BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Library Market//iCal Export//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:In the Weeds Book Club UID:23561 DTSTAMP:20260315T110600Z DTSTART:20230309T233000Z DTEND:20230310T013000Z LOCATION:710 N. 8th Street\nSheboygan WI 53081 ROOM: The Loft DESCRIPTION:In the Weeds Book Club is brought to you by Green Bicycle Co. in collaboration with Paradigm Coffee & Music, Sheboygan Active Transp ortation, and Mead Library.\r\nThis is a book club that is meant to get into the weeds” on topics of interest to our community. We read thought -provoking books then meet each month for 4 months per book, to discuss th e themes and examine how they might be applied to ideas and actions for th e City of Sheboygan. The book is available to borrow from the library or p urchase from Green Bicycle Co.\r\nOur first book started in November of 20 22 and based on enthusiastic requests for continued conversations, subsequ ent meetings are scheduled for 2023. Organizations are also invited, when appropriate, to share how ideas and impact can be made through their organ ization. With that in mind, Bay Lakes Regional Planning Commission joined us in February and will join us again in March for a discussion and feedba ck on their Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) that includes the Metrop olitan Planning Area - at the heart of which is the City of Sheboygan. The report details traffic analysis, existing conditions, future projections, and recommendations that impact how the City evolves. Conversations will continue in March and April, and the City Department of Public Works will share their work on a Complete Streets Policy for us to discuss and provid e input in addition to the LRTP and other urban planning topics like housi ng, zoning, and parking.\r\n \r\nStrong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by Charles Marohn Jr.\r\nThe book discusses ur ban design and will help us dig deeper into why inducing growth and develo pment has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles alon g and how cities can focus on bottom-up investments to strengthen the comm unity financially and improve people's quality of life.\r\nRemaining Meeting Dates:\r\n March 9, 2023, 5:30pm - 7:30pm, The Loft\r\n April 13, 2023, 5:30pm - 7:30pm, Rocca Room\r\nEmergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Ch anging Worlds by adrienne maree brown\r\nInspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is ra dical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futur es we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than s teel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, ass ess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better und erstand and influence them as they happen.\r\n May 11, 2023, 5:30pm - 7:30 pm, Rocca Room\r\n June 8, 2023, 5:30pm - 7:30pm, The Loft\r\n July 13, 2 023, 5:30pm - 7:30pm, The Loft\r\n August 10, 2023, 5:30pm - 7:30pm, The Loft\r\nPalaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg \r\nWe are living in a time of deep divisions. Pundits and politicians are calling for us to come together and find common purpose. But how, exactly , can this be done? In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, childcare ce nters, churches, and parks where crucial connections are formed. Interweav ing his own research with examples from around the globe, Klinenberg shows how “social infrastructure” is helping to solve some of our most pres sing societal challenges. Richly reported and ultimately uplifting, Palace s for the People offers a blueprint for bridging our seemingly unbridgeabl e divides.\r\n September 14, 2023, 5:30pm - 7:30pm, The Loft\r\n October 12, 2023, 5:30pm - 7:30pm, The Loft\r\n November 9, 2023, 5:30pm - 7:30pm , The Loft\r\n December 14, 2023, 5:30pm - 7:30pm, The Loft\r\nOrganizer s, Presenters, Facilitators, and Promoters\r\nHeather Cleveland is a compa ssionate listener and visionary that quickly sees processes and systems an d finds inspiration and challenge from different viewpoints and experience s.\r\nBraden Schmidt is a Sheboygan resident, local organizer and 'yo ung professional' who is passionate about empowering people to create the community they want to live in.\r\nKate Krause is a spacemaker and co mmunity connector. She tries to remedy things she's cranky about... o pe, passionate about.\r\n  URL:https://www.meadpl.org/event/weeds-book-club END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR