Wednesday April 2, 7PM Author Talk – The Race. Journalist Del Walters discusses and signs his new novel. This new thriller by WJLA correspondent Del Walters follows a fictional African American candidate for President of the United States. Book Signing follows at Busboys and Poets.
Sunday April 6, 2 PM Family Movie Matinee – The Bee Movie. PG (2007)
Directed by Simon J. Smith and Steve Hickner
Voices by: Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger and Chris Rock.
Barry B. Benson, a bee who just graduated from college, is disillusioned with his only job prospect, honey. When he ventures outside of the hive he breaks a cardinal rule and talks to a human, a florist named Vanessa, and is shocked to find out that humans have been stealing bees honey for centuries and decides to sue them in this animated comedy.
Monday April 7, 7 PM Page to Stage. Meet some of the nominees of this years Helen Hays Awards. Guests include Will Gartshore and Andy Brownstein.
Wednesday, April 9, 3 PM ALRI Lecture Russia’s Energy Interests and the Global Economy. International Policy Analyst, Presented by Lajos F. Szaszdi discusses Russia’s energy Interests and their influence on the global economy and US interests.
Thursday, April 10, 4-6 PM Arlington Reads Film Screening. American Rhapsody (2001) directed by Eva Gardos. Featuring Scarlette Johansson and Nastaaja Kinsi. Rated PG-13. Six years after her parents flee the 1950 communist regime in Hungary; the American Red Cross reunites a young girl with her biological family in Los Angeles. At age 15, rebellious and unsure-of-herself the daughter tries to come to terms with her roots and decides to travel back to Budapest, Hungary to find her true identity.
Friday April 11, 1 PM Author Talk Pearls, Politics and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead. Madeline Kunin, the former Governor of Vermont, former US Ambassador to Switzerland and Deputy Secretary of Education for the Clinton Administration will discuss her latest book at the Shirlington Library. A book signing will follow across the street at Busboys and Poets.
Saturday April 12, 2 PM Author Talk Shelly Wong, discusses her book, Dialogic Approaches to TESOL. Book signing follows at Busboys and Poets, Arlington. Shelly Wong is an Associate Professor of Education at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. She began her teaching career teaching English at a girl’s middle school in Hong Kong, where she went as a fifth generation Chinese American to learn Cantonese and learn about her cultural heritage.
Monday April 14, 7:30 PM Film Screening, Funny Lady (1972) directed by Herbert Ross. Rated PG. Presented by the Shirlington Library is partnership with Signature Theatre as part of the Kander and Ebb Celebration. Movie will be shown in the MAX at Signature.
Tuesday April 15, 7 PM Arlington Reads Film Screening The Golden Door [Nuovomondo] (2006). Directed by Emanuele Crialese. Rated PG-13. Shirlington Meeting Room. A poor Southern Italian family leaves their rural cottage and buy passage to America. The trip to the boat, aboard the boat, and at Ellis Island is one of wonder and hope. A magical movie that succeeds in illustrating a humble, ordinary and tough passage to the new world.
Wednesday, April 16, 6:30 PM – Arlington Reads Community Book Discussion. Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat. Join a librarian from the Shirlington Library at Busboys and Poets, Join Arlington Reads and discuss this memoir by the masterful storyteller, Edwidge Danticat.
Thursday, April 17, 1 PM The Emigrants [Utvandrarna] (1971). Directed by Jan Troell. Featuring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann. Rated PG. Shirlington Meeting Room.
When Jan Troell’s “The Emigrants” was released in the U.S. in 1972, it opened to excellent reviews and received the honor of being one of the few foreign-language films to receive a Best Picture nomination. A diverse group of Swedish peasants (among them a married couple, a priest, a prostitute, and a young upstart) endure back-breaking labor in their homeland to little profit. They decide to move to the states after being influenced by the exaggerated stories spread abroad. Troell’s story is very moving in its depiction of how people in the early 1900’s came to this country to pursue their hopes and dreams.
Sunday, April 20, 3 PM –Celebrate National Poetry Month. Join us at the Shirlington Library to hear the stirring voices of some of the most notable emerging area poets as they read their poetry on the theme of social justice. Poets include: Naomi Ayala, Holly Bass, Sarah Browning, Rei Berroa, and Brian Gilmore.
Wednesday, April 23, 7:30 PM Arlington Reads Movie Discussion. Discuss film dealing with immigration, including some movies screened at the Central and Shirlington Libraries. Please see the Arlington Public Library website for a complete list of films. Please see the Shirlington Blog for a full list of films.
Thursday, April 24, 6:30 PM – Author Talk Black Glasses Like Clark Kent by Terese Svoboda and The House of Windows by Askold Melnyczwk. Join these two authors as they read from their latest books, both based on oral history and memoir. Svoboda is the winner of the 2007 Graywolf Press non-fiction award for her investigation into the American occupation of Japan after WWII.
Sunday, April 27, 3 PM Author Talk – Gaia Girls Series by Lee Wells. Lee Wells reads from and discusses her eco-adventure books for young adults. Book signing follows at Busboys and Poets.
Monday, April 28, time 6:30 PM – Lecture Green Condo Workshop: How to Start a Green Team. Presented in partnership with the Arlington County Green Home Choice Program. Learn how to live green in your condo.
Wednesday, April 30, 7 PM – Author Talk Silencing Civil Society: Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru by Jo-Marie Burt.
Jo-Marie Burt is Associate Professor of Government and Politics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She was a Fulbright Scholar and visiting researcher at the Catholic University of Peru in 2006, and she served as a research consultant for the Peruvian Truth and Justice Commission in 2002-2003. She is co-editor, with Philip Mauceri, of Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform (2004).
Book Discussion: Tuesday April 1 at 7:30 PM and Thursday April 6 at 11 AM. In the Shirlington Meeting Room. Arlington Reads Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat.
Computer Classes:
FRIDAY APRIL 18 2-3:30 PM Intro to Photo Sharing
MONDAY APRIL 21 7-8:30 PM Introduction to Firefox
MONDAY APRIL 28 7-8:30PM Introduction to Internet
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