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How does fashion reflect the changing times? Take a journey through the decades by looking at the some of the top fashion designers in the world, all of which are found in the extensive fashion collection of Phoenix Art Museum. From the classic suits of Coco Chanel to the rule-breaking designs of Alexander McQueen, Susan Marie will have you diving deep into the closets of your mind to relive your past.
Susan Marie joined the Phoenix Art Museum’s Docent program in 2023 as a Community Outreach Docent. Susan is an Arizona native who holds a B.S. in Political Science from Arizona State University and is passionate about all aspects of building vibrant communities. Susan lives in Central Phoenix and in addition to supporting the arts and culture community she enjoys hiking, running, travel, and a good book.
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The friends of The Alameda Free Library present a conversation with Chris Baty, author and founder of the National Novel Writing Month.
Alameda resident Chris Baty accidentally founded National Novel Writing Month in 1999, and oversaw the event’s growth from 21 friends to more than 300,000 writers in 90 countries. Chris stepped down from leading NaNoWriMo in 2013, and now serves as NaNoWriMo’s Board Member Emeritus and oversees the UX writing team at Figma. He’s the author of No Plot? No Problem! and the co-author of Ready, Set, Novel. His quest for the perfect cup of coffee is never-ending, and will likely kill him someday. Chris will be joined by TC Curry, who is one of the past winners of the contest.
This is the first of 3 book sales this Fall in the Alameda Main Library’s Stafford Room (1550 Oak Street, Alameda, CA 94501) and will replace our traditional fall sale at the O’Club this year. The hours are:
10/26 (Thurs): 10am – 5pm
10/27 (Fri): 10am – 5pm
10/28 (Sat): 10am – 4pm
We will have a lot of books to sell across all popular genres! This is also the last used book sale in 2023. Moving forward, FAL will have used book sales pulsed throughout the year in the Stafford Room. Stay tuned for future dates!
This is the second of 3 book sales this Fall in the Alameda Main Library’s Stafford Room (1550 Oak Street, Alameda, CA 94501) and will replace our traditional fall sale at the O’Club this year. The hours are:
10/26 (Thurs): 10am – 5pm
10/27 (Fri): 10am – 5pm
10/28 (Sat): 10am – 4pm
We will have a lot of books to sell across all popular genres! This is also the last used book sale in 2023. Moving forward, FAL will have used book sales pulsed throughout the year in the Stafford Room. Stay tuned for future dates!
This is the last of 3 book sales this Fall in the Alameda Main Library’s Stafford Room (1550 Oak Street, Alameda, CA 94501) and will replace our traditional fall sale at the O’Club this year. The hours are:
10/26 (Thurs): 10am – 5pm
10/27 (Fri): 10am – 5pm
10/28 (Sat): 10am – 4pm
We will have a lot of books to sell across all popular genres! This is also the last used book sale in 2023. Moving forward, FAL will have used book sales pulsed throughout the year in the Stafford Room. Stay tuned for future dates!
54 Pigs and Six Ostriches are the first and second book in a mystery series by Philipp Schott featuring Dr. Peter Bannerman a veterinarian in a small town on Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba. Peter is an amiable, introverted, tea-drinking, obsessive vet, who converses more with his dog, Pippin, than anyone else. When Peter’s friend Tom Pearson’s swine barn explodes, 54 pigs and one human die. Tom, who’s suspected of setting the fire that caused the explosion, has disappeared. Peter has assisted the police in the past and sets out to clear his friend. He believes the deductive skills he uses to make diagnoses of his uncommunicative patients can help solve the case. These books beautifully describe a very appealing character and give a brilliant introduction to the Canadian plains landscape. In addition they are both real page turners.
Philipp Schott is a veterinarian in Winnipeg. In addition to the Dr. Bannerman novels he is the author of three non-fiction collections of stories and essays about his 30 years of veterinary practice.
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Take a journey through the wondrous and strange of three generations of the Wyeth family, focusing on the works of N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and Jamie Wyeth. This talk explores the similarities and the differences between the artists concerning their style and how they use the elements of art in the works of art they created and reveals the common bonds shared between the three generations in the lives they lived and how this is reflected in the art they created through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Janine Loiselle-Newbern is a Docent with the Phoenix Art Museum and gives museum tours to the public as a guide to the museum’s collection and gives talks in the community exploring the different realms of art and artists. Janine received her B.A. in Museum Studies and Art History from the University of Michigan, and before moving to Phoenix was a Docent at The Detroit Institute of Arts.
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Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) possessed one of the twentieth century’s most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald’s death, music historian Judith Tick draws on deep archival research, family interviews, and newly available recordings and concert footage to show how Fitzgerald fused a Black vocal aesthetic with mainstream popular repertoire to revolutionize American music. From Fitzgerald’s first audition at the Apollo Theater to swing-era success at the Savoy, Tick shows how this “girl singer” broke new ground: as a female bandleader, as a groundbreaking bebop improviser, and as the arbiter of the American canon with her Song Book recordings. Yet even as she electrified concert halls and sold millions of records, jazz critics belittled her as “naive.” Tick reveals instead an ambitious risktaker with a stunningly diverse repertoire, whose exceptional musical spontaneity (often radically different on stage than in the studio) made her a transformational artist.
Judith Tick is professor emerita of music history at Northeastern University. She has published award-winning books and articles about American music and women’s history in music, including Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer’s Search for Music. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. Ms. Tick will be interviewed by Gina Harris who has had a long musical career including film, television, and Broadway. She lives in San Francisco and can often be seen and heard at local jazz clubs.