Join Jessica Leigh Hester for the Toronto launch of Sewer, in person at Another Story Book Shop. Jessica will be joined by veteran Canadian journalist Lloyd Robertson.
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P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome Jessica Leigh Hester to celebrate her new book, Sewer (Bloomsbury), with a talk, audience Q&A, and book signing. Sewer (Bloomsbury) is part of Object Lessons: a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Jessica will be joined in conversation by Angela Chen, a science journalist and the ideas editor at WIRED. After the talk, Jessica will sign copies of her book.
Johns Hopkins’s History of Medicine Department celebrates the publication of Sewer at Bird in Hand bookstore + cafe. Moderated by CityLab’s David Dudley.
Sift through the muck in the pipes below our streets and you will discover a wealth of information about public health, climate change, sustainability, consumerism, infrastructure failures and more. Jessica Leigh Hester does just that in her new book, Sewer. Join her as she moderates a discussion with scientists from London, Toronto, California and New York’s own Hudson River Park. They dig into fatbergs, microplastics, Covid sampling, and cutting edge sewage technology, and will forever change how you think about what goes down our drains.
Jessica Leigh Hester will discuss her book Sewer. She will be joined in conversation by Mary Roach. This is a virtual event hosted by Chicago’s 57th Street Books/Seminary Co-op.
Join us for a conversation exploring the topic of waste and its impact on human systems through the intersection of art, science, and history.
Sto, Artist-in-Residence at the New York Department of Sanitation, is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has centered on collaborations with abused landscapes that have included printmaking polluted waterways, 3D scanning Fresh Kills landfill, recycling waste into art materials, and performing at Superfund sites. This in-person event will engage these two related approaches while also revealing unexpected connections between them.
This in-person event will be held at Center for Book Arts, 28 W. 27th St, 3rd Floor, on Wednesday, November 16 at 6:30pm. Participants are required to follow CBA’s Covid-19 health and safety measures; masks required at this in-person event.
