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Welcome to storytime! * Note location & time!* Join Christy for a morning of stories, songs, rhymes, bubbles & fun with friends! During the construction phase of the library, storytime will be held inside Brown's Mall at Movement Arts Gloucester MA on the top floor of the Brown Building. Enter at 186 Main Street or 11 Pleasant Street & take the elevator to the 5th floor.
Welcome to storytime! * Note location & time!* Join Christy for a morning of stories, songs, rhymes, bubbles & fun with friends! During the construction phase of the library, storytime will be held inside Brown's Mall at Movement Arts Gloucester MA on the top floor of the Brown Building. Enter at 186 Main Street or 11 Pleasant Street & take the elevator to the 5th floor.
Join us for the Annual Meeting of the Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library Corporation at Gloucester Stage on November 15th, 2023 from 6pm to 7:30pm
Gloucester Stage Company, 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA
Doors open at 6pm
Join us for the Annual Meeting of the Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library Corporation at Gloucester Stage on November 15th, 2023 from 6pm to 7:30pm
Gloucester Stage Company, 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA
Doors open at 6pm
Drop in for Open Play at the Library at 21 Main Street in the children's area. This unstructured open play for little ones and caregivers is an opportunity for social interaction and a nice way to introduce the very young to the library. Babies can even be signed up for a first library card! Books and toys will be provided for caregivers to interact with their little ones and are best suited for ages 0-2. No registration needed.
Drop in for Open Play at the Library at 21 Main Street in the children's area. This unstructured open play for little ones and caregivers is an opportunity for social interaction and a nice way to introduce the very young to the library. Babies can even be signed up for a first library card! Books and toys will be provided for caregivers to interact with their little ones and are best suited for ages 0-2. No registration needed.
Celebrate Dinovember with children's services November craft to go! Register below for fun & simple dino crafts that are ready for you to bring home and make with your child! Pick up starts at 2pm on Thursday, November 16th. Your labeled craft bag will be at the children's services desk at our 21 Main Street library location. Please register each child individually. You will provide glue, scissors, crayons/markers and adult suprevision at home. Registration required.
Celebrate Dinovember with children's services November craft to go! Register below for fun & simple dino crafts that are ready for you to bring home and make with your child! Pick up starts at 2pm on Thursday, November 16th. Your labeled craft bag will be at the children's services desk at our 21 Main Street library location. Please register each child individually. You will provide glue, scissors, crayons/markers and adult suprevision at home. Registration required.
United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award, Joy Harjo, joins us for a chat about her most recent memoir, Catching the Light and to discuss her rewarding lifetime as a writer and poet.
In Catching the Light, Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing.
In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author’s life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and memory.
Harjo insists the most meaningful poetry is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen. At the crossroads of this brokenness, she calls us to watch and listen for the songs of justice for all those America has denied. This is an homage to the power of words to defy erasure—to inscribe the story, again and again, of who we have been, who we are, and who we can be.
About the Author: In 2019, Joy Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold the position and only the second person to serve three terms in the role. Harjo’s nine books of poetry include Weaving Sundown in a Scarlett Light, An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. She is also the author of two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior, which invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. She has edited several anthologies of Native American writing including When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through — A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, and Living Nations, Living Words, the companion anthology to her signature poet laureate project. Her many writing awards include the 2022 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2019 Jackson Prize from Poets & Writers, the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and is artist-in-residence for the Bob Dylan Center. A renowned musician, Harjo performs with her saxophone nationally and internationally; her most recent album is I Pray For My Enemies. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award, Joy Harjo, joins us for a chat about her most recent memoir, Catching the Light and to discuss her rewarding lifetime as a writer and poet.
In Catching the Light, Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing.
In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author’s life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and memory.
Harjo insists the most meaningful poetry is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen. At the crossroads of this brokenness, she calls us to watch and listen for the songs of justice for all those America has denied. This is an homage to the power of words to defy erasure—to inscribe the story, again and again, of who we have been, who we are, and who we can be.
About the Author: In 2019, Joy Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold the position and only the second person to serve three terms in the role. Harjo’s nine books of poetry include Weaving Sundown in a Scarlett Light, An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. She is also the author of two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior, which invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. She has edited several anthologies of Native American writing including When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through — A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, and Living Nations, Living Words, the companion anthology to her signature poet laureate project. Her many writing awards include the 2022 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2019 Jackson Prize from Poets & Writers, the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and is artist-in-residence for the Bob Dylan Center. A renowned musician, Harjo performs with her saxophone nationally and internationally; her most recent album is I Pray For My Enemies. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Food, Friends & Family Musical Storytime @ 21 Main Street. Join Ruthanne Paulson for some musical fun at the library (our 21 Main Street location!) A festive morning of fun, stories, singing, dancing & playing music, no registration needed.
Food, Friends & Family Musical Storytime @ 21 Main Street. Join Ruthanne Paulson for some musical fun at the library (our 21 Main Street location!) A festive morning of fun, stories, singing, dancing & playing music, no registration needed.
Dungeons & Dragons
From beginners to experts, all experience levels are welcome. Bring your imagination and sense of adventure.
D&D will be led by local Dungeon Master Ephraim Weaver who has been a DM for five years.
This program is suitable for 5th-12th graders. No registration required.
Free pizza for lunch. Bring your water bottle, we have a refill station at 21 Main Street.
Dungeons & Dragons
From beginners to experts, all experience levels are welcome. Bring your imagination and sense of adventure.
D&D will be led by local Dungeon Master Ephraim Weaver who has been a DM for five years.
This program is suitable for 5th-12th graders. No registration required.
Free pizza for lunch. Bring your water bottle, we have a refill station at 21 Main Street.
Welcome to storytime! * Note location & time!* Join Christy for a morning of stories, songs, rhymes, bubbles & fun with friends! During the construction phase of the library, storytime will be held inside Brown's Mall at Movement Arts Gloucester MA on the top floor of the Brown Building. Enter at 186 Main Street or 11 Pleasant Street & take the elevator to the 5th floor.
Welcome to storytime! * Note location & time!* Join Christy for a morning of stories, songs, rhymes, bubbles & fun with friends! During the construction phase of the library, storytime will be held inside Brown's Mall at Movement Arts Gloucester MA on the top floor of the Brown Building. Enter at 186 Main Street or 11 Pleasant Street & take the elevator to the 5th floor.
Welcome to storytime! * Note location & time!* Join Christy for a morning of stories, songs, rhymes, bubbles & fun with friends! During the construction phase of the library, storytime will be held inside Brown's Mall at Movement Arts Gloucester MA on the top floor of the Brown Building. Enter at 186 Main Street or 11 Pleasant Street & take the elevator to the 5th floor.
Welcome to storytime! * Note location & time!* Join Christy for a morning of stories, songs, rhymes, bubbles & fun with friends! During the construction phase of the library, storytime will be held inside Brown's Mall at Movement Arts Gloucester MA on the top floor of the Brown Building. Enter at 186 Main Street or 11 Pleasant Street & take the elevator to the 5th floor.
Drop in for Open Play at the Library at 21 Main Street in the children's area. This unstructured open play for little ones and caregivers is an opportunity for social interaction and a nice way to introduce the very young to the library. Babies can even be signed up for a first library card! Books and toys will be provided for caregivers to interact with their little ones and are best suited for ages 0-2. No registration needed.
Drop in for Open Play at the Library at 21 Main Street in the children's area. This unstructured open play for little ones and caregivers is an opportunity for social interaction and a nice way to introduce the very young to the library. Babies can even be signed up for a first library card! Books and toys will be provided for caregivers to interact with their little ones and are best suited for ages 0-2. No registration needed.
Bestselling and award-winning author, Naomi Alderman will join us to talk about her new book, The Future. This new novel delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.
When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she’s surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her father’s fox and rabbit sermon—once a parable to her—are starting to come true, how much future is actually left?
Across the world, in a mall in Singapore, Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, flees from an assassin. She’s cornered, desperate and—worst of all—might die without ever knowing what's going on. Suddenly, a remarkable piece of software appears on her phone telling her exactly how to escape. Who made it? What is it really for? And if those behind it can save her from danger, what do they want from her, and what else do they know about the future?
Martha and Zhen’s worlds are about to collide. An explosive chain of events is set in motion. While a few billionaires assured of their own safety lead the world to destruction, Martha’s relentless drive and Zhen’s insatiable curiosity could lead to something beautiful or the cataclysmic end of civilization.
By turns thrilling, hilarious, tender, and always piercingly brilliant, The Future unfolds at a breakneck speed, highlighting how power corrupts the few who have it and what it means to stand up to them. The future is coming. The Future is here. What are you waiting for? Register now!
About the Author: Naomi Alderman is the bestselling author of The Power, which was the winner of the 2017 Baileys’ Women’s Prize for Fiction. It was longlisted for the 2017 Orwell Prize and chosen as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Entertainment Weekly and the San Francisco Chronicle. The Power topped Barack Obama’s list of his favorite books from 2017 and has been translated into more than thirty languages. Naomi grew up in London and attended Oxford University and UEA.
Bestselling and award-winning author, Naomi Alderman will join us to talk about her new book, The Future. This new novel delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.
When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she’s surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her father’s fox and rabbit sermon—once a parable to her—are starting to come true, how much future is actually left?
Across the world, in a mall in Singapore, Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, flees from an assassin. She’s cornered, desperate and—worst of all—might die without ever knowing what's going on. Suddenly, a remarkable piece of software appears on her phone telling her exactly how to escape. Who made it? What is it really for? And if those behind it can save her from danger, what do they want from her, and what else do they know about the future?
Martha and Zhen’s worlds are about to collide. An explosive chain of events is set in motion. While a few billionaires assured of their own safety lead the world to destruction, Martha’s relentless drive and Zhen’s insatiable curiosity could lead to something beautiful or the cataclysmic end of civilization.
By turns thrilling, hilarious, tender, and always piercingly brilliant, The Future unfolds at a breakneck speed, highlighting how power corrupts the few who have it and what it means to stand up to them. The future is coming. The Future is here. What are you waiting for? Register now!
About the Author: Naomi Alderman is the bestselling author of The Power, which was the winner of the 2017 Baileys’ Women’s Prize for Fiction. It was longlisted for the 2017 Orwell Prize and chosen as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Entertainment Weekly and the San Francisco Chronicle. The Power topped Barack Obama’s list of his favorite books from 2017 and has been translated into more than thirty languages. Naomi grew up in London and attended Oxford University and UEA.
