February 9, Saturday at 7 pm
Honored author at the Sixth Annual Authors Dinner
at the Berkeley Public Library.
2090 Kittredge St.
Reservations a must at: http://www.bplf.org/events.html
February 21, Thursday at 7:30 pm Belvedere-Tiburon Library in the Founders Room.
1501 Tiburon Blvd. Tiburon, CA.
415-789-2665 A Night in the Marais. An evening shared with author Cara Black.
February 28, Thursday at 6 pm Gleeson Library
RARE BOOK ROOM, Located on the Third Floor of THE
GLEESON LIBRARY/GESCHKE CENTER, on the USF Campus. A Small Moment of Great Illumination
March 11, Tuesday at 6:30 pm San Francisco Public Library/Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
415/557-4595 Walks Through Lost Paris
April 9, Wednesday at 6 pm South San Francisco Library
840 W. Orange Ave.
S San Francisco, CA 94080
(650) 877-8525 A Night in the Marais. An evening shared with author Cara Black.
June 23 - July 21. Monday afternoons
Stanford Continuing Studies, Stanford University
Paris Transforming
In this entertaining and provocative course, artist and performer Leonard Pitt shares his research on Paris and how that
grand city has transformed over the centuries. The five lectures will cover different aspects of the city's evolution: from it's origins under the Romans
two thousand years ago, to the work of Baron Haussmann in the 19th century when much of the city's Medieval and Renaissance history was demolished to
create the modern city, to the drama of Paris trying to adapt to notions of modernism in the period following post World War II as exemplified by plans
to raze the Marais, and perhaps most curiously, how large swaths of the city were laid out not as a result of a reasoned process of deliberation, but
rather as a result of raw violent emotion, as in the Louvre, Place des Vosges, and the Palais Royal. Each lecture is amply illustrated with slides.
Once a week for five weeks.