Literary Branch Events & Information
The Literary Branch Presents
"Burglars' Ball"
Saturday, Jan. 24th, at 3:00 p.m.
Mark Lewis hosts a chat with Leslie Lippincott Hidley
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Many classic children’s books by the likes of Dr. Suess and A.A. Milne (of Winnie-the-Pooh fame) tell their stories by matching cleverly rhyming verses with whimsical illustrations. A possible future classic along these lines is “The Burglars’ Ball, a Children’s Book in Poetry,” created in Ojai by Leslie Lippincott Hidley in collaboration with the late great Peter Bellwood, with charming illustrations by Peter’s daughter, Lucy Bellwood.
Join us at the Art Center on Saturday, Jan. 24 at 3 p.m. for a Literary Branch event devoted to “Burglars’ Ball” (newly available on Amazon.com) and to its authors Hidley, who will be present in person, and Bellwood, who will present in spirit. Lit Branch chair Mark Lewis will host a chat with Hidley, and we’ll play a video of the inimitable Peter reading the poem to the accompaniment of Lucy’s lovely illustrations.
This event will double as the Art Center’s farewell to Bellwood, who died in July, a week short of his 86th birthday. As a writer, a performer and a public personality, Peter was one of Ojai’s cultural treasures. Earlier in his long life, he was one of England’s cultural treasures, as a participant in the Satire Boom of the ‘60s with his good friends Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, his frenemy David Frost, and the future Monty Python stalwart John Cleese.
Please do join us on Saturday, Jan. 24, to celebrate the Bellwoods, Hidley, and “Burglars’ Ball,” copies of which will be available.
Join us at the Art Center on Saturday, Jan. 24 at 3 p.m. for a Literary Branch event devoted to “Burglars’ Ball” (newly available on Amazon.com) and to its authors Hidley, who will be present in person, and Bellwood, who will present in spirit. Lit Branch chair Mark Lewis will host a chat with Hidley, and we’ll play a video of the inimitable Peter reading the poem to the accompaniment of Lucy’s lovely illustrations.
This event will double as the Art Center’s farewell to Bellwood, who died in July, a week short of his 86th birthday. As a writer, a performer and a public personality, Peter was one of Ojai’s cultural treasures. Earlier in his long life, he was one of England’s cultural treasures, as a participant in the Satire Boom of the ‘60s with his good friends Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, his frenemy David Frost, and the future Monty Python stalwart John Cleese.
Please do join us on Saturday, Jan. 24, to celebrate the Bellwoods, Hidley, and “Burglars’ Ball,” copies of which will be available.
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Catalog for The Slade Collection Theatre and Film Library
The OAC has a selection of scripts, plays and books from the collection of John Slade. Everything has been lovingly chronicled by his wife, Laurie Walters Slade, and is available to browse or borrow. The books in the catalog are divided into the following categories:
- Individual Play Scripts
- Collections of Plays by a Single Author
- Anthologies of Plays by Multiple Authors
- Acting
- Auditioning
- Directing
- Commentary
- General Theatre Books
- Film Books
Need information about the Literary Branch? Contact Mark Lewis.