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2021 Ernest Hemingway Seminar: Hemingway in Africa

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Register to Attend:

IN-PERSON  or  VIRTUALLY

The 2021 Ernest Hemingway Seminar, initially scheduled for Fall 2020, will celebrate two short stories and Hemingway’s time in Africa. We’ll read “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” both published in 1936 following Ernest and Pauline’s three-month safari in 1933. Both stories can be read online by clicking their titles above, or in multiple print editions, including The Complete Short Stories: The Finca Vigía Edition.

For three days we will explore these texts and the history surrounding them. In addition to a dynamic array of lectures and opportunities for discussion, we will enjoy films, good food, and fellowship, all of which make this Hemingway seminar unique.

This year’s Seminar will be in a hybrid format, with both in-person and virtual attendance options. The in-person seminar will be limited to 100 attendees and costs $75. The virtual-only Seminar costs $25 and offers access to all presentations, panels, and films. Separate discussion groups will be hosted for virtual-only attendees via Zoom. 

Seminar check-in will begin at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 9. Thursday evening’s opening keynote by Dr. Suzanne del Gizzo, Professor of English at Chestnut Hill College and editor of The Hemingway Review, will introduce us to Hemingway’s time in Africa.

Throughout the day on Friday we’ll dive into “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” with panels, film, discussion, and a special theatrical presentation.

Saturday will conclude with a focus on “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” a discussion on the ethics of safari, our closing keynote from Dr. Andrew Farah, neuroscientist and author of Hemingway’s Brain, and an evening reception.

A full Seminar agenda will be posted soon.

Contact Martha Williams, Programs and Education Manager for information: mwilliams@comlib.org

 

Past Ernest Hemingway Seminars:

2020 – Virtual “Out of the Box” Seminar

2019 – For Whom the Bell Tolls

2018 – A Farewell to Arms: Hemingway and WWI

2017 – Isn’t it pretty to think so?: Hemingway and The Sun Also Rises

2016 – Hemingway and Nature

2015 – Hemingway at the Edges

2014 – The Old Man and the Sea

2013 – Hemingway and the Modern

2012 – Hemingway and Politics

2011 – Hemingway and Women

2010 – Second Annual Ernest Hemingway Symposium

2009 – Inaugural Ernest Hemingway Symposium

 

Hemingway Legacy

Writing Workshop: “Ulysses” and the Journey of a Day

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Follow in the footsteps of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, a narrative that follows its protagonists Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus around Dublin in the course of an ordinary day in early twentieth-century Ireland. Joyce’s landmark modernist tale parallels the ten-year journey of Odysseus in Homer’s epic poem the Odyssey, and the novel has been said to render “as precisely and as directly as it is possible in words to do, what our participation in life is like—or rather, what it seems to us like as from moment to moment we live” (Paul Grey).

In this workshop, designed for teens and adults, explore the storytelling mechanism of the hero’s journey in a single day through writing, photography, and multimedia, or map a journey through a city, country, or planet of your choosing, as many have mapped Leopold Bloom’s epic day in Dublin.

The workshop will be taught by Elliot Jacobs, Upper School English teacher at the Community School, Sun Valley.

This workshop is free, but registration is required. Please email mwilliams@comlib.org to register.

“Ulysses Cylinders” Exhibit Tour and “Chihuly Short Cuts” Film Screening

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Join The Community Library docents for an afternoon tour of the Ulysses Cylinders, on display in the Library’s foyer through January 10, 2020. The tour will be followed by a screening of Chihuly Short Cuts in the Lecture Hall.

“Ulysses Cylinders” Exhibition and Docent Tour (2:00-3:00 pm)

Inspired by James Joyce’s novel, the Ulysses Cylinders combine the alchemic artistry of Dale Chihuly with painter Seaver Leslie’s pen and ink drawings to create a unique collection of golden glass Cylinders. 

Chihuly’s and Leslie’s love of Ireland and Irish literature inspired an earlier series, Irish Cylinders, over forty years ago. In the summer of 2013, Chihuly and Leslie, together with Flora C. Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick decided to revisit this body of work focusing on Joyce’s Ulysses as the sole inspiration. Working with Leslie’s drawings on paper, artists Mace and Kirkpatrick constructed fragile glass drawings, which Chihuly’ s team amalgamated into individual Cylinders of glass wrapped in gold leaf. By applying Leslie’s adapted drawings to simple cylindrical forms, Chihuly uses the Cylinder as a canvas to create a series of visual portals into the novel.

The exhibit at The Community Library includes 23 cylinders from the set of 45. This is the third exhibition of the Cylinders. They first exhibited at Dublin Castle in June 2014, and then at the Vassar College Thompson Library in 2015.

The Community Library would like to thank the Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation and the Chihuly Studio for the loan of this exhibition.

Film Screening in the Lecture Hall: Chihuly Short Cuts (3:00-4:30 pm)

Join us for an afternoon of short films documenting a decade of Dale Chihuly’s personal odyssey. The films serve as an intimate guide of some of his most well-known projects, including “Chihuly Over Venice” and “Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem,” as well as some of his lesser-known work that will surprise even the most avid followers. From his glass hotshop and others in Finland, Ireland, Mexico, France, Murano and the Hebron, to exhibitions and installations in London, Chicago, and his home state of Washington, Chihuly’s passionate mission to explore and push beyond the boundaries of glass never falters.

The short films average 6 minutes in length. Please drop in to view one, two or many of these incredible short films.

“Ulysses Cylinders” Exhibit Tours

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Join The Community Library’s Programs and Education Manager, Martha Williams, for afternoon drop-by tours of the Ulysses Cylinders, on display in the Library’s foyer through January 10, 2020.

Inspired by James Joyce’s novel, the Ulysses Cylinders combine the alchemic artistry of Dale Chihuly with painter Seaver Leslie’s pen and ink drawings to create a unique collection of golden glass Cylinders. 

Chihuly’s and Leslie’s love of Ireland and Irish literature inspired an earlier series, Irish Cylinders, over forty years ago. In the summer of 2013, Chihuly and Leslie, together with Flora C. Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick decided to revisit this body of work focusing on Joyce’s Ulysses as the sole inspiration. Working with Leslie’s drawings on paper, artists Mace and Kirkpatrick constructed fragile glass drawings, which Chihuly’ s team amalgamated into individual Cylinders of glass wrapped in gold leaf. By applying Leslie’s adapted drawings to simple cylindrical forms, Chihuly uses the Cylinder as a canvas to create a series of visual portals into the novel.

The exhibit at The Community Library includes 23 cylinders from the set of 45. This is the third exhibition of the Cylinders. They first exhibited at Dublin Castle in June 2014, and then at the Vassar College Thompson Library in 2015.

The Community Library would like to thank the Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation and the Chihuly Studio for the loan of this exhibition.

“Ulysses Cylinders” Docent Tour

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Join The Community Library docents for a late afternoon tour of the Ulysses Cylinders, on display in the Library’s foyer through January 10, 2020.

Inspired by James Joyce’s novel, the Ulysses Cylinders combine the alchemic artistry of Dale Chihuly with painter Seaver Leslie’s pen and ink drawings to create a unique collection of golden glass Cylinders. 

Chihuly’s and Leslie’s love of Ireland and Irish literature inspired an earlier series, Irish Cylinders, over forty years ago. In the summer of 2013, Chihuly and Leslie, together with Flora C. Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick decided to revisit this body of work focusing on Joyce’s Ulysses as the sole inspiration. Working with Leslie’s drawings on paper, artists Mace and Kirkpatrick constructed fragile glass drawings, which Chihuly’ s team amalgamated into individual Cylinders of glass wrapped in gold leaf. By applying Leslie’s adapted drawings to simple cylindrical forms, Chihuly uses the Cylinder as a canvas to create a series of visual portals into the novel.

The exhibit at The Community Library includes 23 cylinders from the set of 45. This is the third exhibition of the Cylinders. They first exhibited at Dublin Castle in June 2014, and then at the Vassar College Thompson Library in 2015.

The Community Library would like to thank the Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation and the Chihuly Studio for the loan of this exhibition.

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