Meet Rick Stromoski
Illustrator and Cartoonist
of
Saturday February 6, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Connecticut Artist Rick Stromoski will present his program "Cartooning For Kids!"
3:05 PM until 4:00 PM
Mr. Stomoski taught himself to draw and his illustrations and artwork have found their way into a wide range of publications. His work has appeared in national magazines, children's and humor books, newspapers, licensed products, national advertising and network television. His work includes the comic strip The Mullets and Soup To Nutz. Rick Stromoski became the first cartoonist to win twice the National Cartoonist Society Greeting Card Award in 1995 and 1998. He's also won the Gag Cartoon Award for 1999, and was nominated for their Book and Illustration Award for 1999.
Registration required. For ages 5 and up.
4:00 PM until 4:15 PM
Visit and meet local cartoonist Rick Stromoski! Books available for purchase as well as autographing. He will be available for book signing!
4:15 PM until 5:00 PM
Learn To Draw with Rick Stromoski - learn to draw characters and develop your own storylines.
Registration required. For ages 6 and up.
You will need a drawing table and 2 #2 sharpened pencils, with erasers.
Registration is limited to the first 30 registrants.
**THIS CLASS IS NOW FULL!** contact library for possible openings.
For more information contact:
The Brookfield Library
182 Whisconier Road
Brookfield, CT 06804
www.brookfieldlibrary.org
Telephone: (203) 775-6241
Celebrate
Chinese New Year
Saturday, February 6, 2010
2:00 - 3:00pm
Fun for the whole family!
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Drop-in crafts: Make Origami and Chinese lanterns. Calligraphy demonstration.
2:15 PM – 3:00 PM
Performance: Chinese folk dances and traditional music performed by Phoenix Performing Arts and HuaXia Chinese School - CT.
Have a Happy and Prosperous Year of the Tiger!
Free! No registration.
More information contact:
Danbury Library
170 Main Street
Danbury, CT 06810
Telephone: (203) 797-4505
Have a Happy and Prosperous Year of the Tiger!
Free! No registration.
More information contact:
Danbury Library
170 Main Street
Danbury, CT 06810
Telephone: (203) 797-4505
Darien Library1441 Post Road
Darien, Connecticut 06820-5419
Telephone:203-655-1234
www.darienlibrary.org
*****
(2009)
A woman verging on 30 and frustrated in her temp secretarial job, takes on a year-long culinary quest: cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." She chronicles her trials and tribulations in a blog that catches on with the food crowd. This film follows both women, who, while separated by time and space, discover that with the right combination of passion and fearlessness (and butter!), anything is possible.
Starring Meryl Streep (in her Oscar-nominated performance!), Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci
Rated PG-13;
123 minutes
Mark your calendars for the 2010 Friday Films at the Library!
A woman verging on 30 and frustrated in her temp secretarial job, takes on a year-long culinary quest: cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." She chronicles her trials and tribulations in a blog that catches on with the food crowd. This film follows both women, who, while separated by time and space, discover that with the right combination of passion and fearlessness (and butter!), anything is possible.
Starring Meryl Streep (in her Oscar-nominated performance!), Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci
Rated PG-13;
123 minutes
Mark your calendars for the 2010 Friday Films at the Library!
For more information contact:
Darien Library
1441 Post Road
Darien, Connecticut, 06820-5419
Telephone: (203) 655-1234
www.darienlibrary.org
Wonton Winter Wonderland
Friday, February 5, 2010
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Chinese New Year is quickly approaching. You can join in the fun at a hands-on workshop and learn to make wontons four ways, appetizers through desserts! Carol Dannhauser, cook and journalist, leads the fun.
Registration is required.
Call the library at 203-259-0346, ext. 18 to sign up.
For more information:
Pequot Library
720 Pequot Avenue
Greenwich Library
101 West Putnam Avenue
Greenwich, CT 06830
www.greenwichlibrary.org
THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE
720 Pequot Avenue
Greenwich Library101 West Putnam Avenue
Greenwich, CT 06830
www.greenwichlibrary.org
Friends Friday Films
The Man Who Wasn't There
Friday, February 5, 2010
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE (2001)
Average guy barber falls for get rich quick scheme and becomes victim to the double and triple cross.
With Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini, Scarlett Johansson.
Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
Retro film noir in elegant black and white.
116 min.
Rated R
Admission to the Friends Friday Films is FREE.
This series is made available by membership contributions.
Average guy barber falls for get rich quick scheme and becomes victim to the double and triple cross.
With Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini, Scarlett Johansson.
Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
Retro film noir in elegant black and white.
116 min.
Rated R
Admission to the Friends Friday Films is FREE.
This series is made available by membership contributions.
Show time is 8:00 PM
Doors open at 7:40 PM
Location: Cole Auditorium
Contact: Wayne Campbell
Telephone: (203) 622-7922
*****
Come celebrate the Year of the Tiger, as Greenwich Library welcomes the CBA Culture & Arts Center of New York City. Join in and take part in the festivities, which will include dancing, acrobatics, magic, martial arts and music.
Chinese New Year Celebration
Celebrate the Year of the Tiger
Sunday, February 7, 2010
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Come celebrate the Year of the Tiger, as Greenwich Library welcomes the CBA Culture & Arts Center of New York City. Join in and take part in the festivities, which will include dancing, acrobatics, magic, martial arts and music.
CBA is dedicated to the development of traditional Chinese arts in the spirit of exchange and dialogue with other cultures in the world. While seeking to preserve Chinese folk flavors, CBA programs continue to develop fresh ideas and techniques as artists come in contact with other traditions in the eclectic art scenes of the west.
The program is appropriate for all ages.
No registration required.
For more information on Chinese New Year Celebration,
please call Yang Wang at (203) 622-7924.
For more information contact:
Greenwich Library
101 West Putnam Avenue
Greenwich, CT 06830
www.greenwichlibrary.org
Do you love to play Super Smash Bros. Brawl? Are you up for a challenge? The Rowayton Library’s Teen Advisory Board is teaming up to provide a professional Super Smash Bros.
Greenwich Library
101 West Putnam Avenue
Greenwich, CT 06830
www.greenwichlibrary.org
GamingNight @ the Rowayton Library
Super Smash Bros. Brawl Tournament
for Kids grades 6-8
Friday, February 5, 2010
5:00 PM -6:30 PM
Do you love to play Super Smash Bros. Brawl? Are you up for a challenge? The Rowayton Library’s Teen Advisory Board is teaming up to provide a professional Super Smash Bros.
Brawl Tournament at the Rowayton Library on Friday night, February 5th from 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM for kids in grades 6-8.
Prizes, prizes, prizes will be given to the top players.
Tournament Rules: three minute-knockout rounds, number of rounds based on number of kids registered, random levels, highest score wins.
Spectators welcome.
Prizes, prizes, prizes will be given to the top players.
Tournament Rules: three minute-knockout rounds, number of rounds based on number of kids registered, random levels, highest score wins.
Spectators welcome.
To pre-register for the 6th – 8th grade tournament, call the Rowayton Library at (203) 838-5038 or email TAB@Rowayton.org with your name and grade.
Pre-registration is recommended, however attendees may register at the event.
For more information contact:
The Rowayton Library
33 Highland Avenue
Rowayton, CT 06853
Telephone: (203) 838-5038
www.rowayton.org
World View Series
Dayton Program Room
Saturday, February 6, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Library's World Views series continues with a film screening of Fifty Wonders of Korea: The Hidden Treasures of Korean Art. The film will introduce audience members to the unique and extraordinary history and culture of Korea. The film features such Korean artifacts as the Sarira Reliquary of Kameusna Temple, the Sokkuram Grotto, and the Koryo Buddhist paintings.After the one hour film screening some traditional Korean food and drinks will be served.
The program is presented by members of the Korean Spirit and Culture Poromotion Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of Korean history and culture.
Registration is required as space is limited.
For more information contact:
Lesley Lambton
Telephone: (203) 438-2282 and/or
Email: lalambton@ridgefieldlibrary.org
Ridgefield Library
472 Main Street
Ridgefield, Connecticut 06877
Telephone: (203) 438-2282
www.ridgefieldlibrary.org
Main Library
One Public Library Plaza
Stamford, CT 06904
Telephone: (203) 964-1000
www.fergusonlibrary.org
*****
The story of the Hakoah Vienna Jewish women’s swim team of the 1930s – their forced separation, and their reunion decades later.
"Yaron Zilberman's wonderful, heartwarming Watermarks" (Kevin Thomas, L.A. Times) narrates the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Vienna sports club Hakoah. Founded in 1909 in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade most Austrian sports clubs from accepting Jewish athletes, Hakoah rapidly grew into one of Europe's biggest athletic organizations -- and its women's swim team virtually dominated national competitions in the 1930s.
An uplifting tale of survival and friendship, Watermarks focuses on the stories of the club's surviving members, while also faithfully recounting a historical period where prejudice and violence forced these brave women into exile. Now, sixty-five years after their escape, seven of Hakoah's female swim team athletes leave their respective homes across the globe and re-unite for the first time at their old Vienna swimming pool. The result is so incredibly touching that Boston Globe critic Wesley Morris wrote, "The images of them swimming together after all those years are beautiful and a little holy: They look like angels in the water."
Alternating between painstakingly researched historical footage and contemporary interviews with the women swimmers, Yaron Zilberman daringly re-connects the lives and memories of those who challenged the status quo and, for the occasion of his movie, bravely share their complex legacy of tolerance and integrity with future generations. "As these women tell their stories in a tone of wonderment," says New York Times film critic Stephen Holden, "Watermarks becomes more than a pointed footnote to the Holocaust. It emerges as a surprisingly encouraging reflection on the distance between youth and advanced age." review source (1)
Directed by Yaron Zilberman.
One Public Library Plaza
Stamford, CT 06904
Telephone: (203) 964-1000
www.fergusonlibrary.org
*****
Sunday Afternoon at the Movies
Watermarks
February 7, 2010
1:30 PM
The story of the Hakoah Vienna Jewish women’s swim team of the 1930s – their forced separation, and their reunion decades later.
"Yaron Zilberman's wonderful, heartwarming Watermarks" (Kevin Thomas, L.A. Times) narrates the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Vienna sports club Hakoah. Founded in 1909 in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade most Austrian sports clubs from accepting Jewish athletes, Hakoah rapidly grew into one of Europe's biggest athletic organizations -- and its women's swim team virtually dominated national competitions in the 1930s.An uplifting tale of survival and friendship, Watermarks focuses on the stories of the club's surviving members, while also faithfully recounting a historical period where prejudice and violence forced these brave women into exile. Now, sixty-five years after their escape, seven of Hakoah's female swim team athletes leave their respective homes across the globe and re-unite for the first time at their old Vienna swimming pool. The result is so incredibly touching that Boston Globe critic Wesley Morris wrote, "The images of them swimming together after all those years are beautiful and a little holy: They look like angels in the water."
Alternating between painstakingly researched historical footage and contemporary interviews with the women swimmers, Yaron Zilberman daringly re-connects the lives and memories of those who challenged the status quo and, for the occasion of his movie, bravely share their complex legacy of tolerance and integrity with future generations. "As these women tell their stories in a tone of wonderment," says New York Times film critic Stephen Holden, "Watermarks becomes more than a pointed footnote to the Holocaust. It emerges as a surprisingly encouraging reflection on the distance between youth and advanced age." review source (1)
Directed by Yaron Zilberman.
2004. Austria.
77 minutes.
For more information contact:
One Public Library Plaza
Stamford, CT 06904
Telephone: (203) 964-1000
www.fergusonlibrary.org
The TLS is glad to present a concert with John Lehmann-Haupt on guitar. Mr. Lehmann-Haupt has built a distinctive repertoire of classical guitar works, acoustic folk ballads and blues pieces.
From 1981 until 1993, he performed nightly at Windows on the World atop New York City's World Trade Center, an engagement cited for musical excellence by The New York Times. He has also performed in concerts and clubs throughout the Northeast, and in the homes of such prominent New Yorkers as Tom Brokaw, Madeleine Albright, and Donald Trump.
For his fifth birthday, John received a small nylon-string guitar, and by the age of thirteen, he put out a limited edition album of folk ballads and blues. Since 1982, John has been on the teaching staff of New York's American Institute of Guitar. He has also written extensively on music and the guitar for The New York Times, Acoustic Guitar, Family Life, and several other magazines.
Supported by the Mallett Foundation.
Drop in. Refreshments provided.
FREE
For more information contact:
Trumbull Library
33 Quality Street
Trumbull, CT 06611
Telephone: (203) 452-5197
www.trumbullct-library.org
The Bennett Harris Acoustic Blues Trio presents a lively and memorable show of Americana blues and early jazz music. The group includes vocals, guitar, harmonica, fiddle, and bass. In addition to original tunes, their spirited repertoire draws from the songbooks of Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Blind Blake . . . and ranges through Irving Berlin, Gershwin, Janis Joplin and Jorma Kaukonen.
For more information contact:
One Public Library Plaza
Stamford, CT 06904
Telephone: (203) 964-1000
www.fergusonlibrary.org
Mallett Foundation Concert Series
John Lehmann-Haupt
on the Guitar
Sunday, February 7, 2010
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Community Room
The TLS is glad to present a concert with John Lehmann-Haupt on guitar. Mr. Lehmann-Haupt has built a distinctive repertoire of classical guitar works, acoustic folk ballads and blues pieces.
From 1981 until 1993, he performed nightly at Windows on the World atop New York City's World Trade Center, an engagement cited for musical excellence by The New York Times. He has also performed in concerts and clubs throughout the Northeast, and in the homes of such prominent New Yorkers as Tom Brokaw, Madeleine Albright, and Donald Trump.
For his fifth birthday, John received a small nylon-string guitar, and by the age of thirteen, he put out a limited edition album of folk ballads and blues. Since 1982, John has been on the teaching staff of New York's American Institute of Guitar. He has also written extensively on music and the guitar for The New York Times, Acoustic Guitar, Family Life, and several other magazines.
Supported by the Mallett Foundation.
Drop in. Refreshments provided.
FREE
For more information contact:
Trumbull Library
33 Quality Street
Trumbull, CT 06611
Telephone: (203) 452-5197
www.trumbullct-library.org
MUSIC @THE LIBRARY:
Bennett Harris Acoustic Blues Trio
Sunday, February 7, 2010
2:00 PM
McManus Room
The Bennett Harris Acoustic Blues Trio presents a lively and memorable show of Americana blues and early jazz music. The group includes vocals, guitar, harmonica, fiddle, and bass. In addition to original tunes, their spirited repertoire draws from the songbooks of Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Blind Blake . . . and ranges through Irving Berlin, Gershwin, Janis Joplin and Jorma Kaukonen.
Bennett Harris is an expert traditional blues guitar fingerpicker, specializing in Piedmont ragtime and Mississippi Delta-sliding styles from the pre-World War II era. He plays slide on a 1930s vintage National steel Duolian and plays a neck-rack harmonica simultaneously.
Kenny Kosek is one of the most recorded fiddlers in America today. His fluid, imaginative playing draws on an extensive stylistic vocabulary which allows him to move freely between numerous musical genres.
Gary Brooks has occupied the bass chair with Bennett for many years. His steady, soulful, R&B influenced “groove” style anchors the trio’s sound. Gary also plays sax and keys, and over several decades has performed as a soloist and section player with many bands throughout the northeast.
Supported by the Grace K. Salmon Foundation.
For more information contact:
Westport Public Library
20 Jesup Road
Westport, CT 06880
Telephone: (203) 291-4800
www.westportlibrary.org
Supported by the Grace K. Salmon Foundation.
For more information contact:
Westport Public Library
20 Jesup Road
Westport, CT 06880
Telephone: (203) 291-4800
www.westportlibrary.org
Relay for Life Concerts
Saturday, February 6, 2010
6:00 PM - 7:15 PM
and
8:00 PM - 9:15 PM
Acoustic Wilton, Relay For Life of Wilton and Wilton Library host “The Relay Sessions” in the Brubeck Room at the Wilton Library.
There will be two sessions – 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM. Local music talent Joan Wallace, Dave Keefe, Kim Troy, Lauren Mirabile, Patty Perry, Tim Geaney, Chris Brown, Amy Jonsson and Scott Weber will perform songs from their upcoming CD release “Acoustic Wilton – The Relay Sessions,” a fundraising benefit for the American Cancer Society’s annual “Relay For Life of Wilton.”
Donations will be accepted at the door.
Seating is limited.
Please pre-register and arrive early.
To register: www.wiltonlibrary.org/events
and/or call (203) 762-3950.
Wilton Library Association
137 Old Ridgefield Road
Wilton, CT 06897
Telephone: (203)762-3950
www.wiltonlibrary.org
Wilton Library Association
137 Old Ridgefield Road
Wilton, CT 06897
Telephone: (203)762-3950
www.wiltonlibrary.org
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