Healthy Yards: Pesticides and Their Negative Impacts on Our Health, Our Environment, and Biodiversity
Don’t miss “Healthy Yards: Pesticides and Their Negative Impacts on Our Health, Our Environment, and Biodiversity,” a discussion led by Louise Washer, board member, Pollinator Pathway, on Wednesday, June 12, at 7 pm in the Program Room, Radcliffe Building, Perrot Memorial Library.
Louise Washer serves on the board of Pollinator Pathway, which is now in over 350 communities across 19 states. She also serves as president of the Norwalk River Watershed Association, as a member of the Norwalk Mayor’s Water Quality Committee, and on the steering committee of the Hudson-to-Housatonic Regional Conservation Partnership (H2H).
For more information on the Pollinator Pathway, visit their web site.
Please register for this free program.
For more information, please contact Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15 or at lending@perrotlibrary.org.
The Judy & Barbra Show: A Pride Month Event
Perrot Library is the place to be on Wednesday, June 5, at 7 pm, when female impersonators Summer Orlando & Barbra Joan Streetsand perform “The Judy & Barbra Show,” an evening of music and laughter celebrating June Is Pride Month. The concert will take place on the green in the Radcliffe Building. This program will take place after the Library is closed for the day and is for adults, only. No one under 18 will be allowed entry.
New England’s #1 live singing Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand impersonators, Summer Orlando and Barbra Joan Streetsand, are coming to town! Summer and Babs have taken this critically acclaimed show through New England, New York City, Florida, Rehoboth Beach, and across the United States, bringing Judy and Babs to life through music, story, and song. Summer was handpicked by the producers of the film Judy to be one of their promotional Judys on the red carpet and is also the first male actor in the world to play the role of Dorothy in a licensed production of The Wizard of Oz. Streetsand has won many regional awards including entertainer of the year.
This fully scripted and all live singing cabaret stage show full of rip-roaring comedy, scintillating solos, and dazzling duets will leave you begging for more. The program will include classics like “Don’t Rain on My Parade,” “The Trolley Song,” “My Man,” and “Over the Rainbow.” You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll swear you’re seeing the real thing! This promises to give the audience everything they’d expect from a Garland and Streisand show and a little more than they didn’t know they needed in a one night only reunion with Judy and Barbra.
As Connecticut’s premier theater drag queen and illusionist, Summer Orlando is known for her Broadway quality costumes, showstopping performances, live singing, comedic timing, and her amazing event hosting skills. Her hosting duties include bachelorette parties, anniversaries, weddings, Pride events, Drag brunches, dinners, and birthday parties for all ages. She performs throughout New Haven and Hartford counties, in New York City, Florida, and everywhere in between!
Barbra Joan Streetsand, a.k.a. Tony Di Pietro, has been impersonating Barbra Streisand and other celebrities for almost 30 years. Their repertoire consists of live vocal impersonation of Barbra’s songs from the 60’s through today, Lady Gaga, Pink, Cher, and Ann Wilson from Heart, along with writing parodies of hit songs. They are also no stranger to the musical stage, with 40 years of experience, having played Glinda in one production of Wizard of Oz and the Tin Woodsman in another. Credits also include Oliver, My Fair Lady, Babe in Arms, Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, along with dramatic roles as well.
Please register for this free event.
For more information, contact Lisa Thomas at 203-637-1066 x20 or at lisat@perrotlibrary.org.
Book Talk: “A Northern Light in Provence,” by Elizabeth Birkelund
We are happy to welcome Author Elizabeth Birkelund on Monday, June 3, at 7 pm, for a conversation about her new book, A Northern Light in Provence. The program will take place in the Program Room, Radcliffe Children’s Library. Ms. Birkelund will be interviewed by Susan Shapiro Barash, author of Maribelle’s Shadow, written under the pseudonym Susannah Marren.
A woman leaves her coastal Greenland village to translate the works of an elderly Provençal poet and finds her life irrevocably changed in this tender and romantic novel set in a French village.
Elizabeth Birkelund is the author of two previous novels, The Runaway Wife and The Dressmaker. She started her career in the editorial department of European Travel and Life magazine, then turned to freelance writing as a monthly personal finance columnist for Cosmopolitan. She has written for numerous national publications, including Glamour, Self, Working Woman, and Victoria. You may follow her work and travels on Instagram and Facebook.
Susan Shapiro Barash has written over a dozen nonfiction books, including Tripping the Prom Queen, You’re Grounded Forever, But First Let’s Go Shopping and A Passion for More: Affairs that Make or Break Us. For more than twenty years she taught gender studies in the Writing Department at Marymount Manhattan College and has guest taught creative nonfiction at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. For her fiction, Between the Tides, A Palm Beach Wife, A Palm Beach Scandal and Maribelle’s Shadow, she writes as Susannah Marren.
Please register for this free program.
Copies of Ms. Birkelund’s books and Ms. Barash’s books will be available for sale at the event courtesy of Athena Books.
For more information, contact Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15 or at lending@perrotlibrary.org.
