Before your first visit, please read our Parking requirements. Also check our WORKSHOP (for writers) and DISCUSSION GROUP pages!
ONGOING: Call for READERS / PERFORMERS to participate in WOMEN OF LETTERS: A Multi-Media Community Performance Experiment.
CHRISTINE RENAUDIN envisions a fabulous performance to be held in June to celebrate the Sitting Room. She hopes up to 11 people will come forward to join in the development and performance of letters from women writers, to present a performance collage. For full information, check out the Call for Readers Announcement.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2-4, BOOK GROUP
An often overlooked classic, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the selection. You may be surprised by the novel in light of the popular culture presentations. Readily available in digital format or a Dover classic edition.
SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2-4. POETRY AND MUSIC
An afternoon of poetry and music with TERRY
EHRET and her daughter CAITLIN EHRET MOE.
The program will honor the Medieval
Benedictine poet, composer, scientist, and recently officially declared SAINT
HILDEGARD VON BINGEN and the contemporary Uruguayan/Mexican poet ULALUME
GONZALES DE LEON. The performance will weave poetry inspired by these two women
with musical/vocal arrangements. All welcome, free, no reservations necessary.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2-4, BOOK GROUP
We explore Carson McCullers' story of a Southern black house worker and a child, Member of the Wedding. This novel went on to become a prize-winning Broadway play, and has been recreated in cinema as well.
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 6-7 PM, A RENAISSANCE TALK
CHRISTY DAVIDS presents “Examining the Unrecognized Role of the Woman
Writer in the Elizabethan Era.” A conversation accompanying a special library
exhibit featuring female authors and their role in Early Modern times. All welcome, free.
Beginning APRIL 12, 7-9. FACING SLAVERY AND ITS LEGACIES
ANN NEEL, PH.D. begins a four-week mini-course that explores the institution of slavery and its implications for the lives of your ancestors and your life today. For full information, go to the Discussion Group page.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2-4, BOOK GROUP
Ntozake Shange's novel of three very different artistic black sisters living in the South, Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo, told with her usual poetic ear and jazz influences.
SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2-4, MEMORIAL TO WOMEN WRITERS
An annual event, our memorial observance invites people to read from the works of women writers who died during the past year. For example, Kay Mills, shown in the photo. Bring your own choice, or select from the SR obituary collection to choose someone. It is surprisingly satisfying to voice their past words. No need to sign up, just come.
SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 2-5. OUR 30TH BIRTHDAY PARTY!
Come to celebrate, enjoy a special performance, collect or purchase a copy of the latest annual publication, "The Sitting Room: Past, Present, and FUTURE." Meet new friends, eat delicious cake, and more. Gifts to the SR in the form of folding money or checks will be most appreciated. We do have regular bills to pay. Merci, Grazie, Gracias, and Thanks.
