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. We will be able to host the riveting discussions thanks to the help of our dedicated volunteers. The first novel selected for CLS Book Club […]

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 Library Society will feature the first cinema adaptation of an Ian Fleming novel, Dr. No (1962).  The evening will include select cocktails, inspired by Sean Connery’s inaugural […]

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 week at their respective times on Tuesday. The two seminars are as follows… Dr. Steve Gavel: (Cancelled this week) Etruscan, Roman and Early Byzantine Art (12:00 PM-1:30 […]

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 act that recalled its darkest days: the racially-motivated massacre of nine African-American parishioners and community leaders in the state’s most historic Black church. Since that […]

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 Patricia Williams Lessane in the New York Times, just one day after the shooting of nine parishioners at Mother Emanual A.M.E. church in downtown Charleston. […]

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 repertoire being lush, intricate arrangements of Broadway and standards that form the canon of “The Great American Songbook”, his influences are more classical than pop.  […]

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 known for his other passion: education, and the belief that all children deserve the opportunity to attend a great school. His primary philanthropic venture is […]

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 clips from the film and lead a stimulating Q&A about the question, “Is Farm to Table Sustainable?”.  Guest speakers include: Glenn Roberts, Founder of Anson […]

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 […]