Chaz Ebert Book Signing Event at Powell’s This Weekend

Chaz Ebert, CEO of Ebert Digital, will be signing her new book, It's Time to Give a FECK: Elevating Humanity through Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion, and Kindness, released on May 7, 2024. The new book explores The FECK Principles—a term Chaz coined—of Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion and Kindness as four fundamental human values that are the key to unlocking greater unity and humanity.

The event, at Powell’s, 1105 W. Burnside St., Sunday, June 9, 3-4:30 p.m., will begin with an in-conversation segment between Chaz and Carol Butler, a national political campaign advisor based in Portland. This will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. Books will be available for sale on-site.

Since her husband Roger Ebert’s death on April 4, 2013, it has been Chaz Ebert’s fervent desire for things such as forgiveness, empathy, compassion, and kindness—what she calls The FECK Principles—to spread in such a viral way that they become a natural part of our lives. A next step to the work Chaz and Roger began together, It’s Time to Give a FECK is a call for the elevation of unity among humanity and a movement to transform empathy into action by choosing to become a part of the conversation surrounding the philosophical principles that matter for the betterment of our local and global societies.

Chaz Ebert is the CEO of Ebert Digital LLC, publisher of the preeminent movie review site RogerEbert.com; also legal adviser and TV and movie producer at Ebert Productions. For 24 years, she shared a life with Pulitzer Prize-winner Roger Ebert. In their work to foster empathy through cinema, they established the Ebertfest Film Festival and the Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies at the University of Illinois. Chaz has continued to lead all events while nurturing film critics, filmmakers and technologists through the Roger Ebert Fellowship. She awards the Golden Thumb and Ebert Humanitarian Awards to filmmakers who exhibit an unusually compassionate view of the world.