The Friends of the Claremont Public Library 2022-2023 ON THE SAME PAGE Book Choice is A Fire Story by Brian Fies. As the library's website describes it, "Award-winning author and illustrator Brian Fies presents his personal account of the Northern California wildfires of 2017."
Online Resources for the first library event about A Fire Story
When Wildfires Hit Home: The Personal Accounts
"On the Same Page has selected A Fire Story by Brian Fies, a graphic memoir about the sweeping fire in Santa Rosa in 2017, as our "community read" for this year. To build on Fies's experience, so movingly told through words and pictures, our first event will be the stories of three Claremont residents who will use us about their experiences of neighborhood and homes going up in flames."
susank lived in the Santa Rosa neighborhood of A Fire Story author Brian Fies and, like Fies, lost her home in that fire.
A Santa Rosa Cartoonist's 'Fire Story' Comes to Life | KQED Arts (Nov. 2017)
How Brian Fies used art to process a devasting wildfire | PBS News Hour (July 2019)
How EGL Book Club: A Fire Story featuring Brian Fies (Aug. 2020)
Palo Alto Art Center exhibit, Sept. 17 - Dec. 10, 2022
- (video) "Fire Transforms": Living with Fire, A Virtual Panel Discussion
"Hear from four "Fire Transforms artists about their experiences living with fire and how this has found visual expression in their work. Guest curator Rina Faletti will moderate this lively conversation about the power of art to heal, document, and transform in our age of environmental crisis and climate change. Featuring artists Gregory Roberts, Felicia Rice, Brian Fies, and Adam Shaw."
