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As part of its mission to promote the art and history of
the book, this season the Grolier Club will open some of its
lectures to the public:
2005
- September 27: Grolier Club Member
Eric Hollas of St. Johns University will speak on
"Illuminating the Word: The
Saint Johns Bible," concerning
the first manuscript Bible to be produced in over five
hundred years, and one of the great calligraphic ventures
of the twentieth century. 6 pm at the Club.
- November 8: Allen Packwood
(Director of the Churchill
Archives Centre, Churchill
College, UK) will speak on "Sir Winston Churchill through
his Papers." 6 pm at the Club.
- December 7: Sian Flynn,
National
Maritime Museum, Greenwich
will speak on "'The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration:
Scott & Shackleton at the National Maritime Museum."
6 pm, at the Club. This lecture is given in connection
with the Books
On Ice exhibition on view
at the Grolier Club December 7, 2005-February 4,
2006.
- December 13: Fred
Calabretta, Associate Curator and Oral Historian,
Mystic
Seaport Musem, will speak on
aspects of the Books
On Ice exhibition on view
at the Grolier Club December 7, 2005-February 4,
2006.
- December 19: Michael
Bravo (Scott
Polar Research Institute,
Cambridge University) on "Narrating the Poles." 6 pm, at
the Club. This lecture is given in connection with the
Books
On Ice exhibition on view
at the Grolier Club December 7, 2005-February 4,
2006.
2006
- January 10: Grolier Club
member and co-curator David Stam will speak about the
Books
On Ice exhibition on view
at the Club through February 4, 2006. Held during the
January session of Rare
Book School North, this
exhibition is co-sponsored by the Book Arts Press. 6 pm,
at the Club.
LOCATION: The
Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York City (between
Park and Madison Avenues). Click here
for a street map of New York showing the Club's precise
location.
For more details, contact the Grolier
Club.
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