Carrie Goldman: "Bullied"

Wednesday, May 29, 7 pm Community Meeting Room, Main Library

Author Carrie Goldman leads a discussion of her book, Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher, and Kid Needs to Know about Ending the Cycle of Fear.  Drawing on personal experience, as well as dozens of interviews, she explains how parents, teachers and kids can best cope with this issue.

Carrie Goldman is a popular blogger on parenting and adoption issues for The Huffington Post, ChicagoNow, and Psychology Today.  Her writing has also been featured by NPR, CNN Headline News, and WGN Radio.  She lives in Evanston.

Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre presents "The Colored Museum"

Saturdays, June 1, July 13 and August 3, 3 pm, Community Meeting Room, Main Library

As part of the 2013 Dramatic Reading Series:  "Celebrating the Funny: African American Comedy", director Tim Rhoze and Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre present George C. Wolfe's Dramatists Guild Award-winning play, The Colored Museum, featuring 11 vignettes satirizing elements of African-American culture.  Suitable for ages 13 and older. Part of the Mayor's Summer Recreation Program. Copies of the play are available in the Evanston Public Library collection.

EPL After Hours: Lincoln

Friday, June 7, 6 pm, Community Meeting Room, Main Library

In 1865, as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion, U.S. president Abraham  Lincoln endeavors to achieve passage of the landmark constitutional amendment which will forever ban slavery from the United States. However, his task is a race against time, for peace may come at any time, and if it comes before the amendment is passed, the returning southern states will stop it before it can become law. Lincoln must, by almost any means necessary, obtain enough votes from a recalcitrant Congress before peace arrives and it is too late. Yet the president is torn, as an early peace would save thousands of lives. As the nation confronts its conscience over the freedom of its entire population, Lincoln faces his own crisis of conscience -- end slavery or end the war.  Lincoln. (DVD 2013).

Run Time: 150 minutes

Rated: PG-13 (for an intense scene of war violence, some images of carnage and brief strong language)

Iron Jawed Angels

Saturday, June 8, 2 pm, Community Meeting Room, Main Library

Iron Jawed Angels recounts the struggles of the defiant young women's suffrage activists who risked their lives to help American women win the right to vote. Stars Hilary Swank, Anjelica Huston,  Vera Farmiga, and Julia Ormond. Co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of  Evanston, in celebration of 100 years of women voting in Illinois. 123 minutes, followed by a discussion led by League member Iona Beller.