A monthly guide to your community library, its programs and services Issue No. 266, June 2011 June holiday Exciting film industry panels at PWPL The library will be closed on Sunday, June 19 in observance of Father’s Day. June 12 will be the last Sunday opening for the season. Sunday hours resume Library joins in Gold Coast Film Festival after Labor Day. In June 2011, the world of film From Banned Book to Big Screen: Shadows (1959) and Faces (1968). with all its intrigue and glamour will The Color Purple (1985-154 min.) We present Gloria (1980-123 min.), on Thursday, June 2 at 2:30 p.m. Reader’s Blog return as the Gold Coast Interna- which he scripted and directed. Check out our new adult reader’s Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey tional Film Festival partners with When the mob comes to kill him, an blog for in-depth information about and Danny Glover star in Steven the Town of North Hempstead, accountant (Buck Henry) entrusts book and author programs as well as Spielberg’s adaptation of Alice Walk- Nassau County and Clearview his young son (John Admes) and an information and news on fiction and er’s classic novel about young black Cinemas to celebrate film and incriminating ledger to his neigh- non-fiction works. community, past and present, in women living in the segregated bor, former gun moll Gloria (actress Great Neck, Manhasset, Roslyn, South. This program is sponsored Gena Rowlands was John’s wife). New Hyde Park/Herricks and Port by the Friends of the Library. Exercise Lottery Washington. On Thursday, June 2 at 7:30 We’ve added a summer Exercise for The Port Washington Public p.m. we present “Remembering Over 50 class. See the calendar of Library will host three panel discus- John Cassavetes.” Writer, director events for lottery information. sions of film industry insiders — on and actor John Cassavetes was born Friday, June 3, Saturday, June 4 and in New York City on December 9, Sunday, June 5. All programs will 1929. His family moved to Greece for Games anyone? take place from 3 to 5 p.m. Visit a while before settling in Port Wash- If you enjoy Scrabble or Chess, see www.goldcoastfilmfestival.org for ington. John attended Schreiber the calendar of events for “play dates.” program updates and a complete High School from 1945 to 1947. The film schedule. Port Light reported that “Cassy is The GCIFF takes place June 1 always ready with a wisecrack, but Conversations with through 5, and the library has two he does have a serious side.” the public film programs scheduled that week. By 1956 he was teaching meth- Help us as we begin our 2011 Strategic We hope you can join us. od acting and appearing on television Planning process. We want your ideas Join Dylan Skolnick, co-direc- and in movies, work which financed and comments about the library and tor of the Cinema Arts Centre, for his first landmark independent films, where we should be heading in the next five years. Join on Tuesday, June 7 at 11:30 a.m. or Monday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m. for an interactive session. Refreshments will be served. Meet author Robert Lipsyte Summer Saturdays The library will be open Saturday, July sports and society — from Mickey Growing up, Robert Lipsyte 2, and on Saturdays throughout the Mantle to Bill Simmons — arguing was the smart-aleck fat kid, the bully summer, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The that Jock Culture has seeped into magnet who went to the library library will be closed Monday, July 4 our business, politics and family life, instead of the ballpark. As the per- in observance of Independence Day. petual outsider, even into adulthood, and its definitions have become the Lipsyte’s alienation from Jock Cul- standard to measure value. ture made him a rarity in the press Robert Lipsyte was also an Sci-Fi Summer box: the sportswriter who wasn’t a Emmy-winning host of the nightly Beginning in 1902, when cinemagi- sports fan. This feeling of otherness public affairs show The Eleventh cian Georges Méliès took A Trip to has colored Lipsyte’s sports writing Hour. He is the author of 12 ac- the Moon, through last year, when In- for 50 years, much of it spent as a claimed novels for young adults ception sent spies into a dream within columnist for the New York Times. and is the recipient of the Margaret a dream, science fiction cinema has On Tuesday, June 14 at 7:30 A. Edwards Award honoring his thrilled audiences with stories about p.m. we invite you to meet celebrat- lifetime contribution in that genre. interplanetary travel, alien lifeforms, ed sports journalist Robert Lipsyte, As an extra added attraction, artificial intelligence, nuclear destruc- author of An Accidental Sportswriter Mr. Lipsyte will be speaking to stu- tion, man’s place in the universe, and, (Ecco/HarperCollins, May 2011). dents in 5th grade and up, at 6 p.m. of course, giant monsters run amok. The book interweaves stories He will discuss and read from One This July and August, the library will from Lipsyte’s life and the events he Fat Summer. present A Celebration of Sci-Fi Cinema, covered to explore the connections He lives in Manhattan and on an exhibit of photographs, posters between the games we play and the Shelter Island with his wife Lois and and playing cards, plus screenings of lives we lead. Going beyond the his dog Milo. Books will be available a dozen classic science fiction films. usual memoir, Lipsyte has written for purchase and signing. Refresh- “a memory loop, a circular search ments will be served. This program for lost or forgotten pieces in the is sponsored by the Friends of the puzzle of a life.” In telling his own Library. story, he grapples with American Hee Young Lee exhibits paintings Hee Young Lee will exhibit chitecture, Ms. Lee has continued Instant Smile in the Main Gallery her explorations in painting. June 2 through 30. The Art Advi- Ms. Lee has participated in sory Council hosts a reception for group exhibitions in Seoul, Re- the artist on Saturday, June 11 from public of Korea, Long Island City, 2 to 4 p.m. Texas, Maine and California. She Hee Young Lee lives and had a solo show of her work at C.W. works in New York City. Born Post’s Sculpture Gallery. and raised in South Korea, she began painting and art making at an early age. She earned a BFA in painting from Seoul Women’s Uni- Marcia Levine, Robin Sigman, Helen Donenfeld, Eileen Newby, June Kume-Kick and Peggy O’Hanlon versity in Seoul, South Korea. Upon completion of her studies in Seoul, Ms. Lee came to America and en- ESOL Tutor Resource Center dedicated rolled in Long Island University in Family members and English for Speakers of Other Languages tutors gathered on April 2 for Brookville and graduated with an the dedication of the Library’s ESOL Tutor Resource Center, which was created in memory MA in painting and printmaking. of Harvey Donenfeld, Harvey Levine and Marshall Kume, and is dedicated to their generous spirit. Additional funds were given by an anonymous donor. The Center houses ESOL To further explore the three professional books, teacher’s guides and CDs as well as previous workshop handouts and dimensional corollaries of her lesson planning ideas shared by our current and former tutors. “We can best remember them two dimensional art work and the by being the best teachers we can be and by reaching out to others in need,” noted ESOL themes of color, texture and spati- Coordinator Peggy O’Hanlon. ality, she undertook the study of Interior Design at Parsons School of Design in New York City. While working professionally in the field of Interior Design/Ar- Tutor.com To Go Tutor.com To Go™ is the tutoring service but it has been mobile companion for Tutor.com’s optimized for the mobile environ- online tutoring and career services. ment. It’s available every day from It is the only education app 2 to 10 p.m. for grades K-12, college that makes personalized learning a preparatory and adult learners. Tu- reality anytime, anywhere, by con- tor.com does not offer tutoring in necting a student to a professional Spanish for the mobile app. tutor for a high quality learning This program is made pos- Violin & piano concert session from their iPhone, iPod sible by the Friends of the Port Isadore Horowitz and Phil Mal- This program is sponsored by Touch or iPad. Washington Public Library and amud will perform music by Bach, the Tepper Intergenerational Fund Tutor.com To Go works the Bernard L. Fendrich Memorial Beethoven, Cowell and Dvorak on of the Port Washington Library similarly to our web-based online Youth Fund. Saturday, June 25 at 3 p.m. Foundation. Tarzan on DVD at the library This month we screen Tarzan His Mate (1934), Tarzan Escapes den Jungle (1955), Tarzan and the the Magnificent, one of many films (1936), Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939), Lost Safari (1956), Tarzan and the starring Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan’s Secret Treasure (1941), Trappers (1958), Tarzan’s Fight for beloved jungle king. The Port Wash- Tarzan’s New York Adventure (1942), Life (1958), Tarzan’s Greatest Adven- ington Public Library offers more Tarzan Triumphs (1943), Tarzan’s ture (1959) Tarzan movies than any other Nas- Desert Mystery (1943), Tarzan and Jock Mahoney: Tarzan Goes sau County library.