Upcoming Events at the Boston Athenæum
All events are for members only unless otherwise noted.
March 2010
15 Monday Third Mondays Library Orientation with Director Paula Matthews 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
16 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
18 Thursday SOLD OUT Annual John Hubbard Sturgis Eaton lecture, Pauline C. Metcalf, Ogden Codman Revisited 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
20 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
22 Monday Lecture, Civic Discourse Series on Literacy and Democracy 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
22 Monday Young Readers' Book Group 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
23 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
24 Wednesday Afternoon Tea (SOLD OUT) 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
25 Thursday SOLD OUT, Lecture, Robert Sackville-West, The Private Life of a Public Place 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
27 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
30 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
April 2010
1 Thursday Concert, Exploration of the Marimba 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
1 Thursday April Fools' Reception, for Associate Members 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
3 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
5 Monday First Mondays Library Orientation, with Special Collections 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
6 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
6 Tuesday Lecture, Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, The Second Sex: A New Translation 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
7 Wednesday Poetry at Noon, Jenny Desai 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
7 Wednesday First Wednesdays in Conservation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
8 Thursday Panel Discussion, Civic Discourse Series on Literacy and Democracy 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
13 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
13 Tuesday Lecture, Nino Ricci, The Origin of Species 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
14 Wednesday Afternoon Tea 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
15 Thursday Lecture, Da Zheng, Chiang Yee: The Boston Athenaeum and Cultural Understanding 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
17 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
19 Monday Library closed for Patriot's Day 8:30 am - 8:00 pm
20 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
20 Tuesday Lecture, Amy Montague & Sally Sapienza, Isaac Sprague and the Art of Discovery 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
21 Wednesday Children's Tea 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
22 Thursday Lecture,Charles Dickinson, Robert Browning’s Religion 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
24 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
26 Monday Young Readers' Book Group 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
27 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
27 Tuesday Closing Lecture, Civic Discourse Series on Literacy and Democracy 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
May 2010
1 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
3 Monday First Mondays Library Orientation, with Maps and Atlases 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
4 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
4 Tuesday Lecture, Evan Thomas, The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
5 Wednesday Poetry at Noon, Sue Standing 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
5 Wednesday First Wednesdays in Conservation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
6 Thursday Concert, Orpheus Old and New 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
8 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
11 Tuesday Story Time 10:00 am - 11:00 am
12 Wednesday Exhibition Reception, John Storrs, Machine-Age Modernist 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
15 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
17 Monday Young Readers Group 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
18 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
18 Tuesday Lecture, Jane Mulvagh, Madresfield: The Real Brideshead 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
19 Wednesday Afternoon Tea 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
21 Friday Symposium, John Storrs and the American Avant-Garde 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
22 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
25 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
26 Wednesday Afternoon Tea 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
27 Thursday Lecture, Daniel Okrent, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
31 Monday Library closed for Memorial Day 8:30 am - 8:00 pm
June 2010
2 Wednesday Poetry at Noon, Gerrit Lansing 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
2 Wednesday First Wednesdays in Conservation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
7 Monday First Mondays Library Orientation, with Fine Arts 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
8 Tuesday Lecture, Robert McCrum, Globish: How the English Language Became the World’s Language 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
10 Thursday Lecture, Paula D. Matthews, Orpheus in Arcadia: Music and the Boston Athenæum 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
21 Monday Third Mondays Library Orientation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
21 Monday Young Readers' Book Group 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
July 2010
7 Wednesday First Wednesdays in Conservation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
13 Tuesday Lecture, Debra Bricker Balken, John Storrs, Machine-Age Modernist 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
August 2010
4 Wednesday First Wednesdays in Conservation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
16 Monday Third Mondays Library Orientation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
September 2010
1 Wednesday First Wednesdays in Conservation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
13 Monday First Mondays Library Orientation, with the Archive 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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