Kits will be available for curbside pickup at the Merrimac Public Library from January 19 – 22, while supplies last. Participants will need to supply their own nail polishes (including black). An instructional video will be posted on the Teen Advisory Group’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmjoqiwUSxi6nRBxU-MOq-w.
Ages 12 and Up.
Kits will be available for curbside pickup at the Merrimac Public Library from January 19 – 22, while supplies last. Participants will need to supply their own nail polishes (including black). An instructional video will be posted on the Teen Advisory Group’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmjoqiwUSxi6nRBxU-MOq-w.
Ages 12 and Up.
Early Reader's Book Club Monday at 4:00 PM Kindergarten - Grade 2
Let's have some fun reading a book together. Sign up to join me on Zoom
and get a library copy of the book of the month and craft supplies.
This month's book is "Scaredy Squirrel" by Melanie Watts. We will read together
and share a few jokes and riddles.
Family Storytime Tuesdays 10:00-10:30 AM
Join Miss Kate on Zoom as she reads stories, sings songs, does fingerplays
and gives you craft ideas. Ages infant and up. Please register to get the link
or email Miss Kate kgove@westnewburylibrary.org
Download the free Among Us app to your phone. Join Kristen in figuring out who is a crewmate, who is an imposter, and who is just straight up sus. Since we will be using Zoom at the same time, you should ideally play with two devices.
For ages 12 to 18. Spaces are limited. Contact Kristen with any questions.
This Zoom workshop will meet on the second and fourth Thursdays in January and February. Poet and writing instructor, Zara Raab, will combine discussions of good poems and how to read them with poetic techniques. The focus will be on contemporary poets. Registration is required and space is limited.
Session 2: Close to the Bone. How to write from your life without spilling secrets: Writing true emotions and inventing context. We will read several poems by Robert Hass, Louise Gluck, Heather McHugh, and others, who manages to write about the crises of contemporary life without saying (much) about her own personal story. How much detail –and what kind--is needed to tell a story?
Family Storytime Tuesdays 10:00-10:30 AM
Join Miss Kate on Zoom as she reads stories, sings songs, does fingerplays
and gives you craft ideas. Ages infant and up. Please register to get the link
or email Miss Kate kgove@westnewburylibrary.org
Family Storytime Tuesdays 10:00-10:30 AM
Join Miss Kate on Zoom as she reads stories, sings songs, does fingerplays
and gives you craft ideas. Ages infant and up. Please register to get the link
or email Miss Kate kgove@westnewburylibrary.org
Award-winning author and pop culture historian Martin Gitlin hosts this fun and enlightening Zoom presentation based on his book, The Greatest Sitcoms of All Time. He is the only author to actually rank the best of the best, including I Love Lucy, All in the Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers, Seinfeld and The Big Bang Theory. He will show funny snippets from those shows and others, such as M*A*S*H, The Andy Griffith Show and Modern Family, challenge patrons with sitcom trivia, discuss the criteria he used to rank the best of the best and talk about how sitcoms have evolved over the decades in humor, presentation and content. This program is really entertaining so join in on the fun! Registration Required.
Friends of the West Newbury Library monthly meeting. Planning events and activities to raise funds to support the G.A.R. Memorial Library.
Become a member; download the application and return to the library.
This Zoom workshop will meet on the second and fourth Thursdays in January and February. Poet and writing instructor, Zara Raab, will combine discussions of good poems and how to read them with poetic techniques. The focus will be on contemporary poets. Registration is required and space is limited.
Session 3: Telling Lyrics. Blending lyric elements in with narrative, or narrative elements into essentially lyric poems. From Vermont poet laureate Sydney Lea’s crafted pastorale of country life to the crisp, pithy, razor-edged tales of Heather McHugh, to more domestic narratives of Mary Jo Salter and Clive James. How do these poets control and vary their diction, syntax, and tone? What can lyric elements add to narrative?
Family Storytime Tuesdays 10:00-10:30 AM
Join Miss Kate on Zoom as she reads stories, sings songs, does fingerplays
and gives you craft ideas. Ages infant and up. Please register to get the link
or email Miss Kate kgove@westnewburylibrary.org
Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project: a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH.
When libertarians across the US descended on Grafton, state and federal laws became meek suggestions. Soon the wilderness-thick town lost public funding for pretty much everything: fire dept, the schoolhouse, library, and perhaps most importantly wildlife services. As the people were ignoring laws and regulations on hunting and food disposal, their newly formed off-the-grid tent city caught the attention of some unruly neighbors: the bears.
Join journalist Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling as he discusses his book, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town, and details how this tiny town became a radical social experiment—until the bear attacks started.
Registration required, this is a Zoom event.
Do you write for fun? Are you a fan of fanfiction? Or are you a poet (and you didn't even know it)? Then join the Creative Writing Club and meet fellow writers! We will be discussing what we like to write, the craft itself, and even have an in-club writing exercise.
Email Kristen at kyoung@westnewburylibrary.org if you’re interested. We will be meeting via zoom.
Curious Creatures Thursday February 18th @ 4:00 PM
It's always fun when Curious Creatures comes to visit. Now you
can have them in your own living room! Please sign up to get
your Zoom link. Who knows what we'll see.
Sponsored by the Friends of the West Newbury Library.
Family Storytime Tuesdays 10:00-10:30 AM
Join Miss Kate on Zoom as she reads stories, sings songs, does fingerplays
and gives you craft ideas. Ages infant and up. Please register to get the link
or email Miss Kate kgove@westnewburylibrary.org
This Zoom workshop will meet on the second and fourth Thursdays in January and February. Poet and writing instructor, Zara Raab, will combine discussions of good poems and how to read them with poetic techniques. The focus will be on contemporary poets. Registration is required and space is limited.
Session 4: Find a voice. This advice is often given and taken by poets. With Tony Hoagland’s ideas on Poetic Voice in the background, we’ll explore how poets import voices from the culture, including cliches with a twist, into their poems, as contemporary native American poets like Karenne Wood do so aptly. As poets, how do we establish intimacy with our readers, vary the register of our diction, or follow or invent our own style?
Friends of the West Newbury Library monthly meeting. Planning events and activities to raise funds to support the G.A.R. Memorial Library.
Become a member; download the application and return to the library.
Do you write for fun? Are you a fan of fanfiction? Or are you a poet (and you didn't even know it)? Then join the Creative Writing Club and meet fellow writers! We will be discussing what we like to write, the craft itself, and even have an in-club writing exercise.
Email Kristen at kyoung@westnewburylibrary.org if you’re interested. We will be meeting via zoom.
Do you write for fun? Are you a fan of fanfiction? Or are you a poet (and you didn't even know it)? Then join the Creative Writing Club and meet fellow writers! We will be discussing what we like to write, the craft itself, and even have an in-club writing exercise.
Email Kristen at kyoung@westnewburylibrary.org if you’re interested. We will be meeting via zoom.
