ReConnect Greenwich Library is a special virtual series designed to celebrate the culmination of the 18-month renovation project to ReImagine, ReNew and RePurpose Greenwich Library.
ReConnect Greenwich Library is available to all at no charge through the support of the Greenwich Library Board of Trustees and generous donors.
Join us to hear from Doris Kearns Goodwin, world-renowned presidential historian, public speaker, and Pulitzer Prize-winner and New York Times bestselling author. Sarah Lyall, a noted journalist with The New York Times, will join Goodwin in a conversation around themes in her recently published book, Leadership in Turbulent Times, including the 2020 Presidential Election and inauguration and the U.S. impact on world affairs.
Join the Friends of the Greenwich Library for a panel discussion to complement a pre-screening of the film The Booksellers. Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective, and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. The Booksellers takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics, and dreamers.
The panel discussion will be moderated by Colin McEnroe, columnist, and WNPR radio personality. McEnroe will be joined by D.W. Young, the film’s director; Dan Wechsler, one of the film’s producers, and Rebecca Romney, a rare book dealer featured in the film.
Pre-screen The Booksellers on Kanopy, available with your Greenwich Library card through the Digital Library.
Get a sneak peek at the new Berkley Theater at Greenwich Library while screening a jazz concert with The Bill Charlap Trio on the Greenwich Library YouTube channel. The space has been reimagined as a theater for notable performances, lectures, and public events with comfortable seating, state-of-the-art acoustics, and audio-visual technology.
Bill Charlap is a Grammy Award-winning pianist who has performed with many leading artists of our time. He is known for his interpretations of American popular songs and has recorded albums featuring the music of Hoagy Carmichael, Leonard Bernstein, and George Gershwin. The Bill Charlap Trio was formed in 1997 with bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington and is recognized as one of the leading groups in jazz.
Greenwich Library’s ReImagine Renovation project significantly repurposed the Main Building to meet the changing needs of the community and impacted every floor.
