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Saturday December 1st, 2007

Bantam Cinema -Special Presentation-

On Saturday December 1st at 11:30AM the Bantam Cinema offered a special program to introduce David Halberstam's last book: THE COLDEST WINTER, a masterful assessment of the politics surrounding the Korean War andthe stories of the soldiers on the front line.

This presentation was a collaboration between the Bantam Cinema, The Litchfield County Writer's Project and the Hickory Stick Book Store. We showed a DVD about the book and Professor Karl Valois of the University of Connecticut, History Department provided an overview of both the book and this remarkable period of history. There was be time for questions

In honor of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
February 28, 2006, Tuesday 4:00 – 5:00PM  

Dr. Margo Maine, cofounder of the Maine & Weinstein Specialty Group will be the guest speaker discussing the treatment and prevention of eating disorders, women’s health, and related issues.  Dr. Maine is a clinical psychologist who has specialized in the treatment of eating disorders for over 25 years and is a clinical consultant at the Institute of Living in Hartford , Connecticut , and former director of their Eating Disorders Program.  Her most recent book, co-authored with Joe Kelly, The Body Myth: The Pressure on Adult Women to Be Perfect, concerns adult eating disorders and body image concerns (John Wiley, 2005). Also author of Body Wars: Making Peace With Women’s Bodies (Gurze, 2000) and Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters and the Pursuit of Thinness (Gurze, 2004), she is a senior editor of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention.  

Domestic Violence Awareness Month - Lecture by Barbara Parsons

On October 20th 2005, Barbara Parsons was the guest speaker at the UConn Torrington Campus, discussing her experiences as a victim and survivor of domestic abuse.  Ms. Parsons also survived ten years of incarceration for the shooting death of her husband.  Her memoir, “Puzzle Pieces”

was published in the book Couldn’t Keep it to Myself, Testimonies From Our Imprisoned Sisters, an anthology of short pieces written by inmates and edited by Wally Lamb, while she was incarcerated.  “(Parsons) has hitched her sorrow, fear, despair and anger to vivid remembered detail and transferred her emotions to the page….  The operative emotion that drives her later pieces is righteous anger.” (Wally Lamb)

The Inge Morath Award was given September 24, 2005 to celebrate and recognize women in Litchfield County who have had a significant impact on the economic and/or social development of the arts in this region. This award is given with the support of The Estate of Inge Morath.

Artist: Dana Gringas

Librarians & Town Historians of Litchfield County Reception
June 10, 2005 7-8:30 pm.
An overview of the Litchfield County Writers Project by Director Davyne Verstandig followed by a sharing of town lore by the Town Historians.

"Inge Morath: Litchfield County" Photography Exhibit

(October 22, 2004-Present)

Opening Exhibit and Lecture and Slideshow on Inge Morath
Speaker: John Jacob, Director of The Estate of Inge Morath
Thursday, December 9, 2004, 7 p.m.
Lecture Hall

Pictures from the event

List of Photographs on display

 

The Sex King : a reading of Bill C. Davis' newest play
October 27, 2004

Back row: Bill C. Davis, Jack Gilpin, Chris Blum
Front row: Davyne Verstandig, Jessica Stewart

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