events @ the Library

Thursday, September 16, 2010
7:00 pm
Westport Country Playhouse

Emmy and Tony award-winning actor Christopher Plummer will do readings from Archibald MacLeish with an interview following with Annie Keefe, Westport Country Playhouse Artistic Advisor, about his career and book, In Spite of Myself: A Memoir.

ALL TICKETS ARE NOW TAKEN.
Phone the Westport Country Playhouse box office
at 203-227-4177. Call a few days before the event to see if any tickets become available.


DO NOT LEAVE A MESSAGE UNDER COMMENTS IF YOU WANT RESERVATIONS.
YOU MUST CALL THE PLAYHOUSE AT THE NUMBER ABOVE

Directions to Westport Country Playhouse.
Photo credit Richard Bain

Books will be available for purchase and signing. A percentage of all purchases will benefit the Library.

Monday, April 12, 2010
7:30 pm
Bedford Middle School

Roz Chast, renowned New Yorker cartoonist, will speak at the Malloy Lecture in the Arts. Her talk is in conjunction with the Westport Arts Center's exhibit "Divine Comedy: Drawings by R. Crumb & Roz Chast."

More about the programs associated with the exhibit at WAC.
Cartoons by Roz Chast.

Registration required.

Directions to Bedford Middle School.

Monday, November 17
7:30 pm
Bedford Middle School Auditorium

Joyce Carol Oates will be in conversation with Westporter Sybil Steinberg at the 7th Annual Malloy Lecture in the Arts. Oates, nominated three times for a Nobel Prize, is one of America's most versatile, serious writers, the author of a number of distinguished books in several genres, all published within the past twenty-five years.

In addition to numerous novels and short story collections, she has published several volumes of poetry, several books of plays, and five books of literary criticism. Often Oates's "vision" is that of a highly complex America populated with presumably ordinary families who experience common yet intense emotions and relationships and who frequently encounter violence.

Her newest children’s book, Naughty Cherie, was published in January 2008. Come Meet Muffin! a children's book, was published in 1998. Black Water was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In January 2001 We Were The Mulvaneys was selected as an Oprah Book of the Month.


Click here for Joyce Carol Oates website

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Registration required for this event.
Click here to register
No tickets issued, just check-in at the door.


Click here for directions to Bedford Middle School.

Photo credit:Marion Ettlinger.

Vartan Gregorian was the speaker at the 6th Annual Malloy Lecture in the Arts on April 29, 2008. He discussed the importance of libraries in society. Gregorian is the twelfth president of Carnegie Corporation of New York and past president of the New York Public Library. The Malloy Lecture is a unique educational venue which encourages dialogue and discussion.

More info on Vartan Gregorian and the Carnegie Corporation.

Info about the Malloy Lecture