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Pages Through the Ages: 'The Art Thief'
Room 210, The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United StatesPages Through the Ages book discussion group plans to read THE ART THIEF in January 2024.
Pages Through the Ages book discussion group plans to read THE ART THIEF in January 2024.
Register Here From Egyptian tombs to Mesopotamian palaces and Mexican pyramids, art has been stolen from its original owners and contexts for reasons including personal gain, use as war trophies, upholding political agendas, and more. In this slide presentation, Dr. Marice Rose will discuss the theft and looting of antiquities in ancient times and the […]
Join us on February 28 for the second* Verso University exploration of the CT Art Trail with the Yale University Art Gallery. The talk, by John Stuart Gordon, the Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Curator of American Decorative Arts, will focus on the exhibit Sheila Levrant de Bretteville: Community, Activism, and Design, on view from February 16 through June 23, 2024.
Pages Through the Ages is a book discussion group focused on both historical nonfiction and fiction. This month the group will discuss David Grann's The Wager. The Wager is a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court-martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events […]
Register Here Watch The Recorded Talkback Here Screening in the Library’s Trefz Forum, Below Surface is an award-winning short documentary that reveals the extraordinary power of community through an unlikely subject: a YMCA Aquafit class – that is, the Westport/Weston YMCA. This exercise class, led by gifted and compassionate instructor Patty Kondub, inspired the connection among […]
Register Here Learn about female writers during the Renaissance when Ramie Targoff discusses her new book, Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance, with Shannon Kelley PhD of Fairfield University. Books will be available for purchase and signing. About Shakespeare's Sisters: In an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare’s England, Targoff carries us […]
Pages Through the Ages is a book discussion group focused on both historical nonfiction and fiction. This month the group will discuss Adam Hochschild's American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis. A Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Chicago Tribune, […]
Register Here Live Stream The League of Women Voters of Westport and the Library’s Common Ground Initiative are facilitating a community conversation with the Town of Westport and Westport Public […]
Register Here This is a free event. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Featuring members of the Shoshone Nation and the many people affected by the radioactive fallout from those tests, Downwind is a harrowing documentary film, executive produced by […]
Register Here Join award-winning journalist and filmmaker Shlomi Eldar and former head Israeli intelligence official Dr. Yuval Biton for a conversation about the impact of Yahya Sinwar’s leadership on Hamas. Sinwar is the current leader of Hamas in Gaza and a member of its Politburo since 2017. He has been designated a global terror threat […]
With the premise that understanding our tumultuous past helps shed light on today’s political frictions, Verso University presents The American Civil War: Past and Prologue, a four-session course exploring the explore the tensions that led to the American Civil War - the conflict, the war itself and its aftermath. Understanding our tumultuous past helps shed light on today’s political frictions.
Pages Through the Ages is a book discussion group focused on both historical nonfiction and fiction. Celebrate William Shakespeare's 460th birthday by discussing Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson. Bryson’s best-selling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship — updated with […]
With the premise that understanding our tumultuous past helps shed light on today’s political frictions, Verso University presents The American Civil War: Past and Prologue, a four-session course exploring the explore the tensions that led to the American Civil War - the conflict, the war itself and its aftermath. Understanding our tumultuous past helps shed light on today’s political frictions.
With the premise that understanding our tumultuous past helps shed light on today’s political frictions, Verso University presents The American Civil War: Past and Prologue, a four-session course exploring the explore the tensions that led to the American Civil War - the conflict, the war itself and its aftermath. Understanding our tumultuous past helps shed light on today’s political frictions.
With the premise that understanding our tumultuous past helps shed light on today’s political frictions, Verso University presents The American Civil War: Past and Prologue, a four-session course exploring the explore the tensions that led to the American Civil War - the conflict, the war itself and its aftermath. Understanding our tumultuous past helps shed light on today’s political frictions.
