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Upcoming Event: What a Fish Knows, with Biologist and Author Jonathan Balcombe Wednesday, May 24th, 2017, at 7:30 PM Perrot Memorial Library Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? Find out the answers to these … Read more

Upcoming Event: Whassup? James Joyce Got Culture- with Joyce Collector and Scholar Jesse MeyersWednesday, May 17th, 2017 at 7:30 PM Perrot Memorial Library Join us as James Joyce collector and scholar Jesse Meyers leads an examination of Joyce’s global impact on literature, music, art, theater, tattoos, and more. Mr. Meyers has been teaching and lecturing on Joyce … Read more

Upcoming Event: Eliminating Food Waste: Changing Culutural Norms to Solve an Age-Old Dilemma, A Talk with Thomas McQuillan, Director of Sustainability at Baldor FoodsWednesday, April 26th, 2017, at 7:30 PMPerrot Memorial Library In honor of Earth Day, Perrot presents a talk with Greenwich resident Thomas McQuillan, Director of Sustainability at Baldor Foods, one of the largest … Read more

Perrot Memorial Library and the Greenwich Pen Women present a book discussion on An Owl on Every Post, by Sanora BabbFacilitated by Joanne Dearcopp of Greenwich Pen WomenMonday, May 8th, 2017, 7-8:30 PM Radcliffe Program Room, Perrot Memorial LibraryPRE-REGISTER NOW AT THE ADULT CIRCULATION DESK AND GET YOUR COPY OF THE BOOK- SEATING LIMITED TO THE … Read more

Learning to Look: Family Art Program on Landscape Painting Saturday, April 1st, 2017 at 2 PM  Perrot’s Children’s Wing Perrot Library is pleased to welcome back Alice Scovell Coleman, a lecturer with the Learning to Look program, for an afternoon of art. This program will help us welcome spring by focusing on landscape painting and … Read more

Upcoming Event:  Overview, with author Benjamin Grant Wednesday, March 29th, 2017, at 7:30 PM Benjamin Grant started his Daily Overview account on Instagram in December 2013 with the lofty goal to change the way we see our planet. Three years later, the project was turned into a best-selling book, and today his satellite images of … Read more

Upcoming Event: Masterpiece Dialogues, with art historian Kathryn Calley Galitz Wednesday, April 5th, 2017, at 7:30 PM Perrot Library invites you on a grand tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection with art historian Kathryn Calley Galitz. As a scholar, curator, and lecturer with the Met, Galitz is the perfect guide as she discusses … Read more

Upcoming Event at Perrot: GOTHIC ROMANCE TALES BY CANDLELIGHT Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017, at 7:30 PM Mysterious stories of love, revenge, death, and betrayal by Emily Bronte, Kate Chopin, and Louisa May Alcott– performed by Rita Parisi from Waterfall Productions