Film buffs, readers and the general public are invited to a free movie night at Texas A&M Galveston on Thursday, January 26th at 7:00pm. No reservation is required to attend this free movie screening which will be held at TAMUG in Room 126 of the Jack K. Williams Library, Building #3010, 200 Seawolf Parkway in Galveston. The film, Away From Her, is being shown in conjunction with 2012 Galveston Reads programming, sponsored by the Rosenberg Library, Kempner Fund, Sealy Center on Aging UTMB, UTMB Department of Family Medicine, Galveston College, Texas A&M Galveston, Inn at the Waterpark and Moody Gardens.
Galveston Reads 2012 “One City, One Book” title is Still Alice by Lisa Genova, a story told from the perspective of a fifty year-old Harvard University professor afflicted by early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. “This movie was selected to expand the community discussion of and insight into Alzheimer’s disease and its impact on individuals, relationships, families,” Poom Taylor, a librarian at the Rosenberg Library and a Galveston Reads committee member, said.
Away From Her chronicles the touching story of a retired couple, married nearly 50-years, coming to terms with their relationship and themselves in the aftermath of the wife’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis. The film features actress, Julie Christie, whose performance in this movie garnered her Golden Globe, Critics Choice, and Screen Actors Guild awards, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Additional Academy Award nominations for this film, originally a short story by Alice Munroe, included Best Adapted Screenplay (Sarah Polley, Screenplay Author / Director). The film was on major film critics top ten lists as a Best Film of 2007 has received international acclaim from the British Academy of Film, was named Best Motion Picture in Canada, receiving an astonishing five Genie Awards – the highest accolades for Canadian films – including Best Actress (Christie), Best Actor (Gordon Pinset), Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress (Kristen Thompson). Olympia Dukakis and Michael Murphy also deliver outstanding performances.
The Jack K. Williams Library is located near the center of the Texas A&M Galveston Campus, southeast of the clock tower and Student Center, and due west of the soccer fields. From Seawolf Parkway, visitors should turn right at the main entrance to the Texas A&M Galveston. The library is adjacent to the Student Center Parking lot. The movie will be shown in Room #126. For more complete directions to the campus and library, visit http://www.tamug.edu/library/libraryhours/directions.html.
In its 9th year, Galveston Reads encourages unity through literature, hosting discussions, events, films and bringing speakers and authors of national acclaim to Galveston. A diverse group of volunteers collaboratively identifies books of interest to the community with the general public voting to select one book annually.
For more information, please visit or call the Rosenberg Library 409-763-8854 ext. 115 or online at www.rosenberg-library.org and www.galvestonreads.org.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Friday, January 6, 2012
Embracing Aging: Press Release
PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Travis Bible, Museum Assistant
Rosenberg Library
409-763-8854, ext. 125
For Immediate Release
6 January 2012
Embracing Aging Photography Exhibit Opens
at Rosenberg Library
The Rosenberg Library Museum is proud to present a new photography exhibit entitled Embracing Aging currently on display in Harris Gallery through the end of March 2012. The show is a collaborative effort between the Library and the Galveston Reads program. Galveston Reads is a community-wide book club that encourages unity through literature. This year’s book is the best-selling Still Alice by Lisa Genova, which follows the struggles and triumphs of a woman who is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
Embracing Aging features works by accomplished local photographers Barbara Pursley and Marilyn Brodwick. Both artists spotlight aging and present images that invoke powerful emotions and draw viewers in for a closer look to see the beauty in ‘ordinary’ people. Pursley and Brodwick will speak at the library on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. during Galveston Art Walk. The event is free and open to the public (please enter the library through the ground floor doors).
Barbara Pursley’s black and white photographs are taken from her book Embracing the Moment: An Alzheimer’s Memoir. In it, Pursley shares the experience of becoming her mother’s caregiver after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Her photographs depict a bitter-sweet journey through the declining stages of the disease, and offered her a way of coping with the difficulty of being a caregiver. Not only did photography help Pursley preserve a moment in time, it also gave her a way to connect with her mother.
The Embracing Aging exhibit also features color photographs by Marilyn Spievak Brodwick that have never before been seen by the public. Her portraits focus the viewers’ attention to the beauty—and occasionally the pain—of each subject. Brodwick met many of her subjects on the streets and “tried to sense the person behind the mask of age” before taking any pictures. Like Pursley, Brodwick feels that her camera connects her to her subjects. She believes that “When you look at the outside of a person, you don’t see the life. The way into the fullness and beauty of life may be a wrinkled hand or the sadness or fierce gleam of an eye.”
With longer life-expediency rates and an aging population, health problems like Alzheimer’s disease and dementia now touch many more lives than in years past. Please join the Rosenberg Library as it offers a forum to highlight this important issue. Additional information about this and other Galveston Reads events can be found on the Galveston Reads website: http://galvestonreads.org/events/events.htm
Contact: Travis Bible, Museum Assistant
Rosenberg Library
409-763-8854, ext. 125
For Immediate Release
6 January 2012
Embracing Aging Photography Exhibit Opens
at Rosenberg Library
The Rosenberg Library Museum is proud to present a new photography exhibit entitled Embracing Aging currently on display in Harris Gallery through the end of March 2012. The show is a collaborative effort between the Library and the Galveston Reads program. Galveston Reads is a community-wide book club that encourages unity through literature. This year’s book is the best-selling Still Alice by Lisa Genova, which follows the struggles and triumphs of a woman who is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
Embracing Aging features works by accomplished local photographers Barbara Pursley and Marilyn Brodwick. Both artists spotlight aging and present images that invoke powerful emotions and draw viewers in for a closer look to see the beauty in ‘ordinary’ people. Pursley and Brodwick will speak at the library on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. during Galveston Art Walk. The event is free and open to the public (please enter the library through the ground floor doors).
Barbara Pursley’s black and white photographs are taken from her book Embracing the Moment: An Alzheimer’s Memoir. In it, Pursley shares the experience of becoming her mother’s caregiver after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Her photographs depict a bitter-sweet journey through the declining stages of the disease, and offered her a way of coping with the difficulty of being a caregiver. Not only did photography help Pursley preserve a moment in time, it also gave her a way to connect with her mother.
The Embracing Aging exhibit also features color photographs by Marilyn Spievak Brodwick that have never before been seen by the public. Her portraits focus the viewers’ attention to the beauty—and occasionally the pain—of each subject. Brodwick met many of her subjects on the streets and “tried to sense the person behind the mask of age” before taking any pictures. Like Pursley, Brodwick feels that her camera connects her to her subjects. She believes that “When you look at the outside of a person, you don’t see the life. The way into the fullness and beauty of life may be a wrinkled hand or the sadness or fierce gleam of an eye.”
With longer life-expediency rates and an aging population, health problems like Alzheimer’s disease and dementia now touch many more lives than in years past. Please join the Rosenberg Library as it offers a forum to highlight this important issue. Additional information about this and other Galveston Reads events can be found on the Galveston Reads website: http://galvestonreads.org/events/events.htm
Book Discussions start at Moody Methodist on Monday!!
Book Discussions are beginning on January 9th at Moody Methodist followed by the Rosenberg Library. Yummy snacks will be served for the Rosenberg Library for a noon meeting.
Book Discussions:
January 9 6:30 pm Moody Methodist
January 11 12 Noon Rosenberg Library
January 12 7:00 pm Hitchcock Library
January 14 10:00 am Moody Methodist
January 19 7:00 pm Mod Coffee & Tea
January 25 6:00 pm Mosquito Café
February 2 6:00 pm First Presbyterian
February 7 7:00 pm Texas A&M
February 8 7:00 pm U.U. Fellowship
Book Discussions:
January 9 6:30 pm Moody Methodist
January 11 12 Noon Rosenberg Library
January 12 7:00 pm Hitchcock Library
January 14 10:00 am Moody Methodist
January 19 7:00 pm Mod Coffee & Tea
January 25 6:00 pm Mosquito Café
February 2 6:00 pm First Presbyterian
February 7 7:00 pm Texas A&M
February 8 7:00 pm U.U. Fellowship
Embracing Aging Exhibit Up!! Kicks off Galveston Reads for 2012!!
In conjunction with the 2012 Galveston Reads book Still Alice, Galveston Reads and the Rosenberg Library Museum is presenting an exhibit entitled Embracing Aging in the Harris Gallery of the Rosenberg Library Museum.
This special exhibit is on display from January through March 2012 and is free to the public. One of the photos from the exhibit is below:
This special exhibit is on display from January through March 2012 and is free to the public. One of the photos from the exhibit is below:
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Galveston Reads Reading List December 2011
The final 11 books from the Reading Committee. The committee will be whittling the list down this January, 2012.
Unbroken, WW2 & The Olympic Runner | Hillenbrand |
Room: A Novel | Donnohu |
Packing for Mars | Roach |
The Wicked River When It Last Ran Wild | Sandlin |
The Big Year | Obmascik |
Empire of the Summer Moon | Gwynne |
The Leftovers | Perrotta |
Farewell My Subaru | Fine |
The Submission | Waldman |
Homecoming of Samuel Lake | Wingfield |
The Big Thirst | Fishman |
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Upcoming exhibit at Rosenberg Library
Upcoming exhibit for Still Alice in 2012: On display in the lobby, by the Circulation Desk of the Rosenberg Library, 2310 Sealy Street, Galveston, Texas.
by Lynn Burke
by Lynn Burke
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Group Leader Training Kicks Off Season! Tuesday, Nov 15th
Galveston Reads started training for group leaders with Dr. John Gorman in the newly renovated Fox Room at the Rosenberg Library. Dr. Gorman lead the training with his usual challenge to the readers, please leave your papers face down, as Dr. Gorman is used to talking to a room full of students. He provided great tips and insight to the book, Still Alice with what to look for, such as, "All the books are depressing, why another depressing book?".
Dr. Gorman brought up the butterfly motif and the changes Alice is facing, along with her butterfly folder, in case she has to implement her backup plan, if she can not face being in the Alzheirmer's Special Care Unit. Issues such as Alice's identity, linked to her professional career as a Harvard professor, all seem to fall to the wayside, as her Alzheimer's progresseses. Ultimately, Dr. Gorman asks the question, is the book about the love and family support, as Alice's daughters, Lydia and Anna bend their lives to give Alice safety and familial connection.
Most of us left with the skills and ideas needed to lead book discussions.
Dr. Gorman brought up the butterfly motif and the changes Alice is facing, along with her butterfly folder, in case she has to implement her backup plan, if she can not face being in the Alzheirmer's Special Care Unit. Issues such as Alice's identity, linked to her professional career as a Harvard professor, all seem to fall to the wayside, as her Alzheimer's progresseses. Ultimately, Dr. Gorman asks the question, is the book about the love and family support, as Alice's daughters, Lydia and Anna bend their lives to give Alice safety and familial connection.
Most of us left with the skills and ideas needed to lead book discussions.
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