The Wednesday Club

Meet. Mix. Learn.

Meet new people and socialize with friends, neighbors, or co-workers. Wednesday Club participants will enjoy an interesting array of presenters and topics based on the Library's amazing collections. The Wednesday Club is hosted by the Newberry Guild, the Library's young civic leaders. The committee includes Dawn Edwards (Chair), James Dodson, Susan Redding, and Susan Thornton.

The 2009-2010 programming of the Wednesday Club is generously underwritten by John H. Noonan, Newberry Trustee.

Admission is $9 ($6 for Newberry Library Associates who are at the Author level or above, having donated $100 or more to the Annual Fund) and includes wine, beer, and soft drinks. Doors open at 5:30 pm and programs begin at 6:15 pm.

For information, please call (312) 255-3556. If you would like to make a gift to become an Associate, click here.

Upcoming Programs

 


IAH

An Irish Welcome to Spring and Love

March 3, 2010
Reception, 5:30 p.m.; Presentation, 6:15 p.m.
Performers: Shapeshifters Theater Company, Irish American Heritage Center   

Featuring poems to thaw a cold winter's heart and awaken the beauty of new spring life, love, and faery riddles. Program includes poetry by Yeats, O'Reilly, Callanan, Moore, and Kenny.

Join us for the humorous, the romantic, and the fabled looks at spring love.

Presented by the Shapeshifters Theater's own Seanachai, Tim O'Sullivan & friends.

 

 
Bucky Halker

Woody Guthrie, the Great Depression, and American Protest Songs

April 7, 2010
Reception, 5:30 p.m.; Presentation, 6:15 p.m.
Speaker: Bucky Halker, musician and scholar of working-class history

Join Bucky Halker for a program that combines performance and commentary as he reviews how music became an important method for expression of dissatisfaction with the status quo, featuring working-class protest music in this era with particular attention to the work of Woody Guthrie. 

Bucky Halker is also well known for his music-history programs on Woody Guthrie and the Great Depression and working-class protest music from 1865-1950.   In the last two decades, Bucky has presented hundreds of these programs at museums, historical societies, universities, union gatherings, and cultural centers in the USA, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.   Bucky currently serves on the board of directors of the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives in New York City.

Bucky Halker’s CD’s will be available for sale after the program. 

To register, please click here.


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Past Programs