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106 E Front St, Traverse City, MI 49684
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What is a WATCH PARTY?
Group Watching at City Opera House
Watch Party Definition: This is a unique event. Nina Totenberg will not be in Traverse City for this event. Instead, weāre delighted to welcome her to the City Opera House through Zoom where guest host April Baer will interview her. You can attend this event at the City Opera House, but only April will be on stage talking to Nina Totenberg via television monitor.
On the Opera House Website
You will be taken to the City Opera House website for in-person tickets ONLY.
If you want to attend virtual events you must purchase here on the NWS website.
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Watch Party Definition: This is a unique evening. Nina Totenberg will not be in Traverse City for this event. Instead, weāre delighted to welcome her to the City Opera House through Zoom where guest host April Baer will interview her. You can attend this event at the City Opera House, but only April will be on stage talking to Nina Totenberg via television monitor. April Baer is the host of Stateside, a Monday through Friday Michigan Radio show. Livestreaming is also available if you’d like to watch the conversation from the comfort of your own home.
The National Writers Series proudly presents a conversation with NPR legal correspondent Nina Totenberg. Guest host April Baer will be at the City Opera House to chat with Nina who will join the conversation from New York City via monitor on stage.
Ticket Prices (this is a book bundled event):
Each ticket comes with Ninaās hardcover book, Dinners with Ruth, which can be shipped to you or picked up at Horizon Books:
Watch Party Tickets are general admission to the City Opera House and cost $37 per person and include a copy of Totenberg’s book.
Virtual Tickets are also $37, plus a $5.50 book shipping fee.
Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, and nearly 22 years before Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court, Nina called Ruth. A reporter for The National Observer, Nina was curious about Ruthās legal brief that asked the Supreme Court to do something revolutionary: declare a law that discriminated āon the basis of sexā to be unconstitutional. That phone call launched a remarkable, nearly 50-year friendship.
Dinners with Ruth is an extraordinary āØaccount of two women who paved the way for future generations by tearing down professional and legal barriers. It is also an intimate memoir of the power of friendships. At the storyās heart is one, special relationship: Ruth and Nina saw each other not only through personal joys, but also illness, loss, and widowhood. During Ruthās last year, they shared so many small dinners that Saturdays were āreserved for Ruthā in Ninaās house.
Nina Totenberg is NPRās award-winning legal affairs correspondent. She appears on NPRās critically acclaimed news magazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition, and on NPR podcasts, including The NPR Politics Podcast and its series, The Docket. Totenbergās Supreme Court and legal coverage has won her every major journalism award in broadcasting. Recognized seven times by the American Bar Association for continued excellence in legal reporting, she has received more than two dozen honorary degrees. A frequent TV contributor, she writes for major newspapers, magazines, and law reviews.

Guest Host April Baer is the host of Michigan Radioās Stateside talk show. Prior to her arrival in Michigan, April was the host of the weekly show State of Wonder on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) for six years. Before that, she was the Morning Edition host and a reporter at OPB, covering beats that included government and legal affairs, changing demographics, and the arts.

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In Person Tickets
Watch Party tickets are purchased through the City Opera House.
Local Bookstores
Bay BooksĀ – Suttons Bay
Brilliant BooksĀ – Traverse City
Cottage Book ShopĀ – Glen Arbor
Horizon BooksĀ – Traverse City
McLean & EakinĀ – Petoskey
Saturn BooksellersĀ – Gaylord
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Debbie Edson
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This activity is supported in part by the MICHIGAN ARTS & CULTURE COUNCIL and the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS.