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March 2020
PARIM Book Club
Due to the COVID-19 situation, this event is cancelled. When: Wednesday, March 18, 6:30-9 pm. Where: Forth - In the Gallery, 171 McDermot Avenue. Why: Great conversation, food and drinks. Guests are welcome! The Book: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah: "The eighteen personal essays collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the... Read More
Find out more »April 2020
Virtual Book Club
You are invited to a virtual book club! This will take place Thursday, April 16 from 7-9pm via Google Hangouts. The book to be discussed is Misty Copeland's Life in Motion: An unlikely Ballerina: "Picture a ballerina in a tutu and toe shoes. What does she look like?" As the only African American soloist dancing with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre, Misty Copeland has made history. But when she first placed her hands on the barre at an after-school community... Read More
Find out more »May 2020
PARIM Bookclub- Google Hangouts Edition
You are invited to the third installment of the virtual PARIM Bookclub! Date: Tuesday, May 19, 7-9 pm. Come when you can, plus ones are welcome! Book: Let's Pretend this Never Happened, by Jenny Lawson. From Goodreads: Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives—the ones we’d like to pretend never happened—are in fact the ones that define us. In the #1 New York Times bestseller, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson takes readers on a hilarious... Read More
Find out more »PARIM Annual General Meeting
PARIM's Annual General Meeting will take place via Zoom on Wednesday, May 20.
Find out more »Pants on Fire: A Comedy Game Show
PARIM Presents: Pants on Fire! On Thursday, May 28, PARIM will host a live game show via Zoom! Pants on Fire is the hilarious live game show where teams of comedians and other local performers grill each other about personal stories. Each time a contestant steps up to the mic, they have no idea whether they'll be revealing a personal truth or selling a lie they've never seen before. Bringing the TV game show experience into a live setting (or... Read More
Find out more »June 2020
PARIM Book Club – Virtual Edition
PARIM Book Club: Google Hangouts Edition - Now with Food! When: Thursday, June 18, 7-9 pm. Drop in when you can; plus ones welcome! Book: Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell. From Goodreads: Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news... Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because... Read More
Find out more »July 2020
PARIM Book Club: Outdoor Edition
PARIM Book Club: Outdoor Edition! When: Thursday, July 16, 7 pm. Where: The Forks, meet at the bike statue. Book: Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay From Goodreads: Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better. RSVP: To parim.office@gmail.com by July 15.
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