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 Conservation Studio at the Boston Athenaeum and how her work supports the collection of the membership library. Dawn Walus is the Chief Conservator at the […]
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 keys to success—how to study, behave, and dream. And she has targeted such failure for extinction. She is the founder of the Community for Education […]
For tickets, please click here or call (843) 723-9912 Smooth and melodious or fiery and intense, this duo never ceases to entertain and thrill the audience. Come join us for an evening of chamber music with renowned pianist Voloymyr Vynnytsky and celebrated cellist Natalia Khoma.
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 ready to commit to serious and lasting change in the way it educates, houses, treats and empowers its people—regardless of color, income, or political persuasion? […]
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 fueled by intense curiosity, Hagerty’s paintings explore manifold realms, including mythology, astronomy, anatomy, botany, history, philosophy, world religions, quantum physics and cosmology. Widely collected and […]
Current Charleston resident, Charlotte Caldwell, will showcase her newly released book, Kirby’s Journal- Backyard Butterfly Magic. The macro photography from Kirby’s Journal inspires children of all ages to go outdoors, watch inquisitively, and share the wonders and magic of nature. It is not surprising that the North American Nature Photographers Association chose ten insect photographs from Kirby’s Journal- Backyard Butterfly Magic for […]
For tickets, please call (843) 723-9912 or click here. $20 members, $25 nonmembers. When cataclysmic events rock our present day—when it seems so clear that we are living history—it can feel impossible to know much beyond that visceral fact. That is, to know what history we are living, and where this moment will fit in the […]
From the author of Comeback Love, Peter Golden returns with a sweeping, panoramic tale of twentieth-century America, chronicling the decades-long love affair between a Jewish immigrant and the granddaughter of a slave. Wherever There is Light: A Novel is captivating and infused with historical detail; this is the epic tale of three generations, two different but intertwined families, […]
In collaboration with the Waring Library Society, CLS will host a NOT by the Book seminar with guest speaker, Dr. Theresa Gonzales. Dr. Gonzales will lecture on John Shaw Billings – the Enigmatic Bibliophile of the Army Medical Department. John Shaw Billings was a career army medical officer who served on active duty during the […]
Deb Ebenstein Mani Pedi STAT Diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease at age 16, Deb Ebenstein underwent surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment during the years of prom, pimples, and SATs. At 28 she tackled a rare blood condition that led to months of hospitalization, surgery, and more treatment. And then, at 33, she was diagnosed with breast […]
Director Emeritus of the Museum of the City of New York and Vice Chair Emeritus of the South Carolina Aquarium, Bob Macdonald will give a lecture celebrating the life of Charleston’s own, Ted Stern. With an inspired introduction by our admired and long-time Charleston mayor Joseph P. Riley, The Remembering of the Remarkable Ted Stern: Charleston’s […]
Our own Charleston Symphony Orchestra musicians join us again to get us in the spirit of the Christmas and Chanukah holidays. This year we will be entertained by a string ensemble for this always memorable evening concert. For tickets, please call (843) 723-7528 or visit www.charlestonsymphony.org
To purchase tickets, click here or call (843) 723-9912. The format for this event will be an interview/discussion with Jon Meacham and John Huey, former Editor-in-Chief at Time, Inc, who got his start as a reporter at The Atlanta Constitution before heading to The Wall Street Journal and then Time Inc. It will be a lively, entertaining opportunity to see and hear […]
Jerrold Mitchell, partner at the investment firm of Saltonstall & Co., emeritus trustee of the Boston Athenaeum, and a book collector for more than half a century, will explain how wine books have come to form a genre that almost defies cataloging. Ranging from the useful tasting notes of a professional and the biographical confessions […]
Come listen to Brian Hicks speak about the release of his new book The Mayor: Joe Riley and the Rise of Charleston. Brian Hicks is The Post and Courier’s metro columnist and the author or co-author of six books. A native of Tennessee, he has covered Southern politics for more than 20 years, including turns […]
