BLFF is pleased to bring Chautauqua series events to the Bandon community.

CURRENT EVENTS SCHEDULED:

Due to budget cutbacks, Chautauqua programs are less available.  Keep checking.  We will bring Chautauqua programs and similar presentations to the Bandon community as funding permits.

PAST EVENTS:

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On FEBRUARY 9, 2009

@ 7:00 p.m. in the Sprague Community Room

Birdsong: Birds as Metaphor in American Folk Music
Jeni K. Foster

This free program is part of the Library’s ongoing Second and Fourth Monday "At the Library" Series.

Click here to view the EVENT POSTER

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• This lecture was presented in Corvallis in July, 2009, Read about that presentation using this link
• Ms. Foster also presented this very popular lecture in September, 2008 at the grand opening of the Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge near Cloverdale on the north Oregon coast.   Use this link.

As she notes on her website, “My specialty is combining songs with history and literature” and she presents “…a variety of programs of songs related to history and literature.” You can read more about her and her lecture series, especially “Birdsong: Birds as Metaphor in American Folk Music" on her website.

Home page: http://www.jenismusic.com/index.htm

“Birdsong” page: http://www.jenismusic.com/progBS.htm

Come to be both entertained and educated. As Ms. Foster says on her website:

 
"In all of my programs, I include songs that the audience can participate in by singing along on the choruses. Folk music has been a neglected music genre in recent years, and I hope that these programs play a small part in making people more aware of its great diversity, its inclusiveness, and its ability to make an emotional connection with events of history."

For a brief history of this program, read information on the series at the

For more information contact John Logan at 541-347-7403.

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On Monday, July 28, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. Bill Robbins, the speaker,  presented “Place and History: In Search of the Pacific Northwest.”

"William Robbins suggests that the interplay of many forces helps to define our understanding of place. In this multidisciplinary program, he discusses the complex relationships between geography and history—the configurations of landscapes, topographical features, and climatic conditions. Robbins shows how cultural regions are intertwined with regional geographies (the interior Northwest or the coastal environment), as are other regional topologies, such as political and administrative regions. . . He concludes with a discussion of the literature of place, a critical element to regional understanding."

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