Adult Programs

A Moveable Feast

Winnetka Library Quiet Room

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. -Ernest Hemingway

Listen to Greta Pope sing Paris Noir melodies while enjoying appetizers reminiscent of Hemingway's generation from Corner Cooks, Tapas Gitana and BC Caters. The Moveable Feast will take place throughout the Winnetka Library after the building closes for the evening. Tickets and registration required.

Backyard Gardening for Birds and Butterflies

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

Invite someone new into your backyard! Marian Thill, master gardener and certified naturalist, will show you how to transform an ordinary yard into a place where exotic birds and butterflies flourish.

Basic Microsoft Excel 2007

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

Learn the basics of Microsoft Excel 2007 including a description of what a spreadsheet program does and different ways to use a spreadsheet for work and home. Registration required.

Basic Microsoft Powerpoint 2007

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

This class will cover the basics of using PowerPoint 2007 to make presentations and slide shows. Attendees should be comfortable with using a mouse or trackpad. Registration required.

Basic Microsoft Word 2007

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

Learn the basics of Word 2007 including opening, saving, and creating documents, text formatting,and margins. Registration required.

Beverly Sills, A Life

Northfield Branch

Beverly Sills captured America’s heart with her glorious artistry, engaging personality and salty intelligence. In her solo show, Roberta Randall brings to life this internationally acclaimed soprano, covering her remarkable life from child performer to co-director of the New York City Opera.
Registration required.

Books You'll Want to Read

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

You won't want to miss this! Juli recommends the summer's hottest books.

Clark Weber's Rock & Roll Radio

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

Famous Chicagoland DJ Clark Weber recounts his experiences in Rock and Roll Radio and offers an opportunity for attendants to purchase his best-selling book.

Clue: A Mystery Club

Northfield Branch

Led by Melissa Morgan.

This month's selection: The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberol & Agnete Friis

Cocktails with Paula McLain

Winnetka Community House, Garden Room (620 Lincoln, Winnetka)

Enjoy cocktails and appetizers with Paula McLain at an exclusive meet the author reception in the Arches Garden of the Winnetka Community House. Tickets include reserved seating for the Paula McLain Lecture in Matz Hall. Tickets: $30

Current Events Roundtable

Northfield Quiet Reading Room

Join your friends and neighbors in discussing issues of the day.

Eye Candy: Food in Art (Artful Summer Series)

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

Tamara Faulkner of the Art Institute brings us a fascinating lecture on food in art. “Unripened peaches/On the maternal branch we were wrothless/Now, on these adopted branches, we are priceless.” The ancient Roman writer Martial (c.40-c.103 CE) summed up the juicy paradox of still-life painting. Both commodity and cautionary tale, testament to the everyday and inventory of affluence, “A Feast for the Eyes’ will consider the sensual, political and religious history of the western still life form Zeuxis to Dolce & Gabanna.

Fiction Book Club

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

Discuss "Rules of Civility" by Amor Towles with Jane Levine. Books are available at the Checkout Desk a month prior to the discussion.

Film Discussion with Toby Nicholson

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

Toby Nicholson will lead a discussion on the film The 400 Blows. Pick up a copy at the library to view in advance!

Foul Play

Northfield Branch

Led by Kristin Carlson. Bring a brown-bag lunch if you’d like. Coffee and dessert will be provided.

This month's selection: Through a Glass, Darkly by Donna Leon

Geek Squad

Northfield Branch

Join friendly Geek Squad Agents from Best Buy in exploring today’s hottest mobile gadgets. Participants can experience firsthand how these devices function and feel during the “petting zoo” portion of the event. Participants are encouraged to bring in their own devices to ask questions.

Hemingway of the Heartland

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

Redd Griffin of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park speaks about Hemingway’s greatest works of fiction while interweaving stories of the writer’s life in Oak Park and beyond. Registration required

Intermediate Microsft Word 2007

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

Learn more advanced Word 2007 topics such as multi-column formatting, inserting of images, and mail merges. Registration required.

Intermediate Microsoft Excel 2007

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

This more advanced Excel class will cover cross-sheet calculations, charts and graphs, conditional formatting and many functions. A solid grasp of basic Excel concepts required. Registration required

Library Tunes

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

Learn how to use the library’s new streaming music service through Rdio - unlimited free music on your computer or mobile device! Registration required.

Masculine Cards Workshop

Northfield Community Room, 360 Happ Road (Northfield)

An opportunity to make cards for the men in your life.

Meet the Author: Paula McLain Lecture

Winnetka Community House, Matz Hall

Paula McLain brings Hadley Richardson Hemingway out from the formidable shadow cast by her famous husband. Listen as Paula McLain shares the compelling characters that inspired her novel. Tickets: $10

Nonfiction for a Sunday Afternoon

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

The nonfiction group will discuss the book Quiet:The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain. Books are available at the Checkout Desk a month prior to the discussion.

Paper Folding Card Workshop

Northfield Community Room, 360 Happ Road, Northfield

Iris and teabag folding techniques will be explored.

Paula McLain Signing at Sidewalk Sale

Winnetka Sidewalk Sale

Paula McLain brings Hadley Richardson Hemingway out from the formidable shadow cast by her famous husband. Though doomed, the Hemingway marriage had its giddy high points, including a whirlwind courtship and a few fast and furious years of the expatriate lifestyle in 1920s Paris. Meet Paula McLain at the Winnetka-Northfield Public Library District’s Sidewalk Sale booth.

Reading for a Cozy Afternoon

North Shore Senior Center (161 Northfield Road, Northfield, IL 60093)

Led by Donette Jensen. Must be a member of the North Shore Senior Center. Call (847) 446-5990 for more information.

This month's selection: Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

Reading is the Spice of Life

North Shore Senior Center (161 Northfield Road, Northfield, IL 60093)

Led by Kristin Carlson. Must be a member of the North Shore Senior Center. Call (847) 446-5990 for more information.
This month's selection: A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano

Rise and Fall of State Street

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

This illustrated talk by historian Leslie Goddard traces the rise and fall of State Street as Chicago’s premier shopping destination, using photographs and artifacts to explore the history of the major department stores and smaller, value-oriented stores including Carson Pirie Scott, Mandel Brothers, Marshall Field and Company, The Fair Store, and Goldblatt’s. Registration required

SOLD OUT ! Barbara Rinella presents "The Paris Wife"

Winnetka Community House, Garden Room (620 Lincoln, Winnetka)

SOLD OUT! Imagine, the great legend, Ernest Hemingway, young, alive and falling in love!
Barbara Rinella, a true Hemingway aficionado, brings Hadley Richardson to life in this tribute to Ernest's legend and first love. Hadley will tell her family story, which explains her primness. She is clear thinking and practical, so how does she fall for Hem? Their romance grows through letters, moves to a wedding in Michigan, and then on to Paris...
Meet Hadley when Barbara Rinella brings her to life over perrier and petit fours in the Garden Room of the Winnetka Community House.

Skyscrapers: Art & Architecture Against Gravity

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

Susan Musich of the Museum of Contemporary Art comes to talk to us about the latest exhibition at the MCA. She examines contemporary works of art that take as their subject the form, technology, myth, message, and image of that iconic building structure, the skyscraper. While the exhibition has particular relevance to Chicago, the city that is widely known as the birthplace of this architectural type, artists throughout the world—in addition to authors, filmmakers, poets, and undoubtedly architects—have been enthralled by the human desire to build farther and farther into the sky, testing technological limits while embodying a yearning for spiritual connection to the heavens. Artists’ endeavors to explore this desire have taken many forms, from video and film to sculpture, painting, and photography.

Stamping Card Workshop

Northfield Community Room, 360 Happ Road, Northfield

Find out how fun stamping can be!

The Garden in Art

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

Debra N. Mancoff of the School of the Art Institute caps off our final Artful Summer lecture with an exploration of the Garden in Art, the topic of her latest book. Join as we travel from Ancient Egypt to modern times, taking the ambiance and brilliance of artistic representations of the garden which is to be enjoyed by both those with green thumbs and an appreciation of great art.

The Pleasure of Your Company: Elaine Dame

Winnetka Library Quiet Room

A monthly musical performance sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
Elaine Dame is one of the most experienced of Chicago’s many young Generation X female vocalists, offering optimism, enthusiasm, and joy in every song she performs. Registration required.

Wednesday Afternoon Movie

Northfield Community Room, 360 Happ Road, Northfield

Come join us for award winning films and popcorn.

This week's movie: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Windows 7 Basic

Winnetka Library Lloyd Room

If you can’t understand how to find, organize, or change basic settings on your computer, we’ll teach you useful tricks for your Windows computer. Registration required.