Dan Cirucci: Philly Library: Free Author Events, Week Of 7/7

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Philly Library: Free Author Events, Week Of 7/7

Ian Doescher | William Shakespeare's Star Wars
Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 7:30 PM; FREE
No tickets or reservations required. For more info: 215-567-4341

"A quirky addition to the genre-busting canon" (Entertainment Weekly), Ian Doescher's New York Times bestselling debut novel, William Shakespeare's Star Wars retells George Lucas's epic space opera in the style of the Bard. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, a captive princess, and a young hero emerging, Star Wars abounds with the trappings of Shakespeare's greatest plays. In the next two installments of the original trilogy, William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back andWilliam Shakespeare's The Jedi Doth Return, a brooding hero, a power-crazed emperor, and their jesting droids match wits in perfect iambic pentameter in a galaxy far, far away.

Marisa McClellan | Food in Jars: Preserving in Small Batches All Year Long
Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 7:30 PM; FREE
No tickets or reservations required. For more info: 215-567-4341

Marisa McClellan is a food writer and canning teacher better known as the personality behind the award-winning blog Food in Jars, dedicated to the joyful preservation of time in a jar, storing away the tastes of all seasons for later. Organized by season, her new cookbookPreserving by the Pint focuses on small batches of jams, jellies, pickles, and chutneys. Her unique recipes, including Blueberry Maple Jam, Mustardy Rhubarb Chutney, Sorrel Pesto, and Zucchini Bread and Butter Pickles, are perfect for small households, families who get CSA shares, and those with small backyard gardens. In conversation with Kristen Wiewora

Of Interest

Manage & Decrease Your Level of Personal Stress: A Talk by Diane Reibel, PhD
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 11:00 AM; FREE
No tickets or reservations required. For more info: 215-686-5331
Parkway Central Room 108, adjacent to Home Page Café

Stress kills. We now understand that chronic stress promotes a host of serious health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes. Dr. Diane Reibel directs the Mindfulness Institute at the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine and co-founded the Stress Reduction Program at Brind. She has taught mindfulness stress reduction programs for more than 16 years. Dr. Reibel can help you to live a calmer--and a healthier--life.

Free Library Author Events
Andy Kahan, Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams Director, Author Events
Laura Kovacs, Associate Director
Jason Freeman, Program Assistant

phone: 215-567-4341
email: authorevents@freelibrary.org

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About Dan Cirucci

He's been cited by the late Rush Limbaugh, quoted in the New York Times, featured at Real Clear Politics and Lucianne.com and interviewed across all media.

He's Dan Cirucci, the founder and editor-in chief of the Dan Cirucci Blog, a Save Jersey blog columnist, frequent guest on the Matt Rooney radio show and one of the most widely honored public relations professionals in his field. He's also been a public relations consultant to numerous organizations and individuals and hosted The Advocates on RVN-TV.

Inducted into the Philadelphia Public Relations Hall of Fame, for many years he served as a Lecturer in Corporate Communication at Penn State University. A former President of the Philadelphia Public Relations Association (PPRA) he has lectured at Rowan University, Temple University, The College of New Jersey and Arcadia University. He has conducted workshops on public relations for thousands of participants throughout the nation and has taught countless others the art of public speaking. He has also advised numerous lawyers, judges, public officials and political candidates.

Cirucci is a prolific writer and his op-ed pieces have appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Courier-Post, Broad and Liberty and other print and online platforms.

A native of Camden NJ, Cirucci is a former President of the Philadelphia chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. Cirucci served as Associate Executive Director of the Philadelphia Bar Association for nearly 30 years. He served as Chair of Penn State University's Professional Advisory Board for the Corporate Communication major at Penn State Abington and on the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Judicial Selection Commission.

He received his MA degree from Rowan University and his BA from Villanova University. He has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rowan's public relations program and received the E. A. "Wally" Richter Leadership Award, the highest honor from the National Association of Bar Executives' Communications Section. He has also been honored by numerous other local, state and national groups.

In his hometown of Camden, Cirucci taught fifth grade at the Ulysses Wiggins Elementary School named for the founder of the Camden NAACP. There he was one of the first teachers in the country to teach African-American history to inner city students. He later served as editor of a local weekly newspaper, as Assistant to the Township Manager of Cherry Hill Township and as Associate Director of Communications at the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Cirucci's passions include all things Italian, politics, the popular culture, books and authors, art, communication, music, theatre, movies, dining and travel.

He and his wife Carole have two grown children and seven grandchildren.

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