In 1848—a year of political revolution across Europe—seven young Englishmen formed an artistic alliance aspiring to rebel against the contemporary Victorian art world. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, defied idealized figures popularized by Raphael and other High Renaissance artists to reflect the simplicity, spirituality, and beauty they found in late medieval and early Renaissance art.
Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters is the first major exhibition to juxtapose examples by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with works that inspired its members, including Italian old masters Fra Angelico and Pietro Perugino and their northern contemporaries Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling. It reveals how the Brotherhood’s aesthetic evolved over time to embrace artistic influences from the High and late Renaissance, such as Titian and Veronese. It also offers a rich multimedia opportunity to examine the artists’ attraction to stained glass, domestic decorations, and sixteenth-century textiles.
Docent Speaker: Alfred Escoffier, former City Librarian at Burlingame Public Library, undergraduate degree in Art History from Stanford University.
This exhibition, at the Legion of Honor, runs from June 30, 2018 – September 30, 2018
Salon Doré from the Hôtel de la Trémoille, Paris, ca. 1781. Gilt and painted wood, plaster, stone, and mercury-gilded glass. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Rheem, 1959.123.2
Elegant Excess An Afternoon in 18th Century Paris From the salon to the shops, the couturier’s to the courtiers, 18th-century Paris was all about high fashion and high living.
Parisian salons were known for their conviviality and conversation in the 18th Century, but there were strict guidelines about who could attend, what they could talk about, what they could expect and what was expected of them. Join us for an afternoon in the Salon Dore as we explore the mores and manners that dominated the decade prior to the French Revolution.
Over 500 species of birds have been seen in Marin County, and you can see some of them just by looking out your backyard windows. It’s easy, interesting and a lot of fun doing backyard birding, and Marin Master Gardener Bob Mauceli will help you learn more about some of the most frequently seen of these backyard birds. He’ll also give you some pointers on how to make these birds easier to see by building a simple, sustainable bird-friendly habitat in your backyard.
Bob Mauceli has been a Master Gardener for almost 13 years, and a birder for over 40. He and his wife find some of their most satisfying birding in their current backyard, which has a ‘yard list’ of 75 species; they have built bird-friendly backyard habitats in the 11 homes in which they’ve lived together.
This SparkPoint workshop focuses on the fundamentals of managing cash flow and identifying cost savings to create a spending plan.
Distinguishing wants from needs
Tracking personal financial information
Accessing resources to maximize existing income
Finding how Social Security fits into your overall financial plans
Marvin Brook, experienced SparkPoint volunteer, served as the financial controller of the USPS in Northern California for 15 years. He now introduces financial literacy awareness through a variety of community programs.
The Friends are having a general sale with a huge children’s section, lots of cooking and history, poetry, travel, needle arts, fiction, everything one looks for in a book sale plus a selection of oldies, CDs and DVDs. Come stock up on reading for the whole family at great prices!
Friday, March 16: Member Preview – 12:00 to 1:00 (become a member at the door) Public: 1:00 to 4:30
You are alone. Perhaps in a bar, a museum, a cafe, a grocery store—anywhere. You meet someone. And from the moment of eye contact, a story begins.
In The Day You Love Me, you’ll travel to six places around the globe and experience six encounters, each fueled by hope and desire, each clouded by uncertainty. Whether in a Japanese village near Mt. Fuji, a small northern California town, an L.A. high school cafeteria, an art gallery in Tahiti, a bar in southern Spain, or in a Paris cafe, the meetings seem similar. The consequences are wildly different.
“A debut collection of short stories explores the complexities of love and passion.” —Kirkus Reviews
Biography
As a high school student, Jay Humphrey determined that one of his main goals in life was to seek a variety of experience. After graduating with a degree in English from Stanford, he went on to get—at various times and places—an M.A. in English, an M.A. in Drama, and a J.D. Jay interspersed his academic endeavors with international travels and pursued a varied career in theater and television, law, writing and teaching.
Jay has directed numerous plays, musicals and operas, and was a TV producer for King Broadcasting Company. He taught English Literature in Hawaii and Wisconsin, and ESL in Spain, and spent several years as a corporate manual writer. While a law student, he worked as a faculty research assistant, a law clerk, and a law review editor. He subsequently practiced law and worked as an editor on a book by a major San Francisco law firm. Eventually, Jay decided to return to his first love—teaching—and enjoyed a delightful career as an ESL teacher for a language school based at Dominican University in San Rafael, CA, where he was fortunate to make friends from around the world.
It hasn’t been a solo journey. Many years ago, Jay asked someone out for coffee. She said yes. Their own love story includes a son and daughter, two grandchildren and a rich and varied life in Northern California.
The Day You Love Me is his first collection of short stories. These stories are fiction, but as Albert Camus noted, fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth
Cover design by Eliza Frye. Book design by Jim Shubin.
Stress Management Made Simple: A Workshop with Dr. Mark Schillinger
Drawing on the new brain science called Neuroplasticity (how to rewire your brain for greater happiness), Dr. Schillinger will give you a proven way to control your brain chemistry so that you’ll enjoy more emotional well-being and deeper peace of mind. Best of all the techniques take less than a minute to do!
In this workshop you will learn how to:
reduce your anxiety using mindfulness-based techniques
improve your time-management skills
create simple, one minute health-building skills
avoid stress related illness and cancer
Dr. Mark Schillinger is an authority on personal growth and stress management. He’s taught thousands of people how to dramatically reduce their stress and increase their well-being. His workshops feature a holistic style of teaching which includes humor, live music, PowerPoint, open forum discussion, informative handout’s and storytelling.
Are you interested in growing strawberries and/or blueberries, or have you tried to do so unsuccessfully in the past? Come and learn which varieties are recommended, what their requirements are for light, soil, water and fertilizer, how to plant and care for your plants, how to propagate them, and what to do about diseases and pests.
Judy Orsini was a landscape architect and became a UC Marin Master Gardener in 2015. As a Master Gardener, she assists with the annual tomato market, and has participated in the Plant It, Grow It, Eat It program, performed Garden Walks to give homeowners advice about water use, and provided advice at the Marin County Fair and various farmers markets. She also helped to get a community garden built in Mill Valley where she grows her own vegetables and fruits. Judy is a member of the Edibles and Plant Identification Guilds of the UC Marin Master Gardener organization.
Adults, teens and middle schoolers can sign up for this free escape room based on the book “Ready Player One” by Earnest Cline. You’ll solve puzzles based in gaming, 1980s popular culture, and virtual reality as you try to escape the library meeting room before your time is up!
SIGN UP TO PLAY
Up to 10 participants can take part in rounds of the game happening at 11:00, 1:00 or 2:30pm on Saturday April 7th.
To reserve your spot, call the library at (415) 485-3324 and ask to speak to the Adult or Children’s Reference Desks.
Then just show up at your designated time and play the game!
Over a million copies of Josie Brown’s novels are in readers’ hands. She has appeared at #1 on Amazon and iBooks on numerous occasions. published author of women’s fiction and mysteries.
Josie will be reading from some of her novels, and discussing how current events and social trends are the “what-if” inspirations for her novels.
Some of books will also be available for purchase.
For every book purchased, a donation equivalent to the book’s net proceeds will be given directly to the library:
Hardcover Books: $16 ($5 donation to the library)
Trade Paperback Books: $9 ($3 donation to the library)
The Housewife Assassin’s Handbook
Josie Brown, author provocateur, of the Housewife Assassin series – Murder, suspense, sex—and some handy household tips.
“The book ended with a hook that made me want to get the next one. I’m completely smitten.” —Barbara Vey, (romance reviewer, Publisher’s Weekly)
The Baby Planner
“Brown takes baby mania to its illogical, hysterical extreme in this bubbly romp. But what begins as a light foray into Bugaboo country turns into something bigger than a satire of status-obsessed Bay Area yum
my mummies as Brown takes a dark look at the fears of parenthood and family, with Katie’s heartbreaking longing for a child unveiling a disturbing reality about her marriage and family. Still, the message from the somber realities is one full of hope: love makes a family, commitment keeps it together.”—Publishers Weekly
Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
“Already touted as the perfect summer beach read, this character-driven sometimes steamy book can best be described as the offspring of an affair between Desperate Housewives and a Jennifer Weiner novel….A quick look into the sometimes catty world of wealth where priorities get shifted, friendships get broken and marriages, like their mansions, get rearranged. It was light and fluffy with some excellent dialogue.” —GoodHousekeeping.com
Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters is the first major exhibition to juxtapose examples by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with works that inspired its members, including Italian old masters Fra Angelico and Pietro Perugino and their northern contemporaries Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling. It reveals how the Brotherhood’s aesthetic evolved over time to embrace artistic influences from the High and late Renaissance, such as Titian and Veronese. It also offers a rich multimedia opportunity to examine the artists’ attraction to stained glass, domestic decorations, and sixteenth-century textiles.
u are alone. Perhaps in a bar, a museum, a cafe, a grocery store—anywhere. You meet someone. And from the moment of eye contact, a story begins. 
