Reading and watching

Two alerts for today, September 29:

Jane Eyre Reading Marathon

Westmont College
Office of Public Affairs
955 La Paz Road
Santa Barbara, California

English faculty and students will read aloud the entire text of Charlotte Brontë’s novel “Jane Eyre” between 9 a.m. and midnight Saturday, Sept. 29, in Reynolds Hall at Westmont. Community members are invited to come by, listen and enjoy light refreshments provided throughout the day.

This event anticipates the college’s upcoming theatrical production of “Jane Eyre,” Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 19-20 and 26-27, at 8 p.m. in Porter Theatre. Actors in the play will join in the reading.

“We’ve forgotten the pleasure of reading together,” says English professor Cheri Larsen Hoeckley, who is coordinating the event. “It was a very common 19th-century practice.” She hopes students and community members will enjoy this event. “It’s a different way to have fun that will contribute to life-long learning,” she says. (...)

“Jane Eyre” is a relevant text today, Larsen Hoeckley believes. “Brontë has much to say about how we live together as men and women and how the emotional, vocational and spiritual parts of our lives weave together. And she has much to say about justice and mercy.”

For more information about the marathon reading, contact the English department at (805) 565-6079. For information about the theatrical production of “Jane Eyre,” contact Beth Lemons in the theatre department at (805) 565-7040 or blemons@westmont.edu.

The other alert comes from New York. A screening of 1939 Wuthering Heights in the Bay Street Theatre:

"The Picture Show at Bay Street Theatre" in Sag Harbor presents Laurence Olivier Weekend. "Wuthering Heights" screened at 8 p.m. $5. 725-9500. $24.95 prix fixe dinner available at The American Hotel on Main Street. Includes movie ticket and a box of popcorn. 725-3535 to reserve.

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Bay Street Theatre
P.O. Box 810
Sag Harbor, NY

Categories: Alert, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights