Teen Advisory Board will meet and discuss upcoming summer programs. New members are always welcome!
Find some great reads for spring break or to update your collection!
Join us for a family-friendly celebration of our home - the Earth. Activities include: "Trash" origami, making a bird house from a recycled milk container, creating a book sculpture from old books, sampling a veggie pizza, viewing short films, learning energy-saving tips from Sustainable Warwick, and making a container vegetable garden with Gar Wang. Special musical guests Tony Vee and Matt Price will provide entertainment. The first fifty visitors will receive a free seedling tree to plant at home.
In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in London's East End slums. While delivering babies all over the city, Jenny encounters a colorful cast of women"from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives, to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English, to the prostitutes of the city's seedier side.
Join Allison Petrus-Wilkins for a discussion of Jennifer Worth's best-selling memoir.
"Be Red Cross Ready" is a Red Cross preparedness presentation that teaches communities how to Get a Kit, Make a Plan, and Stay Informed before and during a disaster such as a snow storm, flood, fire, and other hazards, strikes our region. The presentation is about half an hour long, and it covers topics such as sheltering in place, evacuation, emergency kit preparation, setting up a meeting place, and many more.
Combining the spirit of Earth Day and National Poetry Month, poet Mary Makofske will read here thirteen part poem, "An Inward Bruise" accompanied by whale song, music and photos of these magnificent creatures. "An Inward Bruise" won the Lullwater Review Poetry Prize and appears in Traction (Ashland Poetry Press), Makofske's latest book and winner of the Richard Snyder Prize.
What is a decision? Claude Prevots, a system architect and ethicist, will discuss the position that a decision is a theme to be tested. Using the situations of Hamlet and Galileo, he will engage the participants in an entertaining discussion of the science of decision making.
What is a decision? Claude Prevots, a system architect and ethicist, will discuss the position that a decision is a theme to be tested. Using the situations of Hamlet and Galileo, he will engage the participants in an entertaining discussion of the science of decision making.
What is a decision? Claude Prevots, a system architect and ethicist, will discuss the position that a decision is a theme to be tested. Using the situations of Hamlet and Galileo, he will engage the participants in an entertaining discussion of the science of decision making.
Join us for an evening with an up and coming musical star!
Twenty year old composer and musician Matt Daniel will perform original piano compositions in varions styles including rag time, jazz, blues rck 'n' roll and more.
This concert is made possible with a grant form the Albert Wisner Public Library Foundation
