Events
Emily Raboteau The Professor’s Daughter Thursday, March 30, 7:30 p.m.
Raboteau holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from New York University, where she was a New York Times Fellow. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, and a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship. Her stories have been published in Tin House, The Missouri Review, and Best American Short Stories 2003. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches creative writing at the City College of New York.
DoubleTake: Preserving the Past Display, Discussion and Reception Photographer Peter C. Cook and artist Howard Siskowitz have combined their talents in a unique collaboration by simultaneously creating portrait drawings and photographs of several Princeton and Trenton residents. Their work will be on display in the Community Meeting Room in March as a way of celebrating The Color of Water through celebrating the lives of several of Princeton’s and Trenton’s distinguished residents. The twelve portraits on display include Trenton’s Rev. C.K. Hunter, Edith Savage Jennings, Tom Malloy, Rev. Willie Smith and Dr. Jack Washington. The duo’s Princeton subjects for the exhibit include Fannie Floyd, Jim Floyd, Dr. Geddes W. Hanson, Albert Hinds, Dr. Cecelia B. Hodges, Henry Pannell and Shirley Satterfield. On Sunday, March 19 at 2 p.m., the library will host a reception in the community room for the artists and their subjects. Cook and Siskowitz will discuss the process they use to create the DoubleTake portraits, and several of the subjects will discuss their experiences of sitting for the portraits. The Rev. Willie J. Smith, associate editorial page editor and columnist for The Times of Trenton, will introduce the program. The reception is free and open to the public. Film: Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice Tuesday, March 21, 7 p.m.
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When Emma Boudreaux's older brother sinks into a coma after a freak accident, she loses her compass: only Bernie was able to navigate--if not always diplomatically--the terrain of their biracial identity as they grew up in Princeton, the children of an African American professor and a white mother. The author's talk will be followed by questions from the audience, a book-signing and reception. Emily Raboteau grew up in Princeton and her talk is presented as part of our Caroline Llewellyn Champlin Writers Talking series and for Princeton Reads, as her novel presents a fictionalized account of growing up in a biracial family and confronting the complexities of identity and race in contemporary America. 
Sunday, March 19, 2 p.m.
James McBride is a multi-talented writer, jazz musician and composer and this film of the fabulous a cappella group, Sweet Honey in the Rock, honors the gospel and jazz origins of McBride’s music. Filmmaker Stanley Nelson captures the history of African-American a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock and follows their 30th anniversary concert tour. Thefilm includes footage from concerts, rehearsals, the tour bus and the daily life of the members: Carol Maillard seeing her son off to his high school prom, Nitanju Bolade Casel singing to her son in the morning, Ysaye Maria Barnwell leading a community singing workshop. After Bernice Johnson Reagon announces her retirement, the other members of Sweet Honey hold auditions for a new member. The movie includes the encore from their final concert with her performing with the group. 84 minutes.
