Now that the UCLA Fall Quarter is underway, programming at the Clark Library is starting to rev up for the year. The full 2014-2015 event calendar is online at the Center’s website and below we highlight a couple of upcoming programs that you may be interested in attending! If you are on Facebook, feel free to befriend Mr. Clark and join the Clark Library group to get updates and reminders about programs and events at the Library and Center.
October 18 & 19, 2014, 7pm:
Arts on the Grounds: Entre Marta y Lope (Between Marta and Lope), written by Gerardo Malla and Santiago Miralles
Fundación Siglo de Oro, a premier Spanish theater company focusing on the classical tradition, will present Entre Marta y Lope, a contemporary play on the last days of Lope de Vega, the foremost Spanish playwright of the Golden Age. The play is designed to introduce audiences to this key figure, whose corpus includes over 400 plays. The Clark Library and Fundación Siglo de Oro present theater about a man who was, all of him, theater itself.
Ticket price – $25 general admission, $10 students (must provide student ID)
More information and tickets: www.c1718cs.ucla.edu/rakata14
November 5, 2014, 4pm:
The Tenth Annual Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade: “Publishing Easy Pleasant Books for Children: The House of Newbery, 1740–1800” Given by Andrea Immel, Curator, Cotsen Children’s Library, Princeton UniversityThis lecture will revisit the question of whether the Newbery firm should still be considered the most important children’s book publisher of the eighteenth century.
Andrea Immel holds a doctorate in English from UCLA and was a Clark Dissertation Fellow. She has been the curator of the Cotsen Children’s Library at Princeton University since 1995 but got her start as a rare book librarian at the Huntington Library.
Registration Deadline: October 31, 2014
More information and (free) registration: www.c1718cs.ucla.edu/karmiole14-r
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And if you missed it, the Clark’s Oscar Wilde collection was the focus of a recent article on KCET’s Artbound blog.
The Clark will also be attending the LA as Subject 9th Annual Archives Bazaar on October 25th at USC’s Doheny Library. We will be sharing a table with our friends at UCLA Library Special Collections, and hope you will visit us and our LA-collecting colleagues from all over town for this day-long free event!
