Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library

ISMS… A Study of Styles in Art, Literature and Film. A Partnership between the Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library and the Florence Griswold Museum Thursdays, March 1 – April 19, 7pm

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The Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library announces a collaborative project with the Florence Griswold Museum. The series, …isms: A Study of Styles in Art, Literature and Film opens on March 1 at 7:00 pm and continues through April 19. All programs are free and take place on Thursdays at 7:00 pm. Session locations will alternate between the Library and Museum.

Free of charge thanks to a generous grant from the Connecticut Humanities Council to help partnering agencies develop and pilot programming ideas that reach new audiences, encourage cooperation with other nonprofits in the community and engage existing audiences in new ways.Meeting locations alternate between the Old Lyme PGN Library and the Museum

Join program facilitator Marsha Bansavage as well as staff from both the Library and Museum for an 8-session series investigating the notion of artistic styles in a variety of media.

March 1

Florence Griswold Museum
Intro to Series and Tour of …isms: Unlocking Art’s Mysteries
Amanda C. Burdan, Assistant Curator

Join Assistant Curator Amanda C. Burdan for a guided tour of the Museum’s newest exhibition,…isms: Unlocking Art’s Mysteries. The exhibition showcases a variety of art from the collection that represents key artistic styles or “isms” including Tonalism, Impressionism, Modernism, and more, that will lay the groundwork for looking at these styles as expressed in other media such as film, literature, and plays.

March 8

Old Lyme PGN Library
Film Screening and Discussion of Pollock
Marsha Bansavage, Facilitator

Join Marsha Bansavage for viewing and discussion of the film, Pollock. Participants will explore the artistic and personal influences on the abstract style and action painting of Jackson Pollock in which he moved away from figurative representation and challenged the Western tradition of using easel and brush. The viewer will be introduced to action painting and all its personalities.

March 15

Florence Griswold Museum
Marsha Bansavage, Facilitator
Book Discussion in the Gallery: National Book Award Winner (2010) Just Kids by Patti Smith

A philosophical and poetic journey introduces the reader to the 1960s and 1970s art movements. Smith‘s beautiful book about her youth with Robert Mapplethorpe, who she calls “the artist of my life,” is a celebration, an elegy, and a memoir. An illuminating study of two very different artists with very different sensibilities that straddles the music, art, theater and poetry of the times.

March 22

Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library
Marsha Bansavage, Facilitator
Literature Discussion: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, a play by Steve Martin

Taking a comedic approach to art, Martin’s play is set in a café where Picasso and Einstein along with an intriguing cast meet and explore the value of art, science and commercialism. The play attempts to explain, in a light-hearted way, the similarity of the creative process involved in great leaps of imagination in art and science leading to the birth of the modern century.

March 29

Florence Griswold Museum
Writing Inspired by Art

Join Director of Education David D.J. Rau for a creative writing session in the Museum’s newest exhibition, …isms: Unlocking Art’s Mysteries. Through a series of interactive exercises and gallery games, participants will look a little deeper at several works of art before creating a written response, in a specific style, to share with the group.

April 5

Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library
Marsha Bansavage, Facilitator
Literature Discussion: Poems from Spoon River Anthology edited by Edgar Lee Masters

A reading of selected poems by famous writers known as Imagists who broke with the conventions of their time and redefined poetic techniques. Dickinson, Frost, Cummings and others will be read and explored.

April 12

Florence Griswold Museum
Painting and Sculpting in the Hartman Education Center
Julie Riggs and Matthew Ferrer

Join Museum Educators Julie Riggs and Matthew Ferrer for a hands-on art-making session in the Museum’s Education Center. Projects will offer participants the chance to create in a variety of artistic styles from the quick and thick brushstrokes of Impressionism to the splattered pigment of Abstract Expressionism. Wear clothing appropriate for painting (smocks available).

April 19

Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library
Marsha Bansavage, Facilitator
Literature Discussion: Short Stories by 20^th Century American Authors

Reading and discussion of three short stories by leading American authors John Updike, Alice Walker and James Thurber. The reader will deal directly and indirectly with the literary world’s involvement with art movements, exploring realism, escapism and fantasy.

Healthy Living Strategies from the Blue Zones with Dr. Beth Goulding from Sunrise Wellness Center, East Lyme:Rescheduled Wednesday February 29th at 7:00 pm

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With the right lifestyle, experts say, chances are that you may live up to a decade longer. What’s the prescription for success? National Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner has traveled the globe to uncover the best strategies for longevity found in the Blue Zones: places in the world where higher percentages of people enjoy remarkably long, full lives. Buettner’s colossal research effort, funded in part by the National Institute on Aging, has taken him from Costa Rica to Italy to Japan and beyond. In the societies he visits, it’s no coincidence that the way people interact with each other, shed stress, nourish their bodies, and view their world yields more good years of life. By observing their lifestyles, Buettner’s teams have identified critical everyday choices that correspond with the cutting edge of longevity research—and distilled them into a few simple but powerful habits that anyone can embrace.

Dr. Beth Goulding will share these insights on foods and nutritional strategies for optimum health and preventative measures. Her presentation will be a springboard for a lively, general discussion of healthy living including good, do-able ideas to start right away, to enhance health….body, mind, spirit, fitness and posture. Included in the presentation will be healthy seasonal recipes for winter that anyone can make! Question and answer session to follow.

The program is free and open to the public. Please register for planning seating, handouts and refreshment.

The Library is located at 2 Library Lane, off Lyme Street in Old Lyme. Summer hours are Monday and Wednesday, 10am to 7pm; Tuesday and Thursday, 10am to 6pm; Friday, 10am to 5pm and Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm. For more information or to register call 860-434-1684 or visit www.oldlyme.lioninc.org .

Home Brewing Demonstration & Tasting with Rob’s Home Brew Supply Company of Salem, CT Sunday Feb 26, 4—5:30 pm

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Attend a free home brewing demonstration and tasting with Rob’s Home Brew Supply Company of Salem, CT. Rob will demonstrate home brewing techniques that will be of interest to all brewers from novice to expert. Learn how to differentiate the various ingredients in the many types of beers from ales and lagers to stouts and others. See what ingredients are used in your favorite beers such as malted barley and hops. Enjoy samples of some of Rob’s most popular recipes. Local home brewers are welcome!

Program is Free and Open to Public. Register Here or call the library at 860-434-1684 or call the library at 860-434-1684

Essence of the Lymes:Photography Exhibit Feb 17th – March 31 2012

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An opening reception for Essence of the Lymes featuring local amateur photographers will be held on Friday, February 17^th from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. The reception will take place in the main room of the Library. The photographs on exhibit are the outcome of a six week course conducted by Essex resident and photographer, Steve Nadler.

The works on exhibit are the images created by those who participated in the Library’s 2011 digital photography class. Field work under Nadler’s guidance took place in Lyme and Old Lyme locations including Lyme Street, Ashlawn Farm, Tiffany Farm, Nehantic State Forest, Watch Rock and along the Lieutenant River at the Florence Griswold Museum. Local residents whose work is featured include Randy Amway, Deidre Christman, Lynn Edwards, Deborah Joy, Lisa Niccolai, James Norden and Mary Fiorelli.

The exhibition will run from February 17 to March 31, 2012!

Lullaby Nights – Tuesday, January 31, 2012 @ 6:15 PM – 6:45 PM

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Join Eleanor Robinson to sing lullabies before tucking in for the evening. With our voices, her stringed instruments and quantities of percussive instruments for the families gathered, we will enjoy a melodic close to the day. Children in jammies welcomed! Favorite stuffed animals too!

Miss Eleanor has taught music and movement classes for over a decade in libraries, nursery schools, community centers and churches. She has performed in classic rock and blue grass bands. Please register here or send an e-mail to rkeith@oldlyme.lioninc.org.

Take Your Child to the Library Day – Saturday, February 4, 2012 from 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM

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A few months ago, Nadine Lipman, Waterford Public Library Children’s Librarian, saw an advertisement for a “Take You Child to the Bookstore Day” and thought, why not a “Take Your Child to the Library Day?” The idea multiplied like bunnies and the children’s departments of almost every public library in the state of Connecticut, and even some beyond, have decided to celebrate the first Saturday of every February as Take Your Child to the Library Day! Thank you to Nancy Elizabeth Wallace, children’s book artist extraordinaire, for the bunny graphic!

Celebrate Libraries! Discover what The Constance and William Pike (Children’s Room) has to offer!

Create a personalized bookmark.
Get a library card and receive a welcome bag (ages 5 and up).
Sign-up for an upcoming program.
Explore our new Early Literacy Stations.
And much more…

AT 1:00 PM:
Special guest, State Representative Marilyn Giuliano, will read If You Were a Penguin. This book has been chosen for the region’s One Book, Every Young Child program. Information about this program will be available at the library.

Bookworm Ball 2012. Save the date!

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The Friends of the Old Lyme – PGN Library

Presents

The 15^th Annual

Roaring 20s Bookworm Ball

Saturday, March 10, 2012

7:30-11:30pm

Aboard The Lady Katharine Cruise Ship, The Mystique Anchored for the evening at The Old Lyme Dock Company. Join us on dance floor for some Gatsby style fun! For full details please visit our NEW Bookworm Ball Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/BookwormBall

A special thanks to these sponsors

Major Gift Sponsors

Hamilton Point Investments LLC

The Old Lyme Dock Company

Jeffrey N. Mehler, CFP, LLC

Essex Savings Bank and Financial Services

Shoreline Web News LLC – publisher of Lymeline.com, OldSaybrookNow.com & Valley News Now.com

Quality Printers & Brian Cole

Lady Katharine Cruises

Patron Sponsors

Atlantic Seafood

Paul Burdick Oil Co.

Diamond Mortgage Group

Mike Swaney Electric

Generators on Demand

Mark Massa CFP, CHFC, CLU of AXA Equitable Life

Frank & Susan Cummiskey

James Graybill & All Pro Automotive

Adam & Mary Seidner

Doherty, Beals & Banks PC

Lucius & Adela Wilmerding

Law Office of Gregory Carnese LLC

Emily Fisher & Evan Griswold

Suisman Shapiro – Attorneys-At-Law

Jeff Dunphy & Design Label Manufacturing

David & Judy Weiner

Jeff & Marisa Hartmann

Supporter Sponsers

Susan Ferrier Lang & Ferrier Physical Therapy

Charles E. Delinks

Louis Garesio

David Handler & Diana Drake

Joyce & J Gilbert Soucie

Jeff & Betsy Cooley

Steven & Frani Ross

Matt Prosser & the Old Lyme Market Place

Teddy’s Old Lyme Pizza Place

Steven Hallahan

Peter Tutoro & Essex Family Dentistry

Ken Coffee/ Coffee’s Country Market

Lucy & Doug Wilkinson

Linda & George Clough

David & Susan Rahr

Laurie Walker/Coldwell Banker

Ro & Richard Hinman

Carolyn Cook

Mary & David Dangremond

Ned and Barbara Perkins

To purchase your tickets online visit our Giving Page and click on Donate button!

If you or someone you know would like to sponsor our ball, please refer them to this page.

Thank you

Yoseni Dunphy

Event Chair

Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library

YDunphy@OldLyme.Lioninc.org

(860) 434-1802

“Literature for a Lifetime” A Light Hearted Look at Life! This series runs the first Monday of the month, 7:00 – 8:30 pm starting from January 09 thru April 2, 2012.

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“Great literature is boring.” “Great literature is too heavy.” “Great literature is so depressing.” In this four part series a rebuttal will be offered to these observations by demonstrating that great writers can indeed see the amusing side of life and write about it well! The four plays are:

February 13, You Can’t Take it With You by Moss Hart & George S. Kuafman
Register Here!

March 5, Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Register Here!

April 2, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Register Here!

The library welcomes back our local resident and popular facilitator, Marsha Bansavage, to lead its thought provoking evening book discussion for the community! Join us for one book or all four; our goal is to bring residents together to share the love of reading and understanding many forms of literature and what it says about society and us.

The first play in the series, Blithe Spirit will be discussed on Monday Jan 09 at 7:00-8:30 pm. Blithe Spiritis a comic play is written by Noel Coward.The play concerns socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. Noel Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Timemagazine called “a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise”. Program is Free and Open to public.

Co-sponsored by Connecticut Humanities Council!

Registration is helpful and can be done online by hitting on Register Here button above or by phone at 860-434-1684.

Connecticut River Film Forum 2011-2012 Season.Thursdays, Oct 20, 2011- April 19, 2012 at 7:30 pm, in the Community Room.

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$25 per person for the series, or $5.00 per showing.

To register for the series,
send your name, address, phone and email address with your check payable to:
Stanford Brainerd, Treasurer, CT River Film Forum, 6 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT, 06371

CT River Film Calendar

February 16: My Darling Clementine (1946)

March 22: Nashville (1975)

April 19: Chariots of Fire (1981)

Phoebe’s Monthly Book Chat, Loving Frank by Nancy Horan Thursday March 08, 2012 at 11:00 am.

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Loving Frank is an American novel by Nancy Horan published in 2007. It tells the story of Mamah Borthwick and her illicit love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright amidst the public shame they experienced in early twentieth century America. This fictional account told from a new perspective, that of little known Mamah, is based on research conducted by first time novelist, Nancy Horan. It relates events in Mamah’s life as it became inextricably intertwined with that of Wright between the years of 1907 through 1914. By following the artistic aspirations and travels of the two main protagonists, the novel sheds light on the social mores of the times in the U.S. and Europe.

Nancy Horan is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in numerous publications. Loving Frank is her first novel. She lived most ofher life in Oak Park, IL, until her recent move to an island in Puget Sound.