Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series

Looking for a great HOLIDAY DEAL?? Give the gift of reading and share our lecture series with family and friends. The Friends of the Central Library are offering a SPECIAL HOLIDAY TICKET PACKAGE! BUY TWO GET ONE FREE!!!!! Purchase the last three lectures for only $60. Treat yourself or your friends to an evening with Jacqueline Woodson, Lisa See and Jennifer Egan. Buy all three lectures and get the last for free! A great holiday gift for friends and family. Contact the Oncenter Box Office at 315-435-2121 or call Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000.

Check out the photos from the Tim Egan patron party. Egan's lecture took place at the Civic Center on November 12, 2012. The lecture was very well attended and enjoyed by all! Coming up.....T.C. Boyle at the Civic Center on Monday, December 10th at 7:30 PM. For tickets contact the Oncenter Box Office at 435-2121 or go to Ticketmaster.com. For information about the Gifford Lecture Series check us out online at foclsyracuse.com.

Looking for a great HOLIDAY DEAL?? Give the gift of reading and share our lecture series with family and friends. The Friends of the Central Library are offering a SPECIAL HOLIDAY TICKET PACKAGE! BUY TWO GET ONE FREE!!!!! Purchase the last three lectures for only $60. Treat yourself or your friends to an evening with Jacqueline Woodson, Lisa See and Jennifer Egan. Buy all three lectures and get the last for free! A great holiday gift for friends and family. Contact the Oncenter Box Office at 315-435-2121 or call Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000.

Check out the photos from the Tim Egan patron party. Egan's lecture took place at the Civic Center on November 12, 2012. The lecture was very well attended and enjoyed by all! Coming up.....T.C. Boyle at the Civic Center on Monday, December 10th at 7:30 PM. For tickets contact the Oncenter Box Office at 435-2121 or go to Ticketmaster.com. For information about the Gifford Lecture Series check us out online at foclsyracuse.com.

Tim Egan Patron Party

Isabel Wilkerson's Patron Party

Last night Isabel Wilkerson kicked off the 2012-2013 season of the Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series. She inspired the audience with her words and wisdom in her discussion of the migration of African American people from the South to the North and West. "For the first time, African Americans were able to choose where they wanted live and what they would do for a living." She ended the evening quoting Richard Wright "I was taking a part of the South to trasplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns, and, perhaps, to bloom." An amazing woman and an amazing evening. Check our our "photos" tab for some pics of our patron party.

Don't miss our very first lecture of the season with Isabel Wilkerson tonight at the Civic Center at 7:30 PM! Tickets are $31. Contact the Oncenter Box Office at 435-2121 or purchase your tickets via Ticketmaster. Hope to see you there!

Join us tomorrow night as we kick off the 2012-2013 season of the Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series with Isabel Wilkerson. Purchase tickets at the Oncenter Box Office at 435-2121 or via Ticketmaster. Individual tickets are only $31! We're so excited about our opening night. We hope you can join us. The show starts promptly at 7:30 PM at the John H. Mulroy Civic Center.

GET YOUR BOOK BUNDLE TODAY!!! If you love our lecture series and you love to read visit our bookseller, Creekside Books & Coffee online. Creekside Books is offering a lecture series "book bundle" package! For only $80 you can purchase our book bundle which includes a book from each of our visiting authors for the upcoming season. This package includes Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle, the CNY Reads pick for the new CNY Reads season. These book bundles make a great gift. You can also purchase them for a friend and get started on your reading before the season begins. Summer isn't over yet! Do some last minute summer reading to prepare for an awesome season ahead!

If you're interested in purchasing tickets for our upcoming season contact the Oncenter Box Office at 435-2121 or email our office at [email protected] for a subscription order form. You can choose from a variety of options..... a patron subscription for $250 offers premium seats and a chance to meet the author at the patron party after each lecture, a season subscription for $150 or you can purchase individual tickets for $31. We hope to see you in October!