The South End Writes, Coming Up Next
Tuesday, February 26: From Page to Stage. Zeitgeist Stage Company,a resident theater company located at the Boston Center for the Arts, will present the world premiere of Trigger Warning by playwright Jacques Lamarre on April 12 through May 4. A discussion about the play, a first for the South End Writes author series, will illuminate the process of preparing a script for presentation in a premiere production. It will include the reading of a scene from the play. Zeitgeist's director, David Miller, a South End resident, has recruited several of the actors in the production to participate in the event. The playwright's focus is on the impact of a school shooting from the perspective of the shooter's family.
Tuesday, March 12: Does the building's architecture in the picture remind you of the design of the South End library? No surprise if it does, as it, too, was the product of the same architectural firm of Mitchell/Giurgola, first based in Philadelphia, then with a second office in New York. The architects, Romaldo Giurgola (who was the head of the Architecture Department at Columbia University) and Ehrman Mitchell, have since passed away. They designed the South End library's building in the late 1960s. The library opened in 1971. The Philadelphia office is now called MGA Partners; Dan Kelley, MGA's principal architect, has generously agreed to be at the South End library to talk about the branch's architectural history.
Tuesday, March 19: prize-winning author Suzanne Berne will read from her latest suspense novel, The Dogs of Littlefield. The New York Times reviewer wrote that "..nothing sucks a reader in like psychological menace, and Berne is a master of the craft..." Berke, who is the fiction editor of The Harvard Review, teaches creative writing at Boston College and the Ranier Writing Workshop. She won the U.K.'s Orange Award for A Crime in the Neighborhood. Earlier novels are The Ghost at the Table and A Perfect Arrangement.
Annual Members Meeting Of The Friends Of The South End Library
Tuesday, February 5, 6:30 PM:
You are invited to attend the the Friends of the South End Library Annual Meeting on Tuesday, February 5 at 6:30 PM.
You, the audience, will elect the proposed slate of Friends of the South End Library (FOSEL) directors for our 2019 voting and advisory boards. FOSEL directors serve one-year terms. (The three officers,—president, treasurer and clerk—will start the second of their two-year terms and do not need to be confirmed.)
We will have updates about our programs, fundraising efforts, treasury report, and the renovations for park and library. Specifically, we'll have details about the branch's upcoming 'refresh' this spring, to provide new carpeting, paint, furniture re-arrangement and some basic electrical work, as well as the longer-term, multi-million dollar plan for a complete renovation and expansion to meet the South End's need for 21st-century library services
And, as always, we provide delicious refreshments
Are you interested in becoming a voting or advisory board member? Please contact FOSEL through our website. We are a diverse volunteer board, united in our commitment to making South End branch and Library Park the best it can be. Some members are more active than others, and at different times, depending on their personal and professional obligations, but each has contributed to the improvement of the library.
Local/Focus window
The January Local/Focus window features a selection of mysteries, suspense novels and thrillers to get you through the dark season and into the light of spring. The thrillers take place in or around Boston, or are written by people from the area. The were compiled by FOSEL advisory board member, Nick Altschuller.
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