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Spring Volunteer Day
Saturday, March 16 10 am-Noon
Teens (12+) & Adults Meeting Room B
Volunteer at the library by helping us prepare for a children’s DIY Spring Bird Feeder program. A certificate of volunteer hours will be issued to each participant. Registration is required.
NEA Big Read Book Discussion: Can't We Talk About Something
More Pleasant?
Thursday, March 28 10:30-11:15 am Meeting Room C
Selected as one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2014, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? is a memoir that provides a brutally honest look at the struggle of a daughter’s role as caregiver to aging parents. Chast brings the book to life and eases the heaviness of a morose topic through her book’s unique design – cartoon panels and journaling. Participants are invited to join us for an exploration of the book’s themes including aging, caregiving, and coping. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. Books will be available at the Patron Services desk beginning March 1. No registration is required.
Register for an e-mail reminder.
Makerspace:
Teacup Galaxy Garden
Saturday, April 13 2-4 pm
Teens & Adults (12+) Makerspace
As part of the 2019 One Book, One Michiana programming for Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, make your very own "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea” galaxy garden (similar to a fairy garden...but also not quite, entirely unlike a fairy garden). Materials will be provided but you may bring your own. For teens and adults. Registration is required.
VR Petting Zoo
Saturday, April 20
11 am-2 pm
Teens (12+) and Adults Meeting Room A/B
Come try out our new VR headset and games. We will have our HTC ViveTM and Google CardboardTM for you to explore and our Nintendo SwitchTM set up for gameplay while you wait your turn. Sign up for a 20-minute VR time slot; time slots will be reserved in the order that registrations are received. An email will be sent to all registrants confirming their time slot. If you do not respond to the email that is sent to you within two business days, the time slot will be forfeited and given to the next person on the list. Registration is required.
Roz Chast’s work has appeared in numerous magazines through the years, including
The Village Voice, National Lampoon, Scientific American, Harvard Business Review, Redbook and Mother Jones, but she is most closely associated with The New Yorker. Chast attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied painting. After graduating in 1977 she returned to New York City, where she quickly established her cartooning career. In addition to collections of her New Yorker cartoons, Chast has written and illustrated a range of books. Her latest, Going Into Town:
A Love Letter to New York (2017), a personalized travel guide to New York City that began as
a going-away present to her youngest child, who was moving from the family’s home in Connecticut to attend SVA. Her first memoir, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (2014) won a National Book Critics Circle Award and was shortlisted for a National Book Award. rozchast.com
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