May 2013

EXHIBITS In the Main Gallery MONDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY MEGAN SIRIANNI BRAND: Untitled, 6 12 20 28 Adam Neiman: The pianist performs GREAT BOOKS DISCUSSION GROUP: A HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VINCENT PRICE! through May 29. GREAT BOOKS DISCUSSION GROUP: A discussion of Tom Outland’s Story by Willa selections from Beethoven. 3 p.m. Story in discussion of Looking for Mr.Green by Saul The actor, who was born on May 27, 1911, In the Martin Vogel Photography Gallery Cather. 1 p.m. this issue. MAC Bellow and James Baldwin’s Sonny’s Blues. enjoyed a 55-year career, which ran from 1 p.m. 1938 to his death in 1993. Although best PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB OF LONG IS- TAKING CONTROL – FINANCIAL STRAT- known for his horror roles, he also played AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA: La Juive, LAND: 34th Annual Exhibition, May 5 EGIES FOR WOMEN: Registration in in comedies, period dramas and westerns, with music by Fromental Halevy and libretto through June 30. For over three decades, progress. Call for availability. This program as seen in tonight’s screening of More Dead by Eugène Scribe, explores the impossibility club members have been exhibiting their is co-sponsored by the Jobs & Careers In- Than Alive (1968-101 min.). When reformed of love between a Christian man and a Jew- landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes, still lifes, formation Center. 7 p.m. gunman Cain (Clint Walker) is released from ish woman. With James Kolb. 3 p.m. MAC portraits, travel pictures and abstractions at MONDAY prison after 18 years, he wants to settle down the library. 13 VIRTUAL VISITS: A branch of The Met- HELPING YOUR MONEY LAST IN RE- as a rancher, but first he must accept the of- In the Community Gallery ropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters is TIREMENT: Registration in progress. Call fer of showman Ruffalo (Price) to perform located in Fort Tryon Park at the northern for availability. Co-sponsored by the Jobs & as “Killer Cain” in a traveling shooting show. tip of Manhattan. Join Ines Powell for an Careers Information Center. 7 p.m. George Schenck scripted for director Robert TUESDAY in-depth exploration of this New York City Sparr. 7:30 p.m. 7 treasure. 11 a.m. “SOMEWHERE BETWEEN” (2011-88 CHESS: Bring a game if you have one. All are min.). In celebration of our ESOL program’s welcome. Tuesdays from 2 to 4 p.m. COMMUNITY BLOOD DRIVE: Sign up 20th anniversary. When filmmaker Lisa Gold- at the Information Desk or call 883-4400, stein Knowlton adopted a baby girl from “THE SESSIONS” (2012-95 min.). Wishing Ext. 136. Walk-ins welcome! Activities for China, she began to wonder what life was to lose his virginity before he dies, a man children will be provided. Co-sponsored by like for other Chinese daughters of Ameri- in an iron lung (John Hawkes) contacts a the library’s Staff Association and the Health can parents. She set out to visit four of the WEDNESDAY professional sex surrogate (Oscar nominee Advisory Council. 3 to 8:30 p.m. 80,000 Chinese adoptees currently living in 29 TAKE THE NEXT STEP: KICK START Helen Hunt) with the help of his priest the U.S. The four teenagers explore how it WILL YOU HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO YOUR EMAIL MARKETING: Registration (William H. Macy). Director Ben Lewin feels to wonder about your origins, to hang ESOL IS 20! throughout the month. Story RETIRE? Registration in progress. This pro- begins May 7. Co-sponsored by the Jobs & also scripted this touching true story, from onto your native traditions, and to return to in this issue. gram is co-sponsored by the Jobs & Careers Careers Information Center. 7 p.m. Mark O’Brien’s autobiographical article. the country of your birth. 7:30 p.m. Recommended for adults. 7:30 p.m. Information Center. 7 p.m. MEET STEVE SCHIRRIPA, author of Big REGISTRATIONS Daddy’s Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Think I Am. In Progress Books will be available for purchase and signing. Refreshments Financial Counseling Workshop Series . . . . will be served. Sponsored by Friends of the ...... See May 6, 13, 20 Library. 7:30 p.m. Story in this issue. TUESDAY Yin & Yang Bus Trip ...... See May 19 WEDNESDAY TUESDAY 21 8 14 “TEDDY BEAR” (2012-92 min.). Bodybuild- MICROSOFT EXCEL: Learn the basics Beginning May 7 A VOICE FOR THE CAREGIVER: A of the world’s most popular spreadsheet er Dennis (Kim Kold) longs for true love. He program for people caring for those with has never had a girlfriend and lives alone Business Workshop Series ...... program. Registration begins Tuesday, May Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, with his mother in a suburb of Copenhagen...... See May 16, 23 & 30 based on the book A Voice for the Caregiver 14th for a class to take place Saturday, June 15th. Payment of $12 is due at registration. When his uncle marries a girl from Thailand, THURSDAY Email Marketing Workshops ...... by Jean Wood. Presented by Wendy Wood Dennis decides to try his own luck on a trip and Alana Rosenstein of the Long Island 30 ...... See May 22 & 29 HYPERTENSION SCREENING: Free blood to Pattaya, where he meets a woman named JOB SEARCH BOOT CAMP: An 8-week Alzheimer’s Foundation. 3 p.m. pressure screening conducted by St. Francis Toi (Lamiporn Hougaard). Director Mads intensive workshop designed to help par- Job Search Boot Camp ...... See May 30 BOOK DISCUSSION: A discussion of The Hospital. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Matthiessen scripted with Martin Zanduliet. ticipants obtain employment through net- Beginning May 14 Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje, facilitated Also, Kold stars in Matthiessen’s Dennis working. In-person registration begins on by Lee Fertitta. 7:30 p.m. (2007-18 min.), the basis for Teddy Bear. In Tuesday, May 7 or by calling 883-4400, Ext. Adult Computer Class ...... See May 14 Danish with English subtitles. This screening 136. Sessions on May 30, June 6, 13, 20, 27 PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB OF LONG ISLAND comes to us from Film Movement, an orga- and July 11, 18 and 25. Registration is limited presents Musical Images, a digital slide nization which makes outstanding foreign to Port Washington residents only. This presentation with music. Images are syn- program is hosted by the Port Washington films, independent films and documentaries chronized with musical selections to create WEDNESDAY available to educational institutions. Recom- Public Library and sponsored by Assembly- WEDNESDAY an audiovisual extravaganza. Refreshments 15 1 LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES meets. mended for adults. 7:30 p.m. woman Michelle Schimel. 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. “ZERO DARK THIRTY” (2012-157 min.). will be served after the screening. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Story in this issue. Director Kathryn Bigelow and Oscar-nom- inated screenwriter Mark Boal chronicle Research Investigators Science Marketing Your Own Business: the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist Expo: Presented by the Young Investiga- Registration begins May 7 for a program leader Osama bin Laden after the September tors Society of the Feinstein Institute. At the co-sponsored by SCORE and the Jobs & 2001 attacks, led by agent Maya (Oscar nom- Feinstein Institute in Manhasset, scientists Careers Information Center. 7 p.m. inee Jessica Chastain). The supporting cast are unraveling the mysteries of the human WEDNESDAY THURSDAY body to better understand and treat diseases 22 includes James Gandolfini, Jennifer Ehle, 9 DISCOVER THE POWER OF EMAIL Chris Pratt, Harold Perrineau and Mark DIRECTOR’S CUT: Film expert John Bosco such as Alzheimer’s, cancer and stroke. MARKETING: Registration begins May 7. Strong. Recommended for adults. 7:30 p.m. will screen and discuss Anna Karenina Story in this issue. 7:30 p.m. HAC This program is co-sponsored by the Jobs (2012-129 min.). The latest adaptation of Leo & Careers Information Center. 7 p.m. Tolstoy’s oft-filmed novel, scripted by Tom FRIDAY Stoppard and directed by Joe Wright, takes PORT WRITES: The group discusses their 31 place on a theatrical stage. 7:30 p.m. work and how to get it published. Meets the SANDWICHED IN: The Red Fox On Long 4th Wednesday of each month. Facilitated by Island. The sole canine predator on Long Island, the red fox has been drastically Michael Chaplan. 8 p.m. THURSDAY 16 THURSDAY reduced in the last 20 years. Recently, they 2 BOOK DISCUSSION: A discussion of The have been adapting to change, rebounding What’s Happening in the America’s Cup? Dawn Riley, Executive Director, Oak- Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Tur- and expanding their range. Frank Valenti, bulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David director of the Wild Dog Foundation, will cliff Sailing and Past America’s Cup Captain, FRIDAY will present her “Up Close and Personal” Nasaw, facilitated by Lee Fertitta. 1:30 p.m. discuss the ecology of foxes, their behavior, 10 their importance to the Long Island ecosys- view of this year’s event. 7:30 p.m. Story in SANDWICHED IN: Software from Hard 3rd THURSDAY @ 3. Part 8. A History of the THURSDAY tem, how they may lessen Lyme Disease, this issue. NAC Rocks (2011- 35 min.). What happens to one’s World in 100 Objects of Art: The Threshold 23 Writing a Business Plan: Registration and how to coexist with them. 12:10 p.m. sense of “place” or “home” under globaliza- of the Modern World (1375 - 1550 AD) and begins May 7. This program is co-sponsored tion? Aashish Kumar shares his journey to The First Global Economy (1450 - 1600 AD) FAMILY FILM: Wreck-It Ralph (2012-101 . by SCORE and the Jobs & Careers Informa- the heart of this change – Hyderabad – a min.). Video game villain Wreck-It Ralph An illustrated lecture by Professor Thomas tion Center. 7 p.m. southern Indian city. Join him for a discus- Germano. Sponsored by Friends of the (voiced by John C. Reilly) sets out to fulfill sion and screening of his documentary. 12:10 Library. 3 p.m. his dream of being a hero, but his quest p.m. Story in this issue. FRIDAY wreaks havoc on the arcade where he lives. Starting and Growing Your Own Director Rich Moore scripted with Phil 3 Business: Registration begins May 7. This SANDWICHED IN: The Most Beautiful & Johnston and Jennifer Lee; he also voices Unusual Cars. H. Roy Jaffe, formerly senior program is co-sponsored by SCORE and the the characters Sour Bill and Zangief. Other stylist for General Motors, presents an il- Jobs & Careers Information Center. 7 p.m. FRIDAY voice artists include Sarah Silverman, Jack lustrated lecture discussing the vast majority 24 McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Mindy Kaling, Ed of cars which have never been seen by the O’Neill and Dennis Haysbert. We will start public. 12:10 p.m. the evening with John Kars’ animated short, Paperman SCRABBLE PLAYERS! Join us for a game! (2012-7 min.). Note the early start 2 to 5 p.m. time: 7 p.m. FRIDAY LIVE@PWPL: MEET ALAN LIGHT, author 17 of The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, BOOK & AUTHOR LUNCHEON: Space is Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of “Hal- still available. See story on front page. 11 SPONSORSHIPS lelujah” (Atria Books, 2012). Music by Tom a.m. at the North Hills Country Club. Cavanagh. Books will be available for pur- SANDWICHED IN: Masters of Photogra- AAC Art Advisory Council chase and signing. Sponsored by the Friends phy in Film. David Wayne narrates Merrill CAC Children’s Advisory Council of the Library. 7:30 p.m. Story in this issue. Brockway’s documentary, This Is Edward HAC Health Advisory Council Steichen (1964-27 min.). Stephan Chod- MAC Music Advisory Council orov’s Everything Is Photograph: Profile of Robin Miller’s Inauguration Day Andrée Kertész (1978-28 min.) salutes the NAC Nautical Advisory Council HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FRED ASTAIRE! A Hungarian-born father of 35mm photogra- SANDWICHED IN: Restoring My African All programs sponsored by the Advisory Councils are Damsel in Distress (1937-100 min.). An phy, who documented central Europe during Soul. Robin Joyce Miller, who exhibited her funded by donations to the Port Washington Library American hoofer (Fred Astaire, born Fred- work here in February to much acclaim, will Foundation. SUNDAY World War I, Paris in the years between the 5 erick Austerlitz this day in 1899) woos an wars, and famous friends Colette, Eisenstein, discuss her personal journey to restoration In addition to the Friends-sponsored programs listed, NEW YORK CLASSIC FILM CLUB: Dan English heiress (Joan Fontaine), despite Chagall and Mondrian. 12:10 p.m. and healing through her art, poetry and refreshments for the Sandwiched In are courtesy of the Pompa selects influential films and invites her disapproving family. Songs by George photographs. Books will be available for Friends of the Library. SCRABBLE PLAYERS! Join us for a game! speakers who have been directly affected and Ira Gershwin. George Stevens’ movie purchase and signing. 12:10 p.m. Priority Seating at all events is given to Port Washington by these movies, or who have relatives or also stars George Burns and Gracie Allen. 2 to 5 p.m. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PETER CUSHING! residents and cardholders. friends who witnessed the making of these 7:30 p.m. LIVE@PWPL: Rave On! A tribute to Buddy British actor and horror cinema icon Peter Food Allergy Disclaimer: Participants with food films. They will offer a unique perspective Holly with Rave On the Band. 7:30 p.m. Cushing was born on May 26, 1913. We allergies need to be aware of the risk of foods consumed during the after-screening discussion. To- remember him with a screening of Nineteen or items one may come in contact with while at any of day’s selection will be Fury (1936-92 min.), Eighty-Four (1954-107 min.), in which he our programs. starring Spencer Tracy as an innocent man stars as George Orwell’s everyman hero who becomes a hardened criminal after CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE Winston Smith, who lives in a dystopia escaping from a lynch mob. Director Fritz Lori Gerbasi, Jonathan Guildroy, Jessica Ley, where falling in love is a crime. Andre Mo- Lang scripted with Bartlett Cormak. Coffee SATURDAY Allegra Maldonado, Brooke Salit, Joni Simon 11 SUNDAY rell, Yvonne Mitchell and Donald Pleasence and doughnuts will be served. Look for more NEXT CHAPTER: Join us for a discussion 19 co-star in this rare British telefilm, which LIBRARY HOURS New York Classic Film Club screenings in of current events. Bring your opinions! 10 YIN & YANG BUS TRIP: 10 a.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 9 to 9 was scripted by Nigel (Quatermass) Neale the coming months. 2 p.m. a.m. to noon. Wednesday, 11 to 9 • Saturday, 9 to 5 ESOL IS 20!! Celebrate the success of the for producer Rudolph Cartier. 7:30 p.m. Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. PWPL’s English for Speakers of Other Lan- www.pwpl.org / (516) 883-4400 guages program. 1 p.m. Story in this issue.