Lecture and book signing with author Alan Weisman on Thursday, November 8, at 6:30 p.m. at Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th floor. Before Weisman wrote his New York Times best-seller, The World Without Us he was widely esteemed for Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, the chronicle of the sustainable, utopian community founded in the Los Llanos region of Colombia. The Critical Encounters program hosts this opening event for The Peace Museum’s new exhibition “An Oasis of the Imagination,” based on Weisman’s book. The exhibition takes place at the Harold Washington Public Library. For more information on the exhibition visit http://www.peacemuseum.org