Thursday, August 29, 2013

Barking Water

Tuesday Movie Fest
At the North Shore Library
September, 10th 6 p.m.


Frankie (Richard Ray Whitman) is dying. Irene (Casey Camp-Horinek) hasn't forgiven him for his past. Racing against time to find their way home, Frankie needs help and Irene is the one he turns to. Frankie, being an American Indian, dying in Indian country makes his homeward journey inherently symbolic: Just as the elderly couple drives their old Volvo wagon to a certain funeral, the old ways are dying, too. He must go home one last time. And, like so many times before, Irene is extending herself beyond her common sense. The two set out on a journey that becomes more than getting home; confronting the past, love, understanding, and self discovery. Barking Water is a tale of great love that looks at what brings us all together. It's a tale of home...and what it takes to get there.



Please call the library at (414) 351-3461
or stop by the Reference Desk to register.
If you require special accommodations, notify the
Library Director Richard Nelson at least 72 hours in advance.

Friday, August 23, 2013

The Abolitionists

Created Equal: America's Civil Rights Struggle
The Abolitionists

North Shore Library
Film Screening Tuesday, September 24th 5 p.m.
Film Discussion Saturday, September 28th 1 p.m.



American Experience: The Abolitionists. Radicals. Agitators. Troublematkers. Liberators. This film brings to life the intertwined stories of Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimk, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, The Abolitionists takes place during some of the most violent and contentious decades in American history. It reveals how the movement shaped history by exposing the fatal flaw of a republic founded on liberty for some and bondage for others. In the face of personal risks-beatings, imprisonment, even death-abolitionists held fast to their cause, laying the civil rights groundwork for the future and raising weighty consitutional and moral questions that are still with us today.
The Abolitionists is the first in a series of Civil Rights films and discussions that will be held at the North Shore Library. Join us for the full screening of The Abolitionists Tuesday, Septemeber 24th at 5 p.m. Then come back for an interesting and lively discussion of the film led by Reggie Jackson of America's Black Holocaust Museum Saturday, September 28th at 1 p.m.

All films and discussions are free to the public.

This series is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Please call the library at (414) 351-3461
or stop by the Reference Desk to register.
If you require special accommodations, notify the

Library Director Richard Nelson at least 72 hours in advance.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

The Violin

Tuesday Movie Fest
At the North Shore Library

August 27th 6 p.m.



Somewhere in Latin America a family of musicians and modest farmers join a fearless guerilla movement attempting to overthrow the brutal and sadistic government. When the military seizes their village, they flee to the sierra hills, forced to leave behind their stock of ammunition. While the guerillas organize a counter-attack, old Plutarco plays up his appearance as a harmless violin player in order to get into the village and recover the ammunition hidden in his corn fields. His violin playing charms the army captain, who orders Plutarco to come back daily. With tension escalating sky-high, guns and music take on a near holy significance with hundreds of lives hanging in the balance.



Please call the library at (414) 351-3461
or stop by the Reference Desk to register.
If you require special accommodations, notify the
Library Director Richard Nelson at least 72 hours in advance.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Rory O'Shea was here

Tuesday Movie Fest
At the North Shore Library

August 20th 6 p.m.
When the kinetic Rory moves into his room in the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, his effect on the home is immediate. Most telling is his friendship with Michael, a young man with cerebral palsy and nearly unintelligible speech. Somehow, Rory understands Michael, and encourages him to experience life outside the confines of home.



Please call the library at (414) 351-3461
or stop by the Reference Desk to register.
If you require special accommodations, notify the
Library Director Richard Nelson at least 72 hours in advance.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Silent Souls

Tuesday Movie Fest
At the North Shore Library

August 13th 6 p.m.

One of the most acclaimed films of last year, Silent Souls (Ovsyanki) is a breathtakingly beautiful road-movie masterpiece. After the sudden death of his wife, tough guy Miron asks taciturn writer Aist to accompany him on a long journey to dispose of her remains according to the rituals of the Merya people-an ancient tribe from picturesque West-Central Russia. As the two friends traverse the evocatively bleak landscape with her body and a pair of caged birds, Miron fills the hours relating the most intimate details of his marriage-with unintended consequences. Brooding, poetic and provocative, Silent Souls is an exquisite work of post-Soviet cinema by director Aleksei Fedorchenko and renowned cinematographer Mikhail Krichman (Elena).




Please call the library at (414) 351-3461
or stop by the Reference Desk to register.
If you require special accommodations, notify the
Library Director Richard Nelson at least 72 hours in advance.

Monday, August 5, 2013

Shakespeare in the Library

The most famous playwright in the English language was also an actor, a student, and a very human Man of His Age. Portrayed by Ron Scot Fry of Optimist Theatre in Milwaukee. William Shakespeare comes to life in ...

To Be! 
Shakespeare Here and Now

North Shore Library
Saturday, August 17th at 1 p.m.
Free and Open to the Public

To Be! Shakespeare Here and Now is an interactive presentation that combines dynamic interpretations of some of Shakespeare's most famous works with a humorous look at life in Renaissance England.