Sunroom Desk

Life is a Dream, by Pedro Calderon de la Barca, illustrates the spiritual battle between destiny and self-determination and asks whether life is a dream or an illusion.

Performances began April 29, and continue
8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays
2 p.m. Sundays
through May 16

For the last twenty years, Muriel Mirak-Weissbach has been active as a political journalist, traveling extensively throughout the Arab and Islamic world. During the1990s, she engaged in a humanitarian aid effort for young Iraqi victims of Desert Storm and monitored developments in Arab-Israeli relations. Her book, Through the Wall of Fire: Armenia-Iraq-Palestine from Wrath to Reconciliation tackles the question, whether peoples and nations who have been pitted against each other in geopolitically manipulated conflict can ever reach true reconciliation and peace.

Admission Free.

Every Thursday and Friday in May at 7:30 p.m.

Beginning May 1, and running through the month
every Saturday @ 7:30 p.m. and
every Sunday (matinee) at 2 p.m.

Event announcement.

Paul R. Ignatius, former Secretary of the Navy, will discuss and sign copies of his autobiography On Board: My Life in the Navy, Government and Business. Ignatius was born in Glendale in 1920, the son of Armenian parents who immigrated to the U.S., and attended Hoover High School.

This presentation is sponsored by the Glendale Chamber of Commerce and the Friends of the Glendale Public Library. Abril Books will have copies of On Board available for sale at the event. Doors open at 2:30 p.m.

Library Event page.