Past Events
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicContributors to a new anthology of essays looking deeply at the relationships between mothers and daughters discuss gifts from their mothers that served as models, metaphors, or touchstones.Event Recording
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 6:30 PM | The Writing Life | Members' Room | Open to the PublicJoin us for wine and refreshments as we celebrate the Hudson Review’s 65th Anniversary Issue, “Literature and the Environment,” featuring writers exploring landscape, memory, culture, and place.Event Recording
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Performance | Members' Room | Open to the PublicUsing CBS’s 1937 script for an hour-long version of As You Like It, a cast of acclaimed New York actors recreate a magical evening of radio with dramatic reading, sound effects, and music.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 5:00 PM | Children | Members' Room | For Members and their guests grade 4 and olderAward-winning author Macdonald tells the true story of a Jewish girl who hides in plain sight near Nazi-occupied Paris.
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Monday, April 22, 2013 - 2:00 PM | Technology | Taught by Peri Pignetti
New! Pinterest is a virtual pin board for sharing and organizing images. Learn about Pinterest as an image sharing site and new social network.
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Monday, April 22, 2013 - 10:00 AM | Technology | Taught by Matthew Bright
New! This class covers setting up and using an email account with Gmail, including email threads and labels, and how to create and share documents with Google Drive (formerly Google Docs).
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | For Members OnlyParticipants explore the identity, intolerance, and codes of conduct religions provide as elements of murder mysteries by Zoë Ferraris, Tony Hillerman, and Tarquin Hall, with Hunter College professor B.J. Rahn.
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Friday, April 12, 2013 - 6:00 PM | Reception | Members' Room | Open to the PublicThe Library celebrates National Poetry Month with contrasting readings by three acclaimed contemporary poets. A casual reception will precede the presentation.Event Recording
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Friday, April 12, 2013 - 10:00 AM | Technology | Taught by Brynn White
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Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicThe author of The Peabody Sisters rediscovers the Transcendentalist author, editor, and activist for modern times.Event Recording
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Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 5:00 PM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | Open to the PublicThis four-session seminar offers advance discussion of the Primary Stages 2013-14 season of exciting new plays, with dramaturg Tessa LaNeve.
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Friday, April 5, 2013 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | For Members OnlyPlaywright C.S. Hanson offers anyone who writes dialogue exercises to make it sizzle.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicThe author of The Future of the Past presents a powerful exploration of the intersections of family, history, and memory.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 2:00 PM | Technology | Whitridge Room | For Members Only
This introductory class covers the basics of creating, editing, and presenting a PowerPoint slideshow and will also discuss simple and effective use of graphics, text, and animation in slideshow presentations.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 10:00 AM | Technology | Taught by Peri Pignetti
Etsy is an online marketplace of handmade and vintage goods. Learn how to find and buy items on Etsy and learn to use Etsy to sell your own goods.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Performance | The Kosciuszko Foundation, 15 East 65th Street (Madison/Fifth) | Open to the PublicIn painting, the portrait is a standard genre, in music, an unusual, intriguing choice. In this lecture-recital, Joseph Smith—whose playing the New York Times calls “eloquent”— presents a fresh look at pieces that depict individuals personally known to the composers.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | Members' Room | Open to the PublicFormerly known as Open Mic Night, this is one of the Library's most popular events, showcasing Library members reading from their own short stories, novels, poetry, criticism, memoirs, and plays. Refreshments and wine are served.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | For Members OnlyEducator James Kraft leads discussion of Eliot's complex and surprising work addressing the complicated Victorian social structure and the founding of a Jewish national state.
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicIn celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, acclaimed historian James Oakes presents a powerful history reshaping our understanding of Lincoln and the Civil War.Event Recording
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | For Members Only
When Mary Granville Pendarves Delany invented the art of collage in 1772, she was 72 years old. How did it happen that a woman in her eighth decade invented a brand new art form?
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Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicEminent literary critic Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in recreating the dramatic backstory of James’s masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady.Event Recording
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Sunday, March 3, 2013 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room | Open to the Public
Author and radio host Michael Lasser celebrates E.Y.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the Public
Beth Gutcheon is the author most recently of Gossip (William Morrow, March 2012), and Lauren Belfer’s most recent title is A Fierce Radiance (Harper, June 2010).
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | Open to the PublicThe bestselling author of The Happiness Project dedicates a school year to making her home a place of greater simplicity, comfort, and love, using her signature blend of memoir, science, philosophy, and experimentation.Event Recording
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Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 11:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | For Members Only
Get the creative juices flowing in these fun and instructive sessions. Participants will receive a prompt and will have 20 minutes to write freely, after which they are encouraged to share their writing with the group.