Pop Shop co-owner, cookbook author, and magazine publisher, Connie Correia Fisher, will kick off the 2010 Writers Series at the Collingswood Public Library on February 11 at 7:00 p.m.
Weather alert: Robert Emmons has been rescheduled for September 23
Connie Correia Fisher
Thursday, February 11
7:00 p.m.
Like food?
Like reading?
Is there anything better?
Come to the Collingswood Public Library on Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. to hear Connie Correia Fisher talk about food writing.
If you know The Pop Shop, you know Connie—she and husband, Bill “Stink” Fisher, are its owners. However, before becoming “Mrs. Pop Shop,” Connie ran Small Potatoes Press, a publishing house which specializes in restaurant cookbook development, and she wrote wrote seven cookbooks which got attention from places like The Tonight Show and Countdown with Keith Olbermann. She’s also the founding publisher and former executive editor of Cuizine magazine, which focused on the Delaware Valley restaurant scene.
Bring your favorite cookbook and your appetite—for good talk about writing and publishing—to the Library for the first presentation in the 2010 Collingswood Library Writers Series.
Documentary filmmaker and Collingswood High School alumnus, Dr. Robert A. Emmons, Jr. will present his short films at the Collingswood Public Library on February 25 at 7:00 p.m.
Dr. Robert A. Emmons, Jr.
Thursday, September 23
7:00 p.m.
For its second presentation in the 2010 Film Series, the Collingswood Public Library presents Dr. Robert A. Emmons, Jr. (Collingswood High Class of 1993), a digital documentary filmmaker focusing on American popular culture. His film, Goodwill (2007) was part of the Smithsonian exhibition, Our Journeys/Our Stories: Portraits of Latino Achievement at the New Jersey Historical Society, and won “Best Homegrown Documentary Feature” at the 2008 Garden State Film Festival. In 2009 he received Mexico’s Lindbergh-Carranza International Goodwill Award as a “Messenger of Peace” for his work on Goodwill. He will be showing his most recent film, De Luxe: The Tale of the Blue Comet, which explores another obscure New Jersey history.
He has appeared on WHYY’s “Morning Edition” with Brenda Jorett and CN8’s “Your Morning” with Greg Coy to discuss his work. His published and presented works focus on electronic media, documentary film, and comic books and include Who’s Responsible Here? Media, Audience, and Ethics (Cognella, 2010), The Encyclopedia of Documentary Film (Routletdge, 2005), Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools (Univ. of Minn. 2007), and The Encyclopedia of Latino and Latina History (Facts on File, 2010). Emmons teaches film, new media, and comics history at Rutgers University-Camden where he is also the Associate Director of the Honors College.
About the Collingswood Public Library Film and Video Series
On second Thursdays in 2010, Collingswood Public Library will hos a series of presentations by area writers, and on fourth Thursdays, the Library will host a series of free movies and videos, each one featuring a presentation by someone connected to the piece being shown. All presentations will be free, and all involve Collingswood or its surrounding community in the state of New Jersey or the Delaware Valley.
