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As part of its mission to promote the
art and history of the book, the Grolier Club is happy to host the
public lectures and events of other bookish organizations, and to open some of its
own events to
the public: Unless otherwise indicated below, all RSVPs and reservations are to be made through Maev Brennan at the Grolier Club, tel. 212-838-6690, ext. 7, or e-mail: mbrennan@grolierclub.org. October 6: Reading: On Monday, October 6 at the Grolier Club there will be a reading of Eileen Atkins's "Vita and Virginia," drawn from the correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. At times warm, witty, cautious, jealous, pained, and loving, these letters show Woolf and Sackville-West as always human. Woolf will be read by two time Tony nominee Alison Fraser (currently on Broadway in "Gypsy") and Vita by television star and Broadway veteran Carolyn McCormick (soon to be in "Equus" at the Broadhurst). Seating is limited. Tickets are available only through Smarttix, http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=VIT1. No tickets will be sold at the door. Tickets are $18, or $12 to students (use discount code STU1). Doors open at 6, reading starts at 6:30, run time is 2 1/2 hours including intermission. The reading is produced in connection with the exhibition This Perpetual Fight: Love and Loss in Virginia Woolf's Intimate Circle, on show at the Grolier Club through November 22. October 10-12: American Printing History Association 2008 Conference: Saving the History of Printing. This year’s conference will be hosted by Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and The Grolier Club on the subject “Saving the History of Printing.” Our keynote speaker will be James Mosley, former librarian of St Bride Library, on Friday evening October 10th at the Grolier Club. On Saturday October 11th we move to Columbia University for a full day conference and then to Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library for a closing reception. Sunday will be an optional day of tours. The conference theme will be about the preservation of the “stuff” of printing history, broadly conceived. The conference program and registration form is now available online. Read more. October 30: Exhibition Lecture: Curators William Beekman and Sarah Funke will speak about the Grolier Club exhibition This Perpetual Fight: Love and Loss in Virginia Woolf’s Intimate Circle (September 17- November 22, 2008). 6 pm, reception follows. November 19: Reading: On Wednesday, 19 November, the Grolier Club will join with other groups to hold the first American peformance in recent years of Virginia Woolf's comedy, Freshwater, in New York. The play, a hilarious send-up of Woolf's great-aunt, the famed photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, and her friends poet Alfred Tennyson, painter G. F. Watts, and actress Ellen Terry, was written for a private Bloomsbury theatrical party in 1931. It is presented in conjunction with the Grolier Club's public exhibition, This Perpetual Fight: Love and Loss in Virginia Woolf's Intimate Circle (September 17-November 22, 2008). The reading is sponsored by the William Morris Society in the United States, the Grolier Club, American Friends of Arts and Crafts in Chipping Campden, the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms, and the Victorian Society in America. Arthur Giron, the director, is a playwright and former head of the Graduate Playwriting Program at Carnegie Mellon University. A founding member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, the nation's foremost play development organization, Giron had been called "One of our best contemporary dramatists" by critic Rosette La Mont. His latest play Emilie's Voltaire won the Galileo Prize and will open in New York in 2009. The cast includes Liza Vann as Julia Margaret Cameron. A recipient of the Clarence Ross Fellowship from the American Theatre Wing, she has performed extensively in regional theatre. Her latest work is Good Ol' Girls, which airs on PBS later this year. Tickets: $12 reduced rate for members of the Society and the other sponsoring organizations; $18 for others. Tickets may be purchased from the William Morris Society in the United States, either online or by sending a check. Click here for more information and to purchase tickets. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. A reception will follow the performance. For more information, phone (302) 831-3250.
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