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Reading Group

Seminar: A Chorus of Voices: The Multi-Perspective Novel, with Claire Jiménez

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 10:30am Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 10:30am Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 10:30am | Zoom | open to the public | $75 for the three sessions | registration required
In this three-session seminar, we will read three multi-perspective novels, exploring how each author builds their story using the voices and/or perspectives of multiple characters. Participants will also have the opportunity to practice crafting their own multi-perspective stories.
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Children

Bunny Hop

Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 4:00pm | Whitridge Room | Ages 3 and Older | For Members Only

Hop on over to the Library for these rabbit tales.

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Children

Mother Goose Magic

Friday, March 29, 2024 - 10:00am | Whitridge Room | Ages 2 and Older | For Members Only

Enjoy favorite nursery rhymes, picture books, and songs.

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Children

Creation Station

Saturday, March 2, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Sunday, March 3, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Saturday, March 9, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Sunday, March 10, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Saturday, March 16, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Sunday, March 17, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm | Children's Library | All Ages | For Members Only

Drop by the Library to color, create, or craft.

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Special Event

Closing: Easter 2024

Sunday, March 31, 2024 - 9:00am | holiday closing

The Library is closed all day Sunday, March 31, for Easter. Otherwise we observe normal hours.

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Children

Wiggles & Giggles

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 10:00am | Whitridge Room | Ages 24 Months and Younger | For Members Only

Join us for songs, stories, and movement for babies and toddlers.

Pick up a ticket in the lobby.
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The Writing Life

Writing Life Poetry Workshop: Being in Conversation with a Work of Art with Diane Mehta

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 2:00pm | Whitridge Room | for members and guests | free of charge | registration required
How do you share your connection to an artwork, and give words to the seemingly irrepressible so that others will feel, see, and sense what you feel so deeply about? We’ll explore the enthusiasms and emotions that accompany our favorite art by reading poems of experiences with art.
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Lecture

Le Conversazioni: An Evening with Michael Wood

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 7:00pm | Members' Room | open to the public | free of charge | registration required
One of the most versatile current critics of literature and film shows movie clips and discusses great forgotten cinema with Antonio Monda.
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Reading Group

Seminar: Crossing Boundaries As A Form of Life: Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob, with Nicholas Birns

Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 11:00am Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 11:00am Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - 11:00am | Whitridge Room | for members only | $75 for the three sessions | registration required
The Books of Jacob (2014) is the central work of the acclaimed contemporary Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. Tokarczuk uses the form of the historical novel to explore questions of identity in an era, much like ours, poised uneasily between ethnocentric and pluralist ideas of nationhood.
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The Writing Life

Prompt! In Person with Carol Weston

Thursday, January 4, 2024 - 11:00am Thursday, February 1, 2024 - 11:00am Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 11:00am Thursday, April 4, 2024 - 11:00am Thursday, May 9, 2024 - 11:00am Thursday, June 6, 2024 - 11:00am | Whitridge Room | for members only | free of charge | registration required
Join your fellow member writers for a fun and stimulating hour+ of prompts, writing, and sharing.
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Children

Duck Tails

Thursday, April 4, 2024 - 4:00pm | Whitridge Room | Ages 3 and Older | For Members Only

Quack up with amusing stories of our feathered friends.

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The Writing Life

Prompt! Online with Charlie Allenson

Friday, February 2, 2024 - 11:00am Friday, March 1, 2024 - 11:00am Friday, April 5, 2024 - 11:00am | Zoom | for members only | free of charge | registration required
Join your fellow member writers for a fun and stimulating hour+ of prompts, writing, and sharing.
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Children

Creation Station

Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Saturday, April 13, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Sunday, April 14, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Saturday, April 27, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Sunday, April 28, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm | Children's Library | All Ages | For Members Only

Drop by the Library to color, create, or craft.

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Children

Storytime Saturday

Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 3:30pm | Whitridge Room | All Ages | For Members Only

Enjoy storytime fun for everyone!

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Reading Group

Fully Registered: Let's Read Shakespeare for Fun

Sunday, January 7, 2024 - 1:30pm to 5:00pm Sunday, February 4, 2024 - 1:30pm to 5:00pm Sunday, March 3, 2024 - 1:30pm to 5:00pm Sunday, April 7, 2024 - 1:30pm to 5:00pm Sunday, May 5, 2024 - 1:30pm to 5:00pm Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 1:30pm to 5:00pm | Whitridge Room | for members and their guests | free of charge | registration required
We gather monthly to read aloud a play by William Shakespeare.
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Reading Group

Seminar: The Poetry of Rage, with Bhisham Bherwani

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 - 5:15pm Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 5:15pm Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 5:15pm | Whitridge Room | for members and guests | $75 for the three sessions | registration required

Poets responding to a host of asininities and personal or social abuses, inequities, or unenviable circumstances—among others, industrialization, climate change, classism, racism, war, colonial barbarism and duplicity, oppression, hypocrisy, ignorance, betrayal, nepotism, misfortune, and love (gone awry)—have left us a legacy of some of the most ferocious and memorable poetry.

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Children

Happy Birthday, Dear Library!

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 3:30pm | Whitridge Room | All Ages | For Members Only
Come celebrate the Library’s 270th anniversary with cupcakes, card-making, and more!
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The Writing Life

Writing Life Poetry Workshop: Write What You’ve Always Wanted To Write with Esther Cohen

Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 2:00pm Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 2:00pm Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 2:00pm | on the Zoom Meetings platform | open to the public; free for members | separate sessions | registration required
Join poet and teacher Esther Cohen to write the poems we've always intended to write.
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Children

Rain, Rain, Go Away

Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 4:00pm | Whitridge Room | Ages 3 and Older | For Members Only

Jump out of puddles and into the Library for rainy day stories.

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Lecture

Livestream: Michael Korda, Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets, with Daniel Mendelsohn

Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 6:00pm | Livestream | open to the public | $10 per person | registration required
The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier-poets in Michael Korda’s epic Muse of Fire. In this unique event, Mr. Korda discusses the book with An Odyssey author Daniel Mendelsohn.
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Lecture

Members' Room: Michael Korda, Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets, with Daniel Mendelsohn

Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 6:00pm | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration required
The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier-poets in Michael Korda’s epic Muse of Fire. In this unique event, Mr. Korda discusses the book with An Odyssey author Daniel Mendelsohn.
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Children

Mother Goose Magic

Friday, April 12, 2024 - 10:00am | Whitridge Room | Ages 2 and Older | For Members Only

Enjoy favorite nursery rhymes, picture books, and songs.

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Children

Time Travelers: The Future is Now!

Saturday, April 13, 2024 - 11:30am | Whitridge Room | Ages 5 and Older | For Members Only

Take a trip in our time machine. This month, we’ll journey out of this world to experience life in space!

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Children

Creation Station

Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Saturday, April 13, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Sunday, April 14, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Saturday, April 27, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Sunday, April 28, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm | Children's Library | All Ages | For Members Only

Drop by the Library to color, create, or craft.

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Children

Creation Station

Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Saturday, April 13, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Sunday, April 14, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Saturday, April 27, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm Sunday, April 28, 2024 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm | Children's Library | All Ages | For Members Only

Drop by the Library to color, create, or craft.

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Exhibitions

The Library showcases our historic collections and the literary culture of the city with themed public exhibitions on the second floor. Exhibitions are offered for six to twelve months, and both members and nonmembers are welcome to drop by any time the Library is open.

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