Newsletter of the Hewlett- Woodmere Public Library

I I OverlJANUARY FEBRUARY MAReCH 2012 VOaLUME 47, NUf MBER 3 What’s Inside

OVERLEAF JR. REMOVABLE INSERT Events & Performances Pages 2-3 Films Pages 6 Great Books Page 5 Great Decisions Page 6 H-W PL Readers Page 5 In the Gallery Page 7 Lectures & Courses Pages 3-5 Special Films Page 7

HEWLETT-WOODMERE PUBLIC LIBRARY ANNUAL LIBRARY VOTE AND ELECTION Tuesday, April 3, 2012 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. The Boehm Meeting Room ÌF LET’S HEAR IT FOR PROPOSITION 1: THE SILENT FILMS! Proposed 2012/2013 Library Budget I Sunday, March 11, 2 pm PROPOSITION 2: Election of Library Trustee , 1926 Starring , , Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent QUALIFICATIONS FOR Directed by Clarence Brown, Screenplay by Benjamin Glazer, VOTING based on the book “The Undying Past” by Hermann Sudeman, 112 minutes Registration is required only if a Live piano accompaniment by Ben Model, resident has not voted in a Hewlett- pianist, composer, & silent film historian Woodmere Union Free School District Discussion led by Philip Harwood, film historian or Library referendum within the last The Plot: Leo and Ulrich are life long friends. Home on leave from their military 4 years or in a general referendum training, Leo (John Gilbert) sees the beautiful Felicitas (Greta Garbo) at the rail - within the last 4 years. In order to be road station. The following evening they meet again at a ball. Drawn to her by her eligible to register, you must be beauty, they leave the ball together. Alone together in her room, her elderly hus - a U.S. citizen, 18 years of age or older band, Count von Rhaden, (of which Leo knows nothing about) comes in, discovers by Tuesday, April 3, 2012, and you them, and challenges Leo to a duel. The duel is fought and the Count is killed, leav - must have been a legal resident ing Felicitas a widow. Leo, having fought the duel and killed the Count, is ‘request - of the H-W UFSD for at least 30 days ed’ to serve 5 years in Africa. He asks Ulrich (Lars Hanson) to watch over the widow prior to the referendum. Registration Felicitas, while he is gone. After 3 years, Ulrich is able to get a pardon for Leo. Leo for voting takes place Tuesday, is anxious to be reunited with Felicitas. When he arrives, he learns that Felicitas March 27, 2012, 1 pm – 9 pm in the has married Ulrich. Leo tries to stay away from Felicitas and Ulrich, which hurts Library. and puzzles Ulrich. But Felicitas has other plans and pursues Leo. Ulrich’s sister For further information, please Hertha (Barbara Kent) tries to save her brother and his beloved friend, Leo, from telephone Library Director, Susan de disaster. Sciora at 516-374-1967. District residents & Friends of the Library may pick up tickets beginning Tuesday, February 28, 10 am & 7 pm.

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Miki Sawada the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. she participated in the Young Artist A graduate of Mannes College of Music Competition, placing first. The compe - where she also received her Master’s tition gave her the opportunity to play degree, Ms. Hutton-Dewys is a teacher with Ken-David Masur, son of Kurt and freelance pianist in New York City. Masur, and conductor of the San She is one of the newest members of Antonio Symphony Orchestra. the chamber music group Opus Nine Tickets may be picked up beginning Tuesday, and is on the piano faculty of February 14, 10 am & 7 pm. Greenwich House Music School. Tickets may be picked up beginning Edythe Brenner Wednesday, January 11, 10 am & 7 pm. Memorial Concert Sylph Clarino Consort Nadine Scharman, flute Vivian Israel, cello Ann Zalkind, piano I Sunday, March 18, 2:30 pm Sylph represents the element of air Miki Sawada, pianist and is the paradigm in medieval natural philosophy from which sound and music I Sunday, January 8, 2:30 pm come forth. The members of Sylph , Miki Sawada is a native of Japan, Nadine Scharman, flutist, Vivian Israel, but also spent her formative years in cellist, and Ann Zalkind, pianist per - London, Paris, Chicago, and New form chamber music by a variety of York. Recent awards include first prizes Clarino Consort composers. Most recently Sylph per - at Concours International de Piano du Baroque Trumpet Ensemble, formed at Carnegie Weill Hall with the Moulin d’Andé in France, Northwestern Soh Young Ensembe to outstanding University’s Thaviu-Isaak Endowed valveless trumpets and reviews. Piano Scholarship Competition, and piano Tickets may be picked up beginning Tuesday, Northwestern University’s Concerto I March 6, 10 am & 7 pm. Competition. She is currently pursuing Sunday, February 5, 2:30 pm a Master of Music degree at the Clarino Consort was founded by Eastman School of Music with Natalya Baroque trumpet specialists Barry Antonova. Bauguess and Patrick Dougherty to pre - Tickets may be picked up beginning Tuesday, sent familiar and little-known master - January 3, 10 am & 7 pm. pieces demonstrating the Instrument’s diverse repertoire—martial and royal to Manon Hutton-Dewys, melodic and lyrical. Their innovative programs encompass a repertoire span - ning the 15th through 18th centuries. Performing on valveless period trum - pets, accompanied by piano on some pieces, Clarino Consort offers a unique insight into the music of the Baroque Jesters of Jive Trumpet—the Instrument of ings. K Tickets may be picked up beginning Highlights in Jazz presents Manon Hutton-Dewys, Wednesday, January 25, 10 am & 7 pm. pianist Jesters of Jive I with Joan Crowe Sunday, January 22, 2:30 PM Jiaxin Tian, pianist I I American pianist Manon Hutton- Sunday, February 26, 2:30 pm Thursday, March 29, 7:30 pm Dewys has long been earning praise and Jiaxin Tian, born in Beijing, China, Jesters of Jive is jazz with humor recognition for her performances of comes from a very musical family. She featuring the music of Fats Waller, classical and modern music. Hutton- began her piano studies at a young age. Louis Jordan, Benny Goodman with Dewys has performed in some of the At the Manhattan School of Music she singer Joan Crowe. best classical musical venues such as is studying for her masters with District residents & Friends of the Library pick Carnegie Hall and at the Salle Cortot at Professor Jeffery Cohen. In April 2011, up tickets beginning Tuesday, March 13, 10 am & 7 pm. 2 SPECIAL EVENTS FEELIN’ GROOVY The Other American Songbook Caroline Doctorow and Band American Songwriter 1960s I Thursday, March 15, 7:30 pm Caroline Doctorow returns after a sell out performance, wrapping up our first Feelin’ Groovy serie s. This perfor - mance will focus on the great folk/folk New York Cabaret Unlimited rock songwriters of the 1960s featuring songs such as Gentle On My Mind , A Landslide on Asteroid Vesta Image: NASA, JPL-Caltech, UCLA, MPS, DLR, IDA ÌF New York Cabaret Snowbird, and more. Unlimited presents Caroline Doctorow’s original folk ASTRONOMY PROGRAM songs and her very personal tribute to Frank Loesser & His Music songwriters of the ’60s, is folk music at Movers in the Sky: Comets, I Sunday, February 12, 2:30 pm its finest. A mesmerizing vocalist and Meteors, & Asteroids champion of American folk music, With Astrophysicist and former New York Cabaret Unlimited has Caroline is a singer-songwriter who NASA consultant, Kevin Manning been performing for over 19 years. The lives in Bridgehampton, New York. I group consists of four singers (two Sunday, January 29, 2:30 pm Ms. Doctorow appeared last summer men, two women), a narrator, a What differentiates these “small at the folk mecca, The Guthrie Center, bassist, and a pianist /arranger. They bodies” as remnants of the solar sys - Great Barrington, MA. She played the will present songs by Frank Loesser, tem’s formation? Comets as omens of New Bedford, MA Summerfest this sea - blended into a narration depicting high - disaster and other superstitions are son to standing-room only crowds and lights from the composers’ life and debunked. Have you ever seen a mete - rave reviews. She can be heard on the challenges faced as an artist. or streak across the sky, or better yet a PBS special Freedom –The History of Frank Loesser wrote scores for over meteor shower? What about the Us , narrated by Katie Couric. 60 films for Paramount and Universal impending danger of asteroids or Feelin’ Groovy will continue through Pictures. His first published song was comets colliding with the earth? spring 2012 and into the summer with “In Love with the Memory of You” in Several interesting pictures and illus - great musicians and great music of the collaboration with William Schuman. trations serve to uncover these myster - other great American songbook! After WW II, he wrote “Where’s ies. Charlie”, based on the play, Charlie’s Coming soon in this series: Kevin Manning is an international Aunt . This was followed up by Guys and May The Kennedys award-winning astrophysicist. Kevin Dolls, which swept the Tony Awards in goes to great lengths to communicate June Johnny Cash Tribute with 1950. Returning to Hollywood, he his passion for the amazing world of Tom Kavanagh & Company wrote the score for Hans Christian outer space in terms that all ages can Andersen . Then back to Broadway with July Little Toby Walker understand. He’s lectured widely, built The Most Happy Fella followed by How This program is co-sponsored by the Friends of telescopes and observatories, and has to Succeed Business Without Really the Library been a consultant to NASA. Trying, which won the Pulitzer Prize District residents & Friends of the Library may District residents may pick up tickets beginning for Drama, 7 Tony Awards, and a New pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, February Tuesday, January 17, 10 am & 7 pm. 29, 10 am & 7pm. York Drama Circle Award in 1961. District residents & Friends of the Library may Schedule Changes pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, Sunday, January 1 CLOSED February 1, 10 am & 7 pm. Monday, January 2 CLOSED Monday, January 16 CLOSED Monday, January 23 1 – 9 pm BOARD OF TRUSTEES Monday, February 20 CLOSED Benjamin A. Eilbott, President Shari H. Braverman, Vice President David A. Adler Board of Trustees’ Meetings Donald A. Davidson 7:15 pm budget meeting Frank Zaret, Treasurer Monday, January 9 7:45 pm Susan O. de S ciora, Director Monday, February 13 7:45 pm Nadine Connors, Editor and Programs Monday, March 12 7:45 pm

3 LECTURES & COURSES eBooks and Audiobooks NCMA ART LECTURE ÌF The Qur’an and the Bible Online With Professor Peter Brancazio The Paintings of Louis I With Sharper Training Comfort Tiffany: Works from Thursday, March 8, 7:30 pm 2 Tuesdays a Long Island Collection The Qur’an and the Bible are I revered as the sacred texts of February 7, 10 am – 12 pm With Melanie Grotas, docent monotheism. Yet Jews, Christian, and I February 21, 7 – 9 pm Exhibit: December 10, 2011 - Moslems know very little about each Learn how to download eBooks and March 18, 2012 other’s holy books. This lecture will be audiobooks from the library’s website I Thursday February 16, 1 pm devoted to an overview of the Qur’an. We will compare it with the Bible in to your eReader or MP3 player. In this Drawn from a spectacular Long terms of its contents, structure, theol - class, you will learn how to access the Island collection, this major exhibition ogy, stories, and moral and ritual laws. collection of books, create a username showcases more than 100 original works As we will also consider whether the and password, maneuver around the by Louis Comfort Tiffany, offering an Qur’an promotes or condones violence website, download books, work with uncommon glimpse into the artist’s life. your eReader or MP3 player, and more against non-Moslems. The major e-readers — iPad, Sony Peter Brancazio was professor of Reader,B&N Nook, Kindle ( and the Egon Schiele: Bad Boy of Art physics and astronomy at Brooklyn Fire ), the library’s website and Nassau with Louise Cello College for 37 years. He created and Digital Doorway will be discussed. If Caruso taught an award-winning course on you do not have a device, you can still I Thursday, science and religion in BC’s Religious learn a lot from this program for your February 2, 1 pm Studies Program from 1992-1999. future use. Artist Egon Schiele Prerequisites: For intermediate and laced his drawings advanced computer users. District residents Seated Aerobics and paintings with may begin registering Tuesday, January 17, Wednesdays at 11 am 10 am. fierce images of life and death, a combi - I January 4,11,18,25; eBooks at the nation of repulsion and attraction. Egon February 1,8,15,22,29; Schiele died tragically at the age of 28, March 7,14,21,28 Library limiting our assessment of his work to Patrons of the only 10 years. In Vienna, he was consid - This is a complete workout from Hewlett-Woodmere ered as part of a trinity of artists- head to toe with music. Wear comfort - Public Library now Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele . able clothes. It is expected that all par - have anytime, any - ticipants are in good health and physi - where access to a dynamic collection of cally able to engage in light exercise. digital audio books and eBooks through The Golden Age of Baseball the Nassau Digital Doorway. With Marty Adler Patrons can check out up to five titles I Travel Lights at a time and at the end of the loan peri - Tuesday, February 28, 1 pm With Irma and Bob Mandel od, the audio books or eBooks will auto - This lecture will cover three base - matically expire and return to the Nassau ball teams of New York: the Yankees, 2 Thursdays Digital Doorway collection. The digital Giants, and Brooklyn Dodgers. Included I January 12, 1 pm titles have no late fees or damage costs. in the lecture will be new photographs, The service is free, easy-to-use, and inside stories, and vital information Vietnam, Cambodia available 24/7 from anywhere in the concerning the players of these teams, Still steeped in ancient rituals, tra - world. as well as their opponents. References ditional communities, and labor inten - With your HWPL card, you have access sive farming methods, Viet Nam and to over 8,000 purchased titles and 15,000 to the history of the borough of Cambodia are engaged in a struggle to public domain titles. There is also digital Brooklyn, its people, and the etymology online book access to almost 700 Disney of the street names will be included in join the industrial economies of the titles. this lecture. world. Kindle support has recently been Marty Adler is listed with the I February 23, 1 pm added for most eBooks in addition to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Egypt and Jordan Nook and many other eBook readers. Museum as a baseball expert. Egypt is a treasure trove of ancient The Library will be offering two sessions on accessing eBooks and cultural and religious sites that beckon Audiobooks Online in February (see to be explored. Jordan is the home of above) and downloading to the Kindle the Petra, the rose cut architecture (even the Fire), Nook, Sony Reader, wonder, the most visited site in the Ipad , and others . Middle East.

ÌF Indicates a Friends of the Library program. 4 MORE COURSES H-WPL READERS AUTHOR VISIT

Donald X. Clavin, Collector Amy and Isabelle: A Novel of Taxes, How to Challenge By Elizabeth Strout your Assessment Discussion leader: Ellen Getreu I I Thursday, January 19, 1pm Monday, February 6, 1pm Mr. Clavin will be present a taxpayer A compelling first novel, Elizabeth forum on How to Challenge your Strout’s Amy and Isabelle tells the Assessment . story of alienation from a distant moth - The grievance process may result in er and a parent’s rage at the discovery a lower assessment and may reduce of her 16-year-old daughter’s sexual your property taxes. Tax exemptions secrets. Gossip ridden Shirley Falls and payment information, and addi - doesn’t help matters as Amy is discov - tional services are available at the tax ered behind steamed up windows of a office. car with her math teacher. Amy discov - ers the fragility of happiness through TAX HELP IS AVAILABLE the many other dramas that come to Volunteer Income Tax Assistance her little town. Witty and often pro - (VITA) found, this first novel is a promise of more I Tuesdays, February 14 – On The Bay April 12, 10 am – 1 pm to come from a new, talented writer. by Nancy Solomon By appointment only Long Island Traditions Tax help is available for senior citi - I Thursday, February 9, 1 pm zens with simple tax returns. This pro - State of gram is offered under the auspices of On The Bay is a book on the bay the Town of Hempstead Office of Wonder houses within the Town of Hempstead. Senior Enrichment. Please bring last By Ann Patchett Written by Nancy Solomon, executive year’s income tax return, 1099s, W-2s, Discussion leader: Edna director of Long Island Traditions, the and any other pertinent documents. Ritzenberg book documents the architecture of these unique structures originally Beginning Tuesday, January 11, 2012 I Monday, March 12, 1pm at 10 am, call 374-1967 x 231 to sched - built by baymen, fishermen and duck ule an appointment. Marina Singh, a medical researcher hunters in the early 19th century for at a pharmaceutical company in shelter while clamming, fishing, har - ÌF GREAT BOOKS Minnesota, is sent deep into the vesting salt hay or duck hunting. During Amazon basin to investigate the the early 20th century the houses were DISCUSSION GROUP 2012 I circumstances surrounding the death of used by commercial duck hunters until Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. Anders Eckman, it was outlawed in 1917, and by rum Dr. Allen Lanner and the Great Books her lab partner. runners, who smuggled liquor to the discussion group continues reading Her original mis - nearby shores during Prohibition. In the full-length works of great authors. sion was to bring 1950s and early 1960s recreational fish - February 7 back news of Dr. ermen and sportsmen built dozens of Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie Annick Swenson, the small structure, using the same ISBN 0-486-43468-0 a charming but designs as their predecessors. In 1965 despotic profes - the Town removed most of the bay March 13 sor who is on houses in order to preserve the fragile Cather, Willa Song of the Lark the company’s wetlands. ISBN 0-486-43700-0 payroll working on In 1991 the Town of Hempstead April 10 a miracle fertility drug. The pharma - moved to preserve the last remaining Wells, H.G. ceutical company wants Dr. Swenson bay houses. The 2nd edition of this Shakespeare, and the new drug tracked down. The book documents the traditions of those William Julius Caesar widow, Karen, does not believe her who first built the modest houses, and ISBN 0-486-26876-4 husband is dead. Only Marina, can per - contains historic and contemporary May 15 form the mission impossible and bring photographs by noted photographer Kafka, Franz The Trial back evidence for both parties. Martha Cooper. It also includes a new ISBN 0-486-47061-X District residents may reserve copies in preface and introduction, along with All books are available at Dover advance of discussion. Review packets are some updated photographs. Publications, 31 E. 2nd St, Mineola, NY available at the Information Desk. 11501-3582. Fax or credit card orders: Author visits are co-sponsored by 516-294-9758. Tele: 516-241-5438. Friends of the Library.

5 GREAT DECISIONS 2012 FILMS

ÌF Foreign Policy Please note time of film presentations. romantic notions of the city or the idea Association Some films are offered only in the that the 1920s was the golden age. With Prof. Stanislao G. Pugliese, evening at 7 pm or the afternoon Midnight strolls by Gil reveal another Hofstra University at 2 pm. side of Paris. I Wednesdays at 7:30 pm The Music Never Stopped The Debt Stanislao G. Pugliese is professor I January 4, 7 pm only I February 22, 7 pm only of history and the Queensboro UNICO Directed by Jim Kohlberg Directed by John Madden Distinguished Professor of Italian and Starring Lou Taylor Pucci, J.K. Simmons, Starring Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Italian American Studies at Hofstra Julia Ormond Tom Wilkinson University. He is a former research Rated PG, 105 minutes Rated R, 113 min. fellow at Columbia University, the Based on the case study by Dr. An espionage thriller that begins in United States Holocaust Memorial Oliver Sacks, the film chronicles the 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Museum in Washington, D.C. Oxford heartwarming journey of a father and Mossad secret agents about their for - University, and Harvard University. son adjusting to cerebral trauma and a mer colleague. The topics that will be covered lifetime of missed opportunities are the following: through the music that embodied the generation of the 1960s. • Jan. 25 Middle East Realignment • Feb. 29 Promoting Democracy Sarah’s Key • March 28 Mexico I January 18, 7 pm only • April 25 Cyber-Security Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner • May 9 Exit from Afghanistan & Iraq Starring Kristin Scott Thomas, • May 23 State of the Oceans Melusine Mavance, Niels Arestrup Rise of the Planet Rated PG-13, 111 min. French subtitles of the Apes • June 6 Indonesia In modern day Paris, a journalist I March 14, 7 pm only • June 20 Energy Geopolitics finds her life becoming entwined with a As a prerequisite for these discus - Directed by Rupert Wyatt young girl whose family was torn apart Starring James Franco, Tom Felton, sions, participants must purchase a during the notorious Vel’d’Hiv Roundup Freida Pinto copy of the required reading booklet in 1942. Rated PG-13, 105 min. when they register. During experiments to find a cure Ongoing registration begins The Help for Alzheimer’s disease, a genetically- Tuesday, December 6, 10 am. I February 1, 2 & 7 pm enhanced chimpanzee uses its greater SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE intelligence to lead other apes to free - Directed by Tate Taylor Starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Sissy Spacek dom. Rated PG-13, 137 min. AARP DRIVER IMPROVEMENT Based on the novel by Kathryn Moneyball I Call 516 374-1967 ext. 231 for Stockett, an aspiring author during the March 21, 2 & 7 pm information about our on-going Civil Rights movement of the 1960s Directed by Bennett Miller defensive driving classes decides to write a book detailing the Starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, African-American maids’ point of view Philip Seymour Hoffman on the white families for which they Rated PG-13, 133 min. work. The story of Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s successful IN CASE OF WEATHER attempt to put together a baseball club EMERGENCY Midnight in Paris on a budget by employing computer- I February 15, 2 & 7 pm We urge you to call 374-1667 dur - generated analysis to draft his players. ing a weather emergency before Directed by Woody Allen leaving for the library. All informa - Starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates tion regarding closings and delayed Rated PG-13, 94 min. openings will be posted on this taped A romantic comedy, Gil and Inez announcement. Please note that if travel to Paris as a tag-along vacation the Hewlett-Woodmere UFSD is on her parents’ business trip. Gil is a closed, the library will not open successful Hollywood writer but is before 1 pm. struggling on his first novel. He falls in love with the city and thinks they Owen Wilson and Marion Cotillard should move there after they get in Midnight in Paris married, but Inez does not share his

6 SPECIAL FILMS TEENS IN THE GALLERY Art Smart Signature Art Quilters Workshops I January 6 – February 26, 2012 Reception: Aztec Art Tuesday, January 10, 7 pm With A Long Island-based group dedicated to Cheryl Frey the exploration of art through fiber. Richards I Thursday, January 12, 7 pm Grades 6 & up

NCJW ADVOCACY FILM Come and explore the rich history of Aztec sculpture. Learn the stories the Holly I art has to tell and the messages the art Sunday, March 25, 2 pm had for the Aztec peoples. Participants Directed by Guy Moshe will create a sculpture in the style of Quilt [detail] by Lauren Horowitz Priority Films, Rated R, 114 min. the ancient Aztecs and inlay their piece Starring Ron Livingston, Chris Penn, Udo kier, Virginie Ledoyen, Thuy Nguyen with precious gems to honor their art. TANA I Speaker: TBA District residents may register in the March 6 – April 29, 2012 Shot on location in Cambodia, Children’s Room beginning Wednesday, January 4, 10 am & 7 pm. Reception: including many scenes in actual broth - Tuesday, March 20, 7 pm els in the notorious red light district of ACT Prep and Strategy Two and three dimensional work will Phnom Penh, HOLLY is a captivating, be on exhibit by this group of Long touching, emotional experience. Courses Island artists, including oil paintings, This film is part of the “K-11” With Ellen Karcinell and monoprints, serigraphs, and sculpture. Project, dedicated to raising awareness Keith Harrow of the epidemic of child trafficking and I Wednesday, January 25, 2012 the sex slavery trade through several 6:30 – 7:30 pm film projects. Ellen Karcinell has been giving stu - District residents may pick up tickets beginning Tuesday, March 13 at 10 am & 7 pm. dents tips and strategies to crack the ACT for 15 years. Non-residents who are members of National I Council of Jewish Women, Peninsula Section, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 may reserve a ticket by calling the NCJW 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Office, 342 Central Avenue, Lawrence, NY Dr. Harrow is a professor and Graduate Tel: 516-569-3660 between 9 am – 4 pm, Monday thru Thursday. Deputy chairman of the Department of Village Computer and Information Science at Brooklyn College. IN THE BOEHM ROOM District residents and students may register in I Tuesday, January 24, 2 & 7 pm Wednesday, January 4,10 am at the Galina Lampert Directed by Information Desk. Refreshments will be served. Starring , , My Art of Everyday Objects: Katie A. Keane, Benny Nieves, Kenton Duty Still-life paintings in oil on 165 min. Rated PG-13 iRobot canvas. Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Presented by the Cradle of I Borivali section of Mumbai, suffers Aviation Museum, Garden City January 10 – February 29, 2012 from Asperger’s syndrome, a form of I Thursday, March 22, 7 pm Reception: high-functioning autism that compli - Grades 6 & up Saturday, January 21, 2 pm cates socialization. The adult Rizwan Using hands-on activities, students marries a Hindu single mother, will compare and determine the essen - Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, tials needed to model a robot after a Rizwan is detained by authorities at human, while creating excitement LAX who mistake his disability for suspi - about science, technology, and engi - cious behavior. Following his arrest, he neering meets Radha, a therapist who helps District residents may register in the him deal with his situation and his Children’s Room beginning Thursday, March 1, Galina affliction. Rizwan then begins a journey 10 am & 7 pm. Registration is limited. Lampert, to meet President Obama to clear his Still Life with name and win back his one true love. Apples 7 1125 Broadway, PO Box 1100 Non Profit Org. Hewlett, New York 11557-0903 U.S. Postage

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3 • Tuesday 1 • Wednesday 1 • Thursday Tickets picked up for 1/8 Residents & Friends may pick up tickets Residents register in Children’s Room NTNI Miki Sawada, pianist 10 am & 7 pm 2/12 New York Cabaret 10 am & 7 pm for iRobot 10 am & 7 pm 4 • Wednesday Seated Aerobics 11 am 6 • Tuesday Residents register for Art Smart Film: The Help 2 & 7 pm Tickets picked up for 3/18 NTNI Edythe Brenner in Children’s Room 10 am & 7pm Concert, Sylph 10 am & 7 pm 2•Thursday Residents register for ACT PREP Art Lecture: Egon Schiele 1 pm 7• Wednesday Seated Aerobics 11 am at Information Desk 10 am 5 • Sunday New Talent/New Ideas 8 • Thursday Seated Aerobics 11 am Ì Clarino Consort* 2:30 pm F The Qur’an & the Bible 7:30 pm Film: The Music Never Stopped 7 pm only 6 • Monday 9 • Friday F/W Music Club 10:30 am 8 • Sunday HWPL Readers: Amy & Isabelle 1 pm 11 • Sunday New Talent/New Ideas ÌF Let’s Hear It For the Silent Films!: Miki Sawada , piano * 2:30 pm 7 • Tuesday eBooks and Audiobooks Online * 10 am - 12 pm The Flesh & the Devil * 2 pm 10 • Tuesday Art Reception 7 pm ÌF Great Books 7:30 pm 12 • Monday 11 • Wednesday 8•Wednesday Seated Aerobics 11 am HWPL Readers: State of Wonder 1 pm Registration begins for Tax Help 10 am Seated Aerobics 11 am 9 • Thursday 13 • Tuesday F Author Visit: Nancy Solomon: On the Bay 1 pm Residents & Friends pick up tickets Tickets picked up for 1/22 NTNI Ì for 3/29 Highlights in Jazz 10 am & 7 pm Manon Hutton-Dewys, pianist 10 am & 7 pm 12 • Sunday F New York Cabaret * 2:30 pm ÌF Great Books 7:30 pm 12 • Thursday 14 • Tuesday Travels Lights: Viet Nam & Cambodia 1 pm Tickets picked up for 2/26 14 • Wednesday Seated Aerobics 11 am Art Smart Workshops* 7 pm NTNI Jiaxin Tian, pianist 10 am & 7 pm Residents pick up tickets for 13 • Friday F/W Music Club 10:30 am 15 • Wednesday Seated Aerobics 11 am 3/25 NCJW film Holly 10 am & 7 pm Film: Midnight in Paris 2 & 7 pm 17 • Tuesday Film: The Rise and Fall of the Residents register for eBooks Courses 10 am 16 • Thursday Planet of the Apes 7 pm only Residents pick up tickets for NCMA/Art Lecture: Louis Comfort Tiffany 1 pm 15 • Thursday 1/29 Movers in the Sky 10 am & 7 pm 17 • Friday F/W Music Club 10:30 am F Feelin’ Groovy: Caroline Doctorow * 7:30 pm 18 • Wednesday 18 • Sunday New Talent/New Ideas 21 • Tuesday Seated Aerobics 11 am Edythe Brenner Concert Sylph* 2 :30 pm Film: Sarah’s Key 7 pm only eBooks and Audiobooks Online * 7 pm 22 • Wednesday Seated Aerobics 11 am 20 • Tuesday Art Reception 7 pm 19 • Thursday Film: The Debt 7 pm only 21 • Wednesday Seated Aerobics 11 am Donald X. Clavin, Taxes 1 pm 23 • Thursday Film: Moneyball 2 & 7 pm 21 • Saturday Art Reception 2 pm Travel Lights: Egypt and Jordan 1 pm 22 • Thursday 22 • Sunday New Talent/New Ideas 26 • Sunday New Talent/New Ideas iRobot - Grades 6 & up * 7 pm Manon Hutton-Dewys, piano * 2:30 pm Jiaxin Tian, piano* 2:30 pm 25 • Sunday 24 • Tuesday 28 • Tuesday NCJW Advocacy Film: Holly* 2 pm Special Film: My Name is Khan 2 & 7 pm Residents & Friends may pick up tickets for 27 • Tuesday 25 • Wednesday Seated Aerobics 11 am 3/11 Silent Movie with live accompaniment: Registration to Vote 1 - 9 pm The Flesh & the Devil 10 am & 7 pm Tickets picked up for 28 • Wednesday The Golden Age of Baseball 1 pm NTNI Clarino Consort 10 am & 7 pm Seated Aerobics 11 am ACT Prep * 6:30 – 8:30 pm 29 • Wednesday ÌF Great Decisions 7:30 pm ÌF Residents & Friends pick up tickets for 3/15 Great Decisions 7:30 pm 29 • Thursday Feelin’Groovy Caroline Doctorow 10 am & 7 pm 29 • Sunday ÌF Highlights in Jazz: Jesters of Jive* 7:30 pm Seated Aerobics 11 am Movers in the Sky: Asteroids, ÌF Great Decisions 7:30 pm Meteors, & Comets 2:30 pm * Previous registratio n/tickets required. F Co-sponsored by Friends of the Library ÌF Indicates a Friends of the Library program.