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Caroline Goulding Opens MAC Season A monthly guide to your community library, its programs and services Issue No. 257, September 2010 September Holidays The library will be closed September 4 through 6 in observance of Labor Day Weekend. On Saturday, September 25, the library will close at 1 p.m. so that we can prepare for the Library Founda- tion’s Inspiration Gala. Foundation Gala The Port Washing Library Found- ation’s 7th Inspiration Gala takes place on September 25. Story inside. Adult story time Think the kids have all the fun? Tired of reading to them or to yourself? Join us on Wednesday, September 29 at 4 p.m. for a short session of listening, like you did when you were a kid, while we read to you. Contact Lee Fertitta at 883-4400, Ext. 135 for more information. New resume resource Optimal Resume is an online resource that allows you to create resumes, write cover letters, produce video resumes and personalized career websites. In addition, interview training, skills assessments, document portfolios, and job searching assistance are all offered for free. Visit www.pwpl.org and click on the Optimal Resume link to get started. For further information contact the reference department at 883-4400, Ext. 111 or email reference@ pwpl.org. Tapped! Join us for a screening and discussion of Tapped on Thursday, September 23 at 7:30 p.m. Who owns the water? Is access to clean water a basic human right, or is water a commodity that Caroline Goulding opens MAC season should be privatized and sold only to Still in her teens, Caroline Strings magazine in December Concert Artists Series, sponsored those who can afford it? From the pro- Goulding has been proclaimed as 2009, Ms. Goulding’s article about by the Rhoda Walker Teagle Con- ducers of Who Killed The Electric Car? “A precociously gifted virtuoso, the Korngold Violin Concerto ap- cert Prize. She will be presented comes an extraordinary new docu- a violinist of impressive techni- peared in the issue as well. She was in Boston at the Isabella Stewart mentary. Co-sponsored by Grassroots cal polish and musical maturity” on National Public Radio’s From the Gardner Museum and co-presented Environmental Education. by Gramophone magazine. She Top, hosted by pianist Christopher by the Washington Performing Arts has performed as soloist with the O’Riley, when she was 14. At 16, Te- Society in her Kennedy Center Cleveland Orchestra, the Toronto larc recorded a CD with Ms. Gould- debut. Friends & Family Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit ing and Christopher O’Riley, which Ms. Goulding has participated Weekend Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas won a 2010 Grammy nomination. in the Starling-DeLay Symposium Save the date! Join the Friends of the Symphony, the Cleveland Pops and A First Prize winner in the 2009 at the Juilliard School, at the In- Library for a weekend of events includ- the Aspen Concert Orchestra, to Young Concert Artists International terlochen Center for the Arts and ing the return of the popular paperback name a few. Auditions, Ms. Goulding was also the Ceilidh Trail School of Celtic swap on Saturday November 6 and Caroline Goulding opens the awarded the Slomovic Orchestra So- Music on Cape Breton Island, Nova the second FOL University featuring Music Advisory Council’s 2010- loist Prize and the Buffalo Chamber Scotia. two scholarly lectures on Sunday, No- 2011 season on Sunday, September Music Society Prize. She currently works with Joel vember 7. Watch for more information 19 at 3 p.m. Her New York debut opens the Smirnoff at the Cleveland Institute next month. Featured on the cover of 50th anniversary season of the Young of Music. 7th Inspiration Gala honorees On September 25, the library a chauffeured night at the opera, a classics from the “Great American Tickets to this event are $250 will be transformed for the Library villa in Turks and Caicos, a weekend Songbook,” and four outstanding and sponsorship opportunities are Foundation’s Seventh Inspiration in the Berkshires, a house in Mon- Port Washington residents will be available. Come that night to mix and Gala featuring a cocktail extrava- tauk, a private plane ride and lunch in honored. Community Leadership mingle and learn more about the proj- ganza with open bars, signature Martha’s Vineyard, teeth whitening, Awards will go to Ayhan Hassan, ects that the Port Washington Library drinks, a beer garden, food stations, a $500 gift certificate to Ayhan’s, and Hal Spielman and Zelik Ziegelbaum. Foundation has funded. For more and wonderful desserts — all pro- golf lessons. Retiring library board president information, please call 883-4400, vided by Ayhan’s Mediterranean Singer Harvey Granat will en- Julie Geller will be presented with a Ext. 180 or email the Foundation at Marketplace. Raffle prizes include tertain guests with a selection of Lifetime Achievement Award. [email protected]. Saturday, July 25 The library will be open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. so that we can prepare for the Foundation Gala Board adopts Susan Isaacs talks about her latest book sponsorship Port Washington’s own Susan tan Writing Center Award. the Arts Literature Program and on Isaacs visits the library on Tuesday, She serves as chairman of the many anti-censorship campaigns. policy September 14 at 7:30 p.m. to talk board of Poets & Writers and is a about and read from her latest tour past president of Mystery Writers de force As Husbands Go (Scribner, of America. She is also a member At its June 16 meeting, 2010). Books will be available for of the Creative Coalition, PEN, the the library Board of Trustees purchase and signing, and refresh- American Society of Journalists adopted a sponsorship policy. ments will be served. This program and Authors, the International As- The board encourages is sponsored by the Friends of the sociation of Crime Writers and the financial sponsorship in support Library. Adams Round Table. She sits on of programs, events, projects Susan Isaacs was dubbed “Jane the boards of the Queens College and activities conducted by the Austen with a shmear” on NPR’s Foundation, the Walt Whitman library or by library-affiliated Fresh Air. Isaacs’ fiction includes Birthplace Association, the North groups in conjunction with the Lily White, After All These Years and Shore Child and Family Guidance library. Shining Through. In 1985, she wrote Association and the Nassau County All sponsorship donations the screenplay for Paramount’s Coalition Against Domestic Vio- will be made to the Port Wash- Compromising Positions (based on lence, and is an active member of ington Library Foundation and her novel), which starred Susan Sar- her synagogue. applications to participate as a andon and Raul Julia. She also wrote A member of the National sponsor will be reviewed by the and co-produced Touchstone Pic- Book Critics Circle, she has re- library’s Board of Trustees. tures’ Hello Again. The 1987 comedy viewed for the New York Times, The Board of Trustees starred Shelley Long, Gabriel Byrne the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago reserves the right to exempt any and Judith Ivey. Tribune, the Washington Post and organizations from this policy at Susan Isaacs is a recipient of Newsday, and written about poli- its sole discretion. the Writers for Writers Award, the tics, film, popular culture and First For additional information, Marymount Manhattan Writing Amendment issues. contact the library director’s of- Center Award, the John Steinbeck She has worked to gather sup- fice at 883-4400, Ext. 101. Award and the Marymount Manhat- port for the National Endowment of Gerald Busby visits On Sunday, September 26 at 3 p.m. composer Gerald Busby presents a combined performance and discussion of the importance of time to the creation of music for dance, film, theater and the concert stage, with examples from his repertoire of compositions in those fields. Busby, a native Texan, gradu- ate of Yale and protege of Virgil Thomson, made his professional debut as a composer with a com- mission from Paul Taylor. Other significant collabora- tions include the score for Robert Altman’s film 3 Women and an opera, Orpheus in Love, with Craig Lucas. In addition to his more than 200 concert works in all genres, Busby has acted in films and has been awarded commissions, fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Honorable Grasshopper Foundation, the Rockefeller Foun- dation, the MacDowell Colony and In the Photography Gallery / September 9 through October 31 Yaddo. Most recently, Busby com- posed the score for Beautiful Dar- Winifred Boyd’s Inner Reflections of the Outer World ling, a feature-length documentary about Candy Darling, one of Andy Winifred Boyd clearly re- funky, digital ‘grandchildren’ to take work, coupled with miniature prints Warhol’s superstars of the 1970s. It members reaching for her dad’s center stage for the woman who can of her landscape photographs. premiered at the Berlinale earlier Nikon 35mm camera over 40 years now comfortably call herself “a pho- The photographer’s frequent use this year. ago. Many cameras and years have tographer,” one who is continually of simple and inexpensive digital passed under the bridge since learning and growing. point-and-shoot cameras reminds then. Simplicity coupled with in- the viewer that one does not always Winnie has become an acu- tense complexity form the du- need expensive tools to capture, puncturist and Reiki Master. But plicitous foundation of the natural explore and enjoy the incredible time has a unique way of flowing world’s innermost beauty. In much details of the world around us. in cycles, and the camera is now no of Ms. Boyd’s work she attempts to Look for a slide talk with the longer just a “visitor” to life’s mo- capture that concept through the photographer on Monday, October ments.
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