Special Exhibit-related Programming

Who:

Jeff Britting, Guest Curator, Ayn Rand Archives

What:

Ayn Rand manuscript exhibit, special Saturday hours

Two gallery talks by Jeff Britting

Two film screenings — Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life and We the Living

Two post-screening discussions — Host and Guest Curator Jeff Britting with director Michael Paxton, Dr. Amy Peikoff (Chapman Law School), and others

Where:

“We the Living and For the New Intellectual: Celebrating the Drama and Philosophy of Ayn Rand” — A manuscript exhibit running through June 2012. Chapman University, Leatherby Libraries, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives, Orange, Calif.

Food Trucks:

Orange Home Grown
Farmers and Artisans Market
Corner of N. Cypress St. and Palm Ave.

Screenings:

Folino Theatre
Dodge College of Film and Media Arts
283 N. Cypress St., Orange, CA 92866

When:

Saturday, June 2, 2012
Exhibit: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (special hours)
Gallery Talk: 11 a.m.
Food Trucks: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Film: 1 p.m. (Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life)
Post-film Q&A: 3:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 16, 2012
Exhibit: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (special hours)
Gallery Talk: 11 a.m.
Food Trucks: 9 a.m to 1 p.m.
Film: 1 p.m. (We the Living)
Post-film Q&A: 4 p.m.

ADMISSION IS FREE

Maps:

Chapman University Campus Map

Chapman University Parking Map

Manuscript and Photograph Exhibit at Chapman University

New Ayn Rand Exhibit Runs at Chapman University through June 29, 2012

Special Collections Hours

Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Closed Saturday and Sunday
Admission is free

An exhibit commemorating two literary milestones of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is now on display at the Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives at Chapman University’s Leatherby Libraries. The exhibit is titled “We the Living and For the New Intellectual: Celebrating the Drama and Philosophy of Ayn Rand.”

Featuring historical editions, reproductions on paper, realia, and original manuscripts, the exhibit commemorates the 75th publication anniversary of Ayn Rand’s first novel, We the Living (1936), and the 50th publication anniversary of Rand’s first nonfiction book, For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (1961).

“We the Living and For the New Intellectual: Celebrating the Drama and Philosophy of Ayn Rand” examines the continuing relevance of We the Living as a critique of contemporary totalitarianism—a critique whose underlying, mature philosophy came to full literary expression in Rand’s 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged. Rand later outlined her philosophy in For the New Intellectual, the first of her seven nonfiction books.