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Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture
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There’s a jungle off the California coast. It is lush, and green, and filled with a marvelous diversity of life. It is every bit a wilderness, with a complex eco-system that is both resilient and fragile. And if you were to look at the islands poking...
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Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture
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Join museum educator Alice W. Schwarz for an in-depth exploration of a romantic 19th-century sculpture by French artist Jean Baptiste Carpeaux. This life-size sculpture is a tour-de-force in marble carving and depicts a moment of anguish and pain. ...
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Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture
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Photography Club of Long Island monthly meeting ...
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Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture
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During the mid-19th Century Madame Restell began a successful but quite controversial business offering services as a “Female Physician.” She built a lavish mansion on Fifth Avenue and aspired to be accepted as an equal with the many men and women wh...
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Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture
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Join us as award winning stage and film director Stephen Nachamie celebrates the life and work of the great Chita Rivera.  Her legendary Broadway career spanned 7 decades and included so many ground breaking performances and iconic Broadway role...
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Art Lecture with Thomas Germano - The Whitney Biennial 2024

3:00pm - 4:30pm
Lecture
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Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture
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The Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than The Real Thing—a showcase of what’s new in American art—returns to the Whitney for its eighty-first installment in March, 2024. Introduced in 1932 by the Museum’s founder, Gertrude Vande...
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Sandwiched In with Author Kelly McMasters

12:00pm - 1:30pm
Author Event, Lecture
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Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Author Event, Lecture
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Join Port Washington’s own Kelly McMasters, an accomplished essayist, bestselling author and Hofstra professor as she discusses her new book, The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays.  In these essays McMasters writes about navigating marriage and...
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Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture, Music/Theater Performance
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As 1974 dawned, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney was watching his third album with his group Wings, titled "Band on the Run," stumble onto the UK and US album charts. Thankfully, the success of the single "Jet," released in late January, provided the impetus...
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Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture
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Illustrators accompanied key government and privately sponsored expeditions to the western frontier during the nineteenth century, to document the terrain as well as the native inhabitants of these remote regions. These artists depicted not...
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Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture
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Photography Club of Long Island monthly meeting ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
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Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture
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A Goldsmith in His Shop by Bruges painter Petrus Christus is a celebrated masterpiece of Northern Renaissance Art. Join Alice W. Schwarz, museum educator, and explore every detail of this oil painting to gain an inside look at the fashion and je...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture
Event Details:
Photography Club of Long Island monthly meeting ...