Events At Lakewood Public Library

Dec. 17

Lakewood Art House Cinema: “A Wonderful Night in Split”

Three lost souls spend New Year’s Eve winding their way through the dark medieval streets of Split, Croatia. Navigating a new world only recently thrust from the old, each is seeking escape through deceit, drugs or sex. Featuring Coolio (yes, Coolio) as a U.S. Navy man on leave and Eastern European musical pop sensation Dino Dvornik, this is one of the most memorable films to come out of the new Eastern European cinema.

Saturday, December 17 at 6:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Dec. 20

Knit & Lit

Gail Eaton hosts a social club for multitaskers—a combination book club and stitchery group. She’s looking for readers who can enjoy intense discussion of modern classics while relaxing with their latest project. Come share your passion for great literature and show off your knitting, crocheting, counted cross-stitch, embroidery and quilting works-in-progress. At the close of every meeting, the group decides which book will be read for next time. Visit www.lakewoodpubliclibrary.org/bookclubs for a complete list of the books being considered and find out which title you should read to be ready for the next discussion.

Tuesday, December 20 at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Library Meeting Room

Jan. 5

The Worlds of Maurice Sendak: Reception

Maurice Sendak is best known as the illustrator of more than 100 picture books, including Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen. Sendak was born in Brooklyn in 1928, and his childhood was typically American in a number of ways. He still reminisces about childhood friends, family dramas, and the sights and smells of New York in the 1930s. Yet, while he was growing up, he also felt a powerful attraction to the worn, black-and-white photographs of his European relatives: “When my mother and father came to America, which was just a few years before World War I, their family sent photographs. They were all murdered in concentration camps and I knew that at an early age… To go through the family album and to see what I thought were these beautiful people who were dead, was unbelievable. All of that was a re-creation of a world I never knew. And I was fascinated with the shtetl world of the European Jew.” The push and pull of New and Old Worlds in Sendak’s memory makes his work playful and dynamic, but also haunting and complex. This exhibit explores those threads of Jewish family, geography, and culture in Sendak’s life, and the way he imaginatively weaves them into his picture books.

Thursday, January 5 at 7:00 p.m. in the Second Floor Gallery

Jan. 7

Film Neo Noir: “The Last Seduction”

Linda Fiorentino plays evil with such relish that we may have to award her a prize for being the most fatal of femmes. Barbara Stanwyck and Jane Greer, you’ve met your match! And so will several fall guys whom she uses to get what she wants... After duping her husband, Bill Pullman, into pulling off a $700,000 drug deal, Fiorentino steals the money and disappears. Then Peter Berg makes the mistake of trying to pick her up in a small town bar. What’ll happen to the next guy?

Saturday, January 7 at 6:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Jan. 8

Sunday with the Friends: Jim Volk Guitar

His masterful yet whimsical performances have spellbound audiences for decades. With a fiery hybrid style of guitar picking that has drawn comparisons to Kottke, Keagy and Hedges, Jim Volk romps through the history of music, from 16th century classical to ‘70s metal with a few deft flicks of the wrist

Sunday, January 8 at 2:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium