Events
In addition to author meet and greets and book signings, F&F celebrates performance and fine arts in our community with events.
december, 2019
05dec5:00 pm6:00 pmAuthor Event - Sophia Rokhlin also at The Bourbon Theatre

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Meet Sophia Rokhlin, author of When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance. Ayahuasca is a powerful tool for transformation, that more and more Westerners are flocking to
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Meet Sophia Rokhlin, author of When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance.
Ayahuasca is a powerful tool for transformation, that more and more Westerners are flocking to drink in a quest for greater self-knowledge, healing and reconnection with the natural world. This formerly esoteric, little-known brew is now a growth industry. But why?
When Plants Dream is the first book of its kind to look at the science and expanding culture of ayahuasca, from its historical use to its appropriation by the West and the impact it is having on cultures beyond the Amazon.
Sophia Rokhlin is an anthropologist and nonprofit organizer working with human and environmental rights organizations. She coordinates a permaculture program with the Chaikuni Institute and directs the regenerative ayahuasca initiative at the Temple of the Way of Light in the Peruvian Amazon.
Books available for purchase and autograph.
After this book talk, join Sophia and comedian Shane Mauss at the Bourbon Theater for a live event presented by the Here We Are Podcast. A Comedian + Psychedelics + A Scientist
Time
(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Francie & Finch
130 S. 13th Street
06dec5:30 pm7:30 pmFirst Friday Art Walk - Amber Roland

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Meet featured artist Amber Roland. ** Bonus - live music from Louis Raymond Kolker Mark your calendar! On the First Friday of every month, residents and visitors in Lincoln fill
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Meet featured artist Amber Roland.
** Bonus – live music from Louis Raymond Kolker
Mark your calendar! On the First Friday of every month, residents and visitors in Lincoln fill the sidewalks of the downtown and Haymarket areas. Arts organizations, galleries, studios, and a wide variety of local businesses feature regional and national artists as well as live entertainment.
Francie & Finch is located in the historic Telephone Building, on the path between Kiechel Fine Art, the Cornhusker Marriott (they always have a great spread), Metro Art Gallery, Chapin Art Gallery and Tugboat.
Time
(Friday) 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
Francie & Finch
130 S. 13th Street
11dec6:00 pm7:00 pmBook Launch Party - Karissa Bettendorf

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Meet Karissa Bettendorf, author and illustrator of Everybody's Baby. This story started as a poem and series of little paintings when we were expecting our son. I was dreaming about the
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Meet Karissa Bettendorf, author and illustrator of Everybody’s Baby.
This story started as a poem and series of little paintings when we were expecting our son. I was dreaming about the world I wanted to bring my baby into-a world rich in community, where a sense of belonging settles deep in our souls. Storytelling shapes the future, and I hope this little book can add to the stories we tell the children in our lives about the world we are creating together. Where friendships thrive, love wins, and every baby knows they belong.
We first met Karissa when she illustrated The Secret History of How England & Elizabeth I Defeated the Spanish Armada by Carole Levin and Dreams by Francis Henderson. We’re so excited for this new collection! Everybody’s Baby is bound to be a classic and we’re so excited to help celebrate!
Books available for purchase and Karissa will sign them.
Time
(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Francie & Finch
130 S. 13th Street
14dec4:00 pm5:00 pmAuthor Event - Joe Starita

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Meet celebrated author Joe Starita who will be talking about his book "I Am a Man": Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice. In 1877, Chief Standing Bear's Ponca Indian tribe was
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Meet celebrated author Joe Starita who will be talking about his book “I Am a Man”: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice.
In 1877, Chief Standing Bear’s Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to what was then known as Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in what became the tribe’s own Trail of Tears. “I Am a Man” chronicles what happened when Standing Bear set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to return the body of his only son to their traditional burial ground. Joe Starita’s well-researched and insightful account reads like historical fiction as his careful characterizations and vivid descriptions bring this piece of American history brilliantly to life.
Joe Starita spent 14 years at The Miami Herald where his investigative reporting won more than 20 regional and national awards, including a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting. The author of three critically acclaimed books on Native Americans, one of which earned a second Pulitzer nomination, Starita has spoken at numerous book festivals and literary events throughout the country and has given more than 200 talks on Ponca Chief Standing Bear and Susan La Flesche, an Omaha Indian who became the nation’s first Native American doctor. For the last 18 years, Starita has taught Depth Reporting classes at the University of Nebraska College of Journalism and Mass Communications, taking classes on award-winning projects to Cuba, France and Sri Lanka. In 2017, he supervised a depth project investigating liquor sales in Whiteclay, Nebraska, that won the Robert F. Kennedy Humanities Foundation Grand Prize – the only time in the foundation’s 50-year history that the award went to a college entry. In July 2011, Starita received the Leo Reano National Civil Rights award from the National Education Association for his work on behalf of Native Americans. In 2015, he started his “Chief Standing Bear Journey for Justice Scholarship Fund” that each year awards five $1,500 scholarships to Nebraska Native American high school graduates.
Books available for purchase and autograph.
Time
(Saturday) 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location
Francie & Finch
130 S. 13th Street
17dec5:30 pm7:30 pmDrop in Journal Club with Catherine Griesen

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5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. DROP IN ANYTIME! Catherine Griesen is a local book artist! She makes beautiful handmade journals that many of you have seen in the shop. Our first
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5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. DROP IN ANYTIME!
Catherine Griesen is a local book artist! She makes beautiful handmade journals that many of you have seen in the shop. Our first Journal Club was such as success, we’ve made it a regular event. Join us every third Wednesday, 5:30pm – 7:30pm. Catherine will be here showcasing her talents for personalizing and creating a memorable piece of art that is your story and your journal.
Journals available for purchase or bring your own!
Time
(Tuesday) 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm CST
17dec6:00 pm7:00 pmRaven & Finch Book Club

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Want to meet interesting people? Want to read things you might not otherwise read? Want to talk about it? The Raven & Finch Book Club meets every third Tuesday at The
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Want to meet interesting people? Want to read things you might not otherwise read? Want to talk about it?
The Raven & Finch Book Club meets every third Tuesday at The Happy Raven (which also happens to be the favorite beer bar in Nebraska for the second straight year!) Located at 122 N. 11th Street. The meeting starts at 6:00 p.m.
We’ll talk for an hour or so and enjoy libations and camaraderie.
F&F offers a 15% discount on all Raven & Finch Book Club Selections**
December 17th – Born a Crime by Trevor Noah plus Holiday Pop Up!
January 21st – Bloodlust & Bonnets by Emily McGovern
** We hope you’ll give the club a try, but if you’re just not into clubs and groups, we invite you to check out these books…..and you’ll still get the discount !
Time
(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Francie & Finch
130 S. 13th Street
20dec5:00 pm6:00 pmAuthor Event - Madeline Cass - How Lonely to Be a Marsh

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Meet author and photographer Madeline Cass. Her latest work is a personification of place, an emotional reverie on a salt marsh near her hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska. A mostly forgotten
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Meet author and photographer Madeline Cass. Her latest work is a personification of place, an emotional reverie on a salt marsh near her hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska.
A mostly forgotten and misunderstood place, this inland salt marsh is moistened by groundwater seeps, with water nearly as salty as the ocean, where endemic and endangered species call home. Frank Shoemaker Marsh and the surrounding protected wetlands are what remains of Nebraska’s saline wetlands, one of the rarest ecosystems on the Great Plains. how lonely, to be a marsh is an attempt to engender an elusive place not readily known – at once both heartfelt & heartbroken.
Cass combines her poetry and photography, images of botanical and zoological specimens, and early 1900s glass plate negatives and journal excerpts by pioneering prairie ecologist Frank Shoemaker.
“touching a place,/you ask it to enter your DNA//stroke the grasses, the flowers, the birds, the beetles,/the salt, the water,/in an act of becoming.”
Photographer and poet Madeline Cass makes her new work in order to merge with a Salt Marsh and speak. That her project is convincing, erotic, exquisite, and memorable is no surprise. As passionate in her conviction as she is masterful in her art, this latest piece is a gift to readers. Enjoy it, consume it! And act to save these rare and precious environments. – Hilda Raz, author of All Odd and Splendid
Commissioned by Platte Basin Timelapse with support from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the Nebraska State Museum, and the Center for Great Plains Studies.
Mad(eline) Cass (b.1993) earned a BFA in studio art with an emphasis in photography from the University of Nebraska in 2017. Her work examines the myriad relationships between art, science, nature, and humanity. Through photography, artist books, zines, poetry, drawing, collage, video, installation and sculpture, her work follows mycological metaphors of growth and decay.
Books available for purchase and Mad will sign them!
Always free gift wrap!
Time
(Friday) 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Francie & Finch
130 S. 13th Street
21dec4:00 pm5:00 pmAuthor Event - Andy Pollock - Snowbound Anthology
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Meet author Andy Pollock, author of The Snowbound Anthology: A Story of the Blizzard of 1949 and Other Nebraska Stories. The Snowbound Anthology is a collection of Nebraska Stories, essays, and
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Meet author Andy Pollock, author of The Snowbound Anthology: A Story of the Blizzard of 1949 and Other Nebraska Stories.
The Snowbound Anthology is a collection of Nebraska Stories, essays, and poetry by Andrew S. Pollock, who grew up in rural keith County.
Andrew Stanton Pollock lives in rural Seward County, Nebraska, and practices telecommunications law in Lincoln. He grew up on the south side of Lake McConaughy in western Nebraska, the son of local newspaper publishers. He went to a one-room country school through sixth grade and holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a law degree from UN-L. Andrew is the co-founder and co-director of the Sandhills Marathon in remote Cherry County, where he spends as much time as he can, fishing and hiking and looking at the stars.
Time
(Saturday) 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location
Francie & Finch
130 S. 13th Street