22 | 23 - Bozeman Writers Group
6:00 PM-8:00 PM January 23, 2023 511 W Mendenhall St. Bozeman, MT 59715 Join Bozeman’s Writers Group for a workshop-style meeting where you will receive feedback (and give feedback in return) from a variety of writers on both what is working about your piece and what is not. The Bozeman Writers Group meets every Monday, 6:00 PM at Isle of Books in Bozeman, 511 W. Mendenhall.
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 - Meet Mark Johnson, Author of The Middle Kingdom Under the Big Sky!
5:00 PM-6:30 PM January 27, 2023 43 East Broadway, Butte MT 59701 From the earliest days of non-Native settlement of Montana, when Chinese immigrants made up more than 10 percent of the territory’s population, Chinese pioneers played a key role in the region’s development. But this population, so crucial to Montana’s history, remains underrepresented in historical accounts, and popular attention to the Chinese in Montana tends to focus on sensational elements—exoticizing Chinese Montanans and distancing their experiences from our modern understanding. The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky recovers the stories of Montana’s Chinese population in their own words and deepens understanding of Chinese experiences in Montana with a global lens. Mark Johnson will be at Isle of Books on Friday January 27 from 5-6:30pm, and will be speaking at 5:30 about how Chinese pioneers played a key role in Montana’s development. Navigating life in this new land, Montana’s Chinese residents gained comfort through the continuation of their spiritual and cultural practices. Yet, publicly practicing cultural traditions invited unwanted attention from anti-Chinese forces who sought to expel the Chinese from the region. Mark Johnson will detail how Chinese Montanans achieved cultural continuity and togetherness through these practices while resisting tensions and threats from their detractors
| 28 - Jean C. O’Connor at Isle of Books in Bozeman!
12:00 PM-3:00 PM January 28, 2023 511 W Mendenhall St. Bozeman, MT 59715 Join us in welcoming Helena author Jean C. O’Connor, Saturday, January 28th from 12:00 to 3:00 pm at Isle of Books in Bozeman and get your signed copy of “The Remarkable Cause: A Novel of James Lovell and the Crucible of the Revolution.”
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