Sponsored by The Grolier Club Overview with Beverly Adams, Kevin Saliou, Éric Walbecq, and Caroline Weber Presented by ANOTHER SPACE at the Grolier Club, We Are All Ducassians brings together scholars and curators to explore the enduring legacy of Isidore Ducasse, better known as the Comte de Lautréamont (b. 1846 Montevideo, Uruguay […]
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Sponsored by The Grolier Club Overview Curator Cynthia Nourse Thompson, Artist Lesley Dill, Poet Tom Sleigh, and Printer Peter Kruty Presented in conjunction with Pioneers in Hand Papermaking: 50 Years of Innovation at Dieu Donné Curator Cynthia Nourse Thompson will speak with artist Lesley Dill, poet Tom Sleigh, and printer Peter […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Overview with Curator Susan Gosin and Tricia Wright Presented in conjunction with Pioneers in Hand Papermaking: 50 Years of Innovation at Dieu Donné In celebration of Dieu Donné’s 50 years of making innovative handmade paper art with contemporary artists, Susan Gosin, co-founder of Dieu Donné, […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Overview with Stacie Vos This talk will focus on the two publications of the Hroswitha Club–Hroswitha of Gandersheim: Her Life, Times and Works, and a Comprehensive Bibliography and Notes on Woman Printers in Colonial America and the United States–in order to argue that the HC was both more […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Overview with Michael Auslin, John Bidwell, Dan Lipcan, and Ted Widmer The 250th American birthday year’s scrutiny of the Declaration of Independence’s evolution, from rough drafts to widely disseminated and strategically edited printings, is shedding light on the document’s original producers and consumers, shifting interpretations, […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club This play covers the five days in which the 1916 Rebels occupied the GPO after proclaiming an independent Irish Republic. First performed inside the General Post Office on O’Connell Street in Dublin during the 2016 commemoration of the Easter Rising, this play covers the five […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club An evening of Traditional Irish Music featuring Cashel Blake Day-Lewis, Ursula Garry, Matt Stapleton Isaac Alderson Join the Grolier Club and the Irish Arts Center for a special Bloomsday, June 16th, evening of traditional Irish music, featuring Cashel Blake Day-Lewis on fiddle, Ursula Garry on flute, Matt Stapleton on guitar, and Isaac Alderson on the uilleann pipes. […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Charlotte Priddle, Dr. Miranda Garno Rossa, Elyssa Maxx Goodman, & Chris Hammer How have members of the LGBTQ+ community, throughout centuries, left record on the printed or handwritten page, or glaring absences? Where do we look today for their traces, and what are best […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Lecture with Carla Kaplan Acclaimed biographer Carla Kaplan, author of Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford (HarperCollins), will explore the print and manuscript culture of Jessica Mitford (1917-1996) and her five sisters, members of a famous British literary family. They wrote autobiographical novels and memoirs, […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With R. F. Foster, Belinda McKeon, Fintan O’Toole and James Pethica R. F. Foster, Belinda McKeon, Fintan O’Toole and James Pethica come together for a wide‑ranging virtual conversation on Risings: The Irish Literary Renaissance and the Making of a Nation. As foremost historians, writers, critics and […]