* Saturday, April 6, UU Event. Tony Lu in Concert. UU Meetinghouse at 7 pm.
A solo concert of piano compositions in the style of Bach to Rock will be performed by Tony Lu. For more information, read Chuck Putney’s article.
* Thursday, April 9. Malinda Lo, author of Last Night at the Telegraph Club. Hybrid event at the South Burlington Library from 7-8:30 pm. Register here to view a live stream of the event. See below for more information about the book, which will be the focus of Branch events in May and June.
* Thursday, April 11. National AAUW Webinar: “The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia” at 2 pm on Zoom. Click here for more information and to register.
* Sunday, April 14. April Branch Program. Can Ethical AI Reduce the Risks of AI? UU Meetinghouse at 2 pm.
Dr. Anthony Hoogs, who has been working in the AI field for decades, will speak on “Can Ethical AI Reduce the Risks of AI?” on Sunday, April 14 at 2 pm. The talk is co-sponsored by the Bennington Branch of the American Association of University Women and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. He will discuss what AI is, the risks it poses, and what the AI community is doing about them.
* Wednesday, April 17. Book Group Meeting. UU Meetinghouse at 1 pm.
Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles. All branch members welcome.
“Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard metaLAB visionary Matthew Battles takes us from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries and on to the Information Age, to explore how libraries are built and how they are destroyed: from the scroll burnings in ancient China to the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia to the latest revolutionary upheavals of the digital age.” (Description by W.W. Norton, Publisher)
* May and June: Branch Program. A series of events related to the background of Last Night at the Telegraph Club—the “Vermont Reads” selection for 2023-24. Locations and times will be announced in the May Newsletter.
Events will include background information related to Malinda Lo’s book that promise to be of interest to all: swing music, Chinese cooking, lesbian relationships, the red scare, a film screening, and more.
* June 23 at noon. Annual Picnic