West Hollywood To Host Fall 2019 ‘WeHo Reads’ Event

From the City of West Hollywood:

October 23, 2019 2:25 PM

The City of West Hollywood invites community members to a WeHo Reads event celebrating the launch of a hauntingly unforgettable new book, City of Immortals: Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, by writer, photographer, and longtime West Hollywood resident Carolyn Campbell, released just in time for Halloween.

The event will take place on Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 7 p.m. at the City of West Hollywood’s Council Chambers/Public Meeting Room at West Hollywood Library, located at 625 N. San Vicente Boulevard. The event will include an author’s talk and slide show about the most famous cemetery in the world. There will also be a Q&A and a raffle of a free book and giveaway souvenir photos to people who show up in costume dressed as someone buried at the cemetery. A book-signing will follow, with books available for sale by Book Soup. Admission is free and open to the public; RSVP is requested at https://wehoreads-immortals.eventbrite.com.

City of Immortals: Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris is a first-person account of the most famous cemetery in the world. Featuring new unpublished material, the volume contains over 100 original color photographs, and an illustrated pull-out map of the legendary necropolis — the result of Campbell’s three decades of research, study, and photography. Established in 1804 by Napoleonic decree, Père-Lachaise is a 107-acre labyrinth boasting the final resting places of more celebrated artists, architects, writers, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, and actors than any other location in the world — Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Gertrude Stein, Edith Piaf, Marcel Proust, Frédéric Chopin, Isadora Duncan, Amedeo Modigliani, Sarah Bernhardt, and Colette to name a few. It is also a magnificent open-air museum of sculpture and architecture, representing the first revolutionary design in memorial parks and the fourth most popular destination for the 65 million tourists who visit Paris each year (behind the Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame, and the Arc de Triomphe).

The City of West Hollywood’s WeHo Reads series will offer additional programming throughout fall 2019 including:

• On Wednesday, November 13, 2019: Ryan O’Callaghan will present his new memoir My Life on the Line: How the NFL D*mn Near Killed Me, and Ended Up Saving My Life in conversation with Syd Ziegler of outsports.com; and
• On Wednesday, December 11, 2019: Felice Picano will present Coming to Hollywood: 1935-2000 in Words and Pictures.

For additional information about these events, visit www.weho.org/wehoreads.

For more information, please contact Mike Che, Arts Coordinator, City of West Hollywood at (323) 848-6377 or mche@weho.org. For people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, please call TTY (323) 848-6496. For up-to-date news and events, follow the City of West Hollywood on social media @WeHoCity and sign up for news updates at www.weho.org/email.

This press release was produced by the City of West Hollywood. The views expressed here are the author’s own.