Bring crafts or something to fiddle with (if not knitting) and come enjoy the indoors as the outdoors are cooling down. Open to all, no RSVP required.
From the category archives:
Past Events
Curiosity Forum: Author Event – Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman (3/9/12)
As intelligent as they are moving, the stories in “Birds of a Lesser Paradise” are alive with emotion, wit, and insight into the impressive power that nature has over all of us. This extraordinary collection introduces a young writer of remarkable talent.
Current Affairs Book Club: The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger (3/15/12)
Join us for discussion of this eye-opening UK bestseller that shows how one single factor–the gap between its richest and poorest members–can determine the health and well-being of a society.
Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the deep inside the Chicago Art Institute they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms….
Bring a poem or two to share, your own or someone else’s.
Write what you know in this rarely-offered one-day memoir writing workshop with Capital-region favorite, Marion Roach Smith, author of The Memoir Project.
The presentation will examine some of the more notable shipwrecks in Lake George including the 1758 Land Tortoise radeau, the 1758 sunken bateaux, a 1960 research sub sunk in the lake, and others.
