Tag Archives: King County Library System

Discover Your Family History: an Introduction to Genealogy

Featured

Posted on by

Presented by Claudia Breland

Sunday, June 9, 2 p.m., Mercer Island Library

Interested in tracing your family history but don’t know where to start? Claudia Breland, a professional genealogist with over 35 years of experience, will walk you through the early steps of this exciting pastime. Learn how to start filling out pedigree charts and interviewing relatives before you sit down at the computer and discover free resources available online and at the library. For beginners.

Registration opens May 17th. To register, go to http://www.kcls.org/calendar/detail.cfm?view=event&lib=26.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Mercer Island Library

Opera Previews: The Ring of the Nibelungen by Richard Wagner

Posted on by

The Ring of the Nibelungen was first performed in its entirety at Bayreuth in the summer of 1876. The world had seen nothing like it-a music/drama cycle of incredible scope-four complete operas in four nights with 16 hours of performing time. That should have put off opera audiences used to a single opera and 3 hours running time. Instead Wagner’s Ring has fascinated opera audiences, more now than ever, especially in Seattle.

Norm Hollingshead will offer the following previews:

Tuesday, June 25, 7pm: Das Rheingold

Tuesday, July 9, 7pm: Die Walkure

Tuesday, July 16, 7pm: Siegfried

Tuesday, July 23, 7pm: Gotterdammerung

Sponsored by the Friends of the Mercer Island Library.

 

 

Miss Margaret’s Bon Voyage Celebration Sunday June 30, 2013

Posted on by

After many years of service, Mercer Island Library’s beloved “Miss Margaret”, Margaret Martin is retiring on June 30th. Margaret has served as our children’s librarian for over 15 years.  In her free time, she has traveled to countries such as India and China to help open and stock new  libraries in the developing world. She now plans to share her many talents as the school librarian in an international school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Please come to the library between 2 and 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 30th for a public celebration to thank Margaret for her for her many years of service to our community, and to wish her well in the realization of a long held dream.

Public Meeting re: Mercer Island Library Remodel June 13, 2013

Posted on by

Mark your calendars!  There is a public meeting planned on June 13th at 6:30 p.m. at the Mercer Island library, to review and offer input about the design for the upcoming library remodel. The architectural team from Miller-Hull Partnership will make a presentation. You are invited to attend.

image description

Spring Nature Sketching Saturday, May 11th 1:30 p.m.

Posted on by

flower_clipart_violet Presented by Molly Hashimoto for all ages 8 and up.

Let the spring buds and blooms you see in Mercer Island Library’s Learning Garden inspire you to draw and paint-use pencil, pen and watercolor to capture all the beauty of the emerging season. Also learn how to keep a nature journal. Many examples of Molly’s journals as well as other published books will be shared. All supplies are provided, including fine watercolor paper.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Mercer Island Library.

Dining at Downton Abbey: A Trial by Fork

Posted on by

Presented by Tames Alan.

Saturday, May 4, 1pm

Mercer Island Library

Explore a time of forgotten elegance, when one changed into dinner clothes and chose jewelry to reflect candlelight; a time where setting the table was an art and serving a meal was a well-choreographed dance. Food historian Tames Alan will demystify the manners, menu, and accoutrements of a formal 12-course dinner as would have been eaten upstairs at Downton Abbey before the outbreak of World War One.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Mercer Island Library

 

Spring Mini Book Sale in March 2013

Posted on by

 

The Friends of the Mercer Island Library will hold a Mini Spring Book Sale at the library from Thursday, March 21st through Sunday, March 24th. The sale will feature adult and children’s fiction, non-fiction and multi-media. New items will be added daily. Come browse our selection during library hours.

Feast Your Eyes: Movies About Food

Posted on by

Saturdays in February, March and April 2013

Each screening will include an educational lecture
and Q&A led by film historian Lance Rhoades.
Sponsored by the Mercer Island Friends of the Library.

Saturday, March 16, 1 p.m.: MONDOVINO

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mondovino
Directed by Jonathan Nossiter
Produced by Jonathan Nossiter
Emmanuel Giraud
Written by Jonathan Nossiter
Distributed by ThinkFilm
Release date(s) 14 May 2004
Running time 135 minutes
Country United States
Language English, French

Mondovino (Italian: World of Wine) is a 2004 documentary film on the impact of globalization on the world’s different wine regions written and directed by American film maker Jonathan Nossiter. It was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival[1] and a César Award.

The film explores the impact of globalization on the various wine-producing regions, and the influence of critics like Robert Parker and consultants like Michel Rolland in defining an international style. It pits the ambitions of large, multinational wine producers, in particular Robert Mondavi, against the small, single estate wineries who have traditionally boasted wines with individual character driven by their terroir.

Mondovino was originally intended to be a two-month affair as a break between feature projects upon the completion of Nossiter’s film Signs & Wonders (2000). The film gave Nossiter a chance to utilize his knowledge as a trained sommelier from his time working at Balthazar in New York as well as an opportunity to visit some of the great wine regions of the world.

 

Feast Your Eyes: Movies About Food

Posted on by

Saturdays in February, March and April 2013
Each screening will include an educational lecture
and Q&A led by film historian Lance Rhoades.
Sponsored by the Mercer Island Friends of the Library.

Saturday, February 23, 1pm
Big Night
Two brothers, one a talented and uncompromising chef,
the other an eager-to-please aspiring entrepreneur,
gamble everything on the chance that their Italian
restaurant can be saved with one big night.

Big_night

Directed by Campbell Scott
Stanley Tucci
Produced by David Kirkpatrick
Jonathan Filley
Written by Joseph Tropiano
Stanley Tucci
Starring Minnie Driver
Ian Holm
Isabella Rossellini
Tony Shalhoub
Stanley Tucci
Allison Janney
Music by Gary DeMichele
Louis Prima
Editing by Suzy Elmiger
Distributed by The Samuel Goldwyn Company
Release date(s) January 24, 1996 (Sundance Film Festival)
September 20, 1996
Running time 107 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $4.1 million [1]
Box office $12,008,376

Opera Previews: La Boheme

Posted on by

Wednesday, February 20, 7pm
Presented by Norm Hollingshead.
Giacomo Puccini is the most popular opera composer of our time. Almost all of his operas end sadly, but that seems to attract rather than repel

opera audiences around the world. His 4th opera, La Boheme, is the saddest of all. In this opera the deadly villain is not another human,

but rather poverty and disease. Puccini’s genius at finding just the right melody to depict the happiness and heartache

of the doomed couple, Mimi and Rodolfo,draws sell-out crowds wherever it is performed.

Sponsored by the Mercer Island Friends of the Library.

La Boheme