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Opening Reception for “Horizons” In Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Library, Thursday, December 17 from 6pm-8pm

The Flinn Gallery in the Greenwich Library presents “Horizons” – five artists with a diverse approach to landscape painting.

Diana Freedman-Shea; abstract

Yuka Imata – classical

Kathryn Sanfilippo – impressionist

Cheryl Warrick – quilt-like

Frances Ashforth – tension and balance

Each of these artists approach our world from a different perspective.

All are invited to an opening reception on Thursday, December 17 [...]

Make Your Own Gingerbread House At the Greenwich Library, Saturday December 12; 10am and 2pm; FREE, REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Besides family, food is the best aspect of the holidays, and our own Greenwich Library comes through with a great hands-on, all materials supplied project for kids ages 5-10 with an adult. Create a gingerbread house using graham crackers, frosting, candies, fruits, cereals and more – all generously supplied – on Saturday, December 12th, FREE.

Register [...]

Children’s Holiday Show Presented by The Greenwich Police Silver Shield Assoc., Greenwich Library, Sunday December 13th at 1pm

Even Santa wants to show up for the magic and balloon sculptures presented at the Greenwich Police Silver Shield Association‘s Holiday Show, Sunday December 13 @ 1pm at the Greenwich Library’s Cole Auditorium,  featuring Magician Graham Fishman.  Each child in attendance will receive a small gift, but you have to register first.  Pick up a [...]

Do Our Schools Make the Grade? Symposium, Featuring Eminent Speakers, on Preparing Students to Be Successful in the 21st Century, Greenwich Library Cole Auditorium,Thursday December 3rd @ 7pm, FREE

Do Our Schools Make the Grade?
How Schools Can Prepare Students to be Successful in the Global 21st Century

7:00 pm, Thursday, December 3
Cole Auditorium – Greenwich Library
Free and Open to the Public

Featured Panelists
Claudia Wallis - TIME magazine contributing editor and founder of Time for Kids; author of “How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century”
Carol Bellamy [...]

Happy Go Lucky – Directed by Mike Leigh – for Greenwich Library Friends Friday Films; November 20 @8PM, Free

The much lauded film, Happy Go Lucky, about a young woman seemingly without an angry, angsty, bone in her body, will be show on November 20 @ 8PM as part of Greenwich Library Friends Friday Films.  Skip on over to the Cole Auditorium at Greenwich Library to see it. Rated R. Free.

Lee Woodruff Discusses Her Latest Book, Perfectly Imperfect For A “Girls Night Out” At Greenwich Library, Thursday, November 19th @ 6:30PM, FREE

Lee Woodruff’s world was blown apart In An Instant when her husband, ABC-TV commentator/reporter Bob Woodruff was critically injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq.  Bob’s harrowing experience and miraculous recovery is documented in “In An Instant” – the best-selling book co-authored by the married couple.

Now, the down-to-earth, self-deprecating, funny and delightful Lee is promoting [...]

A Mix of Blues, Gospel, Bluegrass and Folk Will Rock Greenwich Library’s Cole Auditorium Sunday November 15 @ 3:30; Ollabelle Performance Free and Open to the Public

American roots music re-imagined for contemporary audiences; that’s how the quintet, Ollabelle interprets their own particular sound. Now, as part of the Peterson Concert Series, Ollabelle will appear at the Greenwich Library Cole Auditorium on Sunday November 15 @ 3:30PM. It’s sure to be a rollicking time. Free and open to the public [...]

Care to Borrow a Monet or Picasso? Greenwich Library Hosts Retrospective on 44 Years of Lending Art – Including Friday Film Showing “Sketches of Frank Gehry” Directed By Sidney Pollack, Friday November 6th at 7PM

On Friday November 6 at 7pm, head to the Greenwich Library Cole Auditorium for a reception (yes, with refreshments) celebrating the library’s unique art lending practice.  As the daughter of an architect who loved modern art, I clearly remember our monthly “print-picking” forays to the Greenwich Library.  We’d arrive with a piece that had been [...]

The Flinn Gallery at Greenwich Library Launches Wood Stone Metal: Contemporary Japanese Prints With Opening Reception on Thursday, November 5 @ 6pm, FREE

The Flinn Gallery at Greenwich Library launches Wood Stone Metal: Contemporary Japanese Prints created by three different printmaking artists; Joshua Rome, Sarah Brayer and Yuji Hiratsuka.  Each creates on a different material – ergo the name of the exhibition.

Hiratuska will lead a gallery tour on Friday, November 6 @2pm
Brayer and Rome will host an Artist [...]

Award-Winning Animator, Francis Glebas, to Speak at Greenwich Library, Thursday November 5th @ 7:30, FREE But Registration Required

Francis Glebas, storyboard artist at  Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age), will provide a glimpse into the world of animation.  As animation director for Fantasia 2000 and storyboard artist on many Disney classics and member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Visual Effects Society, Glebas has much inside information on this most [...]