One Book/One Frenchtown: Community Gathering

Join us for the culminating event for One Book/One Frenchtown at ArtYard's Creekside Residency Lawn.

We'll gather to meet new friends, sip warm apple cider, nosh on snacks, celebrate the week of journaling meetups around Frenchtown, and release the journaling pages created by the community.

This year for One Book/One Frenchtown, the Frenchtown Bookshop and ArtYard have selected The Book of Alchemy by Suleika Jaouad. This latest book by Suleika, author of Between Two Kingdoms, explores the expansive and life-saving practice of journaling.

The Book of Alchemy is a journaling companion, offering a collection of essays and writing prompts by fellow authors to inspire and guide readers. To celebrate the release of The Book of Alchemy, we are hosting a week of journaling meetups around Frenchtown, starting October 19th until October 25th. The Bookshop and ArtYard will create dedicated public journaling spaces available during business hours, providing notebooks and guides written by Suleika Jaouad for anyone to use.

“The journal has been my refuge, a hiding place, a searching place, a finding place," Suleika said. "It’s where I’ve navigated heartbreak and three cancer diagnoses, wrestled with the big unanswerable questions, and found beauty and small joys to counterbalance the sorrows. I’ve learned if I can be in conversation with myself on the page, I can be in conversation with the world.”

Host or Publisher ArtYard