Friday
February 25 at noon. State Theatre, Bay City
Join Alan Lightman, Randall Williams and Leo Najar for Booked for Lunch. This special edition of Booked
for Lunch has been moved from the Wirt Library to the State Theatre at 913 Washington to accomodate the expected crowd of
people coming to hear best-selling author Alan Lightman discuss Einstein's Dreams. He
will be joined by Randall Williams, composer, singer and guitarist, who will talk about the leap from book to song. Bijou
Orchestra director Leo Najar will also be present to answer questions about the upcoming world premiere of Randall's song
cycle with the Bijou on February 26 and 27. The event begins at noon and is free and open to the public. Bring a lunch and
join us for a fascinating hour with our special guests.
Friday, February 25th at 7pm Delta College Planetarium
As a physicist, Lightman has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of relativistic gravity,
black holes, globular clusters and radiative processes. Lightman is the author of five novels, two collections of essays,
a book-length narrative poem and several books on science. His shorter pieces have appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, The
New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, among other publications. His talk should prove fascinating to those interested
in either or both of these areas of human endeavor. Following the lecture, attendees are invited to observe part of
the rehearsal of Einstein's Dreams which will be in progress at the State Theatre
on Friday evening. There is no admission charge for this event.
