Join us at The Bakken Museum for a book club unlike any other. Bring the pages of Sally Adee’s We Are Electric to life through rare books and historic artifacts presented by our curators. During book club, you’ll engage in conversations about the literature with other book club members and our curators and have the chance to see items usually stored deep in our on-site vaults.
A copy of the book is included in the cost of registration and is available to pick up at The Bakken Museum. We recommend picking up your copy as soon as possible, as we will discuss the text in full during the session.
REGISTRATION: $40 Per Person, $35 for museum members
Bakken Museum Book Club will meet during one session on either Wednesday, April 17 from 4-6 p.m. or Saturday, April 20 from 1-3 p.m. Please select whichever works best for you, as the two book club sessions will feature the same subject matter and artifacts.
Can’t make this time? Check out our Saturday session.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Every cell in our bodies - bones, skin, nerves, muscle - has its own voltage, like a tiny capacitor. We’ve suspected since the 1700s that this bioelectricity is integral to the brain’s ability to send and receive the body’s messages, underpinning all motion, sensation, and thought. And yet even as it became clear that bioelectric signaling is implicated in far more, the study of bioelectricity kept being sidelined by its association with gruesome controversies. Only in the past few decades has the development of incredible new tools allowed us to finally begin to appreciate its true power.
Bioelectricity is why we develop the way we do in the womb and how our bodies know to heal themselves from injury. When these signals go awry, illness, deformity, and cancer can result. We Are Electric introduces the next frontier of scientific understanding: the body's electrome. Learn more.