Close Encounters
Dec. 2nd, 2009 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mojosmomLast night, I went to hear Chuck Thurow, one of the curators, talk about the Hyde Park Art Center exhibit, "Close Encounters", a collaborative project involving artists from the U.S. and New Zealand. I'd have likely gone anyway, but the fact that I've made Kiwi friends here and on BookCrossing gave the project an immediacy and interest for me that it might not otherwise have had. Unfortunately, I left my camera at home, so no pics, but the exhibit is up until late January, so I can go back and do that. This post from the Center's website describes the show in more detail. Chuck said that parts of it are going to New Zealand in 2010-2011, (not sure exactly where), so I'll be sure to let you all know about that and if any of you folks there can go, what a connection!
Tonight I went to the local library to return a couple of books, and as I was going in, I heard someone call my name. It was the president of the Friends of the Library; I had forgotten there was a meeting tonight. I decided to go, and when the branch manager announced a book exchange in January, I said, "Do you know about BookCrossing?" She didn't, but she does now! The FOL has a blog, which the president is trying to beef up, so I told her that I would be happy to contribute reviews, since I'm writing them anyway on my blog.
Tonight I went to the local library to return a couple of books, and as I was going in, I heard someone call my name. It was the president of the Friends of the Library; I had forgotten there was a meeting tonight. I decided to go, and when the branch manager announced a book exchange in January, I said, "Do you know about BookCrossing?" She didn't, but she does now! The FOL has a blog, which the president is trying to beef up, so I told her that I would be happy to contribute reviews, since I'm writing them anyway on my blog.
