Library Calendar

Events in November 2018

Evenings of Engagement with Zane N. Zirkle

High Tea Embroidery - Jane Austen Event

Books 'n' Bites -"Mansfield Park" & Lecture

Jane Austen Movie Night - "Mansfield Park" (1999 Adaptation)

Evenings of Engagement with Jerry Barlow

7 Evenings of Engagement with Zane N. Zirkle Evenings of Engagement with Zane N. Zirkle 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm November 7, 2018 Zane Zirkle is a classical guitarist and lute artist who is also a composer. He has performed in the United States and Europe. Mr. Zirkle brings his unique style of classical guitar arrangements to the forefront of orchestral reductions of work from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical Period. His repertoire also includes wedding music, German beer songs, Italian songs, Christmas Music, Halloween Music, Cowboy Western Music, Pop, Top Hat 1920s Jazz and Frank Sinatra. More

13 High Tea Embroidery - Jane Austen Event High Tea Embroidery - Jane Austen Event 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm November 13, 2018 Continuing with the Jane Austen celebrations of this month, Join us! for a hot cup of tea and cookies while you create an Embroidered design reminiscent of the Jane Austen era. Learn the simplest and most common embroidery stitches used in decorating fabric. This program involves hand-stitching, but you don't have to be an expert in order to participate. Discuss the book, "Mansfield Park," and enjoy the company of good friends. This session is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the library at 970-479-2187 or libinfo@vailgov.com. More

14 Books 'n' Bites -"Mansfield Park" & Lecture Books 'n' Bites -"Mansfield Park" & Lecture 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm November 14, 2018 Join Vail Public Library for a month long celebration of Jane Austen’s “Mansfield Park.” Continuing our annual tradition, and offering the last book of this fantastic author for November's Books 'n' Bites. The heroine of the novel, "Mansfield Park," is Fanny Price, who is adopted into the household of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. Soon after her arrival, Sir Thomas Bertram travels to Antigua to address estate business. Mary Crawford and her brother, Henry, arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamor as well as the seductive taste for flirtation and theater that precipitates a crisis. While "Mansfield Park" appears in some ways to continue where "Pride and Prejudice" left off, it is, a much darker work, which even challenges the social norms relating to the British era of slavery. During this evening's session, we will be joined by English Professor, Dustin Doss, M.A . Doss graduated from the University of Tulsa with a B.A. in English and History as well as Women and Gender Studies, with a focus in Victorian era literature. More

15 Jane Austen Movie Night - "Mansfield Park" (1999 Adaptation) Jane Austen Movie Night - "Mansfield Park" (1999 Adaptation) 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm November 15, 2018 Freely adapted from a novel by Jane Austen, this period drama is set in the early 1800s, as a girl named Fanny (Hannah Taylor Gordon) is being raised by loving but desperately poor parents. Wanting a better life for Fanny, they send her away to live with her aunts, high-minded Mrs. Norris (Sheila Gish) and drug-addicted Lady Bertram (Lindsay Duncan), who share an estate called Mansfield Park. Fanny joins the family at Mansfield Park, which includes Lady Bertram's husband Sir Thomas (Harold Pinter), who made his money in slaves and West Indian plantations; Sir Thomas's son Tom (James Purefoy), an alcoholic; Tom's intelligent younger brother Edmund (Jonny Lee Miller); and his two sisters, Julia (Justine Waddell) and Maria (Victoria Hamilton). Fanny soon makes friends with Edmund, though she's shown little respect by the rest of the family. In time, Fanny grows to adulthood (now played by Frances O'Connor) and gains skill and poise as a horsewoman while developing her skills as an author. When the stylish but secretive siblings Henry and Mary Crawford (Alassandro Nivola and Embeth Davidtz) arrive at Mansfield Park, romantic sparks begin to fly; the two sisters fight over Henry, while Mary is soon engaged to wed Edmund -- to the disappointment of Fanny, who has fallen in love with him. ~ Mark Deming, More

20 Evenings of Engagement with Jerry Barlow Evenings of Engagement with Jerry Barlow 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm November 20, 2018 Acclaimed Celtic fingerstyle guitarist Jerry Barlow is a virtuoso musician, a warm and accessible performer, and a world-class storyteller. His repertoire is composed of a synthesis of traditional music from the British Isles and his own original Celtic-inspired compositions. More