July Newsletter
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ARTS AND RECREATION<br />
ART events<br />
GALLERY HOURS<br />
Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.<br />
Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.<br />
CURTIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS • 2349 EAST ORCHARD ROAD, GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO 80121 • 303-797-1779<br />
VILLAGE READ<br />
Looking for a great<br />
book to cozy up with<br />
during the pandemic?<br />
The Greenwood Village<br />
Cultural Arts Program<br />
can help. Although on a<br />
much smaller scale, we<br />
present the Village Read<br />
featuring The Paris<br />
Hours by author (and<br />
close, personal friend of<br />
Cultural Arts Manager<br />
Chris Stevens) Alex<br />
George. Alex’s new<br />
book has been garnering<br />
much praise. The<br />
Columbia, Daily<br />
Tribune said of the<br />
book, “Exquisite… A<br />
testimony to the lifechanging<br />
power of a<br />
single day, the book<br />
reads like a Jazz Age Les<br />
Alex George<br />
Miserables.” The AARP<br />
called it “Delicious!” It was also featured as Amazon’s Book of<br />
the Month.<br />
In glittering 1927 Paris, Josephine Baker dances with Ernest<br />
Hemingway, Maurice Ravel plays a lonely piano, and<br />
Gertrude Stein hosts her legendary salons. Yet alongside<br />
these creative geniuses, a quartet of ordinary men and women<br />
are forging their own extraordinary stories.<br />
Since the death of her beloved employer, housemaid Camille<br />
has lived with a secret: when Marcel Proust asked her to burn<br />
his notebooks, she saved one for herself. Now it has<br />
disappeared, and she is desperate to recover it before her<br />
betrayal is revealed. Across town, lovesick painter Guillaume<br />
is also racing against the clock, with only a few more hours to<br />
repay a debt that threatens to bury him alive.<br />
Souren, an Armenian refugee, performs puppet shows for<br />
children, seeking connection in a city that has never felt like<br />
home. While Souren relentlessly relives his tragic past,<br />
journalist Jean-Paul is unable to confront his own, searching<br />
for his missing daughter in every stranger’s face.<br />
As the hours tick toward midnight, the City of Lights pulls<br />
these four characters ever closer, until their paths collide in an<br />
unforgettable climax. Symphonic and profound, The Paris<br />
Hours shows us that even the forgotten residents of Paris are<br />
as dazzling as the glorious city they inhabit.<br />
Since there is<br />
limited<br />
availability of<br />
in-person<br />
events, the<br />
program will<br />
host online<br />
events with<br />
the author.<br />
Please check<br />
the Curtis<br />
Center<br />
website and<br />
the August<br />
edition of the<br />
Greenwood<br />
Village<br />
<strong>Newsletter</strong> for<br />
event dates.<br />
The Curtis<br />
Center for the<br />
Arts will give<br />
away 100<br />
books for free<br />
on a first<br />
come, first served basis. Please stop buy the Curtis Center<br />
for the Arts, 2349 East Orchard, to pick up your<br />
complimentary copy.<br />
PG. 20 GV NEWSLETTER | JULY 2020
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