NOW A VIRTUAL EVENT! Howard Blum returns to the Westport Library to discuss his newest history, The Spy Who Knew Too Much: An Ex-CIA Officer's Quest Through a Legacy of Betrayal with Maggie Mudd. A retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case—and reconcile with his daughter, a CIA officer who […]
The Film Noir Film Series, inspired by the art exhibit "Double Indemnity", now on view in the Sheffer Gallery, continues on July 7th with the iconic film "Detour". The film, made in 1945, was called by Roger Ebert "... an embodiment of the guilty soul of film noir. No one who has seen it has […]
The Film Noir Film Series, inspired by the art exhibit "Double Indemnity", now on view in the Sheffer Gallery, continues on July 14th with the original, iconic film "Nightmare Alley", […]
Westporters write books on a wide variety of subjects in all sorts of genres. Authors Eve Nadel Catarevas and James Noble will share their new books - a biography and […]
Comic book art historian Arlen Schumer as he delves into Curt Swan’s Super-works—covers, pages and panels—on screen in ways that will make you see comic book art as you never have before! To the Baby Boomers who grew up on his work, Curt Swan was, is, and forever will be the definitive Superman artist! Over the course of […]
The Film Noir Film Series, inspired by the art exhibit "Double Indemnity", now on view in the Sheffer Gallery, continues on August 25th with "Mildred Pierce". This film is an iconic portrait of a single mother in the dark shadows of maternal sacrifice, for which Joan Crawford won her only Oscar. The film was originally […]
Pages Through the Ages is a book discussion group hosted jointly by the Westport Museum for History and Culture and the Library. Discuss Emma Southon's A Fatal Thing Happened on […]
Pages Through the Ages is a book discussion group hosted jointly by the Westport Museum for History and Culture and the Library. Discuss A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles with Bruce McGuirk and other history buffs. Meetings will alternate between the buildings, so please check the venue prior to attending! Copies of the book […]
UNA Southwest CT Chapter presents the first Ruth Steinkraus Cohen Lecture. Mary Evelyn Tucker discusses protecting the Earth community.
View a screening of Surviving Sex Trafficking and participate in a panel discussion afterward with members of Partnership to End Human Trafficking and Policy World Without Exploitation. Panelists include Lili Bordan; Jamie Manirakiza, PEHT Executive Director; Becca Zipkin, Policy Director WorldWe; and Krishna Patel, International Strategist, former federal prosecutor and TedX speaker. Please register to attend this […]
Pages Through the Ages is a book discussion group hosted jointly by the Westport Museum for History and Culture and the Library. Compare and contrast The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power. Meetings will alternate between the buildings, so please check the venue prior to attending! Copies of the […]
Ken Burns' new three-part documentary, The U.S. and the Holocaust, directed and produced by Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, explores America’s response to the horrors of the Holocaust and the rise of authoritarianism in Europe. Join us for a brief screening and panel discussion moderated by CPTV host Ray Hardman, tracing the parallels between […]
The Westport Garden Club presents entomologist Doug Tallamy via Zoom, who will speak about how what humans plant affect the ecosystem in profound ways. Recent headlines about global insect declines and 3 billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the […]
Join Silvermoon LaRose of the Tomaquag Museum for an engaging discussion of Firekeeper’s Daughter. Although this literary work focuses on the Anishinaabe communities of the Great Lakes, the copious cultural nuances described in the book are relatable to Indigenous communities far and wide. Together we will explore this exciting publication and the relevance to the […]
Longtime ESPN reporter and E60 host Jeremy Schaap will be at the Library to screen his new film, The Perfect Machine. Just in time for the Super Bowl, Schaap will look back at the 1972 Miami Dolphins, who 50 years ago won Super Bowl VII, completing the first and only undefeated season in NFL history. Schaap also will […]
