This film can be appreciated simply as a deeply moving, beautifully acted, visually stunning folk story of love, betrayal and redemption. But it can also be read as an attempt, conscious or unconscious, to reconcile or negotiate traditional and modern sensibilities, a film whose ambiguities are often as fascinating as its certainties.
Senegal; produced and directed by Mansour Sora Wade; in Lébou with English subtitles; 1 hour, 30 minutes

Anthony D.J Branker, director of the Jazz Programs at Princeton University and jazz students for an afternoon of good sounds as they illustrate the music that is America's Art Form -- Jazz. This will be a family friendly Jazz 101. Branker has been honored with teaching awards by the United States Department of Education, the Institute for Arts and Humanities and the International Association of Jazz Educators. In 2006 Branker was moderator for the popular library film discussion series, Looking At: Jazz.

Regarded as one of the best mysteries of the century, this book features private eye Leo G. Bloodworth and 14-year-old Serendipity Dahlquist on a hunt for her stolen dog, a chase involving hippies, gangsters, dog fights and an unsolved bank robbery.

Participants share a short piece of their own writing and/or a short selection from a book they have read in a relaxed atmosphere. Francesca Benson will lead these no-pressure sessions, where the focus will be on the pleasure of reading and writing in community.
Tuesday, March 4, 10 a.m. Quiet Room

Tuesday Technology Talk: The Online Office
Online office tools help to eliminate email clutter and foster collaboration across borders. In this Tech Talk, librarian and open source evangelist Nicole C. Engard will introduce you to a variety of online tools that will help you work more efficiently into today's environment. Tools such as blogs, wikis, online office applications and shared web calendars can all improve productivity and communication in your office and beyond.

When restless Londoner Kitty Fane finds that her husband is more interested in his research than her, she has an affair with a local playboy. This act leads her on a journey of self-discovery that carries her to the Far East, where she becomes involved in the fight against cholera.

Bonds of loyalty, friendship and abiding love are explored in this mythic and rhapsodic tale of love and life's metamorphoses on Cape Cod.

The Princeton University English professor will discuss The Scandal of the Season, which fictionalizes the events that inspired Alexander Pope's satirical poem The Rape of the Lock. Publishers Weekly called Scandal an erudite period piece filled with outrageous flirtation, social maneuvering and contests of wit. A native of Australia who earned a doctorate in English literature from Harvard, Gee has published academic essays on Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and others, as well as articles and book reviews of general interest in Australia and America. In 2006, she was named the John E. Annan Bicentennial Preceptor, in recognition of outstanding research and teaching as a member of Princeton's junior faculty.

If you love to scrapbook and are looking for space to spread out and work, these three -hour sessions are for you. Bring your own scrapbooks, photos, and other supplies; the library will supply a cropping station. A scrapbooking expert will be on hand to offer advice and will also lead a make and take session, where you can make a seasonal border or other accent for your pages. To ensure adequate supply of materials, registration is requested. Please call the library reference desk at 609-924-9529 x220 or e-mail refstaff@princetonlibrary.org.

The Eric Mintel Quartet will perform Brubeck classics such as Blue Rondo a la Turk, Take Five, Three to Get Ready along with many newer Brubeck compositions. Mintel originals from the Eric Mintel Quartet's latest CD, Times Change, will also be featured. Eric has recently achieved status as a Yamaha Artist and the quartet continues to captivate audiences all over the country.

This playful, game-like alternative to ordinary conversation is designed to enrich interpersonal relationships. Moderated by Alan Goldsmith, Noodle Talks begin with a container filled with 400 fettuccini-like paper strips being passed around. On each strip, there are one or two questions covering the full gamut of life experience. Some questions refer to the past, others to the future; some are concrete, others metaphorical; some invite us to laugh at our foibles while others bring us to tears. There are no right or wrong answers, just the truth of our own inner or outer experience.

When 20 directors from all over the world are offered the world's most romantic city as a backdrop, the result is a mixed bag: 18 filmettes lasting around eight minutes each, from light and fluffy to bitterly tragic. If there is a recurring theme, it's the power of love, or perhaps the endless possibilities of the city. The Coen Brothers, Wes Craven and Alexander Payne are among the directors; Steve Buscemi, Juliette Binoche and Willem Dafoe among the actors. In English and French with English subtitles. 2 hours.
Co-sponsored by the library and L'Association Francophone de Princeton

Selected readings from John Lithgow's book The Poets' Corner: The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family as well as from Laughing Matters: A Celebration of American Humor.
Reader: Pat Connor

The library's subscription to Alexander Street Press makes available 170,000 tracks of music. Find out how you can listen without charge over the Internet through speaker or headphoneseither in the library or from home (with your library card number). The three online libraries available are a Classical Music Library, the Smithsonian Global Sound and African American Song. Music in these three libraries ranges from medieval to contemporary to avante-garde and from folk to holiday tunes and world music from around the globe as well as blues, jazz and gospel.

Based on Steve Martin's novella, this film is a funny and poignant story of love in the modern age. Mirabelle, who sells accessories in a high-end department store and struggles to pay her bills, must make a decision between the easy life with a rich, older suitor and a real chance at love with a penniless musician.

This discussion group is for people who enjoy reading and talking about politics. Joan Goldstein, sociologist, author, and professor at Mercer County Community College, will provide overviews, suggest discussion questions and mention pertinent further readings. Joan dedicates this series in memory of series co-founder Eugenia Shanklin. All programs in the Quiet Room, first floor

Trained as a designer at the Department of Fashion Design of the Moscow Institute of Textile Industry, Model studied painting, drawing and art history for six years of master's level education. Co-sponsored by the library and the Arts Council of Princeton

This 12-voice a cappella chorus celebrates Spring with motets and madrigals and other short songs from the 16th to the 20th century.

Participants share a short piece of their own writing and/or a short selection from a book they have read in a relaxed atmosphere. Francesca Benson will lead these no-pressure sessions, where the focus will be on the pleasure of reading and writing in community.
Tuesday, March 4, 10 a.m. Quiet Room

In this highly acclaimed motion picture based on Harper Lee's semi-autobiographical novel, 6year-old Jean Louise "Scout" Finch is growing up in the Depression era of the early 1930s in a small Southern town Her father, the town lawyer, is a wise, quiet man with a great sense of justice who defends a poor, black man accused of rape.

Screening and discussion of New Jersey Network documentary on the Battles of Trenton and Princeton. Post-screening panel features authors and historians Thomas Fleming, Ed Belding and Mark Lender. Part of 1783 observance. Co-sponsored by the library, Princeton Battlefield Society, New Jersey Network and the Historical Society of Princeton.

The library's subscription to Alexander Street Press makes available 170,000 tracks of music. Find out how you can listen without charge over the Internet through speaker or headphoneseither in the library or from home (with your library card number). The three online libraries available are a Classical Music Library, the Smithsonian Global Sound and African American Song. Music in these three libraries ranges from medieval to contemporary to avante-garde and from folk to holiday tunes and world music from around the globe as well as blues, jazz and gospel.

Alicia Ostriker and Richard Tayson
A prizewinning poet and critic, Ostriker was a finalist for the National Book Award for "The Crack in Everything" and "The Little Space" and has published 11 volumes of poetry, most recently "No Heaven." She is the author of "Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America" and other books on poetry and on the Bible. She is a founder of U.S. 1 Poets Co-Op.
Tayson's most recent book of verse, "The World Underneath" was released this year. His first book of poetry, "The Apprentice of Fever," won the 1997 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Nightsun, Michigan Quarterly Review, Bloom, Kenyon Review and have been anthologized in "American Poetry: The Next Generation," "I Do / I Don't: Queers on Marriage," " Poetry Nation," "Jugular Defences" and "The Best of Prairie Schooner."

Marianne Grey will present a slide lecture that explores the social milieu of night life in Paris during the Gay'90s. The talk will include discussion of some artists of the period, such as Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec, and a look at the Moulin Rouge and, of course, the Opera.