The January Series is a free, 10-day event filled with brilliant speakers, fascinating topics, and enlightened conversation. Calvin University invites prominent academics, educators, artists, activists, and others to present thought-provoking lectures in their areas of expertise.

The Coopersville Area District Library is a remote location for this series. It offers a livestream in the Community Room from 12:30-1:30 PM each day.

Today's speaker: Kaitlin Curtice

Kaitlin Curtice will reveal how powerful stories function like living seeds, growing into trees that define who we are. An award-winning author and poet-storyteller, Kaitlin will incorporate readings from her newest book, Everything Is a Story, to discover ways we can interact with stories and reclaim them for love and kinship.

Kaitlin Curtice is an award-winning author, poet-storyteller, and public speaker who engages in topics such as colonialism in faith communities and the importance of interfaith relationships. Her work appears in major publications, and she speaks at conferences, universities, and faith communities nationwide. An enrolled citizen of the Potawatomi Nation, she writes and teaches at the intersections of spirituality and identity for audiences committed to truth-telling and healing.