“The Decorated Bird,” a Watercolor Workshop
Join us for a fall watercolor workshop, “The Decorated Bird,” with Hazel Jarvis on Thursday, October 28, 1-3 pm in our Program Room, Radcliffe Building, Perrot Memorial Library.
While primarily a watercolor workshop, this program will include an option to add additional collage details. The finished design could be fairly simple, or it could be slightly more complicated, with a series of small birds. Both designs are very festive and lend themselves to multiple interpretations.
All students should wear old clothes and bring a pair of scissors.
Ms. Jarvis received a BA in History and Theory of Art from Sussex University in England. Upon moving to the United States, she studied botanical illustration in New York and, during a five-year residency in Tokyo in the 1990s, studied traditional Japanese painting.
Ms. Jarvis lives and teaches in Greenwich, Connecticut. For more information, visit her web site, and for an up-to-date view of her artwork, follow her on instagram @hazeljarvisstudio.
Click here to register for this workshop.
For more information, please contact Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15 or at judys@perrotlibrary.org.
Greenwich Pen Women and Perrot Memorial Library Welcome Susannah Marren, Author of “Maribelle’s Shadow”
On Monday night, October 28, at 7 pm, join the Greenwich Pen Women and Perrot Memorial Library in welcoming Author Susannah Marren (Susan Shapiro Barash) for a discussion of her book, Maribelle’s Shadow. The program will take place in the Program Room, Radcliffe Building, Perrot Memorial Library.
When her adored and impressive husband, Samuel, dies suddenly, the secrets and lies between Maribelle and her sisters rise to the surface. Compounding the anguish, the authenticity of their socially ambitious mother and lavish lifestyle of mansions, privilege and couture clothes is thrown into doubt. As their carefully constructed image unravels, each sister realizes she must fend for herself. The pathway out is steep and worth any risk. Until the winner takes all.
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.
She has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Elle, Marie Claire, and has appeared on national television including the Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC. Barash has been a guest on national radio including NPR and Sirius Radio. Speaking appearances include Credit Suisse, Bayer Diagnostics, UBS, United Way, Kravis Center and the Society of the Four Arts. Several of her titles have been optioned by Lifetime and HBO.
She has served as a literary panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts, as a judge for the International Emmys, and as Vice Chair of the Mentoring Committee of the Women’s Leadership Board at the JFK School of Government, Harvard.
Reserve a copy of the book through our catalog.
For more information, contact Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15, or at judys@perrotlibrary.org.
Yoga @ the Library
Join us for Yoga @ the Library on Saturday, November 2, 9:30-10:30 am in our Program Room, Radcliffe Building. Laura DeLongis Barnes, certified yoga instructor, will teach the class.
Participants are asked to bring their own yoga mat and to keep their shoes/sneakers inside the Program Room during the class.
Registration is required. Click here to register. Registration is limited to 15 participants/class.
For more information, please contact Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15 or at lending@perrotlibrary.org.
