Speaker Series: Andrea Wulf

To RSVP to this event, please call (843) 723-9912 or email mstokenberry@charlestonlibrarysociety.org In collaboration with Middleton Place, renowned horticultural writer, Andrea Wulf will speak about the extraordinary life of the […]

Speaker Series: Cynthia Mestad Johnson

To RSVP to this event please call (843) 723-9912 or email mstokenberry@charlestonlibrarysociety.org Over thirty thousand slaves were brought to the shores of colonial America on ships owned and captained by […]

CLS Book Club

The Charleston Library Society’s Book Club is making its return! We welcome all members and nonmembers, free of charge, to come and discuss a book of the Library Staff’s choosing. […]

Martinis and a Movie

Please join us for a fun, entertaining event hosted by the Library Society: “Martinis and a Movie.” In preparation for the November 5 release of the newest James Bond installment, Spectre (2015), the […]

Lifelong Learning Series Week 5

These two 9-week long seminars run from September 15 through November 10 and have proven to be a hit with members and nonmembers alike. Both classes take place once a […]

Wide Angle Lunch Series XI Season Pass

Save on the series by buying a Season Pass for all 5 sessions. For tix- click here. These are historic times for Charleston. This summer, our city bore witness to an […]

Wide Angle Lunch Series: Patricia Williams Lessane

For tickets, please call (843) 723-9912 or click here. “We must … resist the comfortable fiction that, whatever racial turmoil exists elsewhere, genteel Charleston is a place of calm.” So wrote […]

Music at the Library: Emile Pandolfi- Pianist Extraodinaire

For tickets, please click here or call (843) 723-9912 With almost thirty recordings in his own discography, Emile Pandolfi ranks among America’s most popular piano artists. With the majority of his performance […]

Wide Angle Lunch Series: Ben Navarro

For tickets, please call (843) 823-9912 or click here. Members $20, nonmembers $25 Ben Navarro is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Charleston-based Sherman Financial Group, but he is equally […]

Speaker Series: Thibaut Fagonde

To RSVP to this event, please call (843) 723-9912 or email mstokenberry@charlestonlibrarysociety.org Come listen to Director, Producer, and Editor, Thibaut Fagonde discuss his upcoming film Overalls & Aprons. Fagonde will show […]

Featured Lecture Speaker: Dawn Walus

Come listen to Dawn Walus, the Boston Athenaeum’s Chief Conservator, speak about Book Conservation and its importance. In addition, she will discuss the type of work that occurs within the […]

Wide Angle Lunch Series: Jill Chalsty

For tickets, please call (843) 723-9912 or click here.  $20 members, $25 nonmembers Educator Jill Siegal Chalsty believes that there is no excuse for failing to teach our children the obvious […]

Wide Angle Lunch Series: Rev. Joe Darby

For tickets, please call (843) 723-9912 or click here.  $20 members, $25 nonmembers. Is Charleston at a tipping point in its long and fraught history of race relations? Is this community […]

Speaker Series: Richard Hagerty

Richard Hagerty is a surrealist artist who for more than 40 years has painted fantastic, visionary worlds. Join us to celebrate his new book, American Surrealist. Often based on dreams, always […]