BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Kansas City - ECPv6.17.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.esuus.org/kansascity X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Kansas City REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240814T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240814T170000 DTSTAMP:20240710T004044Z CREATED:20240709T201736Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240710T004044Z UID:1115-1723651200-1723654800@www.esuus.org SUMMARY:Happy Hour: C.S. Lewis and the Powerful Predicament of Language DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the ESU Central Florida Branch \n\n\n\nC.S. Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. Lewis wrote more than thirty books\, reaching a vast audience and attracting thousands of new readers every year. \n\n\n\nIn his last\, best novel\, C. S. Lewis gives voice to a potent and glorious challenge facing writers\, readers\, and lovers of language when a wise character suggests that\, “to say the very thing you really mean\, the whole of it\, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that’s the whole art and joy of words”. As a deeply-committed and famously-accomplished scholar\, critic writer\, and reader\, C. S. Lewis has much incisive wisdom to offer in such matters. \n\n\n\nIn his talk\, Lewis scholar and Episcopal priest the Rev’d Andrew Lazo explores a number of Lewis’s most insightful and helpful observations arising from a lifetime devotion to the powerful predicament of language. This ESU Happy Hour is sponsored by the ESU Central Florida Branch. ESU Happy Hour programs are online\, free\, and open to all members and the public. Registration is required. All programs take place on Eastern Time. \n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Andrew Lazo\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Rev’d Andrew Lazo is an internationally-known speaker and writer specializing in C.S. Lewis and the Inklings. Andrew earned his Master’s in Modern British Literature from Rice University where he was a Jacob K. Javits fellow in the Humanities. He is a frequent speaker around the U.S. and U.K. and has written several articles on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. In 2009\, Andrew published Mere Christians: Inspiring Encounters with C.S. Lewis. In 2014 he also was honored to transcribe\, edit\, and publish a previously unknown book by C.S. Lewis\, “Early Prose Joy\,” which was Lewis’s very first spiritual autobiography. For ten years he taught English and C. S. Lewis at St. Thomas and Houston Christian High Schools in Houston. \n\n\n\nAfter finishing studies for an M. Div. (with Honors) at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria\, VA in May 2022\, Andrew was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in January 2023 and serves as the Apprentice Rector at Church of the Messiah in Winter Garden\, FL. He is also pursuing his doctorate in Romantic Theology at Northwind Seminary\, where he serves as a Distinguished Lecturer. Andrew is married to author and speaker Dr. Christin Ditchfield Lazo. \n\n\n\nFor more than fifteen years\, Andrew has been working on a long-awaited study of Till We Have Faces\, making groundbreaking discoveries all along the way. The results of his ongoing research have led him to give talks to the Mythopoeic Society in 2016 as Scholar Guest of Honor; in the summer of 2017\, Andrew served as a plenary speaker at the C.S. Lewis Foundation’s 2017 Summer Institute in Oxford and Cambridge. URL:https://www.esuus.org/kansascity/event/happy-hour-c-s-lewis-and-the-powerful-predicament-of-language/ CATEGORIES:Virtual Happy Hours ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.esuus.org/kansascity/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2024/07/image002.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240727T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240727T170000 DTSTAMP:20240710T004135Z CREATED:20240709T202427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240710T004135Z UID:1117-1722088800-1722099600@www.esuus.org SUMMARY:Membership Mixer DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, July 27\, 2024 at 2:00 PM \n\n\n\nThe Board of the English-Speaking Union Kansas City Branch cordially invites members and guests to our annual Membership Mixer.  This year the Board will provide BBQ as the main course and asks that you sign up to bring an appetizer\, side dish\, or dessert\, and to bring your favorite beverage.  The Potluck Party begins at 2:00 pm on Saturday\, July 27\, 2024. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event but we ask you to RSVP. Please go to the separate “Punchbowl” email Ben Martin sent to all ESU members on June 29. Click on “Open Invitation” and follow the directions. Be sure to click on “Select Potluck Items” button under the “To-Do Items” list. If you didn’t receive the Punchbowl email from Ben or if you are not a member but would like to attend\, please click here to RSVP. Fill in “Join the Guest List” with your name and email address then continue with “Select Potluck Items.” \n\n\n\nWe will meet at Ron Worth & James “JP” Paszkiewicz’s clubhouse at Patrician Woods. The address is:  12532 Cedar St.\, Leawood\, Kansas.  It is a gated community\, but the gates will be open during this event.  Please enter off of Roe Ave. at 126th St.  The Clubhouse is facing you as you enter the community.  Parking is behind the clubhouse next to the swimming pool.  Please fill in the parking lot from the far end so that anyone needing assistance can park closest to the clubhouse.  Enter through the swimming pool gate and into the clubhouse. \n\n\n\nWe hope to see you all at this event\, and ask that you update your attendance if you are not able to attend by going to Punchbowl.com and signing in under the email you received this invitation with\, or downloading the Punchbowl app on your smartphone. \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions\, please call Ben Martin\, Events Chairman\, at 816-522-8387. \n\n\n\nLooking forward to seeing all of you. \n\n\n\nSincerely\, \n\n\n\nJulie Robinson\, President URL:https://www.esuus.org/kansascity/event/membership-mixer/ CATEGORIES:Virtual Happy Hours ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.esuus.org/kansascity/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2024/07/image001.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240626T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240626T170000 DTSTAMP:20240604T211720Z CREATED:20240529T063616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240604T211720Z UID:1068-1719417600-1719421200@www.esuus.org SUMMARY:Happy Hour: What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe's Bar DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the ESU Central Pennsylvania Branch \n\n\n\nShortly after Ernest Hemingway’s death in 1961\, his widow\, Mary Hemingway\, was contacted by the owner of Sloppy Joe’s Bar in Key West\, asking her to retrieve the materials that Hemingway had stored there since he moved to Cuba in 1939. With the aid of Hemingway’s longtime Key West friends Toby and Betty Bruce\, Mary sorted through mountains of papers and belongings\, took what she wished\, and left the rest to the Bruces in gratitude for their help. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n These materials remained in the family’s possession\, stored on their property in Key West\, for decades until their son\, Benjamin “Dink” Bruce\, decided that they should be in a safer place where they could be of use to scholars. He asked the advice of Sandra Spanier\, whom he had allowed to study the collection on site in her work as General Editor of the Hemingway Letters Project. In 2021 the largest known collection of Hemingway materials in private hands came to the Penn State University Special Collections Library\, where it was opened for research in 2022. \nDr. Sandra Spanier will talk about some of her adventures in scholarship (including the discovery of Hemingway’s first short story\, written at age 10) and some of the other treasures in this trove of thousands of documents\, photographs\, and artifacts. This ESU Happy Hour is sponsored by the ESU Central Pennsylvania Branch. ESU Happy Hour programs are online\, free\, and open to all members and the public. Registration is required. All programs take place on Eastern Time. \n \n \n \n\n \n Register Here\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n About Dr. Sandra Spanier\n \nSandra Spanier is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University and General Editor of the Hemingway Letters Project\, which is producing the authorized scholarly edition of the writer’s more than 6\,000 letters\, being published by Cambridge University Press in a projected seventeen volumes. She has a B.A. degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, and an M.A. and PhD. degrees from Pennsylvania State University. \nSpanier serves on the Editorial Board of The Hemingway Review and was a consultant to the PBS documentary film series HEMINGWAY\, directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. She has been active in international collaborative efforts to conserve Hemingway’s papers in Cuba and restore his long-time home outside Havana and is a founding member of the Board of the Finca Vigía Foundation\, which works to preserve Hemingway’s legacy in Cuba. \nIn addition to Hemingway\, her research has focused on American women writers. Spanier’s Kay Boyle: Artist and Activist (1986)\, was the first book about the life and work of Kay Boyle (1902- 1992)\, a distinguished and prolific writer whose work merits wider recognition. She also edited and introduced Boyle’s Life Being the Best and Other Stories (1988) and Process: A Novel (2001) –Boyles long-lost first novel\, the manuscript missing since the 1920s until Spanier discovered it in an archive. Her authorized edition of Boyles letters\, Kay Boyle: A Twentieth- Century Life in Letters\, Selected Letters 1919-1992\, was published in 2015. \nSpanier has also written about journalist and fiction writer Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998)\, who did not wish to be remembered as Hemingway’s third wife. She worked with Gellhorn to bring into print her previously unpublished 1946 play Love Goes to Press: A Comedy in Three Acts (1995; revised edition. 2010)—a comic battle of the sexes set during World War II\, featuring two women war correspondents and the ex-husband of one\, whom she had divorced on the grounds of plagiarism. The play\, a hit in London in 1946 and a flop on Broadway in 1947\, was produced to critical acclaim in 2012 by the Mint Theater in New York. \nCocktail: Daiquiri\nTwo versions from which to choose: \nHEMINGWAY SPECIAL (Circa 1937) \n2 oz. white rum \n1 tsp. grapefruit juice \n1 tsp. maraschino liqueur \n½ oz. fresh lime juice \nFrappe (chip or crush) some ice\, add to shaker\, then add remaining ingredients. Shake well\, then pour into a chilled cocktail glass. \nPAPA DOBLE (THE WILD DAIQUIRI) (Circa 1947) \n3 ¾ oz. white rum \n2 oz. fresh lime juice \n2 oz. fresh grapefruit juice \n6 drops maraschino liqueur \nBlend well with ice. Serve in a large\, chilled goblet. \nSuggested reading: Islands in the Stream (“Cuba”) URL:https://www.esuus.org/kansascity/event/happy-hour-what-hemingway-left-in-sloppy-joes-bar/ CATEGORIES:Virtual Happy Hours ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.esuus.org/kansascity/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2024/05/hh-sloppy-joes.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240612T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240612T160000 DTSTAMP:20240604T183602Z CREATED:20240517T213055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240604T183602Z UID:1001-1718204400-1718208000@www.esuus.org SUMMARY:Happy Hour: The Great Siege of Malta and the Fate of Empires DESCRIPTION:Sixteenth century European historians will find this ESU Happy Hour fascinating and one of tremendous significance. The Great Siege of Malta\, a four-month battle from May 18 to September 11\, 1565\, is considered one of the most ferocious conflicts in military history. Rarely have the odds been so unequal and the stakes so high. \n\n\n\nIn 1565 Malta was the key to Europe. And during the summer of that year\, the future of Western Civilization was decided. The Ottoman Empire had extended its control over most of the Mediterranean. If the tiny island of Malta could be captured\, it could become the staging ground for the invasion of critical ports in Europe. \n\n\n\nIt was an epic struggle\, a remarkable tale of resolve and leadership\, of disunity in command\, and disunity among allies. Historically\, the Great Siege of Malta was one of the bloodiest and most fiercely contested battles of the sixteenth century. \n\n\n\nDr. Wayne Bowen\, Professor of History and Associate Dean for the College of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Central Florida\, draws us into this four-month siege on the island of Malta. This ESU Happy Hour is sponsored by the ESU Central Florida Branch. ESU Happy Hour programs are online\, free\, and open to all members and the public. Registration is required. URL:https://www.esuus.org/kansascity/event/happy-hour-the-great-siege-of-malta-and-the-fate-of-empires/ CATEGORIES:Virtual Happy Hours ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.esuus.org/kansascity/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2024/05/great-siege-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240522T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240522T160000 DTSTAMP:20240517T213605Z CREATED:20240517T213600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240517T213605Z UID:1003-1716390000-1716393600@www.esuus.org SUMMARY:Happy Hour: Discovering Faulkner’s American South in 1990s Pakistan with Dr. Saima Sherazi DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the ESU Central Pennsylvania Branch \n\n\n\nThe 1990s found agrarian societies in Pakistan undergoing profound transitions\, not unlike the American South in the first part of the twentieth century. William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury” captures the stark confrontation between waning Southern aristocracy (the Compson family) and the ascendant middle class represented by the Snopes family. \n\n\n\nDr. Saima Sherazi will take us through the experience of coping with societal change\, especially when that change occurs in a setting with entrenched social hierarchies and gender roles. That setting could be rural Pakistan\, or the American South of the 1920s. In either place there is upheaval – urbanization and industrialization collide with traditional dynamics of gender and class.  Dr. Sherazi will share her experience of teaching Faulkner in an all-girls college in a still conservative Pakistan – far removed from the American South\, but nonetheless undergoing similar social upheavals. This ESU Happy Hour is sponsored by the ESU Central PA Branch. ESU Happy Hour programs are online\, free\, and open to all members and the public. Registration is required. All programs take place on Eastern Time. URL:https://www.esuus.org/kansascity/event/happy-hour-discovering-faulkners-american-south-in-1990s-pakistan-with-dr-saima-sherazi/ CATEGORIES:Virtual Happy Hours ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.esuus.org/kansascity/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2024/05/may-22-hh-header.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR