Friday, March 21, 2014

Rescheduled: Grayce Burian Book Signing 4/1


Book Signing
Grayce Susan Burian, Actor, author and theatre professor
 
April 1st (Tuesday)
Booking signing — 3:00 p.m., Science Library Room 340
UAlbany Uptown Campus

Grayce Susan Burian, actor, author, theatre professor, and key figure of the UAlbany and Capital Region theater arts communities, will sign copies of her new book, From Jerry to Jarka:  A Breezy Memoir of a Long, Peripatetic Marriage, about her 54-year marriage to Jarka Burian, the primary Western scholar of Czech theatre and long-time Theatre Professor at UAlbany. Among other things, the book recounts their many exciting sojourns in Czechoslovakia at various times over a period of several decades, their friendships with Vaclav Havel and other dissidents, and their first-hand experiences of political turmoil, invasion, unrest, revolution and social change.

Note: This event has been rescheduled from March 12th because of weather.

For more information contact the Writers Institute at 442-5620.

More about Grayce Burian:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/burian_grayce14.html