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Elliot Pulham, President and CEO of the Space Foundation will speak at the Pikes Peak Community College Centennial Campus Atrium (5675 S. Academy Blvd.) on Wednesday, October 14 from noon – 2 p.m. There will also be an exhibit of a space shuttle suit.

On Thursday, October 15 from 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the PPCC Rampart Range Campus Library (11195 Highway 83 ), Rick W. Sturdevant, Air Force Space Command Deputy Directory of History, will present Space Flight in Fiction and Fact: the Popular Culture and Engineering Reality of Exploring Other Worlds and Benefiting Our Own. After the presentation, PPCC students and faculty member Dr. Stephen Collins will present a puppet show, In Space and Spaced Out: A Look at the Space Program. Refreshments will be provided.

These presentations are All Pikes Peak Reads 2009 events.

Issa Bagayogo, from Mali, played an enthralling show at Colorado College’s Armstrong Hall on August 6 as part of PPLD’s World Music Series. The packed house swayed and danced to the beat of a unique blend of traditional African music (including Bagayogo on n’goni) and modern dance beats.

Are things like public transportation, city parks, and community centers luxuries or necessities? Does our communal assessment change depending on the current economic conditions? If we deem these things necessities, how should we pay for them?

Join Dream City: Vision 2020 for a facilitated community dialogue on this important issue facing the community. It is free and open to the public.

Jan Martin and Andy McElhaney will each provide brief presentations to set the context for this community conversation.

This is the first in the Dream City Brown Bag Lunch Series that will address topical issues as they arise. Please RSVP by Oct. 1 to becci@leadershippikespeak.org.

• When: Monday, October 5, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Where: Penrose Library, Carnegie Reading Room

How much can you trust medical advice you find on the Internet? PPLD’s subscription database, Health and Wellness Resource Center, is a great example of when you should go to an authoritative source rather than trusting random sites on the world wide web.

Information in this database is available for free to PPLD patrons whose card number begins with 4. It is easy to find by going to ppld.org, and clicking on the Electronic Reference link. Click on the Health catagory and you will see this database listed with many other helpful resources.

Below is a link to an online tutorial pointing out some of the many features of this database.

Click here for a brief tour of the Health and Wellness Resource Center. (Requires a free Adobe Captivate download.)

A hapless inventor (world-class clown Jim Jackson of the Manitou Arts Theater) dreams of traveling to space and sets out to build a rocket ship in A Nose for Space. The “Rube Goldberg” rocket Machine will be constructed on stage as the show explores all of the necessary and not so necessary items needed for space travel. Benjamin Pratt will provide lively space age music for this All Pikes Peak Reads 2009 program.

For audiences in grades K – 5, with scientific content about space, solar system, the moon, and astronauts.

• Sat., Sept. 26 at 1:30 p.m. – Ruth Holley Branch, 685 N. Murray Blvd.
• Sun., Sept. 27 at 1:30 p.m. – Sand Creek Branch, 1821 S. Academy Blvd.
• Sat., Oct. 10 at 1:30 p.m. – Monument Branch, 1706 Lake Woodmoor Dr.
• Sun., Oct. 11 at 2 p.m. – East Library, 5550 N. Union Blvd.
• Sat., Oct. 17 at 1:30 p.m. – Cheyenne Mountain Branch, 1785 S. 8th St.
• Sun., Oct. 18 at 2 p.m. – Penrose Library, 20 N. Cascade Ave.

This program for tweens is presented by the Space Foundation as part of All Pikes Peak Reads 2009. Students will design and build a lander similar to the new lunar lander, Altair. This design challenge will require students to build a lander that can land three astronauts safely on the lunar surface. Altair is the proposed Lunar lander that will land astronauts on the moon. It is being built by NASA as part of the Constellation program.

• When: Wed., Oct. 21 at 6:30 p.m.
• Where: East Library, 5550 N. Union Blvd.

This program for teens is presented by the Space Foundation as part of All Pikes Peak Reads 2009. Students will design a vehicle similar to the LCROSS impactor, which was built and launched by NASA as part of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission to study the moon. Students will design and build a vehicle that will release an impactor into a simulated lunar surface.

• When: Wed., Oct. 28 at 6:30 p.m. – Cancelled due to inclement weather
• Where: East Teen Center at East Library, 5550 N. Union Blvd.

The Colorado Springs Philharmonic hits warp speed, presenting the music from your favorite science fiction epics. Music from The Last Starfighter, Contact, Total Recall, and Stargate will make you feel like you are on a journey to other worlds.

Tickets, which range from $14 – 54, can be purchased online by clicking here. This show is part of All Pikes Peak Reads 2009.

• When: Sat., Oct. 17 at 8 p.m.
• Where: Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts, 190 S. Cascade Ave.

Join Mitchell High School’s Science Department and PPLD’s Children’s department as they present folktales shown and told as you have never heard them before. Enjoy such tales as Her Seven Brothers, a Cheyenne tale about the origin of the Big Dipper and The Colossal Pumpkin, an African tale about the origin of the stars and moon. Storytelling will be open to school-age children. This program is part of All Pikes Peak Reads 2009.

• When: Wed., Oct. 21 at 6:30 p.m.
• Where: Mitchell High School, 1205 Potter Dr.

Come view the night sky in Mitchell High School’s new planetarium created by the Science Department. See which constellations and planets you can find. Also, enjoy the gallery displays created by art students from Mitchell High School and Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy. Free, but donations are welcome at this All Pikes Peak Reads 2009 event.

• When: Wed., Oct. 14 at 6:30 p.m.
• Where: Mitchell High School, 1205 Potter Dr.