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February Art Exhibit

K.K. Kozik

During the month of February, the Library will display the art of K.K. Kozik. A resident of Sharon for three and a half years, Kozik manages to keep a strong presence in the art world while raising three young children. With a B. A. from the University of Virginia in architecture and art history and an M.A. from Syracuse University, Kozik once did freelance proofreading for a law firm; she has spent time writing articles for alternative press mags interviewing music icons such as RadioHead, Leonard Cohen and Dan Zanes. These days Kozik spends much of her time on her art; over the last few years she has earned such awards as Magnesium Elektron, NA, Prize, North American Biennial of Prints, 2009; Commission, Arts For Transit, Rockaway Park Beach 116th St Subway Station, 2008 and New American Painting, Selected Artist, 2007. She has also had recent exhibitions at Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles; Interiors, Fitton Center for the Arts, Hamilton, Ohio; Gotham Haiku, New Etchings, VanDeb Editions, New York and Shelter, Black & White Gallery, New York.

In oil on linen Kozik often brings the indoors out: gaily clothed tables wait for diners on a city rooftop; a table for two stands in a small glade which is festooned with garden lights; a couple converses over a world globe in easy chairs in the forest. "The goal is always to make a good painting: well-constructed, interesting to me, with compositional complexity and freshness; looking at things in a way they haven’t been seen before," says Kozik. In one of Kozik’s paintings, a scarecrow’s dress blows in the wind at the edge of a garden backdropped by a full moon. Kozik comments, "This painting marks my move to the country after 20 years in Brooklyn. The scarecrow is wearing my city clothes. I don’t need them anymore." This show will feature highlights from different stages.

The opening for this reception is Sunday, February 7 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm.

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February Calendar

A listing of library events with links to their details

Reservations: Please call the library (860-542-5075) to make reservations for programs or to request additional information.

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The Same River Twice

A Documentary Film Presented by

An instant hit at the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, The Same River Twice is a rich and warmly insightful mosaic of change, choices and communal living, highly acclaimed as "piercingly poignant" (The New York Times) and "a [four-star] masterpiece! Powerful, compelling and graceful!" (Chicago Reader). In 1978, award-winning filmmaker Robb Moss and a close-knit group of free-spirited friends and lovers took a month-long trip through the depths of the Grand Canyon; a breathtaking, white-water rafting adventure down the Colorado River. Cutting between footage of their youthful—often naked—live-in-the-moment existences and the complex realities of their adulthood today, the film travels the road from peyote to Prozac, creating a compelling portrait of cultural metamorphosis and the struggle to find one’s place in the world. From running rapids to running for mayor, The Same River Twice is an intimate depiction of those baby-boomers who took the Sixties seriously, and then grew up.

Please call for reservations at 860 542-5075.

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Valentine Workshop

With Julie Green

On Tuesday, February 2, from 3:00 to 4:30, master crafter, Julie Green will work with up to 15 adults to create very cool Valentines. For a peek at Julie’s creativity, go to her website: www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/juliagreen For reservations, call 860 542-5075.

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The Hot Club of San Fransisco

On Friday, February 5, at 8:00 pm, the Library presents the sounds of The Hot Club of San Francisco. Hot Club is an ensemble of accomplished and versatile musicians celebrating the music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli's pioneering Hot Club de France. Often called gypsy jazz, the music has entranced audiences around the globe for over 18 years. The ensemble borrows the all-string instrumentation of violin, bass and guitars from the original Hot Club, but breathes new life into the music with innovative arrangements of classic tunes and original compositions from the group's superb lead guitarist Paul Mehling. Critics have hailed the group's playing as "intricate, scorching and often brilliant" (Acoustic Guitar). Please call the Library for reservations at 860 542-5075.

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Life, Language, and the Pursuit of Happiness

On Sunday, February 21, at 4:00 pm, Ernest Hemingway will visit the Norfolk Library. Channeled by actor Richard Clark, Hemingway will relive those days from World War I through the inauguration of John F. Kennedy: the sacred and the profane, the loves and losses and the life force of the master craftsman considered by his peers as "the greatest writer since Shakespeare."

Richard Clark has spent over 30 years in New England regional theatre and New York theater. He is a graduate of Clark University and has studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, The Actors' Connection and has brought the life and work of such figures as Mark Twain, Clarence Darrow, Andrew Carnegie, John Barrymore and William Shakespeare to life. Please call for reservations at 860 542-5075.

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The Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

Mark Scarbrough

On Monday, February 22, at 6:00 pm, Mark Scarbrough will be on hand to discuss Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore. Mark Scarbrough grew up in Texas but left the Lone Star state to pursue a doctorate in American literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was subsequently hired by the department to teach the enormous, 500-student, TA-filled, introductory literature courses, hours that proved interesting enough to be filmed for WPT, Wisconsin’s public television network. Two years later, he landed a tenure-track job at Saint Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, only to give it up when his writing life overwhelmed his academic one: creating screenplays for Diane Keaton and establishing the original food and travel content for a small Internet start-up named AOL back in the early nineties. Mark then moved to New York City (all the cliche's are true); met his partner, Bruce Weinstein; and has since published seventeen cookbooks, with three more on the way in 2010 and 2011. He has also published narrative nonfiction in the literary journal American Letters and Commentary.

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Corner Club

Drumming About You with Bob Bloom

On Wednesday, February 24, at 3:20 pm, the Corner Club features Drumming About You with Percussionist Bob Bloom. Bob has over 300 percussion instruments he brings with him and everyone is encouraged to play along with Bob’s eclectic repertoire ranging from Route 66 to Old MacDonald.

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Cara

Benefit Concert for the Norfolk Library at Infinity Hall

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a Night of Irish Music on Saturday March 13th, 8:00 p.m. at Infinity Hall. Irish Music Magazine says "Cara is an example of one of those bands who prove that Irish music can be played on a very high level beyond the shores of the Emerald Isle."

Tickets on sale through Infinity Hall:
www.infinityhall.com/events/cara

Visit Cara's website:
www.cara-music.com/english

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Norfolk Library Rated 5 Stars

The November 15 issue of Library Journal featured the Norfolk Library as a five-star library based on circulation, Internet usage, event attendance and general attendance for the year of 2007. This is an honour that only 85 libraries nation-wide received. For the full story go to: www.libraryjournal.com

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Tales Told by an Idiot

Written and Illustrated by Robin Rose Yurán

Robin Yuran, Co-Director of the Norfolk Library, is also known as The Shelfmouse. Her whimsical and often tongue-in-cheek verse has graced the pages of such publications as Library Journal, The Shy Librarian, Norfolk Now and Verbatim Language Quarterly, not to mention every quarterly issue of the Owl Newsletter since 1998. Yuran's first book The Shelf Life of a Mouse and Other Tales was published in 2003 and nearly sold out (a limited edition of 400) at her book signing. Back with more of the same, Robin has penned and illustrated Tales Told by an Idiot, also a limited edition. Read an excerpt of the book featured on Library Journal online by clicking here.