Book Launch for Charles Town: The Novel by William P. Baldwin with reception to follow. 6:00pm- Thursday, December 11th A lifelong resident of the South Carolina Lowcountry, William P. Baldwin is an award- winning novelist, poet, biographer and historian. He graduated from Clemson University with a BA in History and an MA in English. He ran a […]

Chamber Music at the Library Society:  CSO Chamber Music:  Brass Quintet (tickets through CSO) Thursday, December 4, at 7:00 p.m. For its fifth time, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra will welcome Christmas music to the Library Society.  This December will feature the CSO Brass Quintet, playing beloved carols and traditional seasonal pieces. For tickets, please call […]

Life-Long Learning:  Understanding Contemporary Art since WW II Dr. Marion Mazzone is a distinguished artistic scholar, whose work has been published in art journals both here and abroad. Known in Charleston for her course offerings at the College of Charleston, her contribution to the Spoleto Festival and her advisory role at the Redux Contemporary Art […]

Join us for the meeting of the Poetry Society.

Mr. Vynnytsky and Ms. Khoma return to the Library Society proving that, “The Khoma/Vynnytsky duo epitomizes elegance of execution, virtuosic technique, a sense of internal drama, and the merging of two artists playing as one.” For tickets, click here  or call (843) 723-9912.

267th Annual Meeting of the Charleston Library Society with guest speaker, The Honorable Alex Sanders.

We are offering an exciting collaboration between the Library Society and the Gibbes Museum of Art for our Winter 2015 Life-Long Learning / Art History Class. Art History: Greek Art and Archeology from the Bronze Age until 100 B.C to be held every Tuesday, January 27, February 3, 10, 17, 24 and March 3, 10, 17. […]

The War on Terror:  Where Are We Now, and How Did We Get Here? Al Qaeda, Radical Islam and the Historical Background of the War on Terror Penn Hagood January 27 – March 17 Tuesdays:  6:00 – 7:00 $200 members, $250 nonmembers If you want to know more about what you read in the newspaper […]

Wednesdays, 12:00 – 1:00 January 28 – March 18, 2015 A decade and a half into the 21st Century, what is this time period in which we are living?  There are many names for it:  The Modern Era, The Age of Globalization, the Age of Multiculturalism, the Internet Age, the Information Age, the Computer Age, […]

Bring your lunch and enjoy a talk by Inge Reist, Director of the Center for the History of Collecting, The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library. Art collecting requires the consideration of a vast array of archival, bibliographic, and photographic materials to evaluate the various contexts—cultural, socioeconomic, and political—in which art has been bought […]

Tuesday, February 10th at 6:00 PM An evening with Mountain Man Eustace Conway and screening of the new documentary film Reconvergence Eustace Conway is the subject of  Elizabeth Gilbert’s book “The Last American Man”, and is one of The History Channel’s “Mountain Men.” The film will be screened at 6:00 PM with a book signing and […]

Photographs from the ACE Basin by photographer Vince Musi Reception: Thursday, February 12th at 5:30PM Thursday, February 12 and Friday, February 13 9:30AM-5:30PM Saturday, February 14 9:30AM- 4:00PM Sunday, February 15 12:00PM- 4:00PM

Jonathan Odell is a novelist, short story writer, essayist, speaker and memoirist. His work appears in anthologies, national periodicals, newspapers, and a soon to be published volume of essays about growing up in Mississippi. He has also done extensive work in organizations in the area of racial inclusion. Jonathan now makes his home in Minnesota, but stays long […]

Na Fidleiri Celtic music comes alive as fiddlers between the ages of 10 and 18 join forces with pennywhistle, bodhran and guitar to perform a repertoire especially arranged for their talents. $20 members, $30 nonmembers. For ticket, please click here or call (843) 723-9912.

Please join us for a lecture and book signing by Bill Thompson. To RSVP, please call (843) 723-9912 or email mstokenberry@charlestonlibrarysoclety.org The University of South Carolina Press is pleased to announce the publication of Bill Thompson’s new book, Art & Craft: Thirty Years on the Literary Beat, the hand-picked fruit of his three decades covering writers and writing as […]