About this event
Join us at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle for this book promo event hosted by the WTS Puget Sound Reading Group.
Cost
This event is free!
Questions?
Email Cathy Jimenez at [email protected] for questions.
Agenda
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. This one-hour event will kick off at 7:00 p.m.
About the Book
Deciding to See: The View from Nathan's Bus is an eye-opening, inspiring, and hopeful linked-essay collection recounting the amazing everyday encounters of city bus driver, Nathan Vass, whose life's motto is if you give kindness, you'll get kindness. Vass tests this theory on the roughest nighttime routes in Seattle. The results illuminate the challenges of poverty, homelessness, and crossing class boundaries. Vass intertwines personal stories of trauma from his survival of the 2015 Paris terror attacks, showing that we are all struggling with tragedy. These brief but meaningful encounters foster healing for everyone involved. The ordinary becomes extraordinary when he chooses to see the beauty of each person who steps onto his bus. Come along for the ride.
About the Author
Nathan Vass is an artist, filmmaker, photographer, and author by day, and a Metro bus driver by night, where his community-building work has been showcased on TED, NPR, The Seattle Times, KING5 and more, landing him a spot on Seattle Magazine’s 2018 list of the 35 Most Influential People in Seattle, and Seattle Met's 2021 Power Players list. A Korean-American born in South Central LA, Nathan holds a BFA in Photography from the University of Washington, and has been featured in the Seattle Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, and more, with 40 photography shows and 9 films including the award-winning festival favorite Men I Trust. His first book, The Lines That Make Us, is a Seattle bestseller and 2019 Washington State Book Award Finalist in Non-Fiction.
About the Interlocutor
Thomas Eykemans is Design Director at Marquand Books, which develops, designs, and produces books with museums, artists, and publishers. He is co-organizer of the Seattle Art Book Fair, founder of Tome Press, and instructs at the University of Washington School of Art + Design.
He was previously Senior Designer at the University of Washington Press. He received a BFA in Visual Communication Design from the University of Washington School of Art in 2002. He studies and teaches traditional martial arts at the Seattle Kung Fu Club. He was born in Seattle to Dutch parents and raised in Port Angeles, where the mountains greet the sea.
Pre-order your copy of Deciding to See here.
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