
Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer
Experience the world premiere virtual screening of Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer. From award-winning journalist DeNeen Brown and acclaimed director Dawn Porter, the documentary film comes one hundred years after the two-day Tulsa Massacre in 1921 that led to the murder of hundreds of Black people and left thousands homeless and displaced.
Amanda Kloots
In Conversation with Zach Braff
In Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero, Kloots—a host for CBS’s “The Talk” and a celebrity fitness trainer—reflects on life with her husband, a Broadway star and Tony-nominee whose public battle with Covid-19 and tragic death made headlines around the world.
- Date:
- Jun 14, 2021 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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Ticket (limited quantity): $10
Free Ticket + Book with Signed Bookplate: $33
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
Black Life and National Memory with The Atlantic’s Inheritance Project
With Anna Deavere Smith, Clint Smith, Vann R. Newkirk II, and Gillian B. White
In a conversation for Juneteenth, contributors to The Atlantic’s “Inheritance” project about American history, Black life, and the resilience of memory share reflections on their writing to surface Black history that has been intentionally obscured, and shake our national memory.
- Date:
- Jun 16, 2021 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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Free, with donations to Sixth & I appreciated.
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- Category:
- Authors & Talks
But You’re Still So Young: How Thirtysomethings Are Redefining Adulthood
Book Club with Kayleen Schaefer
In But You’re Still So Young, journalist Kayleen Schaefer employs data research and hundreds of interviews to reveal how today’s thirtysomethings are living their lives in ways that upend the traditional checklist of becoming an adult in American society. Hear from Schaefer, ask her questions, and spend time in breakout groups to reflect on how the book relates to your own experiences.
- Date:
- Jun 22, 2021 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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SOLD OUT.
We encourage you to order the book from Politics and Prose Bookstore.
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
CANCELED – Bingo Night
Feeling lucky? Compete for prizes including gift cards and tickets to future Sixth & I events during a virtual bingo night. Cards will be provided; no chips required.
- Date:
- Jun 28, 2021 • 7:00 pm ET
- Category:
- Social
Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker
In Conversation with Nicolle Wallace
In I Alone Can Fix It, Pulitzer-Prize winning reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker reveal the Trump presidency’s final year in unprecedented, stunning detail. Focused on Trump and the key players around him—the doctors, generals, senior advisers, and Trump family members— Rucker and Leonnig provide a forensic account of the most devastating year in a presidency like no other.
- Date:
- Jul 21, 2021 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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Ticket (limited quantity): $6
Free Ticket + Signed Book: $35
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
The Intimacy Experiment
Book Club with Rosie Danan
In The Intimacy Experiment, the rabbi of a failing synagogue joins forces with the founder of a sex-positive startup to host a buzzy seminar about modern intimacy to attract more millennials. It seems like the perfect solution—until they discover their growing attraction to each other and must put their syllabus to the test. Hear from author Rosie Danan, ask her questions, and spend time in breakout groups to reflect on the book’s themes.
- Date:
- Jul 25, 2021 • 5:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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$6
We encourage you to order the book from Politics and Prose Bookstore.
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
Baking with Sonny’s: Beyond Basic Bagels
Alongside Hannah Wolfman-Arent, a baker for Sonny’s Pizza, learn how to make a classic bagel recipe with traditional flavors, plus customizations for cinnamon raisin bagels and other mix-ins.
Baking with Sonny’s: How to Make Black & White Cookies
A mainstay at Jewish delis and bakeries, the classic black & white cookie is super soft and topped with chocolate and vanilla icing. Instructor Hannah Wolfman-Arent, a baker for Sonny’s Pizza, will show you how to make them at home.
9/11: One Day in America
Premiere Screening and Panel Discussion
In remembrance of the attacks on September 11 in New York City, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania 20 years ago this year, experience the virtual premiere of “9/11: One Day in America,” a six-part documentary series from National Geographic chronicling the events of that day through gripping first-person narratives of the first responders and survivors who were there.