Events

We want to devote our November Bite-Size Book Club session to discussing the work and legacy of Jane Goodall, who died on October 1st at the age of 91. She was a lifelong advocate for animals and animal rights, and a naturalist and researcher whose observations of chimpanzees in the wild broke important ground in […]

We had such a good discussion as we analyzed the wildlife photographs in our Fall 2025 Book Club session on “Photography as Advocacy” that we didn’t have time to look at sanctuary photography in the same detail. For the January BBC, we will take a close look at sanctuary photographs, including a selection from OMI, […]

In March, we’ll explore a BBC Reader centered on visual art and short literary segments created across time and place by artists and authors who portray animals in their work […]

April will be “Putting the Book in Book Club” month! We’ll discuss two very famous and different novels using pigs as key characters, and both of our selections are still […]

For our May Movie discussion, we’re watching WALL-E, the 2008 Pixar film about waste, loneliness, technology, love, and what it might mean to "come down to the ground." WALL-E is […]

This month’s BBC will explore ways to use scientific topics in advocacy through a visual example: Artificial Selection via the power of graphics! We’ll have some examples of graphics and […]

This month we’ll dive a bit deeper into the concept of “paradigm shift” as we look at another set of graphics related to trophic levels. We will discuss the ways […]

Fall Movie! (And the novel, if you have time!) For December, we will discuss the movie Remarkably Bright Creatures, a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by […]