Book Club #1 Theme: PreservationWe are taking our month focused on the Preservation Pillar one step further by hosting our first Civic Advocates Book Club featuring our 2017 keynote speaker, Majora Carter!
Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One
We are excited to announce a very special treat: Majora will be tuned in for our virtual event so we can ask her questions directly! We will break into small groups to discuss the book, takeaways, and potential advocacy opportunities locally.
Participation
Book Club has a limited capacity of 30 attendees, please register below!
Civic Design Center members may participate for free
ONLY monthly donating members and Presidents’ Council members receive a free copy of Reclaiming Your Community. Start a monthly donation of at least $5 to get your free book—deadline is March 1, 2022.
Civic Advocates volunteers may participate for free
General Public may participate for $10
Book Club Outline
5:30 pm: Hear an Introduction from author, Majora Carter, herself!
5:40 pm: Q&A with Majora Carter
6:00 pm: Breakout Discussion Groups
6:45 pm: Group Takeaways and Local Advocacy Steps
More about the Civic Advocates Book Club
This will be a part of a yearlong effort to dive deeper into our Guiding Principles for Civic Design!
Each quarter, we will seek a volunteer to write a blog summarizing the book and the virtual discussion which will be posted on the website a week following the meeting. Even if you don’t have time to read the book and attend the conversation, you can still engage.
While You Read
Consider the Guiding Principles Pillar Theme for the quarter: Preservation
Identify 1-3 challenges that your community faces under the specific Pillar
Identify 1-3 precedents from the book for how to work towards achieving goals related the the corresponding Principles in your community
Advocacy Work
Following the Preservation theme book club, we will break out into small groups to discuss current events related to the associated Principles and whether or not there are actions we can take to work towards achieving any goals. If the group doesn’t know about any current events related to the Principle, they may spend the time researching around the topic to report back to the group.