Plague Stories: Gathering our Community Narratives - Redlands, CA

We are sad to announce that our Plague Stories events have now come to an end. Thank you so much to our speakers and all those who attended our community discussions and One City One Book events! We are continuing to ask our Redlands community to share their plague story to our Flipgrid page: https://flipgrid.com/8d26ad8f Please keep a look out for some extra Plague Stories updates and other upcoming University of Redlands events that are open to Redlands families and community. Thank you once again 🦠📖❤️

Our children’s One City One Book event is approaching fast!🏙📚 Redlands families, please join us in discussing Laurie Halse Anderson’s children’s novel, “Fever 1793”this Saturday from 5:00-6:30 pm at the lovely Frugal Frigate children’s bookstore! There will be activities and a raffle to win a free copy of Anderson’s stellar novel 📖☺️

See you all there!

Our final One City One Book event occurs on May 21 from 5:00- 6:30 pm at the Frugal Frigate bookstore. We will be discussing the fictional children’s novel Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. The novel follows fourteen-year-old Mattie as Yellow Fever strikes her hometown in Philadelphia. Mattie finds herself left with the responsibility of keeping her family safe, her family’s business afloat, and living as normal of teenage life as possible.

At the event, the Frugal Frigate will be selling 10% off copies of Fever 1793, along with a chance to win a copy in a book raffle. We invite the city of Redlands families to join us in discussing this thrilling and emotional novel! 📚🏙

We will be having a raffle at our One City One Book event tonight to win a free copy of Emily St. John Mandel’s novel “Station Eleven” which is now a popular HBO Max series! See you all at 6:00 pm at The Contemporary Club 173 Eureka St. (The building behind A.K. Smiley Library) 🏙📚

HAPPENING TODAY: Our One City, One Book event is happening this evening at 6pm at The Contemporary Club behind AK Smiley Library. We will be discussing “Station Eleven”- the novel and the miniseries! Our Plague Stories coordinators and University of Redlands faculty, Youna Kwak and Heather King, will be there to help facilitate discussion. We hope to see you there tonight!

Introducing our upcoming One City One Book reading, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel which is now a popular HBO max series that received a 98% on Rotten Tomato’s!! This sci-fi novel follows the lives of ordinary people before and after a dangerous Georgia Flu sweeps the entire nation and the world. 🦠 We ask our Redlands community to join us in reading the novel, and to meet on April 26 with the AK Smiley library at 6:00 pm to discuss this thrilling piece of pandemic literature! 📚📚‼️

We had such a wonderful plague stories discussion last night! Thank you so much to all of our speakers in sharing their insightful ideas!
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We look forward to our Redlands community in joining us for our One City One Book events starting on April 26 reading “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel at A.K. Smiley Library and April 30 reading “Fever 1793” by Laurie Halse Anderson for our younger audiences at the Frugal Frigate 📚📚📚

Our next event for the public is TONIGHT‼️ Come hear our speakers at The University of Redlands Hall of Letters building in room 100 @ 6:00pm

We are also asking the public to share their pandemic stories in the form of a short video which will be uploaded to our Flipgrid site. The purpose of this Humanities project is to collect the Redlands community’s Covid-19 experiences with the goal of having a final viewing of our stories on May 23. Please participate and let your Covid story be heard 🦠🔈