SCORE Business Fridays

Volunteers from SCORE Boston provide free small business counseling every Friday morning at Kirstein. SCORE provides professional guidance and information, accessible to all, to maximize the success of America’s existing and emerging small businesses. Appointments are available at 10:00, 11:00, or 12:00. To make an appointment at Kirstein, please call 617-859-2142.

Film Screening: Viva Causa

Viva la Causa focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights — the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. Viva la Causa shows how thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice.

Date: Monday, May 7, 2012
Time : 6:30pm
Location: Connolly Square Branch, 433 Center Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
View a full schedule of events at the Connolly Square Branch library honoring May Day the 100 year anniversary of the Bread and Roses strike.

Real World Retirement Planning

This presentation explores the universal reality of retirement, as well as the many savings and investment options individuals can rely on when planning for the future. Offers information relevant to each stage in a working adults professional life-from twenty somethings to the final years before retirement.

Date: Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Time:  6:00-7:00pm
Location: Central Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, Conference Room 05/06 (lower level of the library)
Cost: Free
Contact: Kirstein Business Library at 617-859-2142
No advance registration is required for this event.

Film Screening:  Locked Out 

In 2010, a group of unionized miners in the desert town of Boron, California said NO when their employer, Rio Tinto, a giant global mining corporation, tried to slash their wages and benefits. This documentary reveals what happened during a four-month struggle between the workers and their employer.

Date: Monday, May 14, 2012
Time : 6:30pm
Location: Connolly Square Branch, 433 Center Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130�
View a full schedule of events at the Connolly Square Branch library honoring May Day and the 100 year anniversary of the Bread and Roses strike.

Author talk with Michael Lisicky, author of Filene’s: Boston’s Great Specialty Store

The newest addition to Arcadia’s Popular Images of America series is Filene’s: Boston’s Great Specialty Store. William Filene’s Sons Company, founded in 1870, brought fashion and entertainment to generations of Bostonians. The Filene family championed employee relations and innovative merchandising techniques. Michael Lisicky focuses on the history of the company’s flagship ‘upstairs’ business, in addition to several of the store’s historic competitors on Boston’s Washington Street.

Michael J. Lisicky is a leading expert on department store history and has written three bestselling books on various American department stores. Lisicky’s books have been featured on National Public Radio and have received acclaim from the Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Investors Business Daily and Fortune Magazine.

The Boston Public Library and Filene’s have a historic connection in the person of Louis Edward Kirstein, who was a vice president of William Filene’s & Sons and a trustee of the Boston Public Library from 1919 to 1942.  Funding for the Kirstein Business Library was donated by Louis Kirstein and the Branch was formally named the Edward Kirstein Memorial Library in honor of Louis’ father. The Kirstein Business Library and the BPL’s Special Collections Department hold Filene’s Marketing Archives.

Date: Thursday, August 23, 2012
Time:  6:00-7:00pm
Location: Central Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, Orientation Room (1st floor, McKim Building)
Cost: Free
Contact: Kirstein Business Library at 617-859-2142
No advance registration is required for this event.