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December 2006 Newspaper A monthly guide to your community library, its programs and services Issue No. 214, December 2006 Holiday Schedule Art Council welcomes Robert Kobayashi The library will be closed Sunday and Monday, December 24 and 25 in obser- Robert Kobayashi: American His works are in many pri- featured in the museum’s Brook- vance of Christmas. The library will Landscapes & Still-Lifes will be on vate and public collections includ- lyn Bridge Project on their website also be closed Sunday and Monday, exhibit December 2 through 30. ing the Brooklyn Museum, The that will debut early in 2007. The December 31 and January 1. Happy The installation includes paintings Museum of Modern Art, Nassau artist is represented by Phyllis holidays to all. and sculptures in tin, with an em- County Museum and the Pruden- Stigliano Gallery, Brooklyn. He re- phasis on new paintings devoted tial, NJ. His painting The Brooklyn sides in New York City with his Sound of Music sing to landscape. Each piece refers to Bridge, in the permanent collection family. specific memories of places in of the Brooklyn Museum, will be Join actress Melanie Lipton and sing America. The Art Advisory Coun- along to all your favorite songs while we cil hosts a reception for the artist show this beloved film at Sandwiched on Saturday, December 9 from 2 In on Friday, December 22. to 4 p.m. The works are made of closely laid thin strips or large Museum passes shapes of raw tin, painted tin, and textured ceiling tin nailed onto a Borrow a pass (available at the Circu- wooden form. Made in the same lation Desk) to Old Westbury Gardens. manner, the frame is an integral The pass admits 2 adults and their chil- part of each work. Kobayashi dren. Passes are for use by Port Wash- states, “I use both raw rusted tin, ington card holders only, and may be and tin that I have painted with borrowed for 3 days. Please note: There oil, making colors that are remi- is a $2/day overdue charge. niscent of those I saw in Hawaii as a child. This process, which I have used for 30 years, is like Writing History in the painting to me . .” Robert Kobayashi was edu- Age of the Blog cated in Honolulu, Paris, and un- George Vecsey, veteran journalist with der the instruction of Robert the New York Times and author of two Ferren at the Brooklyn Museum dozen books, will discuss the chal- of Art. He was a recipient of a fel- lenges of writing a regular sports col- lowship from the John Hay umn that is carefully edited by several Whitney Foundation, NY. He colleagues in an age when blogs spring wrote and illustrated a children’s from fevered mind to computer screen book Maria Mazaretti Loves Spa- in the flick of a cursor. The program, ghetti, published by Alfred A. which is co-sponsored by the library, Knopf, New York. Robert Kobayashi’s Cane Break, 2006 (American Landscape No. 4) takes place at the Landmark on Main Street on Wednesday, December 6 at 7:30 p.m. Hearing screening On Friday December 8 between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., Adelphi University Speech and Hearing Center will conduct a free hearing screening. No appointment is necessary. This program is co-spon- sored by the Health Advisory Council. Friends Cabin Fever Series Save the date. The Friends of the Li- brary hosts its popular Cabin Fever Se- ries again this winter. The first program will be Wednesday, February 14 at 9:30 a.m. featuring Wendy Perelman. Ms. Perelman is a musical theater writer We’re a Family Place who will speak about writing and pro- ducing a musical. Stay tuned for fur- One of the programs we offer as a Family Place Library is the Parent-Child Workshop. The library provides the setting in ther details in future issues of this pub- which the child and parent work and play together. Community resource professionals and librarians are on hand to lication. discuss speech and language, physical fitness, literacy, nutrition and behavior. Registration for the next session begins Friday, December 15 at 9:15 a.m. in the Children’s Room. See the Library Kids page for details. Library and Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington An archival collaboration The Port Washington Public ton Peninsula, there will be a traf- Library will formally present the fic/parking presentation at 7:30 recently-organized Archives of the p.m., with keynote speaker Super- Residents for a More Beautiful Port visor Jon Kaiman and a panel in- Washington at the Residents’ An- cluding Councilman Fred Pollack, nual Meeting on Wednesday, De- representatives from the Port cember 6 at 6:30 p.m. at the Washington Police and Fire De- Schreiber High School Audito- partments, and the Town parking rium. consultants, who will report on ex- “We are so thrilled to once isting parking conditions and the again join forces with the Port options of tiered parking. Washington Public Library, this The Archives project was time on a ground-breaking archi- funded by a grant to the Port Wash- val project,” said Residents’ Execu- ington Public Library from the tive Director Jennifer Rimmer. Li- New York State Archives Docu- brary Oral History Director Elly mentary Heritage Program. Japanese folktales Shodell and Archivist Carol Clarke will review the highlights On Sunday, December 10 at dancing puppets and agile actors. of the collection, which features 2 p.m., we invite you to take a trip The Oracle Theatre creates a excerpts from these unique his- to a distant land through the art unique entertainment experience toric records, as well as photo- of ancient Japanese Theatre. Be for adults and families with chil- graphs from the past. They will swept away in the fantasy of mys- dren 8 and over — Japanese also acknowledge the many Resi- tical creatures who encounter sur- Folktales of Love and Woe. dents members and officers who prising events, demonstrated by contributed to the project. Following the presentation, Ms. Rimmer will conduct the an- nual business meeting, including financial report, projects of the year and Board of Director nomi- nations. Indian Cinema on DVD In addition, as part of the Town of North Hempstead Vision- This month we screen Water, Shanta falling in love with charis- ing Project for the Port Washing- Planting trees for the future Deepa Mehta’s drama from India. matic Hassan. Deepa Mehta The following Indian films are scripted and directed. available in our circulating DVD Fire (1996) by Deepa Mehta. collection: Unhappily married Radha (Sha- The Apu Trilogy. Writer/di- bana Azmi) develops a passion for rector/composer Satyajit Ray’s her sister-in-law Sita (Nandita moving trilogy follows the growth Das), putting both of their lives in of Apu from childhood to man- danger. hood: Pather Panchali: Song of the I Have Found It (2000). Two Little Road (1955), Aparajito: The pampered sisters (Aishwarya Rai, Unvanquished (1956) and Apur Tabu) look for love in writer/di- Sansar: The World of Apu (1959). rector Rajiv Menon’s musical Asoka (2001). Shah Rukh variation on Jane Austen’s Sense Khan and Kareena Kapoor star in and Sensibility. Santosh Sivan’s epic adventure set Indian Babu (2003). As her in the 3rd century B.C. parents plan an arranged mar- Bollywood Dreams (Ran- riage for her, Dil (Gurline Chopra) geela) (1995). Munna (Aamir falls in love with rock singer Jeet Khan) grows jealous when Milli (Jaz Pandher). Sameer and Na- (Urmila Mathondkar), the girl he deem Shravan composed the secretly loves, lands a job starring songs for Lawrence D’Souza’s in a movie. Ramgopal Varma di- Bollywood musical. rected, and A.R. Rahman com- Monsoon Wedding (2001). As posed the tunes. wedding plans create chaos all Bride & Prejudice (2004). An around them, a young couple has Indian beauty (Aishwarya Rai) second thoughts about getting mar- falls for a pompous American ried. Mira Nair directed. (Martin Henderson) in Gurinder Straight from the Heart Chadha’s Bollywood-style update of (1999). When a famous musician Pride and Prejudice. (Vikram Gokhale) learns that his Charulata: The Lonely Wife daughter (Aishwarya Rai) has (1964). Madhabi Mukherjee fallen in love with one of his stu- learns about the possibilities of dents (Salman Khan), he marries true love when her husband’s off her to another man. Sanjay cousin moves in. Satyajit Ray Leela Bhansali directed this musi- scripted, directed and scored. cal. The Chess Players (1977) by The Terrorist (2000). A female Satyajit Ray. Indian noblemen revolutionary (Avesha Dharkar) Saeed Jaffrey and Sanjeev Kumar reviews her life as she prepares to indulge in chess day and night, assassinate a government official Sandwiched In: India without regard to the eminent via suicide bombing. Director/cin- British threat. ematographer Santosh Sivan also Join us on Friday, December trated lecture will give you a Earth (1998). In 1947 India, co-scripted. 15 at 12:10 p.m. for a trip to this glimpse of India’s people and 8-year-old Lenny sees her nanny fascinating country with Sally splendors, its ancient traditions Wendkos Olds. Her slide illus- and exotic beauty. In memoriam: Jacqueline Wood The library has lost a dedi- cated friend and supporter with the recent passing of Jacqueline Wood, co-founder of the Music Ad- visory Council. Jackie Wood and Ruth Fein- gold were honored with the Friends of the Library Award in 1996 for their commitment to the library’s Music Advisory Council. As Friends’ president Amy Bass remembers, “Jackie graced the library for so many years with her commitment to fine music pro- grams; nothing ordinary or rou- tine, but really emerging artists on the national level.
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