, learn how your business\, organization\, or non-profit can engage more thoughtfully and effectively with staff\, clients\, and the community in an increasingly global and intercultural society. \nThe United States is in the midst of a demographic shift in the workplace. With a more diverse workforce and customer-base\, intercultural competency and comprehensive diversity\, equity\, and inclusion programs are essential. These will ensure the success and effective management of organizations and businesses\, and they uplift communities. \nThis online event will feature speakers and workshop leaders in the fields of Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion\, Law Enforcement\, Human Resources\, and Healthcare. \nThe Empowering Equity Conference will be offered as virtual half-day offerings starting Wednesday\, February 22\, 2023 through Wednesday\, March 22\, 2023 from 1–4 pm EST.
URL:https://pearlsbuck.org/event/empowering-equity-conference/2023-03-22/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Special Events,Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Top Secret: A Virtual Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Meet Our Curator and Discuss Top Secret: The FBI File of Pearl S. Buck\n\nFor Women’s History Month\, Pearl S. Buck International is launching a new virtual exhibit on Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer\, humanitarian\, and activist Pearl S. Buck. Join us the evening of Wednesday\, March 29 for a virtual discussion and Q&A with Samantha Freise\, Pearl S. Buck House and virtual exhibit curator. Go more in-depth with Freise on how Pearl caught the attention of the FBI and what she did about it\, and pick the brain of Freise\, our resident Pearl S. Buck expert\, on the topic. This complimentary event should prove to be interesting\, thought-provoking\, and enlightening. Please register below – we look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://pearlsbuck.org/event/top-secret-a-virtual-discussion/
LOCATION:Online
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