Author Temple Grandin @ Harold Washington Library Center

See author and animal advocate Temple Grandin tonight at 6pm at the Harold Washington Library Center's Pritzker Auditiorium, 400 S. State St., as she discusses her latest book, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals. Grandin, also an animal scientist, shares her insight into animal behavior and its effects on the animal-human relationship. Admission is free.

Re-Thinking Soup @ Hull House

UIC hosts Re-Thinking Soup, a free weekly lunch where participants eat soup cooked from ingredients found at Hull House's urban gardens and chat about an assortment of topics. Event runs today from noon-1:30pm at Hull House, 800 South Halsted.

Green Spa Night @ Greenheart Shop

Nonprofit, fair trade store Greenheart Shop (1911 W. Division) hosts a Green Spa Night tonight from 6pm to 7:30pm. Gather your girlfriends for an evening of wine, refreshments, and creativity as you learn how to turn basic kitchen ingredients into luxurious face masks, moisturizers, scrubs, and hair treatments. Tickets are $15 and RSVP is suggested (call 312-264-1625 or email info@greenheartshop.org to reserve a space).

Human Rights Watch - Exposure of Blood Diamonds

Human Rights Watch Chicago Committee, in partnership with the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago, presents a report from the field: Exposure of Blood Diamonds in Zimbabwe.

In late June 2009, Human Rights Watch published a report documenting horrific human rights abuses by Zimbabwe's police and military in the Marange diamond mines. Tiseke Kasambala has covered Zimbabwe for Human Rights Watch since 2004 and is widely recognized as among the world's leading experts on Zimbabwe's blood diamonds.

5:30pm
Fourth Presbyterian Church - Anderson Hall
126 E. Chestnut Street

Free and open to the public
RSVP to Stephen Steim at stephen.steim@hrw.org or (312) 573-2452.

Twitterature Reading @ 57th St. Books

Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin, authors of Twitterature, read their distillations of literary classics boiled down to 140-character tweets at 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th St., at 6pm. Free.