The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City
December 2006 E-LetterBryn Mawr Club of New York City Events on the Horizon
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryn Mawr Club of New York City Events on the Horizon Save the Date! The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City will be presenting another Enormous, Exciting Gala Auction Party in Spring 2007 to continue the Club’s fundraising efforts, including establishing a New York City Bookshop/Bookspace to support the purposes of the Club and the College. Because the 2005 Auction Gala was such a fundraising and community success, we want to maintain this momentum towards our goal of $350,000. We are now more than one-third of the way there, and call on all New York City area Mawrtyrs to help us to the next level and enjoy a wonderful party! The 2007 Auction Gala will again be at the Cosmopolitan Club, 122 East 66th Street, New York City, in the lovely ballroom. The evening will include a cocktail party with ample nibbles, a live auction (featuring a distinguished Sotheby’s auctioneer!), a silent auction, and other entertainment. In addition to saving the date, please scan your nooks and crannies for Donations for the Live and Silent Auctions! In 2005 we offered a wide selection of goods and services and we want to make the 2007 Auction even better. We are looking for items with a realistic value of at least $100 that people will compete to buy: the Auction Gala should be a place where people know they will find interesting and useful items. Please be generous and imaginative: nifty antiques, collectibles and accessories, exotic food and wine, vacation homes, event tickets, consulting services and other talents, and of course financial contributions are examples of the items we are hoping for. Donations are tax-deductible as provided by law. To make a donation, please contact Tanya Doughty Olyphant, ’70, Auction Chair, at tolyphant@aol.com or 212 570 9885 for more information and a Donor Form. Volunteers have started making telephone calls for donations, and we already have promises of some very nice items! Finally, please also let Tanya know whether you will be able to help with preparations for the event, beginning in January. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DUES The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City receives no financial support from the College or the Alumnae Association. We are entirely self-supporting and in fact exist to support the College. Please support the Club with your tax-deductable donation to support these communications and the many Club events keeping the Bryn Mawr community in New York City active, in touch and supporting Bryn Mawr College. Please copy this section into a clean document, print it out, fill it in and return it to the address below: Name: _________________________________________________Class:______ Address: _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ Contribution: ____$25 ____ $50 ____ $75 ____ $100 ____Other Please mail your contribution
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Mawr Club of New York City ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryn Mawr Connections Ellen Kushner Reads from Her Book, The Privilege of the Sword Excerpt of review by Yoon Ha Lee on www.strangehorizons.com Once, in a nameless city, in the poor and dangerous neighborhood known as Riverside, a swordsman and his lover were entangled in the aristocrats' power struggles. Their story was told in Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint, which introduced us to a world of wit and beauty mingled with malicious intent, where the allure of the sword is set against the hard reality of a hired swordsman's existence. The Privilege of the Sword (New York, NY; Bantam Spectra, 2006) returns to that world a generation later and views it through the eyes of those standing in the shadows of power. Join Ellen as she reads from her new book as part of the New York Review of Science Fiction reading series, hosted by guest curator Amy Goldschlager. She will joined by fellow writer Naomi Novik, who will read from her Temeraire series.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michelle Valladares, ’85, reads from her book Nortada, The North Wind As you read Valladares’ Nortada, it will be good to read it as a book—because as the poems gather themselves through the book they gain poise and wisdom, intensity and mystery. Simplicity and abstraction, experience and beauty, speak wholeheartedly to one another, and to us. -Jean Valentine, Winner of National Book Award 2004 Michelle Valladares is a lecturer in English at The City College of New York. She is a poet, essayist and filmmaker, whose work has been widely published. Nortada, The North Wind, her first collection of poems, was published by Global City Press in 2005. She lives in Brooklyn and is a contributing editor of Global City Review. Join Michelle as she reads poems from Nortada at the Perch Café in Park Slope as part of the Café’s Literary Tuesdays program.
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Mawr Book Club Excerpt from William Grimes’ Review, In Mrs. Mortimer's Best Guess, the Place Is Unspeakable, The New York Times, June 8, 2005: “Planning a foreign trip? Wales might be nice. But unfortunately it is filled
with Welsh people, who are "not very clean." Spain might look alluring, but the
Spanish tend to be "cruel, and sullen and revengeful." Portugal perhaps? Tread
cautiously." Some places look pretty at a distance which look very ugly when you
come up to them—Lisbon is one of these places."
The February selection is The Lake, the River & the Other Lake by Steve Amick, date TBA. Even if you can't attend Bryn Mawr Book Club, reading suggestions are always welcome—just send me an email. Elizabeth Holloway, robinsonholloway@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Seven Sisters Connections on the Horizon An Exhibit through a Curator’s Eyes Jan Carlson Oresman, Smith ’55, will discuss the prints being shown in “Hot Off the Press–Prints of 2006 from New York Printshops,” an exhibit she is curating for the Grolier Club. This event will be open to all Seven Sisters alumnae at the Smith Club’s non-membership rate.
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From Sara Ehlers, ’95: From Alison Inserra, ’01: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE BMC OF NYC E-LETTER |