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The Ulysses Philomathic Library in Trumansburg welcomes Lynn Wiles, George Cook, and Ted Robinettte for a Holiday Concert on Thursday, December 15^th at 6:30 pm. This experienced and talented guitar trio has played together at the Trumansburg Conservatory in addition to solo and collaborative performances throughout the region. Among the group’s influences are Leo Kottke, Jorma Kaukonen, Wes Montgomery, Howard Alden, and other guitar greats.

This concert will be held in the Melvin Community Room of the library. It is free and open to all.

The library will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 24th and 25th for Thanksgiving. Happy Holidays!

The library is pleased to announce a fireside reading of Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner and illustrated by Mark Buehner on December 3rd at 7:00 pm. Snacks and drinks will be free to listeners. This event is a part of the Trumansburg WinterFest celebration. Please refer to the trumansburg chamber to find out more about WinterFest in Trumansburg!

The Ulysses Philomathic Library is currently showing the work of Anne Bialke, a local painter of Trumansburg, New York. The artist’s use of form, line, and light reveal a unique impression of the natural world. While some pieces reveal expansive landscapes and still lives with broad brushstrokes, other paintings tightly focus on the lines and color of tree branches with expressive layering of color and carving lines into the medium of oil paint.

Anne Bialke states:

With a strong background in drawing, I am interested in line as it reveals the gesture and movement of living things.  The drape of a tree, or a hand, or the contour of a horse’s leg, all are so important in describing that thing, how it moves against the wind, or rests against a cheek, or springs across the grass.  My primary artistic inspiration in recent years has come from the American Impressionists, who captured moments of beauty with exciting color and shape but no dissolution of form.  Their brushwork was descriptive, not formulaic, and their subjects have a reassuring solidity.  This combination of poetry and realistic representation is what I strive to capture in my own work.

On Thursday, November 17th at 6:30 pm, Regi Carpenter will give a reading at the library. Carpenter is an award-winning performance artist and author. She will read from her recently published memoir, Where There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner: Stories of a Seared Childhood. These honest tales some hilarious, some heartbreaking celebrate the glorious and gut-wrenching lives of four generations of Carpenters raised on the Saint Lawrence River in Clayton, New York.

Regi is the recipient of the JJ Reneaux Emerging Artist Award, a Leonard Bernstein Teaching Fellowship Award, the Parent’s Choice Gold Award, the Parents’ Guide to Children’s Media Award and the Storytelling World Award. Her performance piece Snap! won the 2012 Boston StorySlam. Snap! is a featured Listen story on The Moth website.

In addition to her work as a performer, coach and writer, Regi is also the founder of Stories with Spirit, a creative initiative dedicated to bringing songs of joy and stories of hope to grieving children and the people who love and care for them in homes, hospices, and hospitals. Her high school storytelling curriculum, “Teens Talking” has been awarded grants from the New York State Council of the Arts. She lives in Ithaca, New York, where there’s ten square miles surrounded by reality.

To learn more about Carpenter and her work, please visit regicarpenter.com