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Ongoing
Tuesday Talks
A continuing series of discussions to be held on Tuesday evenings. Scheduled for the coming months are talks by authors, historians, artists, gardeners , and more. Please note that due to scheduling some events may take place on days other than Tuesday.
 
Wednesday June 25th at 6:30 pm
Fear No Art: Altered Books
Slide presentation by Cathy Melio, Education Director, Center for Maine Contemporary Art. This program is the kick off event for the community art project- Renewables: Altered Books- coming this September and co-sponsored by Waterfall Arts, The Center for Maine Contemporary Art and the Belfast Free Library. Come and learn more!
 
Beginning July 8th
Shockingly Irish: Joyce, O'Brien, and McCabe
This book and film discussion series will look at the modern Irish presentation of the feminine. The depiction of women in Irish literature has undergone a transformation in the 20th century. This course will look at the works of fiction that shocked Irish culture in the 20th century with their bold presentations of modern Irish feminity. All discussions start at 6:30 pm: July 8th- The Dead, by James Joyce
 



Foreign Film Series with

Professor Baird Whitlock

The Foreign Film Series is held in the Abbott Room of the Library on Friday evenings at 7:00 PM.
Admission is FREE, and there is a discussion following for those who wish to take part.

 
July 11th
The English Patient
Anthony Minghella
1996
The 19th year of the Belfast Free Library’s Foreign Film Series continues in July with films by Anthony Minghella, who died last March at the young age of 54. This year’s series has been dedicated to those directors who have passed away during the 19 years that the foreign films have been shown at the Belfast Free Library.
 
July 25
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Anthony Minghella
1991


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