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SUMMARY:Winter Words with Tara Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Adventurer and storyteller Tara Roberts will discuss her searing memoir\, “Written in the Waters\,” which recounts her epic journey to trace the global slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean. Roberts\, a National Geographic Explorer in Residence\, spent years diving with and telling stories about a group of Black scuba divers searching for slave shipwrecks around the world. For fans of Cheryl Strayed’s “Wild” and Jesmyn Ward’s “Men We Reaped\,” Roberts’ memoir is a powerful blend of personal and cultural history.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Author \n\n\n\n\nTara Roberts follows\, dives with and tells stories about Black scuba divers as they search for and help document slave shipwrecks around the world. Her journey was turned into an award-winning National Geographic-produced podcast called “Into the Depths.” Tara became the first Black female explorer ever to be featured on the cover of the magazine and was named the Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year. Currently\, Tara is an Explorer in Residence at Nat Geo. She is the author of “Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History\, Home and Belonging.” Tara is also a former magazine editor and indie publisher\, a nonprofit communications director and editor of several nonfiction books for girls. She calls Atlanta home but loves to hit the road. Her motto is: have suitcase\, will travel.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/winter-words-tara-roberts-2026/
LOCATION:TACAW\, 400 Robinson St.\, Basalt\, CO\, 81621
CATEGORIES:Winter Words
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SUMMARY:Winter Words with Kevin Fedarko
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn-person tickets for this event are SOLD OUT! We are offering a virtual season pass for $35\, which provides access to all three Winter Words 2025 livestreams. If you would like to join a waitlist for the in-person event\, please register here.\nJoin bestselling author Kevin Fedarko as he recounts the untamed adventure behind “A Walk in the Park\,” narrating his grueling 750-mile trek through the Grand Canyon—an awe-inspiring journey across perilous cliffs\, hidden histories\, and breathtaking vistas. With humor\, humility\, and deep reverence\, he transports readers to the edge of endurance and into the heart of America’s most majestic landscape. Fedarko is also the author of “The Emerald Mile.” \nModerated by Daniel Shaw \n\n\nAbout the Author \n\n\n\n\nKevin Fedarko is a seasoned author and journalist renowned for his exploration of the American Southwest and his fervent advocacy for environmental conservation. He is the author of “The Emerald Mile\,” an epic story of the fastest ride in history through the heart of the Grand Canyon and “A Walk in the Park\,” the true story of a spectacular misadventure in the Grand Canyon. He has been a staff writer at Time magazine\, where he worked primarily on the foreign affairs desk\, and a senior editor at Outside\, where he covered outdoor adventure. His writing has appeared in National Geographic\, the New York Times and Esquire\, among other publications. He and his wife\, Annette Avery\, owner of Bright Side Bookshop\, live in Flagstaff\, Arizona\, where they spend as much of their free time as possible hiking in the Grand Canyon or in mountains just outside of town. \n\n\nThank you to our venue partner
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/winter-words-with-kevin-fedarko/
LOCATION:TACAW\, 400 Robinson St.\, Basalt\, CO\, 81621
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SUMMARY:AN EVENING WITH MARY LOUISE KELLY MODERATED BY BREEZE RICHARDSON
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with 2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize ceremony moderator\, novelist and host of NPR’s “All Things Considered\,” Mary Louise Kelly. \nModerator: Aspen Public Radio’s Executive Director\, Breeze Richardson. \nThis event is free and open to all\, registration is requested. \nThe event is currently at capacity\,\nif you are interested in attending plan to arrive when the doors open at 5:30 p.m.  \nDOORS: Open at 5:30 p.m. \nEVENT: Conversation 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. \nSEATING: General admission and available on a first come\, first served basis. \nCome early and purchase a drink at the TACAW bar. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMary Louise Kelly is a host of “All Things Considered\,” NPR’s award-winning afternoon newsmagazine. Previously\, she spent a decade as national security correspondent for NPR News\, and she’s kept that focus in her role as anchor. That’s meant taking “All Things Considered” to Russia\, North Korea\, Iran and beyond. \nShe’s published two novels\, “Anonymous Sources” and “The Bullet\,” as well as the New York Times bestselling memoir\, “It. Goes. So. Fast. The Year of No Do-Overs.” Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times\, among other publications\, and she serves as a contributing writer at The Atlantic. \nABOUT THE MODERATOR \nBreeze Richardson joined the Aspen Public Radio team in June 2021. Highly-respected in public media for her strategic planning and communications background\, she has a passion for telling stories and producing community-focused programming. \nSince arriving in the Roaring Fork Valley\, Breeze has been on stage exploring disability and inclusion with 1A’s Jenn White\, discussing the importance of local journalism for Aspen Institute’s Society of Fellows\, and in conversation with Tockukwu Okafor\, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk\, and 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize winner Jamil Jan Kochaifor Aspen Words. In February 2023\, she took the stage at the Wheeler Opera House with NPR’s Ailsa Chang to lead a conversation about making big career changes\, representation in media\, and the impact of investigative journalism. \nBreeze currently serves as President of the Rocky Mountain Community Radio coalition\, and is an elected member of the Western States Public Radio Board of Directors. In 2024\, she completed the Public Media Diversity Leaders Initiative (PMDLI) hosted by the Riley Institute at Furman University\, and is a proud alumni of the Aspen Institute Hurst Leaders Forum.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/an-evening-with-mary-louise-kelly-moderated-by-breeze-richardson/
LOCATION:TACAW\, 400 Robinson St.\, Basalt\, CO\, 81621
CATEGORIES:Aspen Words Literary Prize,Literary Prize,Writers in Residence
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SUMMARY:Winter Words with Safiya Sinclair – TACAW in Basalt & Livestreamed
DESCRIPTION:Buy Winter Words Tickets + Passes\n\nIN-PERSON SEASON PASS: $80\nAttend three in-person events at Paepcke Auditorium in Aspen and one in-person event at TACAW in Basalt \n \nVIRTUAL SEASON PASS: $40\nJoin all four Winter Words events via livestream \n \nINDIVIDUAL EVENT TICKETS: $30\nJoin any of the four events in-person \n \n MORE WAYS TO PURCHASE TICKETS: Visit Explore Booksellers (221 E. Main St.\, Aspen)\, 11 a.m.- 6 p.m.\, Monday-Sunday\, or stop by the Aspen Words lunchtime box office in the Red Brick Center for the Arts (110 E. Hallam St.\, Aspen)\, on Wednesdays from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. \n\nWhat is it like to leave everything you know behind? Join Aspen Words at TACAW for Winter Words with memoirist and award-winning poet Safiya Sinclair\, as she discusses her new book\, “How to Say Babylon.” This Read with Jenna TODAY show book club pick examines the author’s rigid Rastafarian upbringing and her efforts to break free from the patriarchal structure which defined her youth. \nModerator: Mitzi Rapkin\, host of First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing \nEvent location: TACAW 400 Robinson Street Basalt\, CO 81621. Parking is limited. \nDoors: 5:30 p.m. | Talk: 6:00-7:00 p.m. | Book-signing to follow. Explore Booksellers will be selling books. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nSafiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay\, Jamaica. She is the author of the memoir “How to Say Babylon\,” forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in October 2023. She is also the author of the poetry collection “Cannibal\,” winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award\, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry\, the Phillis Wheatley Book Award and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. “Cannibal” was selected as one of the American Library Association’s Notable Books of the Year and was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Seamus Heaney First Book Award in the UK and was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. \nSinclair’s other honors include a Pushcart Prize\, fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, Civitella Ranieri Foundation\, the Elizabeth George Foundation\, MacDowell\, Yaddo\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Nation\, Poetry\, Kenyon Review\, the Oxford American and elsewhere. \n\nThanks to our partners at Explore Booksellers and Bookbinders Basalt\,\nAspen Words members receive 20% off Winter Words book titles.  \n \n \n\nThank you to our season presenting sponsors \nDiane & William Hunckler\nBeth & Josh Mondry \nHelen & Wally Obermeyer\n  \nThanks also to our local partners:
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/winter-words-with-safiya-sinclair-tacaw-in-basalt-livestreamed/
LOCATION:TACAW\, 400 Robinson St.\, Basalt\, CO\, 81621
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