April 2011 EXHIBITS In the Main Gallery TUESDAY TUESDAY MONDAY TUESDAY CATCHI: Happy Days in Tuscany, April 1 5 12 18 26 COMPUTER KINDERGARTEN FOR LIBRARY BUDGET VOTE & TRUSTEE AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA: Le Comte “WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY” (2009-86 through May 1. The Art Council hosts a ADULTS: Registration begins April 5 for a ELECTION: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. See budget Ory by Gioachino Rossini. A comic opera min.). Relive the conflict, drama and ten- reception for the Artist on Saturday, April class to be held on May 21 from 10 a.m. to information on page 2. with a rich melodic construction. Join pro- sion that ushered in the second chapter of 9 from 2 to 4 p.m. Story in this issue. AAC noon. Payment of $12 is due at registration. fessor James Kolb for an in depth explora- Walt Disney Studios’ animation legacy, a Running Your Own Business: How In the Photography Gallery tion of this classic. 3 p.m. MAC decade (1984-1994) that saw the creation of BRIEF BIOS: Your Life in 6 Words. We’ll to Avoid the Tricks and Traps that Can The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, share our creations this evening. If you Hurt You. Register beginning April 12 ROBIN ZIEGELBAUM: Photographs, “LET ME IN” (2010-115 min.). Owen (Kodi Aladdin and The Lion King. Don Hahn haven’t already submitted an entry, it’s for a program on Monday, May 2 at 7:30 through April 30. Smit-McPhee), an alienated 12-year-old directed this documentary. 7:30 p.m. okay to compose on site — we’ll have paper p.m. Presenter Craig Jennings graduated boy, recognizes a fellow outcast in his new In the Community Gallery and pens at the ready. Refreshments will from Harvard and did graduate work at neighbor Abby (Choe Grace Moretz), an LATINO EXHIBIT: throughout the be served courtesy of the Friends of the Columbia. Sponsored by the library’s Jobs eerily self-possessed girl who emerges month. Library. 7 p.m. & Careers Information Center. Story in from her heavily curtained apartment this issue. only at night. Director Matt Reeves also scripted this eerie and touching remake HYPERTENSION SCREENING: Free REGISTRATIONS of 2008 Swedish film, Let the Right One blood pressure screening conducted by St. WEDNESDAY Beginning April 5 In. 7:30 p.m. 27 Francis Hospital. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Innovations in Breast Cancer DI- Computer Kindergarten . See April 5 agnosis & Treatment: Presented by WEDNESDAY MEN’S BOOK GROUP: Confederates in a panel of medical specialists from North Beginning April 12 6 the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Shore – LIJ Health System. Sponsored by Conversations From Main Civil War by Tony Horwitz. In an ode to Sandsport/Shoshanna Hadassah Chapter, Running Your Own Business . STREET: Parenting with Lenore Skenazy his childhood obsessions, Horwitz reexam- Manhasset Women’s Coalition Against . See April 12 & Dana Friedman. See Library Kids page ines the Civil War and tries to discover why TUESDAY Breast Cancer. 7:30 p.m. HAC for description. Note: This program, which it still plays such a huge role in American 19 is co-sponsored by the library, Child Care psyches. Horwitz visits Civil War reenact- CHALLENGING DE GAULLE: The O.A.S. PORT WRITES: The group discusses their Council of Nassau and Port Washington ments and interviews Southerners who and the Counter-Revolution in Algeria. This work and how to get it published. Facili- FRIDAY Child Care Partnership, will take place at still hang their Confederate flags with lecture with Alexander Harrison, drawn tated by Michael Chaplan. 8 p.m. 1 the Jeanne Rimsky Theater at Landmark pride. 2:30 & 7 p.m. from his book, examines the story of the SANDWICHED IN: April Fool! “The first on Main Street. 7:30 p.m. Algerian counterrevolution from the view- of April, some do say, is set apart for All MEET MAY PANG, author of Instamatic point of the ordinary foot soldier in the MEET AUTHORS Rachael Berm- Fools’ Day. But why the people call it so, Karma. 7:30 p.m. Story on front page. O.A.S. (Organisation Armee Secrete). In ingham and Kim MCCosker: 4 nor I, nor they themselves do know. But a series of interviews with former O.A.S. on this day are people sent, on purpose for Ingredients. 7:30 p.m. Story on front page. participants, and using many unpublished pure merriment”. — Poor Robin’s Almanac documents and personal diaries, Harrison 28 THURSDAY (1790). Learn fun facts and folklore sur- explored the motives of these defenders SOUNDSWAP: Album Cover Art. The most rounding this special day with Jessica Ley, of French Algeria. “Were they criminals, important thing about any album released the library’s Adult Program Coordinator. WEDNESDAY sociopaths, or honorable men more sensi- in the history of popular music is the qual- To be followed by the filmApril Fool’s Day 13 tive to their country’s fate than were many ity of the sounds captured on it. The sec- (1986-88 min.). Nine teenagers staying at a FRIDAY BOOK DISCUSSION: A discussion of of their contemporaries?” 7:30 p.m. ond most important thing is the artwork secluded island mansion are being killed 8 Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead, facili- chosen to dress it up. Music archivist, DJ SANDWICHED IN: Where Comedy Went off one by one by an unseen killer. Danilo tated by Lee Fertitta. 7:30 p.m. This is the and librarian Tony Traguardo will look at to School. Join presenter Joseph Dorian Bach scripted for director Fred Walton. Long Island Reads selection for 2011. Mr. some of the most famous and infamous for a hilarious journey east of Eden, west 12:10 p.m. Whitehead will be appearing at Plainview- works of album cover art. 7:30 p.m. of the Moon, and 100 miles north of New Old Bethpage Library on Thursday, April “NOWHERE BOY” (2009-98 min.). In York City, where a generation of Jewish 14 at 7:30 p.m. All are welcome. Liverpool in 1955, teenager John Len- comedians honed their craft in the resorts WEDNESDAY non (Aaron Johnson) is being raised by of the Catskill Mountains. This Speakers 20 LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES meets. his strict but loving Aunt Mimi (Kristin in the Humanities event, which is free and The public is invited at 7:30 p.m. Scott Thomas). The boy’s world is rocked open to the public, is made possible through when he learns that his natural mother, the support of the New York Council for the WEDNESDAY WESTERN RIDES AGAIN! FRIDAY the vivacious Julia (Anne-Marie Duff), is Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Wagon Master (1950-86 min.). Two cow- 29 SANDWICHED IN: Plymouth Church of the living only blocks away. Matt Greenhalgh Endowment for the Humanities. 12:10 p.m. THURSDAY hands (Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, Jr.) join scripted, from Julia Baird’s memoir, for 14 Pilgrims: The “Grand Central Depot” of the FROM BANNED BOOK TO BIG SCREEN: a Mormon wagon train heading for Utah. director Sam Taylor-Wood. 7:30 p.m. Underground Railroad. Although Plymouth Maurice (1987-140 min). James Wilby, Joanne Drew, Ward Bond and Jane Darwell Church was not established until 1847, just Hugh Grant and Rupert Graves star in co-star in this western from director John 14 years before the start of the Civil War, it Merchant-Ivory’s powerful adaptation of Ford and screenwriters Frank Nugent and later became known as “the Grand Central E.M. Foster’s novel of forbidden love in the Patrick Ford (John’s son). 7:30 p.m. Depot” of the Underground Railroad. Join early days of the 20th century. Presenter is Lois Rosebrooks and Frank Decker for Dylan Skolnick, co-director of the Cinema an illustrated discussion of this National SATURDAY Arts Centre. Sponsored by the Friends of Landmark property in Brooklyn Heights, 2 the Library. 2:30 p.m. the first historic district of New York City. PAPERBACK SWAP: The Friends of the Library hosts a Paperback Swap. 1 to 4 DIRECTOR’S CUT: Film expert John 12:10 p.m. p.m. Bosco will screen and discuss Get Low THURSDAY MEET CATHLEEN SCHINE, author of (2009-103 min.). Hermit Felix Bush (Rob- 21 BOOK DISCUSSION: A discussion of The The Three Weissman’s of Westport. 3 p.m. ert Duvall) is either feared or hated by the First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Story on front page. folks of Caleb County, Tennessee. One day, Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles, facilitated by Lee he gets the idea to throw himself a funeral Fertitta. 1:30 p.m. “NEVER LET ME GO” (2010-104 min.). party while he is still lively enough to enjoy Kathy, Ruth and Tommy (Carey Mulligan, it. Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek co-star in 3rd THURSDAYS @ 3: Pablo Picasso and Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield) grow up SUNDAY this comedy-drama from screenwriters the Masters. This visual lecture led by at an English boarding school with a chill- 3 Chris Provenzano and C. Gaby Mitchell Professor Thomas Germano looks at the ing secret mission. Alex Garland scripted John Ford and director/editor Aaron Schneider. artists who influenced Picasso. 3 p.m. AAC from the best-selling novel by Kazuo 7:30 p.m. Ishiguro, for director Mark Romanek. Mu- LIVE@PWPL: John Ford of the Strawbs. sical score by Rachel Portman. 7:30 p.m. Back by popular demand. Ford and his group were given standing ovations at his previous appearances.