Friends of Chapel Hill Public Library

Events This Month

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Sunday

Beyond the Books: Matt Hedt - Hi!Mom

3:00pm - 5:00pm Meeting Room

Max Hedt from the Hi!Mom film Festival will hold a seminar for 16-22year olds.

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Wednesday

Book Discussion: The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper

11:30am Meeting Room

Journalist Cooper has a compelling story: born into a powerful Liberian family descended from freed American slaves, she came of age in the 1980’s when her homeland slipped into civil war. Cooper combines deeply personal and wide-ranging political strands in her memoir. Years after the family’s exile to America and Cooper’s successful career as a journalist with the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, she returns to Liberia to reclaim her childhood and reunite with her “Country sister” who had been left behind. She revisits the house where she had witnessed unspeakable horrors and becomes familiar again with poverty in the ruined country to which she feels a strong connection.

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Friday

Meet-the-Author Tea: William Conescu -Being Written

3:30pm - 5:00pm Meeting Room

“A debut novel of astonishing imagination and wit, William Conescu’s BEING WRITTEN (Harper Perennial) tells the edgy, suspenseful and humorous story of a Daniel Fischer, who knows he’s a minor character in someone else’s book and hungers for a bigger part in the plot. From this mind-bending literary conceit, Conescu fashions a deft and wholly original narrative that explores issues of free will and life choices, as Daniel enters the lives of a struggling young couple with problems of their own.”
Suspenseful, subversive, and hilarious, “Being Written” is an audaciously inventive literary turn that gleefully calls into question who we trust, what we believe, and how the stories of our lives are created.”

William Conescu graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned an MFA in creative writing at North Carolina State University. His short stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, New Letters, Green Mountains Review, and other publications. He lives in Chapel Hill.

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Saturday

Beyond the Books: FamPhotory

3:00pm - 4:00pm Meeting Room

Maggie Peltier, owner and operator of FamPhotory will hold an open dialogue with the audience to discuss how to keep memories alive.

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Saturday

Beyond the Books: Cynetha: A Coat of Many Colors

3:00pm - 5:00pm Meeting Room

Cynetha will do colors, talk about how best to converse with your beautician and speak on being an entrepreneur.

Cynetha Williams is the owner of Cynetha’s Place. A full service salon located in downtown Chapel Hill NC. www.cynethawilliams.com

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Saturday

Beyond Books - Lecture: Videography Workshop with Bill Foley of The People's Channel

4:00pm - 5:00pm Meeting Room

Bill Foley of The People’s Channel will cover lighting fundamentals, camera operation and positioning, and how to obtain audible sound under varied conditions.

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