Keeping Up With Generation iPhone $10 members, $15 nonmembers- For tickets, please call (843) 723-9912 or click here. How Fortune and its readers are adapting to the rise of the millennials. In 2015, millennials – loosely defined as adults born after 1980 – became the largest generation in the American labor force. The demographic dominance of this highly […]
The Art of the Sell Mix up your lunch break — Christie’s International Director of Strategic Partnerships, Senior Vice President, Lydia Fennet will kick off our Spring 2016 Wide Angle Lunch Series. She will discuss the incredibly dynamic world of art selling and buying when dealing with celebrities of great magnitude. Lunch will be provided. $20 members, […]
Ann Caldwell is a vocalist and performing artist who sings songs about love and loss; heartache and heaven. Ann has been performing as a fixture on the Charleston music scene for more than two decades. “Caldwell is a wide-ranging alto-contralto… Her roots are in Negro spirituals, church music and pop, and she has emerged … […]
Movie Night is returning to the Library Society! Come enjoy our screening of the classic, Some Like It Hot (1959), starring Marilyn Monroe, while enjoying a Manhattan and some light snacks. After witnessing a Mafia murder, slick saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his long-suffering buddy, Jerry (Jack Lemmon), improvise a quick plan to escape from […]
Join the CLS Book Club for our discussion of Ta-Nehesi Coates’ Between the World and Me. Dr. Patricia Williams Lessane, PhD, Executive Director of the Avery Research Center (and CLS Board Member) will present a lecture, and lead the book club’s follow-up discussion on this National Book Award winning work of non-fiction. Please remember to RSVP for […]
For Tickets, please click here or call (843) 723-9912. Sworn-in two months ago, Mayor John Tecklenburg is in the midst of creating his own “new vision for Charleston.” He has made it a priority to focus on some of the problems that have arisen because of Charleston’s enormous success and popularity. Mayor Tecklenburg will discuss what he […]
For tickets, please click here or call (843) 723-9912 Cleary Simpson, Senior Vice President of MediaLink, has three decades of experience in media general management, sales and marketing, business development, partnerships and alliances, brand management, new market identification and product development. Working with major companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Wal-Mart, Campbell’s, McDonald’s, and Cadbury, Ms. Simpson isn’t […]
Beautiful photography of birds in their habitats The Library Society will host Audubon South Carolina and the Charleston Audubon Society for a reception and talk to honor the National Audubon Society Photography Awards. The winning photographs for this year’s contest have recently been on exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and the […]
2016 Founders Award Honoring Martha Ingram For tickets, please call (843) 723-9912 or click here. $75 members, $100 nonmembers The Founders Award was established by the Trustees of the Charleston Library Society to recognize an institution or individual who has helped us appreciate and understand our past and its relationship to the future. The award honors […]
Chamber Music Charleston – Music for Winds & Piano: Bizet, Piazzolla & Mozart An encore of one of the best chamber music organizations in Charleston. It always a delight to host Bassoonist Sandra Nikolayevs, leader of CMC, to our venue. Her group never fails to enrapture and entertain. Flutist Regina Helcher Yost, clarinetist Charles Messersmith […]
Join the Charleston Library Society in welcoming two musical geniuses, Tenzin Chopak & Nicholas Walker, for a unique and provoking concert on April’s Second Sunday at 6:00PM. This is a free concert open to the public, so bring friends and family to experience a beautiful performance in historic setting. To RSVP, call 843-723-9912 or email […]
Introduction to Leather Binding April 19th, 21st, 26th, and 28th from 5:30pm-8:30pm Cost: $300 students, $350 members, $400 nonmembers – all materials included No experience necessary. Learn to make a book that can be judged by its cover! In this four-session workshop, students will learn the basics of bookbinding while constructing a beautiful ¾-leather journal […]
For tickets, please click here or call (843) 723-9912 President and part-owner of the Charleston School of Law, Mr. Bell will share his perspectives on the opportunities and challenges he has faced since he began his position as President. Focused on changing the school from a for-profit business model to a non-profit with the motto “For the […]
Charleston Renaissance Ensemble – Celebrate Shakespeare’s Birthda with music and brilliant commentary by Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill (Betsy), Rhodes Scholar and co-author of Shakespeare Alive! Seven friends with a common devotion to Early Music has evolved into an ensemble of professional and semi-professional singers whose perennially popular concerts frequently draw standing-room-only crowds. Celebrating the ethereal sounds; from chant, to […]
This is a day of celebration and we want everyone to get in on the fun. Last year, millions of dollars were raised. In 2016, nonprofit participation has increased more than 75% and we are expecting more communtity engagement and participation than ever before. Now there is a new way to give- anyone can donate […]
