ARTIFACTS: Salinas book re-sale, give peace a screening, going organ solo

• The Henry Miller Library has announced the winners of the 2017 season of the Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series. (You forgot about it, didn’t you?) The first place and audience award winner went to The Railroad Lady by Timo von Guneten of Switzerland. Second place, Pushing the Night Away from Norway. Third, Enemies Within, from France. 

• Greg Reitman’s new film, Rooted in Peace, which screened at the United Nations, is coming to Osio Theater (2pm, 4:30pm, 7pm and 9:30pm) Thursday, Sept. 21, marking the International Day of Peace. The film features David Lynch, Deepak Chopra, Archbishop Desmond Totu, Mike Love, Ted Turner and others. It might have more of the filmmaker’s own personal “journey” in it than you want or need, but that’s a small price to pay for world peace. 901-3119. 

• It’s the book sale that was so nice they decided to do it twice. The Friends of the Salinas Public Library is bringing their giant book sale train back round to the Salinas Train Station for another giant offloading of used books 9am-3pm Saturday, Sept. 23. That includes history, sci-fi, biography, children’s, cookbooks and more. 754-5645. 

• Diane Keller was the guest organist at the Salt Lake City Mormon Tabernacle for 18 years, and taught summer organ workshops at Brigham Young University. So you know she knows her stuff – the organ as well as, probably, Mormonism. Her prodigious talent and exciting range will kick off St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church’s fall season of organ concerts with the Italian and French Romantics, contemporary Norwegian and British composers, New Age – and Beatles music. 3pm Saturday, Sept. 23. $20 for general, free for students and children under 18. 624-6646. 

• Former teacher and UFW boycott organizer Wendy Greenfield, who co-founded South Bay Jewish Voice for Peace, gives an overview of the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions opposing Israeli tactics against Palestinians), an update of HR 1697 and S720, and a run-down of BDS’ struggles with Hewlett Packard and PayPal. That should get you up to speed. It goes down Saturday, Sept. 23, 5-5:30pm potluck, 5:30-7pm program. 206-0032. 

• JT Mason and Professor Pushpa Iyer are putting together a poetry slam/reading/performance art evening revolving around the subject of racism, due to drop at Middlebury Institute of International Studies 6-8pm Sept. 28. They’re still taking sign-ups. 594-4235, jtigerm@comcast.net.