Teen Game Night Lock In

Date: 
Sat, 09/21/2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Contact: 
Teen Advisor Karen Lee at klee@rcls.org
Age Group: 
Teen

Enjoy a night of video games, arcade games, card games, and tabletop games!  Play a cool driving game, try out some retro video games like Frogger and Asteroids, and play some new games, too! You may even go home with a personalized lazer drawn key ring.

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Four Shillings Short Musical Performance

Date: 
Sun, 10/20/2019 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Contact: 
Help Desk at 986-1047, ext. 3 or warref@rcls.org
Age Group: 
Adult
Teen
Tween
Children

Around the World in 30 Instruments is a multi-cultural educational concert presenting traditional music from Ireland, Scotland, England, Medieval & Renaissance Europe, the Americas and India, using more than 30 instruments including hammered & mountain dulcimer, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, Medieval and Renaissance woodwinds, recorders, tinwhistles, banjo, North Indian Sitar, Medieval Psaltery, the Andean Charango, Irish Bodhran, African Doumbek, Spoons and vocals.  A co

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Salted Toffee Apple Pie Demo with Noble Pies

Date: 
Thu, 10/24/2019 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Contact: 
Help Desk at 986-1047, ext. 3 or warref@rcls.org
Age Group: 
Adult

Just in time for the holidays!  Leslie Noble of Noble Pies will show you how to make a pie from scratch.  She will demonstrate mixing pie dough, rolling out a crust, making pie filling and covering the pie.  During the demonstration, tips will be given on choosing ingredients for pie dough and pie filling, choosing kitchen tools and improving baking outcomes.  Different decorating techniques for pies will be discussed, followed by a question-and-answer session.

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Reindeer and Shamans and Camels, Oh My!

Date: 
Wed, 10/30/2019 - 6:30pm to 7:45pm
Contact: 
Help Desk at 986-1047, ext. 3 or warref@rcls.org
Age Group: 
Adult
Teen

Join Researcher/ Warwick native Jay Westerveld for a photo-filled discussion of Mongolia, the cradle of Native American culture, Shamanism, Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan.  Jay has been studying the cultural and natural history of Mongolia since 2015.  He has lived among the various ethnic groups of Mongolia and has studied their customs for years.  In 2018, he shifted his focus from Mongolia’s Steppe culture to Mongolia’s capital city of Ulaanbaatar, to study Mongolia’s adaptation to the modern world.

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Artist in Residence Closing Reception - Fantasy Fountain Craft for Everyone!

Date: 
Fri, 11/22/2019 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Contact: 
Help Desk at 986-1047, ext. 3 or warref@rcls.org
Age Group: 
Adult
Teen
Tween
Children

Celebrate our first STEAM Artist in Residency program with stories and pictures from all events!  Everyone is invited to make a fantasy fountain to take with them and perhaps inspire a real a fountain in your own backyard.  Music and refreshments, too!

This program is made possible by a gift to the AWPL Foundation by Glenn P. and Susan D. Dickes.

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Artist in Residence Workshop: Crafting a Water Feature

Date: 
Sat, 10/19/2019 - 10:00am to 4:00pm
Contact: 
Help Desk at 986-1047, ext. 3 or warref@rcls.org
Age Group: 
Adult
Teen
Tween
Children

Join us for a hands-on water feature crafting experience, expanding the underground basin of our Library’s Fountain - ASPIRE Agrisculpture!  Guided by its creator, Amy Lewis Sweetman, you will learn how the visible and invisible design elements of fountains align.  By renovating and physically expanding the below-grade portion of Fountain ASPIRE Agrisculpture, installed almost 5 years ago at the Library, you will take part in the practical physical aspects of creating a pondless water feature.  This class is open to all adults of all abilities interested in creating and installing a fountai

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