A COMPLETE LIST OF PAST FOLIO PROGRAMS FICTION, PHILOSOPHY AND POETRY GROUPS
2020
09.29 MUSIC: Literary Inspiration in Opera: Verdi & Wagner
09.23 AUTHORS: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
09.21 AUTHORS: The Apocalypse Factory by Steve Olson
09.21 ELECTIONS 2020: The Economy As An Election Issue
09.21 Shared Inquiry for Book Discussion Groups
09.17 NOTIS: Meet the Translator: Lola Rogers
09.16 LITERATURE: Un-book Discussion Group
09.14 LITERATURE: Reading Walden In The Time of Covid with Barry Andrews
08.20 NOTIS: Meet the Translator Shelly Fairweather-Vega
08.26 AUTHORS: Sula by Toni Morrison
08.13 ELECTIONS 2020: Race, Protests and Politics
08.04 LITERATURE: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
07.29 AUTHORS: The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel
07.22 AUTHORS: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
07.20 AUTHORS: Quitter - A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse and Recovery with Erica Barnett
07.15 LITERATURE: Un-book Discussion Group
07.06 ELECTIONS 2020: Foreign Policy
06.25 ELECTIONS 2020: Donald Trump
06.17 LITERATURE: Un-book Discussion Group
06.10 LITERATURE: Elektra - Euripides Oxford World Classic
06.01 LITERATURE: Un-book Discussion Group
05.26 ELECTIONS 2020: Overview with David Domke
05.11 Shared Inquiry for Book Discussion Groups
05.01 Shared Inquiry for Book Discussion Groups
04.08 House Made of Dawn by Scott Momaday
04.08 Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson
02.21 PANEL: Seattle Area Archivists: Leveraging Business Archives
02.20 NOTIS: The Untranslatable: A Talk with Allison deFreese
02.11 WRITING: The Romance of Travel Writing
02.04 MUSIC: Fulton St. Chamber Players
01.24 MUSIC: Seattle Modern Orchestra: Inside Out
01.23 AUTHORS: Knute Berger and Mary Ann Gwinn: "Seattle, Past to Present"
01.16 NOTIS: Literary Translation Feedback Forum
01.15 LITERATURE: The Art of Translation
2018
12.20 NOTIS: Translating Comics and Graphic Novels
11.15 NOTIS: Literary Translation Feedback Forum
11.14 FOLIO VOICES: Barry M. Andrews on Thoreau Lives!
11.07 FOLIO VOICES: Paul Dorpat and Jean Sherrard on Now and Then
10.29 AUTHORS: James Mustich in conversation with Mary Ann Gwinn
10.25 FOLIO VOICES: Lisa Herbold and Matthew Richter on Saving Cultural Spaces
10.23 FORUM: Allied Arts Beer and Culture: Lessons From the Showbox
10.22 MUSIC: Fulton Street Chamber Players
10.18 NOTIS: Conference Prep for Literary Translations
10.16 FOLIO VOICES: Bob Peterson and Tony Angell on Unforgettable Images
10.03 FOLIO VOICES: Bruce Chapman and Mort Kondracke on "Politicians"
10.02 FOLIO VOICES: Bruce Ramsey and David Brewster on "The Panic of 1893"
09.25 FORUM: The Perilous Quest for a new Relationship with Russia
09.18 AUTHORS: New Light on The Great Gatsby with Kendall Taylor
05.08 LECTURE: Protest on Trial: Kit Bakke
04.23 MUSIC: Fulton Street Chamber Players
04.19 NOTIS: Self Publishing
04.04 AUTHORS: Seattle on the Eve of the White Arrival
03.27 FORUM: How the Senate (Once) Worked for the Public Good
03.20 AUTHORS: Built to Last: How Companies Endure
03.15 NOTIS: Literary Translation Feedback Forum
03.13 LECTURE: Shakespeare's Shylock
02.28 FORUM: How to Handle Russia: Keep Calm and Carry On
02.21 Fulbright Talks: Stories by Fulbrighters
02.20 LECTURE: A Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin
02.15 NOTIS: Translation for the Opera
02.15 FORUM: The Impossible Presidency and Foreign Policy: From Washington to Trump
02.01 AUTHORS: The Limits of Presidential Power
01.30 MUSIC: Fulton Street Chamber Players: Mozart and Ravel
01.26 AUTHORS: The Climate Case for Nuclear Power
01.18 NOTIS: Literary Translation Tools and Tech
2016
12.20 AUTHORS: Dead Feminists: Alive and Well
12.13 DANCE: SeattleDances' Dance CHAT
12.09 FORUM: We Told You So: Comics as Art
12.08 NOTIS: Literary Translator Meetup
11.17 FORUM: Egypt's First Capital at Hierakonpolis with Dr. Renée Friedman
11.15 FORUM: Coping with Trump: Civic Therapy Session
11.09 FORUM: Cleopatra's Pearls: Trade and Adornment in Roman Egypt
11.05 LECTURE: Reclaiming Conversation with Author Sherry Turkle
10.27 FORUM: Lit Crawl Seattle
10.25 FORUM: Kondracke and Merry: Shaking the Political Foundations
10.18 MUSIC: Fulton Street Chamber Players: Haydn and Beethoven
10.17 The Northwest Sublime: A Literary/Musical Salute to Moss, a New NW Journal
10.12 FORUM: Solving King Tut's Death
10.05 MUSIC: A Piano-Warming Concert with Judith Cohen
09.28 FORUM: Shaking Up Seattle Media
09.27 MUSIC: Diane Thome, Pioneer Composer
09.21 AUTHORS: Novelist, Amor Towles
09.14 LECTURE: Contesting Egypt's Antiquities
09.13 FORUM: Colombia's New Path
08.25 FORUM: Cyberwarfare, Russia, and the CIA
08.03 AUTHORS: Who Was Chief Seattle?
07.14 FORUM: Brexit, Trump, and Populism
07.07 MUSIC: Musical Preview of Seattle Chamber Music Festival
06.29 FORUM: Citizen Activism in the Age of Bernie
06.23 AUTHORS: The World of the Makahs
06.22 MUSIC: Beethoven & Dvorak with the Fulton Street Chamber Players
06.16 Transforming Oregon's Politics
06.14 AUTHORS: How Government Shapes Prosperity
05.24 AUTHORS: Gender Equity in the Workplace
05.12 AUTHORS: The American Style of Assassination
05.05 FORUM: Getting a Good Job after College
04.29 POETRY: Poets Three
04.20 AUTHORS: The Comma Queen
04.14 AUTHORS: Secular Faith and American Politics
04.13 AUTHORS: Memoir of a Sherpa
03.30 AUTHORS: FDR’s Conservation Legacy
03.15 MUSIC: Fulton Street Chamber Players: All Mozart
03.14 AUTHORS: Opus Next: Douglas Smith on his new biography of Rasputin
03.10 FORUM: Sizing up Scalia
02.18 AUTHORS: The Saga of Lewis G. Clarke, Born a ‘White’ Slave
01.30 MUSIC: Beethoven in China
2019
12.19 NOTIS: Poetry Translation Workshop
11.22 AUTHORS: Elaine Sciolino THE SEINE: The River That Made Paris
11.21 NOTIS: True Crime - A True Translation Story
11.20 WRITING: Nonfiction Panel Discussion
11.19 MUSIC: Fulton Street Chamber Players
11.18 WRITING: Your Literary Archive: For Writers
11.14 AUTHORS: Roland De Wolk: American Disruptor. The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford.
11.13 ART: 1845: Memento Mori - Paula Stokes
11.12 FORUM: Democracy in Danger. The United States
10.22 AUTHORS: Brian Eyler: Last Days of the Mighty Mekong
10.21 FORUM: Democracy in Danger. The Middle East.
10.17 NOTIS: Literary Translation Feedback Forum
10.17 LECTURE: Christine Hemp: From Homer to #hashtags: Our Changing Language
10.10 LECTURE: Mayumi Tsutakawa: Washington’s Undiscovered Feminists
10.03 LECTURE: Feliks Banel: Storm Warning
09.27 Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
09.26 NOTIS: Mercedes Guhl
06.27 Chronicles of the Pike Place Market and Prohibition-era Seattle
06.20 NOTIS: Editing Literary Translations
06.18 FOLIO FORUM: Democracy in Danger. Europe and Russia
06.15 LITERATURE: Bloomsday at Folio: Joyce Rocks
06.12 AUTHORS: Tara Conklin - The Last Romantics. In conversation with Laurie Frankel
06.11 MUSIC: Fulton St. Chamber Players: Brahms and Schubert
05.21 AUTHORS: Thomas Bird, MD- Can You Help Me?: Inside the Turbulent World of Huntington Disease
05.14 FORUM: Democracy in Danger. The China Challenge
05.07 MUSIC: Schubert's "Die Winterreise"
04.30 MUSIC: Paul Taub: Landscape with Birds
04.25 FORUM: Democracy in Danger. How the International Order is Veering to Authoritarianism
04.18 NOTIS: Lyn Coffin Lecture
04.10 MUSIC: Fulton St. Chamber Players: Schubert and Beethoven
04.03 Tough Cases: When Judges Are On the Hot Seat
04.02 Kevin Ticen: The Forgotten Story of America's First Stanley Cup Champions
03.28 Fulbright Talks: Stories by Fulbrighters
03.26 Jean Godden: A Rich Seattle Life
03.25 Beyond the Borders: How Foreign Correspondents Navigate an Increasingly Hostile World
03.22 Working Without a Net - The Art of Improvisation. Alexander Weimann, Harpsichord
03.21 NOTIS: Spring Translation Slam
03.13 The International Women of Courage Awardee: Moumina Houssein Darar
02.27 AUTHORS: Karen Treiger - My Soul is Filled with Joy
02.21 NOTIS: Literary Translation Feedback Forum
01.30 AUTHORS: Murray Morgan, Master Storyteller of the Pacific Northwest
01.18 MUSIC: Seattle Modern Orchestra Songs of Echoes
01.17 NOTIS: Translation and its Publics
01.11 MUSIC: Musical Dialogues: Stories Without Words
2017
12.21 NOTIS: Literary Translation Feedback Forum
11.30 AUTHORS: Words of Wisdom and Warning from the Founders
11.16 AUTHORS: Tom Cronin on American's Leading Political Novelists
11.15 AUTHORS: Robert W. Merry: Why U.S. Presidents Succeed or Fail
11.14 LECTURE: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Impacts in Seattle: Think Globally, Act Locally
11.08 NOTIS: Roundtable on Education for Literary Translation
10.26 AUTHORS: Jim Compton: Broadcast Sagas and Modoc Wars
10.11 AUTHORS: Blaine Harden: Korea and the King of American Spies
10.02 MUSIC: Fulton St. Chamber Players: Sibelius and Haydn
10.01 WRITING: Iowa's International Writing Program on Tour
09.28 FORUM: The Seattle Budget: A Looming Crisis
09.27 LECTURE: Revelations from a Downtown Seattle Walk
09.21 NOTIS: Happy Hour and Reading Night
09.14 LECTURE: Steven Clifford on Outrageous Salaries for CEOs
09.13 AUTHORS: Revival of Seattle's Left: Rosenblum and Sawant
09.12 AUTHORS: Hubert Locke on the Detroit Riots
07.20 FORUM: Former Seattle Mayors Play Pundit
06.16 LITERATURE: Bloomsday Reading of James Joyce's Ulysses
06.15 NOTIS: Poetry, Translation, & Grants
06.15 FORUM: Folio & Co: Brady Walkinshaw and Bill Ruckelshaus: The Trump Challenge to Environmentalism
06.07 AUTHORS: A Japanese-American Artist Documents His Life in U.S. Detention Camps
06.01 LECTURE: Seattle Politics: The Tim Burgess Years
05.30 AUTHORS: Watergate: Vu and Deja Vu
05.25 AUTHORS: Folio & Co: Designing a Better Seattle
05.18 NOTIS: Literary Translation Publisher's Panel
05.08 AUTHORS: The Worldwide Costs of Childhood Hunger: Roger Thurow on "The First 1,000 Days"
04.26 FORUM: When Britannia Ruled the Northwest
04.25 FORUM: KNKX Community Meeting in Seattle
04.20 NOTIS: Spring Translation Slam
04.18 MUSIC: Fulton Street Chamber Players: Haydn and Dvorak
04.01 ART: Introduction to Bookbinding Workshop
03.31 FILM: 'A Fanatic Heart' Film Screening
03.30 LECTURE: Folio & Co. Making History: A Tale of Two Seattle Websites
03.29 FORUM: The State of Arts Criticism in Seattle
03.24 AUTHORS: Northwest Novelist Chevy Stevens on "Never Let You Go"
03.22 AUTHORS: Science Writer Steve Olson: The Risky Northwest
03.21 AUTHORS: Howard French on "How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power"
03.09 AUTHORS: Geoffrey Cowan on Presidential Primaries
03.08 AUTHORS: Historian Coll Thrush: The Transformative Native Presence in Seattle and London
03.02 AUTHORS: John B. Judis on Populism
03.01 LECTURE: Folio & Co. with Seattle Rep
03.01 FORUM: World Affairs Council: Fulbright Talks
02.21 AUTHORS: Simon McCartney: The Bond
02.16 NOTIS: Literary Translation: Pitch Perfect
02.15 UW Stroum Center's 2017 Jewish Studies Community Learning Fellowship
01.26 FORUM: Our Waters, Our Home
01.19 AUTHORS: Bob Roseth: The Laugh's on U
01.19 NOTIS: Feedback Forum for Literary Translators
01.17 MUSIC: Fulton Street Chamber Players Serve Up a Trout
01.12 AUTHORS: Charles Johnson on the Art of Storytelling
01.11 FORUM: Irish Network Seattle: Discussion with Dara Murphy, T.D.
01.10 MUSIC: The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen
2015
12.16 AUTHORS: Opus Next: Claire Dederer on her forthcoming memoir
11.18 AUTHORS: Knute Berger
10.28 AUTHORS: Lynda Mapes
10.27 AUTHORS: Book Launch Party: Christopher T. Bayley
10.22 FORUM: Lit Crawl Seattle
08.26 AUTHORS: Morton Kondrake
07.22 AUTHORS: Robert W. Merry