Past Events

All events are for members only unless otherwise noted.

June 2009

3 Wednesday Poetry at Noon with Fred Marchant 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

11 Thursday Noon Music Honoring Haydn, Ensemble Gaudior 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm

16 Tuesday Story Hour 10:30 am - 11:30 am

17 Wednesday New Members' Tour 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

23 Tuesday Story Hour 10:30 am - 11:30 am

August 2009

24 Monday New Website Goes Live 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm

September 2009

7 Monday Boston Athenæum closed for Labor Day 8:30 am - 5:30 pm

9 Wednesday Wednesday evening hours begin September 9th 8:30 am - 8:00 pm

12 Saturday Associate Members Coffee Connection: Literary Classics, A-Z 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

15 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

19 Saturday Gallery Talk at the Boston Public Library with James Reid-Cunningham, Chief Conservator 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

19 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

22 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

22 Tuesday Exhibition Opening Reception 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

25 Friday Lecture, Timothy Knox, The Strange Genius of Sir John Soane 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

26 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

28 Monday Gallery Talk 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

28 Monday Young Readers' Book Group 6:00 pm - 6:00 pm

29 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

October 2009

1 Thursday Noon Music, Four Hands on the Harpsichord 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm

1 Thursday Lecture, The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

3 Saturday My Athenæum Event 10:30 am - 2:00 pm

5 Monday First Mondays Library Orientation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

6 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

7 Wednesday Lecture, Eleonora Sears & the Birth of the Modern World 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

8 Thursday Story Time 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

9 Friday Lecture, Oh Right, Policing Femininity, and other Queer Matters in Figure Skating. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

10 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

12 Monday Boston Athenæum closed for Columbus Day 8:30 am - 8:00 pm

13 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

14 Wednesday Gallery Talk 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

14 Wednesday Afternoon Tea 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

15 Thursday Story Time 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

17 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

17 Saturday Associate Members Visit to Firefly Press 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

19 Monday Third Mondays Library Orientation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

20 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

20 Tuesday Canceled! On Architecture: Ada Louise Huxtable, in conversation with Elizabeth Padjen 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

22 Thursday Story Time 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

24 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

26 Monday Gallery Talk 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

26 Monday Young Readers' Book Group 6:00 pm - 6:00 pm

27 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

28 Wednesday Afternoon Tea 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

29 Thursday Story Time 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

29 Thursday Lecture, Nicholas Jose, The Literature of Australia 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

November 2009

2 Monday First Mondays Library Orientation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

3 Tuesday Lecture, Peter Walsh, King Ashurbanipal's Library & the Lessons of Nineveh 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

4 Wednesday Gallery Talk 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

4 Wednesday Afternoon Tea 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

5 Thursday Lecture, in collaboration with The Boston Globe, Nicholas Thompson: The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

7 Saturday Associate Members Coffee Connection: Rose Nichols, Amy Lowell, Robert Gould Shaw and The Boston Athenaeum 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

7 Saturday Associate Members Tour of the Nichols House Museum 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

16 Monday Third Mondays Library Orientation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

17 Tuesday Lecture, David Dearinger, Frederic Edwin Church 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

18 Wednesday Afternoon Tea 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

23 Monday Young Readers' Book Group 6:00 pm - 6:00 pm

25 Wednesday The Library will close at 5:30 November, 25 5:30 pm - 5:30 pm

26 Thursday Boston Athenæum closed for Thanksgiving 8:30 am - 5:30 pm

December 2009

1 Tuesday Royal Oak Lecture, The History of the English Country House Servant 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

2 Wednesday Gallery Talk 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

2 Wednesday Afternoon Tea 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

3 Thursday Noon Music, Carols & Coloratura 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm

3 Thursday Lecture, Terry Teachout, Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

3 Thursday Associates After Hours 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

7 Monday First Mondays Library Orientation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

14 Monday Library Opens at 1 p.m. 1:00 pm - 8:00 pm

15 Tuesday Lecture, Keith Thomson, The Young Charles Darwin 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

16 Wednesday Afternoon Tea 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

21 Monday Young Readers' Book Group 6:00 pm - 6:00 pm

24 Thursday Early Closing 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm

25 Friday Holiday Closing 8:30 am - 4:00 pm

January 2010

4 Monday First Mondays Library Orientation, Fine Arts (SOLD OUT) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

5 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

6 Wednesday Poetry at Noon, Rebecca Kaiser Gibson and Ellen Steinbaum 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

7 Thursday Lecture, Anthony M. Sammarco, The Baker Chocolate Company: A Sweet History (SOLD OUT) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

9 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

12 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

12 Tuesday Lecture, Sidney Berger, The Astonishing World of Decorated Papers 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

13 Wednesday Afternoon Tea (SOLD OUT) 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

16 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

18 Monday Library Closed Monday 1/18 8:30 am - 8:00 pm

19 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

19 Tuesday Lecture, Sidney Berger, What You See When You Look at Decorated Papers, A Hands-On Treat: Decorated Papers from the Berger/Cloonan Collection 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

22 Friday Film, Flying Down to Rio (1933) 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm

23 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

26 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

27 Wednesday Afternoon Tea (SOLD OUT) 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

27 Wednesday Associate Members Afternoon Tea with the Director 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

30 Saturday Associate Members Coffee Connection with Mary Warnement, Head of Reference 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

30 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

February 2010

1 Monday First Mondays Library Orientation, Prints and Photographs (SOLD OUT) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

1 Monday Lecture, Peter Napier, Check Lists for Success CANCELED 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

2 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

3 Wednesday Poetry at Noon, Samuel Cornish 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

4 Thursday Noon Concert Series, The Book of Waiting 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm

9 Tuesday Exhibition Reception, An Artist + A Poet: George Nama and Charles Simic 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

11 Thursday Lecture, Sarah Blake, The Postmistress 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm

13 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

16 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

17 Wednesday Afternoon Tea (SOLD OUT) 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

18 Thursday Lecture, Katherine Wolff, Culture Club: The Curious History of the Boston Athenæum 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

20 Saturday Matinee, The Little Princess (1939) 10:00 am - 11:00 am

20 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

20 Saturday Associate Members Matinee, Valley of the Dolls 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

23 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

23 Tuesday Civic Discourse Series: Literacy and Democracy with Jonathan Kozol 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

24 Wednesday Afternoon Tea (SOLD OUT) 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

25 Thursday Lecture, Curtis Roosevelt, Too Close to the Sun 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

March 2010

1 Monday First Mondays Library Orientation, Conservation (SOLD OUT) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

2 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

2 Tuesday Lecture, Charles Simic, American Poet 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

2 Tuesday Associate Members After Hours 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

3 Wednesday Poetry at Noon, Robert Farnsworth 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

4 Thursday Noon Concert, Juventas Jam 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm

6 Saturday Associate Members Cocoa and Coffee Connection 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

9 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

9 Tuesday SOLD OUT Lecture, Robert Grant Irving, The Last Great County Seat 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

10 Wednesday Afternoon Tea (SOLD OUT) 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

11 Thursday Panel Discussion, Civic Discourse Series on Literacy and Democracy 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

13 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

15 Monday Third Mondays Library Orientation with Director Paula Matthews 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm