 | | | Learn to Use Your NOOK!
| Barnes & Noble partners with the library to teach you to use your NOOK. Call 444-7820 for information.
Monday, October 1
6:30 pm - Nook Class
7:30 pm - Nook Color Class
Monday, October 1, Theatre level Meeting Rooms
| | 1st Thursday Book Group: Clara and Mr. Tiffany
| Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
In her sixth work of fiction about the inter-penetration of life and art, Vreeland celebrates the putative designer of Tiffany’s leaded-glass lampshades. That would be Clara Driscoll. Some art historians now believe that it was Clara, unacknowledged in her lifetime, who conceived the lampshades. What is indisputable is that, encouraged by Louis Tiffany, she was a major creative force at his Glass and Decorating Company. From 1892 to 1908, she oversaw the Women’s Department; many of her workers were from poor immigrant families and still in their teens. Here Clara is a commanding figure: a mother hen to the Tiffany Girls, a feminist challenging the rampant sexism of the Men’s Department and an imaginative innovator marrying glass to flowers and insects.
Thursday, October 4 at 10:00 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms
| | Coffee Tasting @ the Plaza: Explore Polish Foods and Coffee
| | Taste the world! Coffee-ol-ogy Coffee Cafe presents fun and interactive programming on food and coffee from around the globe. Complimentary samples provided. Sunday, October 7 at 2:30 pm--Library Plaza
| | Artisans @ the Plaza
| | Cecily Chaney is one of the many talented artists that contribute to the local Artists on the Bluff, an Alabama Non-profit Arts Education Corporation. She uses wire wrapping, silversmithing, cold connection, forging, hammering, a kiln, and a drill press to make unique and beautiful jewelry pieces. She is coming to the library to demonstrate her jewelry making skills on October 10, 2012. She is demonstrating her remarkable artistry through silversmithing, cold connection, and piercing of different types of jewelry. Wednesday, October 10 at 12:30 pm--Library Plaza
| | 2nd Thursday Book Group: State of Wonder
| State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
In State of Wonder, pharmaceutical researcher Dr. Marina Singh sets off into the Amazon jungle to find the remains and effects of a colleague who recently died under somewhat mysterious circumstances. But first she must locate Dr. Anneck Swenson, a renowned gynecologist who has spent years looking at the reproductive habits of a local tribe where women can conceive well into their middle ages and beyond. Dr. Singh must face her own disappointments and regrets, along with the jungle’s unforgiving humidity and insects, making State of Wonder a multi-layered atmospheric novel that is hard to put down.
Thursday, October 11 at 10:00 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms
| | Understanding Social Security
| Presented by Scott Cole, Financial Analyst for Alabama's 13. Call 444-7816 to register. Free! Theatre Level Meeting Rooms
Thursday, October 11 at 7:00 pm--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms
| | How to Find Grants
| | Learn to use the Foundation Center Cooperative databases to find grants for nonprofits and individuals. Reservations required. Call 444-7816. Wedesday, October 17 at 2:00 pm and 3:30 pm--Training Center
| | Conversations @ the Plaza
| | Practice your language skills. Beginners to the higly-fluent are welcome. German, French and Spanish are the featured languages. Thursday, October 18 at 6:30 pm--Library Plaza
| | Instrumentalists @ the Plaza: Jim MacRae
| Currently, Jim MacRae is the featured piper at the new Ross Bridge Resort & Spa in Hoover, playing evenings and sunsets. Jim brings with him over 40 years of playing experience at all types of events, solo competition at the Grade 1 level, and pipe bands in Western Pennsylvania, Chicago and Northwest Indiana and now in Alabama. He has been playing professionally since 1965.
Sunday, October 21 at 2:30 pm--Library Plaza
| | Monday at the Movies: Vertigo
| Directed By Alfred Hitchcock
A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Monday, October 22 at 2:00 pm and 6:30 pm--Library Theatre
| | Playing @ the Plaza: Chad Fisher Group
| In the summer of 2004, Fisher found himself playing a record seven performances on five stages during Birmingham's City Stages weekend. When he's not traveling, Chad can be found with a number local and regional bands, ranging from soul to indie rock. His love of music has lead him ultimately to found the Chad Fisher Group to bring a whole new voice to the scene. Improvisational jazz and funk from trombonist Chad Fisher and his six-piece band.
Thursday, October 25 at 6:30 pm--Library Plaza
| | Nonfiction Book Group: The Emperor of All Maladies
| | The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. Thursday, October 25 at 7:00 pm--Allen Board Room
| | Write Club
| - Meet & mingle with your fellow amateur poets and novelists.
- Flesh out your characters and tie-up those dangling plot threads!
- Swap material with other writers, or even read your work aloud.
- Share your stories and inspirations!
Write Club is a monthly forum for local amateur writers to meet and discuss their work. The goal of Write Club is to inspire and encourage literary involvement in the community by providing an environment in which local authors can network, share their writing and offer each other moral support and constructive criticism.
Call 205-444-7820 for more information.
Saturday, October 27 at 10:30 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms
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