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Main Event: Many Voices With Jade Dellinger & David Giffels

Authors of "The Beginning Was the End: Devo in Ohio"

2023-10-23 18:30:00 2023-10-23 20:00:00 America/New_York Main Event: Many Voices With Jade Dellinger & David Giffels The Main Event: Many Voices series returns with four captivating speakers sharing their stories and their most recent work. This month's speakers David Giffels and Jade Dellinger join us to talk Devo! Main Library - Auditorium

Monday, October 23
6:30pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-10-23 18:30:00 2023-10-23 20:00:00 America/New_York Main Event: Many Voices With Jade Dellinger & David Giffels The Main Event: Many Voices series returns with four captivating speakers sharing their stories and their most recent work. This month's speakers David Giffels and Jade Dellinger join us to talk Devo! Main Library - Auditorium

Main Library

Auditorium

The Main Event: Many Voices series returns with four captivating speakers sharing their stories and their most recent work. This month's speakers David Giffels and Jade Dellinger join us to talk Devo!

Co-authors Giffels and Dellinger come together with longtime friend Bob Ethington for a moderated discussion to share their rock biography "The Beginning Was the End: Devo in Ohio"

Jade Dellinger is director of the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida Southwestern State College where he has curated shows, commissioned installations, hosted lectures, and held performances with artists including the Guerilla Girls, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, the Go-Go's Jane Wiedlin, and Devo's Gerald Casale. He first invited Mark Mothersbaugh to the Sunshine State in 1999 for a project with the Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa, but most recently world-premiered the Devo frontman's "POSTCARDS FOR DEMOCRACY" exhibition (with collaborator Beatie Wolfe) at the Rauschenberg Gallery in 2021.

David Giffels is the author of six books of nonfiction, most recently "Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America" (Hachette Books 2020), one of Library Journal’s Best Books of 2020. His other books include the memoirs "Furnishing Eternity" (Scribner 2018) and "All the Way Home" (William Morrow 2008), both winners of the Ohioana Book Award, and "The Hard Way on Purpose" (Scribner 2014), a New York Times Book Review "Editors' Choice." His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Parade, The Iowa Review, Esquire, Grantland, and many other publications. He is professor of English at the University of Akron and serves on the faculty of the NEOMFA creative writing program.

Bob Ethington: Acting as moderator, longtime friend Bob Ethington, formerly the manager of the Culture & AV Division at Main Library, hosts a weekly podcast for The Summit 91.3 FM called "From Akron and Beyond," which is about local music, artists, writers, and more, including interviews and music selections. As a retired librarian, Bob keeps busy as a podcast host and drummer.

If you wish to purchase a Main Event: Many Voices speaker's recently released title during their event, you will find The Friends of Main Library located in the Atrium before and after each event. Author book signing will follow each event located in the hallway beside the auditorium.

Titles available for purchase courtesy of the Friends of Main Library:

September 25: "The First Ladies" by Victoria Christopher Murray and Marie Benedict

October 23: "The Beginning Was the End: Devo in Ohio," new edition by David Giffels and Jade Dellinger

November 6: "Wednesday's Child" by Yiyun Li

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served. Auditorium doors will open at 6 pm for early seating. If you have any questions, please contact the Culture & AV Division by phone at 330.643.9015 or email at cadiv@akronlibrary.org.

Main Library

Phone: 330.643.9000
Branch manager
Michael Bianchi

Hours
Mon, Dec 11 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Tue, Dec 12 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Dec 13 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Thu, Dec 14 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Fri, Dec 15 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Dec 16 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Dec 17 1:00PM to 5:00PM

About the branch

Main Library, located in the heart of downtown Akron, combines compelling public space with meaningful and relevant public library services for all members of our community. Since opening in 2004, the downtown library welcomes more than one million visitors each year.

Subject divisions include: Business, Government & Science, Culture & AV, Magazines & Newspapers, Special Collections (local history & genealogy), TechZone@Main, Teen, and a 12,000 square feet Children's Library.

Special services available at Main Library include: a Patent & Trademark Resource Center; U.S. Passport and Notary services; a Microbusiness Center; a Maker Space; a resource lab for early childhood educators; and regularly scheduled computer training classes. Also available at Main Library are more than 125 public access computers, color photocopiers/printers, laminating, scanning, faxing, and free Wi-Fi.

Specialized spaces include a 425-seat auditorium, public meeting rooms, and a used bookstore. An interior glass block walkway leads to a 600-space parking garage owned by the City of Akron. An outdoor amphitheater and landscaped park complete the complex.

Upcoming Events

Sun, Dec 10, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
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Mon, Dec 11, 10:30am - 11:00am
Children's Library Programming Room

Wed, Dec 13, 10:30am - 11:00am
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Thu, Dec 14, 3:00pm - 4:45pm
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Thu, Dec 14, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
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Sun, Dec 17, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
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Mon, Dec 18, 10:30am - 11:00am
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Microbusiness Center

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Auditorium

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Thu, Dec 28, 10:30am - 11:00am
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Thu, Dec 28, 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Quiet Study Room 1

Thu, Dec 28, 1:00pm - 7:00pm
Microbusiness Center

Thu, Dec 28, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Auditorium

Tue, Jan 02, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
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Wed, Jan 03, 10:30am - 11:00am
Children's Library Programming Room
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Thu, Jan 04, 1:00pm - 7:00pm
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Thu, Jan 04, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
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Thu, Jan 04, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Auditorium

Mon, Jan 08, 10:30am - 11:30am
Children's Library Programming Room

Mon, Jan 08, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Registration opens Tuesday, December 12 2023 at 12:00am

Tue, Jan 09, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Registration opens Tuesday, December 12 2023 at 12:00am

Tue, Jan 09, 6:30pm - 7:40pm
Business, Government & Science Patent Alcove