Joyful Journeys Author Series

Mise en Place: Memoir of a Girl Chef with author Marisa Mangani

February 20 | 5:00 – 6:30pm, Sarasota – Senior Friendship Centers

Mise en Place is a Memoir of a Girl Chef is a story about the determination to succeed in the face of personal handicaps and cultural norms. Sip wine and partake in light refreshments as you listen to Marisa’s story.

Balance with author Cedric Hameed

March 20 | 5:00 – 6:30pm, Sarasota – Senior Friendship Centers

Join us to learn more about author and poet Cedric Hameed. He began his poetic journey in 2003, running a small poetry cafe as an outreach program in the South Bronx. He won a fellowship with The Nanticket Project in 2017, then started leading workshops at The Yach School of Business, and performances at The Kennedy Center and The Sandra Day O’Connor Institute of Deocracy in 2023.

Sacrifices for Kingdoms with author Patricia D’Arcy Laughlin

March 27 | 5:00 – 6:30pm, Sarasota – Senior Friendship Centers

Sacrifices For Kingdoms begins with the warm sweetness of falling in love before becoming inflamed with passion, intrigue and danger. Shocking secrets are progressively revealed, mysteries unraveled, loyalties divided. Elizabeth is sophisticated, wealthy, and harbors life-changing secrets, including her audacious equality speeches on the inflammatory topic ‘God Has No Gender’. Rightly beset with fears of losing the monarchy, but more afraid for her safety than his own, the besotted heir to the throne, Prince Michael, is determined, at any sacrifice, to stop her from continuing her controversial speeches, and to, honorably, learn of her mysterious haunting past. Their profuse, vividly titillating, sometimes humorous, lovemaking, contrasts calculatingly with their involvements in serious social issues.