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Adult
Programs & Events: July and August 2010
Children's
Programs and
Teen
Programs are listed
on their own events pages.
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Artist
Bahram Khamjani
Diaspora
Exhibit July 20- August
19 in the Founders Room
Bahram
Khamjani was born in 1949 in Tehran,Iran. He was professor
of Restoration of Historical Buildings and Historical
City Fabrics in School of Architecture and Urban Planning
of Shahid Beheshti University for 25 years. He immigrated
to the U.S.A in 2002 due to the political situation
in Iran. He describes his work: “Painting is my hobby
and I feel free when I am with it. I try to mix Persian
poetry and Persian Architecture with painting. Sometimes
I work without them. I use acrylic color on paper and
canvas. I try to experience different type of things.
I don’t want to limit myself with definite terms and
definitions. I like to play with with color, lines,
and shapes in a different manner.”
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Jazz
Acapella Marin
Tuesday, July 27, 7:30pm in the Founders Room
The Jazz Acappella Chorus of Marin (JAM) will present
a program of favorite jazz and pop standards in rich
four-part harmonies. The group consists of ten singers
who love to harmonize old-time jazz to pop, show-tunes,
ballads, and some rock and roll. Participants live and
work in the Marin community. JAM performs at the Mill
Valley Book Depot, various senior residences, Art Walk
events, and private parties. They meet as a weekly class
open to interested singers, offered by the Sausalito
Recreation Department. The group's director, Richard
Kalman, is a jazz vocalist/leader of small choral groups,
a jazz combo, and co-director of the Albany Jazz Big
Band. Come, listen, and hum along.
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Wednesday
Workshop
Introduction
to Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
Wednesday, July 28 2-3:30pm in the Founders Room
Join
our trainer Alexa Stoneman in this hands-on introduction
to the popular Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 presentation
software. Alexa will teach us how to format text, save
a presentation, add a slide, use the outline pane, move
between slides, add text in the outline pane, add text
to a text box, move and resize a text box, add clip
art, change the background, run a slide show, add a
slide transition, and custom animation. Attendees
should have prior experience using a computer. Experience
with Microsoft Word 2007 is helpful. Space
is limited! Please call the Reference Desk at 789-2661
to sign-up for this hands-on workshop.
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Janis
Lufts
Trivia Night
Wednesday, July 28, 7:30pm in the Founders Room
Janis leads this lively and stimulating evening of team
trivia. Bring your own team or come alone and join the
fun.
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Robert
Madda
Music/Meditation/Rhythm
PROGRAM CANCELED: stay tuned for a new date
Thursday, July 29, 7:30pm in the Founders Room
Robert Madda, a practitioner of Naturopathic Medicine
and Acupuncture, from the Tiburon Wellness Center leads
a “rhythm meditation”.
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Film
Series @ The Library
Film
Shorts
Friday,
July 30
Doors open at 6:15pm and films will be screened at
7:00pm in the Library's Founders Room. Come early;
seating is limited!
Reserve seats in advance by clicking this link http://fs8.formsite.com/beltib/filmseries/
If you cannot fill out the form, please call the Reference
Desk 415-789-2661 and we will book your reservation.
Reservations accepted until NOON the day of the screening
& will be held until 6:45pm Suggested donation: $5.00
Far
Sighted (15 minutes)________________
Invited Guest: Elyse Couvillon, Writer/Director
Imaginative, sensitive Leia is struggling
to emotionally survive her parents' bitter divorce.
When she finds a broken telescope she escapes to the
distant, beautiful worlds on the outer reaches of
the universe. After Leia and the telescope are separated,
strange events conspire to reunite them. Is it real
or just her imagination? Does it matter?
Sweet
(4 minutes)________________
Invited Guest: Elyse Couvillon, Writer/Director
A young man and woman awake in separate
beds, each dreaming of the other. Driving to work
and all through their days, they secretly escape to
these vivid, sensual daydreams. The day over, they
both rush home and unexpectedly meet in the lobby
of the apartment building. Be careful what you wish
for.
Broken
Time (25 minutes)________________
Every afternoon Daniel waits alone
for his mother to return from work. One day a strong
explosion is heard throughout the city. People in
his building are talking about a terrorist attack
and Daniel's mother has not arrived. As the hours
pass, Daniel's anxiety leads him to an action that
will change his life.
Western
Spaghetti (3 minutes)___________________
Filmed in stop motion, Western Spaghetti
is a clever cooking simulation, an arts-and-crafts
extravaganza that manages to make bubble wrap look
like boiling water and lets red velvet fill in for
tomato sauce. The ingeniously inedible meal is the
work of Adam Pesapane a digital artist in New York,
known as PES. His work is truly magical.
Politics
of Preschool (5 minutes)________________
A preschool girl attempts to gain social
status through material means only to find out she's
been trumped!
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First
Friday Drop-in Computer Lounge
*Senior Friendly*
Friday,
August 6, 10:30am-noon
Feeling
challenged because you don't know how to use a computer?
Conquer your frustrations and join us for a non-threatening
drop-in computer lab. We'll set up our laptop computers
in the Founders Room, and a librarian will be there
to help you get started and answer your questions.
* Improve your mouse skills by playing simple mouse-practice
exercises.
* Learn to type with Mavis Beacon software.
* Exercise and challenge your brain with free online
brain games: play sudoku, solitaire, chess, work a crossword
puzzle, or learn a new game.
Call the Reference Desk at 789-2661 for more information
about all our computer training.
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Dr.
Steven Schroeder
The Health Care System
Tuesday,
August 10, 7:30pm in the Founders Room
Perhaps
no other field so exemplifies United States exceptionalism
as does health care. Although we spend far more money
on health (17% of our gross domestic product) than any
other country, our health outcomes are miserable by
comparison with other developed nations, and for decades
we have tolerated millions of Americans going without
health insurance. Yet, most of the people in Marin County
enjoy good health care and are very satisfied with it.
In 2010 a major health insurance expansion was passed,
despite fierce partisanship and great doubts as to whether
anything would happen. Many implementation details remain
to be clarified, and the jury is still out as to the
costs of the expansion. My remarks will review why health
care reform is so difficult in the United States, briefly
summarize the recent Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act that was enacted this year, and review all
the unfinished business ahead, especially how to control
runaway health care expenditures.
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Leonard
Pitt
Paris Postcards
Thursday
August 12, 7:30 in the Founders Room
For many years they were taken for granted, but to author
and collector Leonard Pitt, vintage, hand-painted French
postcards from the late 19th and early 20th centuries
are nothing less than "little works of art." More than
this, they also serve as historical documents. In this
gorgeous collection, Pitt has chosen postcards that
show readers a Paris that no longer exists. In his fascinating
introduction, he discusses the birth of the postcard.
Pitt also includes sample postcards from American visitors
to Paris writing to loved ones back home. The images
here are often famous (the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de
Triomphe, the Moulin Rouge) and majestic (Paris' grand
boulevards), but there also are plenty of examples of
ordinary Parisians going about their business. It's
an utterly charming collection that captures a moment
in time.
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Artist
Nancy Cicchetti
Dancing in the Street: New
paintings and monotypes
Reception Tuesday, August 17, 6-8pm
Exhibit August 16-September 17 in the Founders Room
I
have been an artist all of my life. Primarily an oil
painter, I work from photos to inspire me, and then
take these images to another level of color, texture
and shadow to reveal a story. Movement is of utmost
importance to me, and I see it in the branches of a
tree as much as in dancers moving through space. My
monotypes utilize ink and layering techniques to emphasize
the painterly qualities of this graphic medium. Capturing
a singular moment in time, when natural or artificial
light illuminates a scene, is my artistic goal. I hope
to begin a story that the viewer can expand on.
Nancy Cicchetti's Web Site: http://www.ncicchetti.com
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Afternoon
Tea at the Library
Wednesday, August 18, 3-4:00pm in the Founders Room
Come to our ever popular monthly afternoon tea. Join
Program Committee volunteers and the library staff for
homemade sandwiches and sweets served from a silver
tea service.
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Docent
Joan Kaplan, SFMOMA
From Calder to Warhol: Highlights
of the Fisher Collection
Tuesday, August 24, 7:30 in the Founders
Room
From Calder to Warhol: Highlights of the Fisher Collection
introduces the world-class collection of Doris and the
late Don Fisher, founders of The Gap, a collection that
has a new home at SFMOMA. The presentation invites viewers
to sample Fisher Collection masterworks by 20th century
artists including Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, Louise
Bourgeois, Joan Mitchell, Agnes Martin, Chuck Close,
and Gerhard Richter. It also offers a glimpse into the
future of SFMOMA and how the Fishers amassed a world
class collection of modern and contemporary art.
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