| Date |
Event |
June |
|
|
July
|
Salsa
for Beginners with Rey Bermudez
Thursdays, July 12, 19
&
26 to August 2, 19, 16, 23
&30,
6:00 to 7:30 pm,
Downtown Library
This program is for
those of you who are new to Salsa, those of you with a little experience,
and those of you who are missing something here and there. This series of
8 progressive classes includes practical solo/couple exercises and a music
CD to help you practice at home. Dress comfortably &
bring water! Registration required. Please call 695-6324.
Movie Screening: Buena Vista Social Club
Saturday, July 14, 2:00
to 4:00 p.m., Park
Branch
Join us as we view this PBS documentary, hailed as “a remarkable
re-living of the classic era of Cuban popular music.
Hartford Public Library Branch Book Discussions
Join other readers in your neighborhood to
share excerpts from the book and conversation about how it enlightens and
enchants us.
| Saturday |
July 14 |
2:00 p.m. |
Albany Branch |
| Thursday |
July 19 |
6:00 p.m. |
Camp Field |
| Friday |
July 20 |
1:30 p.m. |
Mark Twain |
| Wednesday |
July 25 |
1:00 p.m. |
Park (at Pope Park) |
| Friday |
July 27 |
12:30 p.m |
Blue Hills |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
August
|
Salsa
for Beginners with Rey Bermudez
Thursdays, August 2,
19, 16, 23 & 30, 6:00 to 7:30 pm,
Downtown Library
This program is for those of you who are
new to Salsa, those of you with a little experience, and those of you who
are missing something here and there. This series of 8 progressive classes
includes practical solo/couple exercises and a music CD to help you practice
at home. Dress comfortably &
bring water! Registration required. Please call 695-6324.
Movie Screening: Fresa y Chocolate - Strawberry and Chocolate. (1993), 108 min.
Wednesday, August 15, 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Downtown Library
Diego--a cultured and marginalized homosexual, who loves his country and its
traditions meets and falls in love with David, a young university student
full of prejudices and communist doctrine ideas.
Movie Screening:
Guantanemera - (1995), 105 min.
Wednesday, August 22, 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Downtown Library
In this romantic comedy, Yoyita, a world-famous diva, returns to her home town of Guantanamo for an elegant reception and a surprise reunion with her once beloved, Candido.
Hartford Public Library Branch Book Discussions
Monday, August 27, 2:00 p.m. -
Goodwin Branch
Friday, August 31, 4:00 p.m. --
Barbour Branch
Join other readers in your neighborhood to
share excerpts from the book and conversation about how it enlightens and
enchants us.
|
|
September |
Author Talk
and Book Signing
Finding Manana: A
Memoir of a Cuban Exodus
by Mirta Ojito
Thursday, September
13, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Downtown Library
3rd Floor Program
Room
Pulitzer Prize
winning journalist Mirta Ojito relates her experience as a sixteen year
old in Cuba, torn between
loyalty to the Cuban Revolution and the
desire of her parents to leave the country.
In recounting her
coming-to-America story, she tells about the more than 125,000 people
who fled to Florida in the daring, mass exodus from Mariel harbor in
1980.
Downtown Library Panel Discussion
Belief Systems of the African-Diaspora as Cultural Resistance: Orisha Tradition and Culture in the 21st Century
Saturday, September 15
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Downtown Library
Author Event:
Fighting Castro: A Love Story, by Kay Abella
Thursday, September 20,
6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The author speaks about writing the biographical story of Dr. Lino
Fernandez, a young Cuban doctor imprisoned by Castro as a resistance
leader. Recounted from the point of view of his wife, the book
chronicles her struggle to help her husband survive, and to take their
three young children to freedom in Miami.
"Kay Abella has captured the
realities of life in Castro’s Cuba with the precision of a great
historian and the grace and eloquence of a consummate novelist"……Carlos
Eire
Downtown Library Author Event
Walking on Eggshells: Navigating the Delicate Relationship between Adult Children and Parents, by Jane Isay
Tuesday, September 25
6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Downtown Library
This critically acclaimed book offers wisdom to help you negotiate an adult relationship with your children.
|
|
October |
Downtown Library Author Event
Catherine Conant, Connecticut storyteller
Tuesday, October 2,
6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Downtown Library
Laugh with Catherine Conant, noted Connecticut storyteller, as she takes a humorous look at the joys and trials of caretaking your elderly parents. She has first- hand experience dealing with her family and her father’s dementia. Feel free to share your own stories about parenting your parent.
Branching Out
Martín
Espada on Pablo Neruda
Sunday, October 7,
4:30 p.m.
Downtown Library
Poet Martín
Espada’s talk,
“The Redemption of Pablo Neruda,”
focuses on the evolution of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda as a
political poet; his struggle and exile at the hands of his own
government; his triumphant return; his death in the wake of the military
coup; and his redemption after democracy returned to Chile.
Sponsored by Poets House and the
Poetry Society of America.
Downtown Library Author Event
Dory Dzinski, spiritual healer
Tuesday, October 9,
6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Downtown Library
Dory Dzinski, life coach and spiritual healer, will lead this inspirational workshop in which you will learn that it's not too late to obtain your heart’s desire. You will enjoy creative exercises and handouts for personal exploration to make mid-life a time of purpose rather than crisis.
Downtown Library Book Discussion
Book Discussion of Dreaming in Cuban, led by Prof. John Christie
Thursday, October 11
6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Downtown Library
The
Natural History of Cuba
Wednesday, October 17
6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Downtown
Library
This slide lecture on the natural history of Cuba will introduce you to many rarely explored parts of the country, the Caribbean's largest and most ecologically diverse island nation. Cuba is home to many species found nowhere else on E.01arth, including the world's smallest bird, the Bee Hummingbird, which weighs about the same as a penny. Gary Markowski, Director of the Cuba Bird Study Program, and Andrew Griswold, Director of Connecticut Audubon Society's EcoTravel, are the evening's presenters. Connecticut Audubon Society conducts an exclusive, U. S. led and managed licensed birding program to Cuba. Endorsed by the American Birding Association, the program has an 11-year history as a bird conservation project, focused on understanding Cuba's importance as a wintering habitat for North American migratory birds.
Secretaries of the Moon
Thursday, October 18, from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Hartford History Center
Downtown Library
Join Beverly Coyle for an evening exploration of the relationship between Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet Wallace Stevens and writer and editor of the Cuban
literary magazine “Origenes” José Rodríguez-Feo. Letters between the two men
spanning the years 1944-54 provide an intimate look into the lives and
thoughts of the older, more practical Stevens, writing from Hartford, and
the much younger and dramatic Rodríguez-Feo residing in Cuba. Presenter
Beverly Coyle, author, playwright and member of Yale University’s Divinity
School faculty, is co-editor of the book, "Secretaries of the Moon, the
Letters of Wallace Stevens and José Rodríguez-Feo." This Hartford History
Center program is being held in conjunction with the library's 2007 One Book
showcasing the novel, "Dreaming in Cuban" by Christina Garcia.
“Dreaming in Cuban"
Performance
Monday, October 22, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
The Hartford Stage presents a professionally staged
adaptation of this year's One Book for Greater Hartford,
Dreaming in Cuban.
Free and open to the public. Seating
first-come first-served.
Performance to
be held at Hartford Stage,
50 Church Street, Hartford
Dreaming in American
Wednesday, October 24 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Downtown Library
Second Floor Seminar Room Registration requested
In the summer of 1994, a team of public television reporters filmed and
interviewed seven Cubans, and their families, beginning a few days
before their risky venture of setting out to sea in homemade rafts to
reach the coast of the United States. When the balseros were finally
allowed to go to the United States, the film crew went with them. Seven
years later, the film crew visits them again, to discover what their
destiny has been in the United States. Join us for a viewing of Balseros
an Oscar nominated documentary, hosted by noted local Cuban artist and
professor, Umberto Castro Cruz. This is a classic story of immigrants
coming to a golden land and finding the streets paved with baser
materials.
2007 One Book
for Greater Hartford
Author
Event
October 26, 2007
Downtown Library
Author Talk and Q&A
7:00-8:00pm
Book Signing and Reception 8:00-9:00pm
Cuban-born American novelist and
journalist Cristina García’s first novel,
Dreaming in Cuban, which was
nominated for a National Book Award, is an evocative, lush story of
three generations of the del Pino family divided by the politics and
geography of the Cuban revolution. The novel has prompted many
Americans of diverse ethnicities to explore the ever-changing notion of
cultural identity and the true nature of self . . . a journey that
García, herself, continues today.
García is also the author of
The Agüero Sisters,
Monkey Hunting, and the
newly released A Handbook to Luck.
Garcia has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Hodder Fellow at Princeton
University, and the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award. In 2008,
she will publish her first work for children: I
Wanna Be Your Shoebox and
The Dog Who Loved the Moon.
|
| |
|
|
