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The Centre Foundation is holding its annual online fundraising event for nonprofits Centre Gives on May 12-13. This year's event will obviously be different with the community dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders.

Schlow's manager of philanthropy Molly Hetrick and philanthropy assistant Mel Meder join the podcast this week to talk about fundraising during these unusual and challenging times and Schlow's plans for Centre Gives.

Centre Gives: https://centregives.org/

Alice McDermott is the author of the 2020 Centre County Reads selection Charming Billy. The book won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1998. Three of her books also have finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

McDermott was scheduled to visit the region in April, but her visit was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. She took time to chat with us about what's she's been doing during the stay-at-home orders and, of course, about Charming Billy.

Alice McDermott: https://www.alice-mcdermott.com/

Centre County Reads: https://www.centrecountyreads.org/

April is National Poetry Month, and given the times we live in, poetry is having a profound impact.

The Pennsylvania Center for the Book is celebrating poetry this month with its Poems from Life and the Public Poetry Project. Ellysa Cahoy, education librarian and assistant director of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, and Nicole Miyashiro, a poet who coordinates the poets and content development for the Poems from Life project, talk about poetry in this time of a pandemic and the Center for the Book's poetry projects.

Pennsylvania Center for the Book: https://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/

Award-winning speaker and writer Scott Fried is leading a series of community talks via Zoom that will give everyone "A Chance to Exhale" when it comes to dealing with the coronavirus.

Scott tested positive for HIV in the late 1980s. For over 25 years he has lectured to over a million teenagers, and adults in nearly every US state, as well as countries including Israel, England, Canada, Holland and Honduras. He has spoken at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, schools, camps, synagogues, churches, youth retreats, prisons, military bases, and gatherings of teachers, counselors, and parents. His work is based on a core belief that one must understand the value of one’s own life and hold it sacred.

"A Chance to Exhale" is for anyone 18 years and older and the meetings are 7pm April 16, 23, 30, and May 7.

"Stop. Breathe. Connect" is for children in grades 5 to 8 and their parents or guardians and meetings are 5pm April 14, 21, 28 and May 5. Registration is required at [email protected].

Scott Fried: https://scottfried.com
"A Chance to Exhale" Zoom Room: http://tinyurl.com/ChanceToExhale

Prior to COVID-19 pandemic, we chatted with Penn State students involved in the Green Energy Challenge presented by the National Electrical Contractors Association. The students selected the Schlow Library building for its challenge project. They surveyed the building and had planned programs.

Three members of the team — Liam Cummings, Nisha Labroo, and Maggie Smith — talks about green energy and the challenge.

Green Energy Challenge: https://electri.org/education/green-energy-challenge-competition/

We take time to answer some of your questions concerning Schlow and how we're responding to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Pulitzer finalist Elizabeth Rush talks about her book Rising that looks at climate change and how it's impacting America's shorelines. Her book shares stories of some of the people whose lives have been most impacted by the rising sea levels.

Elizabeth Rush: http://elizabethrush.net/

In March, the Schlow Gallery is exhibiting "World War I: Lessons and Legacies: A Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition, with Added Prints by Combat Artist Michael D. Fay and Others."

Fay is a Penn State alum and during his service in Marine Corps as a combat artist he has served two tours each in Iraq and Afghanistan. He talks about what it means to be a combat artist and how stories of combat are told through art.

Michael D. Fay: http://michaeldfay.com/

World War I: Lessons and Legacies: https://www.schlowlibrary.org/news/2020-03-03/world-war-i-lessons-legacies-smithsonian-traveling-exhibition?_ga=2.104919876.611276391.1583849908-510261925.1540396447

Across the country, Will Eisner Week is being celebrated this week, and we take part with our chat with local illustrator and cartoonist Joel Priddy.

Joel's works have been nominated for Eisner Awards. His graphic novels include Pulpatoon: Pilgrimmage, The Preposterous Voyages of IronHide Tom, and The Gift of the Magi.

Joel also teaches design and illustration at Penn State.

Joel Priddy: https://stuckeman.psu.edu/faculty/joel-priddy

Will Eisner Week: http://www.willeisner.com/

The Centre County Reads program schedule continues March 3 when Dr. Nalini Krishnankutty discusses "Re-viewing History: Centering the Stories on Immigrants" in Schlow Library's Downsbrough Community Room.

We chat with Dr. Krishnankutty, who is a first-generation immigrant American. She has become a leading voice in the immigrant discussion in America. She serves as a commissioner on Governor Wolf's Advisory Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs, and her TEDxPSU talk in 2018 on "How Immigrants Shape(d) the United States" is being used in public schools and university classrooms, and for training sessions across the country.

Nalini Krishnankutty: http://www.nalinikrishnankutty.com/
Centre County Reads: https://www.centrecountyreads.org/