Events
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More details are coming! The steering committee is working on the plans.
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Volunteer Workday at the Crrek see more
Join other RPCVs for a volunteer workday with the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association, a small nonprofit that works to restore an urban creek running through Durham. We'll be helping to remove invasive species at the 17-acre Wood Nature Preserve in Durham's Watts-Hillandale neighborhood. More details in our April newsletter. The organizer is Peggy Schaeffer, RPCV/Yemen.
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Potluck Dinner and Book Discussion see more
The Storyteller of Casablanca, by Fiona Valpy
Morocco, 1941. With France having fallen to Nazi occupation, twelve-year-old Josie has fled with her family to Casablanca, where they await safe passage to America. Life here is as intense as the sun, every sight, smell and sound overwhelming to the senses in a city filled with extraordinary characters. It’s a world away from the trouble back home—and Josie loves it.
Seventy years later, another new arrival in the intoxicating port city, Zoe, is struggling—with her marriage, her baby daughter and her new life as an expat in an unfamiliar place. But when she discovers a small wooden box and a diary from the 1940s beneath the floorboards of her daughter’s bedroom, Zoe enters the inner world of young Josie, who once looked out on the same view of the Atlantic Ocean, but who knew a very different Casablanca. -
Come walk along the Eno River. Kids and dogs welcome.
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Potluck Dinner and Book Discussion see more
No Ordinary Assignment: A Memoir, by Jane Ferguson
From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and war—from The Troubles to the fall of Kabul. Jane Ferguson has covered nearly every war front and humanitarian crisis of our time. She reported from Yemen as protests grew into the Arab Spring; she secured rare access to rebel-held Syria, where foreign journalists were banned, to cover its civil war. When the Taliban claimed Kabul in 2021, she was one of the last Western journalists to remain at the airport as thousands of Afghans, including some of her colleagues, struggled to evacuate. Living with sectarian violence was nothing new to Ferguson.
As a child in Northern Ireland in the 1980s and ‘90s, The Troubles meant bomb threats and military checkpoints on the way to school were commonplace.Ferguson’s bold debut chronicles her unlikely journey from bright, inquisitive child to intrepid war correspondent. With an open-hearted humanity, we rarely see in conflict stories, No Ordinary Assignment shows what it means to build an authentic career against the odds.
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Potluck and Book Discussion see more
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When “Willie” Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one.
A mesmerizingly beautiful novel based on real events, The House of Doors traces the fault lines of race, gender, sexuality, and power under empire, and dives deep into the complicated nature of love and friendship in its shadow.
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NCPCA is going to the zoo! Come join us and bring your kids and family.
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Book Discussion and Potluck in Chinese Style see more
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir, by Weiwei Ai
Hailed as "an eloquent and seemingly unsilenceable voice of freedom" by The New York Times, Ai Weiwei has written a sweeping memoir that presents a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process.
Once an intimate of Mao Zedong and the nation's most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei's father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as "Little Siberia," where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol. With candor and wit, he details his return to China and his rise from artistic unknown to art world superstar and international human rights activist--and how his work has been shaped by living under a totalitarian regime. -
2024 Peace Prize Announced Soon see more
Come meet the next recipients of the 2024 Peace Prize.
The ceremony at the Arts Access gallery at 444 S. Blount St., Suite 115B, in downtown
Raleigh, begins at 1 p.m., Saturday, May 4. The event is free and open to the public.As the website is still in transition, please RSVP for the event: https://forms.gle/wLdH9UvFdw99VFf27
As for the food, we are sticking with tradition. The potluck sign up so everyone can participate.
Contact Susan if you have questions: [email protected]
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Come join NCPCA as we take a tour of Freedom Park in Raleigh with Reggie and Celeste Hodges/ RPCVs of Sierra Leone. Stay tuned for more details including lunch plans.
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Tobacco Road Sports Cafe & Brewery
505 W Jones St, Raleigh, NC 27603, USA
3 hours free parking in the deck behind the restaurant. Just get a ticket from the hostest
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Tobacco Road Sports Cafe & Brewery
505 W Jones St, Raleigh, NC 27603, USA
3 hours free parking behind the restaurant in the deck
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Tobacco Road Sports Cafe & Brewery
505 W Jones St, Raleigh, NC 27603, USA
3 hours of free parking in the deck behind the restaurant.
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Tobacco Road Sports Cafe & Brewery
505 W Jones St, Raleigh, NC 27603, USA
3 hours free parking behind the restaurant.
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