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Start: 6:30 pm
The Chuckanut Radio Hour is a radio variety show that began in January, 2007 and is regularly broadcast on KMRE LP 102.3 FM and seen on KVOS TV. You may listen to the programs in rotation each Saturday evening at 6pm and each Sunday evening at 9pm. You may listen to KMRE online at the times the show plays or...anytime. Check local listings for TV times. The show's first guest was Erik Larson and has since included William Dietrich, Elizabeth George, J.A. Jance, Sherman Alexie, Tom Robbins and Garrison Keillor, among many others.
Our author guest for our February show is Jonathan Evision, author of West of Here. Music is by the Prozac Mountain Boys; our Poets' Corner will be manned by resident poet, Kevin Murphy; Alan Rhodes will have another rib-tickling essay for us; and the Beans will likely be getting in even more trouble in our serial comedy sketch. Tickets are $5 each (one free with the purchase of West of Here, at the store, prior to the show) and online at Brown Paper Tickets.
Set in the fictional town of Port Bonita, on Washington State’s rugged Pacific coast, West of Here is propelled by a story that both re-creates and celebrates the American experience—it is storytelling on the grandest scale. With one segment of the narrative focused on the town’s founders circa 1890, and another showing the lives of their descendants in 2006, the novel develops as a kind of conversation between two epochs, one rushing blindly toward the future and the other struggling to undo the damage of the past.
Jonathan Evison is an American writer best known for his debut novel All About Lulu published in 2008, which won critical acclaim, including the Washington State Book Award. In 2009, Evison was awarded a Richard Buckley Fellowship from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. In his teens, Evison was the founding member and frontman of the Seattle punk band March of Crimes, which included future members of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.
Start: 7:00 pm
Groundbreaking, empowering, and inspiring, this is James’ chronicle of how his unorthodox education brought him success, and how anyone – from children struggling in school to professionals looking to jump-start their careers – can become educated on their own terms.
When James Bach was just 24 years old, he told a classroom of at risk kids, “Education is important. School is not. I didn’t need school. Neither do you.” And James should know. At the age of 14, James, son of Richard Bach (bestselling author of the 1970s classic Jonathan Livingston Seagull), dropped out of school because it was “interfering” with his education. To James, it wasn’t just a waste of time, he felt he was using his own time against himself. This was a seemingly radical idea for someone who would go on to become one of the youngest technical managers at Apple Computers and an internationally-recognized expert in the field of computer software testing.
Here James strongly advocates the importance of “unschooling”—considering himself not a student but rather a “Buccaneer-Scholar.” To James, a buccanneer-scholar is a person “whose love of learning is not muzzled, yoked or shackled by any institution or authority and whose mind is driven to wander and find its own voice and place in the world.”
The volatility of today’s job market and the limitless opportunities afforded by the internet have forever changed people's attitudes about schooling. In this world of rapid technological development, people are becoming successful, making money and finding personal satisfaction through non-traditional means. Ideas have become more important than training; innovation is more important than credentials. The ability to educate oneself — to learn how to learn — is crucial.
With Secrets of a Bunccaneer Scholar, James doesn’t seek to eliminate schools but he does want to deconstruct the belief that formal education is the only path to a great education. In his uniquely pithy and anecdotal style, James outlines the eleven elements of his self-education method and shows how every reader — simply by investing time and passion into educating themselves about the things that really interest them — can develop a method for acquiring knowledge and expertise that fits their temperaments and enhances their unique abilities and skills.
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