Upcoming Appearances
with
Christine Wolf
Saturday
January 11, 2025
1-4pm Central
Northwestern University
Norris University Center
1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, 60208
1-Day Course: Expressive Writing for Emotional Healing
Course Description:
Whether you’ve known periods of overwhelm, trauma, or significant difficulty, it’s important to process these experiences in healthy ways. In this workshop, you’ll learn the evidence-based technique of expressive writing to help process difficult emotions to help you get “unstuck” and off to a good start this new year.
The practice of Expressive Writing, pioneered by Dr. James Pennebaker in 1986, is a remarkably straightforward and FREE way to acknowledge your most troubling memories and create a framework of language that can help to move unresolved thoughts out of your head and onto the page (or even into the air).
Min/Max: 8/10
Ages: 16+
Registration details coming soon
Thursday
November 21, 2024
11a-12p Central
United States Capitol Historical Society
Washington, D.C.
Free and open to the public
Registration link coming soon
”Join us for a compelling story from Christine Wolf, the co-author of a new biography, Politics, Partnerships, & Power: The Lives of Ralph E. and Marguerite Stitt Church.
This book tells the political life of the Honorable Marguerite Stitt Church, one of the founders of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society and one of the first 50 women elected to Congress.
This is the very first biography of a twentieth-century powerhouse couple who, with visionary and persistent methodologies and hearts, gave four decades of legislative service and established much of Illinois’ dedicated political tradition. Spanning everything from the awkward dance of prohibition in Evanston to Marguerite Stitt Church's involvement in the creation of the Peace Corps — with a particular focus on her remarkable legacy as a pioneer for women in government — this historical nonfiction is both a resource and a gripping delight.
Like all United States Capitol Historical Society programs, this webinar is free and open to the public; registration is required. More details to come…
Wednesday & Friday
October 16 & 18, 2024
1-4p Central
Guest Instructor @The Writing Room at Story Jam Studio (SOLD OUT)
Each week, participants receive prompts, writing time, custom feedback, and a focused lesson on some aspect of story crafting. Guests will discover new writing techniques, forgotten personal stories, advanced storytelling tools, and much more!
There is always new material presented and each week, and participants discover many new stories.
"The Writing Room" has helped hundreds of people find and develop their true, personal stories, win slams, and create successful stories for presentations. It has been consistently running since the fall of 2020, with participants rejoining as often as they like.
The group is always warm and engaged, welcoming and fun.
New writers welcome!
THIS CLASS BEST SERVES: Writers; aspiring writers; storytellers; aspiring storytellers; anyone who’d like to work on personal narratives and develop skills in a warm, challenging environment; those who’d enjoy a strong college or graduate-level memoir or nonfiction writing class.
Saturday-Sunday
September 7-8, 2024
10am-6pm Central
Printers Row Lit Fest
Chicago, Illinois
On the streets of South Dearborn, from Ida B. Wells to Polk Street
Rain or Shine
Find me at the Society of Midland Authors’ booth
Tuesday
April 23, 2024
3:30p
Book Talk: Politics, Partnerships, & Power
Speaking to Members of Junior State of America
Naperville North High School
Naperville, Illinois
Friday
April 19, 2024
Evanston, IL
Book Talk: Politics, Partnerships, & Power
Private Event
The Mather Life Plan Community
Evanston, Illinois
Saturday
March 23, 2024
8:00p Central
Moth GrandSLAM Championship
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The ultimate storytelling competition, The Moth GrandSLAM invites winners from our open-mic StorySLAMs back to the stage for the Chicago storytelling championship. The theme for the night is… A POINT OF BEAUTY.
“When the noise and ugliness got so loud, I focused in on a point of beauty.” –Maniza Naqvi
Each ticket purchase includes a copy of The Moth’s new book, A Point of Beauty: True Stories of Holding On and Letting Go coming out on March 19, 2024! The Moth’s fourth anthology is an inspiring and entertaining collection of unforgettable true stories about finding unexpected beauty in life’s transitions. Storytellers in A Point of Beauty include Elizabeth Gilbert and Quiara Alegría Hudes alongside tales of an international rescue mission for Paddington Bear, a family matriarch running numbers in Detroit, an epic Lucha libre showdown in Mexico City, and more. The book will be distributed to ticket holders the night of the GrandSLAM.
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The Evanston History Center
Sunday
March 10, 2024
3:30p Central
Book Launch and Presentation by Christine Wolf
Politics, Partnerships, & Power: The Lives of Ralph E. and Marguerite Stitt Church
The Evanston History Center
Evanston, Illinois
Open to the Public — Register Here
This Women’s History Month event is presented in partnership with the League of Women Voters of Evanston.
Sunday, March 10, 2024, 3:30 – 4:45 PM
In-person event
At the Evanston History Center
225 Greenwood St, Evanston, IL
Free & Open to All
RSVP Required, scroll down to RSVP
It is through our community’s generosity that we can offer these free programs! Please consider donating $10 to support our ongoing free public programming.
About the event:
Join co-author Christine Wolf for “Politics, Partnerships, & Power: The lives of Ralph E. and Marguerite Stitt Church,” the first biography of the twentieth-century powerhouse couple who, with prescient and persistent methodologies and hearts, gave four decades of legislative service, and established much of Illinois’ dedicated political tradition. Spanning everything from the awkward dance of prohibition in Evanston to Marguerite Stitt Church’s involvement in the creation of the Peace Corps, with a particular focus on her remarkable legacy as a pioneer for women in government, this historical nonfiction is both a resource and a gripping delight.
The League of Women Voters of Evanston will share voter information and insights into its work at the event. You can find more information about Marguerite Stitt Church on the Evanston Women’s History Project website.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
If you don’t receive a confirmation email, please email Erin Hughes at ehughes@evanstonhistorycenter.org.