Bach to Books is the name for the Friends'-sponsored arts and humanities series offered at the library. The main goal of Bach to Books is to share a variety of programs featuring music, dance, visual arts, literature, history and more with the people of our community, for their enjoyment and enlightenment. We offer these programs free to the public, so that everybody can attend.
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Fall 2008 Bach to Books Cultural Art Series
Allen Public Library Civic Auditorium
300 N. Allen Drive
Saturday, September 20, 2008 - 2:00 p.m.
Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir"
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
by Kao Kalia Yang
In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America, but their history remains largely unknown. Driven to share her family’s story after her grandmother’s death, Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir is a tribute to the remarkable woman whose spirit held them all together. - Publishers Weekly
Sunday, September 21, 2008 - 2:30 p.m.
Chaski celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with folk music of Latin America
Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 7:00 p.m.
Egyptologist Dr. Karl Kilinski discusses King Tut exhibit at Dallas Museum of Art
King Tut exhibit
(Additional Information)
Dr. Karl Kilinski II, Egyptologist and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Southern Methodist University, provides a survey of the King Tut exhibit, 7:00 p.m., Thursday, September 25, Allen Public Library, 300 N. Allen Dr. He provides information on the exhibit and the art and culture King Tut's milieu and discusses how this period affected 21st century civilization.
This event is sponsored by Bach to Books. After departing from London, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs is featured at the Dallas Museum of Art,Oct. 3, 2008-May 17, 2009. John Lane, the Eugene McDermott Director of the DMA states, “We are honored to be the first institution to host the encore tour of Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs.”
Professor Kilinski has been a senior research fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and a visiting research fellow at the Warburg Institute in London; has taught as a visiting professor at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan and at the DIS University of Copenhagen; and has authored many articles and five monographs, Classical Myth in Western Art: Ancient through Modern (Meadows Museum), Boeotian Black Figure Vase Painting of the Archaic Period (Philipp von Zabern Verlag), Gods, Men, and Heroes (with Anne Bromberg, The University of Washington Press), Jupiter's Loves and His Children (Georgia Museum of Art) and The Flight of Icarus through Western Art (Edwin Mellen Press). He has also received three university awards for teaching.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 7:00 p.m.
Murray Stein presents major shrines of Christianity, Islam and Judaism in Israel
Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 7:00 p.m.
Paleontologist James Walczak features rare North American fossils, many found in the Southwest
Friday, October 31, 2008 - 7: 00 p.m.
Choctaw Storyteller Greg Rodgers tells ghost and other Native American stories
Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 2:00 p.m.
Civil War Living Historians present Civil War Reinactment
Saturday, December 6, 2008 - 7:00 p.m.
Holidays from around the world with the Allen Symphony Chorus |
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