Join us as the Charleston Library Society and Bernard Cornwell present Fools and Mortals at Play: A Charleston Library Society Gala Event. This impressive and unique evening will serve as the Library Society’s annual fundraiser to support and further its mission. Released just a few days earlier, come celebrate the US publication of Bernard Cornwell’s most recent work, Fools and […]
The Jewish Community Center presents acclaimed author and editor Joan Juliet Buck as she discusses her fascinating memoir, The Price of Illusion, a very honest account of her storied life as a former editor of French Vogue and four decades in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles and Paris. Tickets are $10. To purchase, visit www.charlestonjcc.org or call […]
CANCELLED: Award-winning author Miles Tager will facilitate a writing workshop with a focus on affecting change, whether personal, professional, spiritual, or practical. This workshop will address how to use the written word in both responding to, and creating, change in your life and the lives of others. To sign-up please call 843-723-9912. Tickets are $50 […]
Announcing the 2018 Annual Meeting- Please save the date of Tuesday, January 23rd for the 270th Annual Meeting. More information will be available shortly. This is a members only event.
The CLS Book Club returns in 2018 with The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson. To RSVP, email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org or call 843-723-9912. The Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling novel of North Korea is an epic journey into the heart of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and […]
Share a romantic evening with the delightful Abigail Kent as she plays her harp and plucks at your heartstrings. This special Valentine’s Day concert is the perfect gift. Kent is a national prize-winning harpist who has played across the U.S. and abroad, and just so happens to be a native of our lovely city. Tickets […]
With an introduction by Executive Director Emeritus of SC Coastal Conservation League Dana Beach, Ceara Donnelley will present a reading, discussion, and Q&A from her late father’s newly published book Frog Pond Philosophy, a highly anticipated collection of essays by the Center for Humans and Nature’s founder and first president. To RSVP, please call 843-723-9912 or […]
The Library Society and the Royal Society of St. George, Carolinian Chapter will host John Scott Cowan and John Shannon for a mid-day film and discussion seminar. Before and after a showing of the 1989 Kenneth Branagh classic, Henry V, discussions will offer insights on “Myths & Myth Breaking about the 100 Years’ War” and “Heraldry of […]
Please join the conversation between restaurant critic, now restaurateur, Brys Stephens (The New Southern Table) and author and photographer Charlotte Caldwell, as Brys delves into her fifth and newest book, The Faces of Local Food: Celebrating the People Who Feed Us. To RSVP, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org Using her photography as a springboard for storytelling, The […]
Join the authors of the new title The Huguenot Church in Charleston as they discuss the church’s history including the immigrants who helped create the congregation. To RSVP, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org The Huguenot heritage in the United States cannot be overstated. In the latter part of the sixteenth century, France was plunged into a series of religious […]
In 1962, Rachel Carson the acclaimed author of prize-winning books on the sea, touched off a national debate on the proper use of pesticides with the publication of Silent Spring. Her message was extremely controversial. In 2018, her conviction that human behavior can impact the whole biota adversely, and her challenge to scientific, corporate and government responsibility […]
The Library Society is beyond lucky to host the author A.J. Finn as he tours promoting his best-selling debut novel The Woman in the Window. Tickets are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets, call 843-723-9912 or click here. Intricate, atmospheric, and utterly spellbinding, THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW is one of the most […]
The Charleston Library Society welcomes Stephen Kurkjian, critically-acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, as he speaks about his recent art heist thriller, Master Thieves. Tickets are $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets, please call 843-723-9912 or click here. The story of the biggest theft in art history– Master Thieves It is a case defined […]
David Rawle makes you think. And he inspires you to listen. From a life well lived, well traveled, well read, David has distilled to complex and the complicated question of “What Matters” into a thought-provoking and delightful talk with observations that are at once personal and universal. You will recognize and relate to what he […]
The Charleston Jewish Community Center Without Walls (JCC WOW) is hosting, “Pauline Sokol Nakios, Pivots” as part of its 2018 season roster of programs in coordination with the new Lexus Charleston Fashion Week off-site community events throughout the city. Designer and well-known former Charlestonian, Pauline Sokol Nakios will discuss the “pivots” in her life: balancing […]
