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.

The2009-2010 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

   

Rosenbaum

 

Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition

December 2, 2009
Reception, 5:30 p.m.; Presentation, 6:15 p.m.
Speaker: Jonathan Rosenbaum, Film Critic, Author, Instructor

Mr. Rosenbaum will present ideas from his forthcoming collection of reviews and articles, to be published in Fall 2010, pointing towards the changing nature of film culture over the past three and a half decades. The interlocking issues at stake are broached in relation to video, DVDs, the Internet, digital media, the rediscovery and recirculation of classic films, the social and aesthetic impact of technological changes, the growth and development of academic film studies, and the different forms of collective and social responses to films that are currently developing. Perhaps the most basic question raised in the book, posed in the title essay, is whether or not the future of cinema will take place in movie theaters. 

A book signing will follow.

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Past Programs