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SUMMARY:Lifelong Learning: The Educated Citizen and Democracy
DESCRIPTION:The Educated Citizen and Democracy\nThis talk contains dangerous ideas. Some may be useful in understanding past elections and bracing for coming ones. But at its heart\, it is about misconceptions about education\, and about what constitutes the core suite of knowledge and analytical skills needed to be able to fully exercise our rights and meet our obligations as free citizens of a democracy. It also touches on why public discourse and it reportage has become less brainy and more chaotic\, despite the proliferation of higher education. Tickets are $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nPresenter: Dr. John Scott Cowan\, PhD\, DMilSc \nPrincipal Emeritus\, The Royal Military College of Canada \nJohn Scott Cowan studied physics and then physiology at Toronto. A post-doc at Laval University preceded 24 years at the University of Ottawa as professor\, chair of the department of physiology\, and then VP. Leaving Ottawa in 1995\, he became VP at Queen’s University before becoming principal of the Royal Military College of Canada (1999-2008). RMC is the university of the armed forces in Canada. \nHe has been President of the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies\, the Canadian Physiological Society\, and the Canadian Association of University Business Officers. He has also worked extensively in labour relations. A pilot\, he has flown about 6000 hours in 64 aircraft types. Research in physiology co-existed with defence issues\, starting with a 1963 monograph on defence policy. Since 2001 he has focussed on asymmetric threats\, piracy\, the characteristics of the profession of arms\, and defence education. He was president of the CDA Institute 2008-2012\, and chair of the Defence Advisory Board of Canada 2010-2013. In 2017 he retired as the Honorary Colonel of the Princess of Wales’ Own Regiment.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/lifelong-learning-the-educated-citizen-and-democracy/
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library: BJ Barham Solo Tour
DESCRIPTION:The Library Society is excited to partner with Murias Entertainment to host American Aquarium frontman\, BJ Barham for his acoustic solo tour throughout the South. Come enjoy an evening of stories and songs by this talented singer-songwriter. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 day-of. To purchase\, click here. \nBio: \nB.J. Barham was a long way from home when the tragedy happened. \nOn November 13\, 2015\, the singer-songwriter—raised in a small North Carolina town called Reidsville—was in the middle of his fourth European tour with American Aquarium\, the rising alt-country act he’d led for nearly a decade. They were in Belgium\, less than two hours from Paris\, when bad news began to arrive: a series of terrorist attacks\, including one in a rock club\, had left more than 100 dead. Family members\, friends\, and the fans American Aquarium had amassed from so many years on the road immediately reached out\, making sure the band had been far away. \n“The onslaught of text messages\, voicemails and everything that came in the next day sparked something in me\,” Barham remembers. “In the next two days\, the entire record was written.” \nThe record he’s talking about is Rockingham\, Barham’s remarkable and intensely personal solo debut. Not long after the wave of well wishes had passed\, Barham found himself piecing together composites of people he’d known since childhood\, of those folks and places who had impacted his life in fundamental ways. He sang into his cell phone and scribbled in notebooks\, stealing away for quiet moments in order to put the melodies and characters floating through his mind into song. \nThe shock of the moment and the distance from home seemed to give Barham a crucial perspective on the moments and circumstances that had helped shape him. Wolves\, American Aquarium’s much-lauded 2015 breakthrough\, had contained Barham’s most honest\, vulnerable statements to date. But these songs took the next step\, allowing Barham to share stories about those around him. In “O’Lover\,” he portrays a hard-working farmer forced to make some desperate decisions to support the ones he loves. In “Reidsville\,” named for the place he’d called his home until relocating to North Carolina’s capital\, he immortalized beautiful\, sweet\, doomed souls\, stuck in love in the sort of small towns that are disintegrating all across America. You needn’t have been to Reidsville to recognize these elegantly written\, expertly realized protagonists. \n“This is the first record I’ve ever made that’s not autobiographical—it’s fictional narrative in a very real place\,” Barham says. “These songs are human condition stories set in my hometown\, Reidsville.” \nBarham made these songs his new priority. Not long after he returned stateside\, he asked Bradley Cook\, the musician and mentor who had co-produced Wolves\, to hear them. By afternoon’s end\, they had hatched the plan to make Rockingham. Two months later\, on January 31\, Barham returned from another American Aquarium tour. \nOn Monday\, he and the band he’d built to record Rockingham—himself\, Cook\, Cook’s brother and multi-instrumentalist Phil Cook\, drummer Kyle Keegan\, American Aquarium standbys Ryan Johnson and Whit Wright—met for the first time. On Tuesday and Wednesday\, they rehearsed. And on Thursday and Friday\, they cut all eight songs at Durham’s Overdub Lane. They mixed the results over the weekend\, between the sold-out hometown shows and various festivities of American Aquarium’s annual pilgrimage\, Roadtrip to Raleigh. Cialis The whirlwind kept the songs simple and the recordings human\, reflecting a reality much bigger and less perfect than the vacuum of a recording studio. \nThese tunes\, after all\, didn’t need much tampering. Rockingham puts its scenes and scenarios front and center\, the beautiful grain and twang of Barham’s voice bringing it all to life. He limns lifelong romance and instantaneous tragedy during the paradoxically heartbreaking\, heart-mending “Unfortunate Kind” and details the disappointments and dreams of the blue-collar laborer with “American Tobacco Company.” With its acoustic guitars and pealing organs\, ragged vocals and rugged characters\, Rockingham is a stunning\, personal portrait of small-town America\, easily identifiable and familiar. \nFor the album’s sole autobiographical moment\, Barham\, now happily married and sober\, penned a letter of sound advice and Southern attitude to his daughter-to-be\, “Madeline.” It’s too personal to fall under a roots-rock purview\, too singular to be swallowed by a larger situation. Like all of Rockingham\, it’s not the sound of Barham stepping away from American Aquarium but instead stepping confidently into the thoughts\, stories\, and feelings of his own thirty years. \n“This is just an outlet for a songwriter. It’s me being able to do something different. This is like people who love their jobs\, picking up hobbies\,” says Barham\, “This is an exercise for myself.”
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-at-the-library-bj-barham-solo-tour/
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SUMMARY:Ambassadors’ Corner: Deborah Lee James
DESCRIPTION:Join the audience for this inaugural event\, add your questions to the discussion\, and receive a complimentary copy of Secretary James new book. \nThe Ambassador’s Corner\, a collaborative venture between the College of Charleston’s School of Languages\, Cultures\, and World Affairs and Charleston Library Society\, features discussions between Ambassador James Melville and today’s most impactful thought-leaders on the global scene. \nJames Melville is the host of the Corner. He recently retired after a thirty-three year distinguished career in the foreign service\, holding positions in Berlin\, London\, Moscow\, Paris\, and Washington. Most recently he served as the US Ambassador to Estonia. \nDeborah Lee James has thirty years of senior homeland and national security experience in the federal government and private sector. She served as the 23rd Secretary of the Air Force (2013-17)\, leading a force of 660\,000 and managing a $139 billion budget. Her recent book\, Aim High: Chart Your Course and Find Success\, offers an insider’s view on how things really work in Washington. \nTickets are $30. All ticket purchases are final and include a copy of James’ Aim High: Chart Your Course and Find Success. To purchase tickets\, click here.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/ambassadors-corner-deborah-lee-james/
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT – Speaker Series: John Oller
DESCRIPTION:Join the College of Charleston Friends of the Library and author John Oller to explore the real story of the “George Washington of the South\,” Francis Marion. Catapulted into popular memory by fictional depictions on television and in film\, the historical Marion bears little resemblance to these caricatures. His exploits\, however\, were no less heroic. The first biography in nearly half a century\, Oller’s “Swamp Fox” compiles striking evidence to provide a fresh look at Marion the man and his integral role in the American Revolution. \nIn this action-packed true story we meet many colorful characters from the Revolution: Banastre Tarleton\, the British cavalry officer who relentlessly pursued Marion over twenty-six miles of swamp\, only to call off the chase and declare (per legend)\, that “the Devil himself could not catch this damned old fox\,” giving Marion his famous nickname; Thomas Sumter\, the bold but rash patriot militia leader whom Marion detested; Lord Cornwallis\, the imperious British commander who ordered the hanging of rebels and the destruction of their plantations; and “Light-Horse Harry” Lee\, the urbane young Continental cavalryman who helped Marion topple critical British outposts in South Carolina. But most of all we’ll Francis Marion himself\, “the Washington of the South”—a man of ruthless determination yet humane character\, motivated by what his peers called “the purest patriotism.” \nJohn Oller’s stories will no doubt be riveting to fans of this piece of Lowcountry legend. \nTickets to this event are free to the public\, however RSVPs are requested. To reserve your tickets\, please click here \n\nJohn Oller\, a lawyer and journalist\, is the author of six non-fiction works of American history.  A graduate of The Ohio State University and Georgetown University Law Center\, Oller is a member of Biographers International Organization and the Dramatists Guild.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/sold-out-speaker-series-john-oller/
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library: Small Opera Presents
DESCRIPTION:Small Opera will present a portion of their Love & Death program this Valentine’s Day at the Charleston Library Society.  What better way to celebrate the holiday than with classic pieces from performances including highlights from Bizet’s Carmen and Puccini’s La Boheme.  Tickets are $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers. To purchase\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nSMOP is a no-frills opera company bringing compact shows & pop-up community events around the southeast U.S. Our goal is to make the classic art form fresh\, fun\, and accessible for all by bringing the opera to YOU\, the audience: we sing in unconventional spaces and environments\, we have modern interpretations of classic repertoire\, and we encourage audience participation! \nWe use intimate casts\, minimal costumes\, stripped sets\, simply… \nNOMADIC VOCAL DRAMA
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-at-the-library-small-opera-presents/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190220T100000
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SUMMARY:Lifelong Learning: Best Friends\, Whether We Like It or Not: US-Canada Relations and Interactions 1760-Present
DESCRIPTION:Best Friends\, Whether We Like It or Not: US-Canada Relations and Interactions 1760-Present \nThis Lifelong Learning class will cover the history of the relationship between the US (or its precursor colonies) and Canada (or its colonial precursor) from the fall of Quebec near the end of the French and Indian War to the present. The impact of each on the other\, in terms of flow of people\, of trade\, of conflict or cooperation\, and of cultural interaction will be covered. Perspectives on identities in the 40 years following the Declaration of Independence and a somewhat new take on the War of 1812 will be covered. The shift from cautious friendship after 1870 to the closest of allies today will be addressed\, and contemporary relationship challenges related to trade and defense will be analyzed.   \nTickets are $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nPresenter: Dr. John Scott Cowan\, PhD\, DMilSc \nPrincipal Emeritus\, The Royal Military College of Canada \nJohn Scott Cowan studied physics and then physiology at Toronto. A post-doc at Laval University preceded 24 years at the University of Ottawa as professor\, chair of the department of physiology\, and then VP. Leaving Ottawa in 1995\, he became VP at Queen’s University before becoming principal of the Royal Military College of Canada (1999-2008). RMC is the university of the armed forces in Canada. \nHe has been President of the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies\, the Canadian Physiological Society\, and the Canadian Association of University Business Officers. He has also worked extensively in labour relations. A pilot\, he has flown about 6000 hours in 64 aircraft types. Research in physiology co-existed with defence issues\, starting with a 1963 monograph on defence policy. Since 2001 he has focussed on asymmetric threats\, piracy\, the characteristics of the profession of arms\, and defence education. He was president of the CDA Institute 2008-2012\, and chair of the Defence Advisory Board of Canada 2010-2013. In 2
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/lifelong-learning-best-friends-whether-we-like-it-or-not-us-canada-relations-and-interactions-1760-present/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190221T190000
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT – Music at the Library: Bachanalia
DESCRIPTION:Join The Bach Society of Charleston as they celebrate Bach. This evening of music and romance begins with a concert of Baroque chamber music for harpsichord\, violin\, and voice followed by a talk offering glimpses into the personal life of Bach. Our speaker is Pulitzer Prize-finalist\, scholar Christoph Wolff\, author of the New York Times best-selling biography\, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician. The program concludes with a book signing and reception featuring European wines\, cheeses\, and confections. Delightful in itself\, this event is an amuse bouche for the Bach Society’s upcoming spring festival of Baroque music\, March 8-10. \nThe Bach Society of Charleston is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to presenting Baroque music on Baroque instruments in an American Baroque city. \nTickets are strictly available through the Bach Society of Charleston and are $25 for adults and $10 for students. To purchase tickets\, click here. \nPulitzer-prize finalist author and Harvard University Professor\, Christoph Wolff will offer a lecture on the private life of Bach as chronicled in his New York Times best-selling biography\, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician. His talk will be preceded by Baroque chamber music\, featuring London Royal College of Music graduate and international guest soloist\, Margaret Kelly Cook; Murray Somerville\, founding conductor of the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra\, on harpsichord\, and Allison Willet\, founding member of the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra\, on Baroque violin.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/sold-out-music-at-the-library-bachanalia/
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