Canio's Cultural Cafe

STEINBECK IN SEARCH OF AMERICA series

Join us as we travel through a few of the works by Sag Harbor’s Nobel Prize winning writer, John Steinbeck. Hear world renowned experts discuss his works. See films made from his books. Spend time

Scholar Susan Shillinglaw on Steinbeck & the Importance of Home. Nada Barry, John’s friend, joined us. One of our BEST ever events! Watch it HERE.

Sun. May 1, 4pm:  Sag Harbor Cinema Projections series on the Steinbeck Writers Center project: a panel moderated by Steve Hamilton, co-founder of Bay Street Theatre with Tommy John Schiavoni, Southampton Town Councilman; Bret Johnston, Director of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin; and Kathryn Szoka, co-owner of Canio’s Books. The discussion will focus on Steinbeck’s work as well as the campaign to create a world-class writing center in Steinbeck’s former home on Bluff Point Road. Afterwards, The Forgotten Village documentary will be screened.

Thurs. May 19, 6pm:  in the Rotunda at John Jermain Library. Discussion of The Moon Is Down, with guest lecturer Donald V. Coers on John Steinbeck’s World War II novel. Coers will discuss the relevance of this powerful resistance story today.   Richard Hart, Steinbeck Review editor, will join the discussion. Please Register here.

Donald V. Coers is professor of English at Sam Houston State University in Texas. He is author of John Steinbeck as Propagandist: “The Moon Is Down” Goes to War and After The Grapes of Wrath: Essays on John Steinbeck. The Moon is Down tells the story of a military occupation in a small town by an unnamed nation at war with England. A French language translation of the book was published illegally in Nazi-occupied France by a French Resistance publishing house. Numerous other editions were also secretly published across all of occupied Europe, including Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, and Italian versions (as well as a Swedish version); it was the best known work of U.S. literature in the Soviet Union during the war. Written with the purpose of motivating resistance movements in occupied countries, the book has appeared in at least 92 editions across the world.

Weds. May 25, 6pm: at the Sag Harbor Cinema, film screening of Steinbeck’s The Moon Is Down with Q & A following.

Sat. Sept. 10 – TBA:  Forum on Travels with Charley at The Church with Steinbeck scholar, Susan Shillinglaw. Shillinglaw is English professor at San Jose State University and former Director of the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California.

Sun. Sept. 11 – TBA:  Dramatic Readings from Steinbeck’s work, with music & celebration at Canio’s Lawn. Silent Auction fundraiser for Canio’s Cultural Cafe, an educational non-profit.

* Sag Harbor Cinema Steinbeck films: The Cinema will screen East of Eden (1955); Grapes of Wrath (1940); Viva Zapata! (1952) and The Pearl (1947). Schedule TBA.

To help support this series, a donation can be made to: Canio’s Cultural Cafe

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MOBY-DICK MARATHON, 2021

JAN BUCKALOO

THANKS TO LIBRARY OF AMERICA FOR DONATION OF MARATHON BOOKS & SILENT AUCTION ITEMS 

JAN BUCKALOO

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MOBY-DICK MARATHON, 2019
CHAPTER SPONSORS:

1 – Loomings   Cheryl Hurley, Ahab
3 – The Spouter Inn   John Leonard, Ahab
8 – The Pulpit   Susan Blair, Queequeg
9 – The Sermon   Ann Blair for sister Susan’s efforts, Ahab
10 – A Bosom Friend   Philip Schultz, Starbuck
11 – Nightgown   Joan Baum, Ahab
13 – The Wheelbarrow   Peter Boody, Ahab
15 – Chowder   Katarina Mesarovich, Ishmael
16 – The Ship   Louis Grignon, Queequeg
19 – The Prophet   Eliot Cohen, Starbuck
21 – Going Aboard   Renee Shafransky & Nick Gazzolo, Ahab
23 – The Lee Shore   Myron Katz, Ahab
24 – The Advocate   Maria Matthiessen, Ahab
32 – Cetology   George Held, Ahab
36 – The Quarter-Deck   Jeffrey Vogel, Starbuck
37 – Sunset    Whitney Hansen, Ishmael
38 – Dusk   April Gornik, Starbuck
39 – First Night-Watch   Susan Barbieri Berger, Ahab
40 – Midnight, Forecastle   Ellen Silber, Ahab
41 – Moby-Dick   Bill Chaleff, Ishmael
42 – The Whiteness of the Whale   Rob Calvert, Starbuck
43 – Hark!   Suzanne McNear, Starbuck
46 – Surmises   Bonnie Grice, Boots on the Ground, Ahab
48 – The First   Lowering Judith Miller, Ahab
52 – The Pequod Meets the Albatross   Theresa Vogel, Queequeg
79 – The Prairie   Sandra Schoenbart, Ahab
83 – Jonah Historically Regarded   Elena Loreto, Ahab
85 – The Fountain   Anonymous, Ahab
87 – The Grand Armada   Clare Coss, Ahab
97 – The Lamp   Michael Daly, Ishmael
99 – The Doubloon   Steve Terr, Queequeg
105 – Does the Whale Diminish?   Val Schaffner, Queequeg
106 – Ahab’s Leg   Susan Merrell, Queequeg
110 – Queequeg in his Coffin   Susan Stout, Ahab
125 – The Log and LIne   Tony Ernst, WPKN 89.5, Ahab
128 – The Pequod Meets   The Rachel Susan Weitz, Ishmael
132 – The Symphony   Paul Bresnick, Ahab
135 – The Chase: Third Day   Adrienne Harris, Queequeg

Sponsor Levels: Ahab: $100 Starbuck: $200 Queequeg: $300 Ishmael: $500

Thanks to our underwriter:

Thanks to designer Robert Wilson, Bill Burford/Bloodstone Theatrical, Choral Society of the Hamptons, artist Robert Carioscia, Bay Street Theater, Library of America, LTV Studios.

BIG thanks to Harris Yulin, Alec Baldwin, Kate Mueth, Josh Gladstone, and all the actors in the Sailor’s play.  AND, to all who read and ventured on this journey together.

Mille grazie to our foreign language readers: Susan Duff, Sandra Dunn, Jonas Hagen, Fred Gardaphe, Canio Pavone.

And, the glue who held it all together, our Moby-Dick Marathon committee:
Paul Besnick, Susan Blair, Joan Baum, Bill Chaleff, Sigrid Meinel,
Canio Pavone, Maryann Calendrille, Kathryn Szoka

MOBY-DICK MARATHON, 2017

CHAPTER SPONSORS:
1 – Loomings   Mary & Phil Spitzer, Ahab
3 – The Spouter Inn   Bridgehampton National Bank, Starbuck
8 – The Pulpit   Susan Merrell, Ahab
9 – The Sermon   Kevin Miserocchi, Starbuck
11 – Nightgown   Joan Baum, Ahab
13 – The Wheelbarrow   Peter Boody, Ahab
15 – Chowder   Sigrid Meinel, Ahab
19 – The Prophet    Eliot Cohen, Ahab
23 – The Lee Shore   Katarina Mesarovich, Queequeg
24 – The Advocate   Myron Katz, Ishmael
35 – The Mast-Head   Susan Blair, Ishmael
36 – The Quarter Deck   Jeffrey Vogel, Ahab
37 – Sunset   Jeanette Wagner, Ahab
38 – Dusk   Adrienne Harris, Queequeg
40 – Midnight, Forecastle   Bill Chaleff, Queequeg
41 – Moby-Dick   Jules Feiffer
43 – Hark!   WPKN 89.5 FM, Ahab
46 – Surmises   Ellen Silber, Ahab
85 – The Fountain   MFA Creative Writing, StonyBrook Southampton, Ishmael
87 – The Grand Armada   Bonnie Grice, Boots on the Ground, Ahab
97 – The Lamp   Melissa & Josh Branfman in memory of Daniel Stern, Ahab
99 – The Doubloon   Canio Pavone
110 – Queequeg in His Coffin   Cheryl Hurley, Ahab
132 – The Symphony   Paul Bresnick, Ahab
135 – The Chase: Third Day   George Held, Ahab

Special thanks to Jules Feiffer, Captain Anton Hagen, Canio Pavone,
Bridgehampton National Bank, Library of America, and Sag Harbor Rum
for donations and underwriting.

Sponsor Levels: Ahab: $100 Ishmael: $200 Queequeg: $300 Starbuck: $500 Melville: $1000

Moby-Dick Marathon committee: Paul Besnick, Susan Blair, Maryann Calendrille,
Bill Chaleff, Sigrid Meinel, Canio Pavone, Kathryn Szoka, and Sarah Alford.

Marathon sites: Eastville Community & Historical Society, John Jermain Memorial Library, Old Whalers’ Church, and Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum