Events List

Mother Goose II is an early literacy program designed for young children, ages 2-3. This 30-minute program of  rhymes, songs, puppets, flannel board activities and books is fun and engaging for little learners and a caregiver. Class size is limited. Register online for each class you plan to attend.   Please call the children's department if you need to cancel your reservation:  203-426-4533 x2.

Are you thinking of starting a business but don't know where to begin? In this webinar, our expert presenter will give you 10 business planning tips to help you start your entrepreneurial journey on the right path. At the end of this workshop, you'll have a list of simple steps that you use to begin your business journey today!

Here are the business planning elements you will learn:

• How to define the business idea and test the idea
• Defining the customer
• Knowing the Industry and understanding the competition
• Management
• Explaining the value and benefits this business will provide
• Marketing strategies and financial options
• Is the business idea achievable and does it make sense to start this business

Live attendees will receive free business resources and a link to this webinar recording. Register for this SCORE webinar here. 

The Business Model Canvas is a helpful tool startups (and existing operations) can use to better analyze their concepts. Just a one-page document, it demands business owners answer critical questions about their offering, including interactions with customers and suppliers, and key financial and operational considerations. By identifying gaps in understanding that lead to potential problems, business can consider quick pivots before time and money are wasted. Learn how to complete a canvas, identify your value proposition and challenge it with a hypothesis that you can test in the real world.  Register for this CEDF webinar here. 

Hands-on learning and building fun for ages 4-6 with an adult caregiver. A new design or engineering challlenge each week. Space is limited, please register.

Learn how to crochet a granny square in this weekly workshop. Once you've made enough squares, you'll learn how to stitch them together to make a throw blanket. Create a cozy holiday gift or a warm blanket for yourself! Yarn and crochet hooks will be provided.

This program is open to ages 11 - 17. Registration is required.

Zoom2 C.H. Booth Library is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Shoes Through the Ages
Time: Sep 27, 2023 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Virtual Meeting Space #1
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83906410847.   Meeting ID: 839 0641 0847

Join us for the next meeting of Carm's Classics. This meeting is one of transformation as we read George Bernard Shaw's classic play Pygmalion and Jennieke Cohen's My Fine Fellow! 

Pygmalion: A chance meeting between Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, and Cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle leads to a bet that he can teach her how to speak proper English. While Higgins undertakes an effort to train Liza out of her Cockney accent to prove that it is one's manner of speaking that determines one's opportunities, Liza's refreshing candor and generosity of spirit effects a change in Higgins himself.

My Fine Fellow: It's 1830s England, and Culinarians — doyens who consult with society's elite to create gorgeous food and confections — are the crème de la crème of high society. Helena Higgins, top of her class at the Royal Academy, has a sharp demeanor and an even sharper palate — and knows stardom awaits her if she can produce greatness in her final year. Penelope Pickering is going to prove the value of non-European cuisine to all of England. Her contemporaries may scorn her Filipina heritage and her dishes, but with her flawless social graces and culinary talents, Penelope is set to prove them wrong. Elijah Little has nothing to his name but a truly excellent instinct for flavors. London merchants won't allow a Jewish boy to own a shop, so he hawks his pasties for a shilling a piece to passersby, but he knows with training he can break into the highest echelon of society. When Penelope and Helena meet Elijah, a golden opportunity arises: to pull off a project never seen before, and turn Elijah from a street vendor to a gentleman chef. But Elijah's transformation will have a greater impact on this trio than they originally realize.

Carm's Classics Club is open to tweens, teens, and adults. All participants will receive a copy of both Pygmalion and My Fine Fellow that they may keep. This is a hybrid program. You can join us in person or virtually through Zoom.

Space is limited. Registration is required to receive copies of the books and the Zoom link. This program is brought to you by the generous funding of the Friends of C.H. Booth Library.

Are you looking for a community of writers? Maybe just a quiet space and a set time that you can get to working on that project you've been picking at? Join us! Every Thursday at 6:30 PM, all you have to do is...

1. Show Up
2. Find a Seat, Settle In, & Write
3. Take Off or Hang Around to Chat, Share, Help, and Learn

One of the most successful techniques for developing a new habit is to commit to a specific day, time, and location when you will follow through. By making the commitment to show up for your writing at the same time each week, you are able to turn one hour of focused writing into a stable routine that yields remarkable results.

Studies have shown that even the smallest sense of belonging increases performance on a variety of tasks. When you show up for a Shut Up & Write event, not only are you supported and motivated by everyone else writing around you, you are also a part of a community of writers all over the world.

See you there!

ArtScapades will look at the lives and works of Henri Matisse and André Derain, the two artists who developed Fauvism, an early movement in Modern Art.  They explored a new freedom and spontaneity in painting, characterized by vibrant color, and expressive brushstrokes, defining the influential Avant-garde art movement.  This program will be on Zoom. Registration is required in order to receive the link.

This program is thanks to Generous Funding From The Friends of C. H. Booth Library

Music educator, Brad Peterson will lead children in a variety of musical activities including finger plays, nursery rhymes, poems, songs, circle games, dances and stories for children ages 2-6 with an adult caregiver.  Each session is a fun, fast paced lesson designed to help children with pitch matching and steady beat skills, as well as helping them with their early language arts development.  Register online for each class you plan to attend.