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Calendar of Events |
NOVEMBER 2006 |
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Contemporary Books Group 7:30pm
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Concert, 2pm |
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Children's Book Writers Group, 7pm
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Short Fiction Group, 7pm
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Sequences Group Meeting, 10am
Artist's Reception, Main Hall 7:00pm
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Library Closed for Veteran's Day
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Veteran's Day Concert, 2pm
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Concert, 3pm
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Short Story Discussion Group, 7:30pm
Newton Camera Club, 7:30pm
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Poetry Reading, 7pm
Great Books Discussion Group, 7:15pm
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Legal Talk, 3:30pm
Author Talk, 7pm
African Literature Discussion Group, 7:30pm |
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Author Talk, 7pm
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Board of Trustees
Meeting, 8:30am
Women's Career Transition Group, 7:30pm |
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Library Closed for Thanksgiving
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Concert, 2pm
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Book Discussion - Auburndale, 10:30am
Puppet Sale, 10am-7pm
Newton Camera Club, 7:30pm |
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Children's Book Writers Group, 7pm
Talk by Child Psychiatrist, 7:30pm |
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Nature Talk, 7pm |
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more information on any of the Library events,
please call the Library at (617) 796-1360 |
Unless noted otherwise, all events take place at the Library's Main Branch.
All events are free and open to the public.
The Library is handicapped accessible. For special assistance when attending programs, call 796-1410 during business hours and 796-1360 evenings and weekends.
To view a previous calendar, click here to view the Archives. (Available from October 2004.) |
| Art Exhibits |
| ART EXHIBITION INFORMATION
Are you interested in exhibiting your artwork at the Library? The
Newton Free Library presents monthly exhibits by regional artists
in the Gallery and Main Hall of the main library, a state-of-the-art
facility which 11,000 people visit weekly. Please click
here for more information.
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| MAIN HALL / NOVEMBER |
Lynda Goldberg: Natural Beauty
November 2 - 29
Reception: Wednesday, November 8, 7:00PM
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Meadow Aglow |
Goldberg’s childlike enthusiasm for, and awe of, the natural world is transmitted beautifully through her mixed-media monotypes. A sky might be red or blue; a tangle of seaweed “dances” on the shore. In “Pond at Midnight,” she imagines the world below the surface of the water, leaves floating gently down, wondering “what a pond in the darkness and quiet of midnight might be like,” she says.
There is much variety and color in these monotypes from the dark navy of outer space to the red of falling leaves. Contrasts are strong and bright, movement is natural as the blowing breeze. Goldberg is a tactile person and adds leaves, grasses, ferns, seaweed, eggshells and other items to the inked printing plate before she rolls it through the press. Sometimes she uses the “ghost” print image again, adding variations as she goes. This suits her active imagination and sense of adventure, making each print unique.
This Newton resident has exhibited at University Place in Cambridge, Crane Estate in Ipswich, Starr Gallery at the JCC and the New Art Center in Newton and with the Monotype Guild of New England, Women’s Caucus for Art, and the North Shore, Cambridge and Newton Art associations of which she is a member. She has won many awards, including the prestigious Harry Ballinger Graphic Award from the North Shore Art Association. She teaches at the JCC in Newton.
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Jean Proulx Dibner: Generative Forces
November 2 - 29
Reception: Thursday, November 2, 7:00PM
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Remembering |
Dibner is a sculptor interested in the full spectrum of life, from the courage of the firemen who gave their lives to save others on September 11 to the quiet joy of a mother anticipating the birth of her baby. Several works depict those seeking to know the spiritual essence of this life. “I have been sculpting with my eyes my whole life, but intensely in clay for only the past six years,” she states, which may explain this desire to now express a broad range of emotions and insights.
Although only a face, bust or figure, somehow each sculpture conveys a scene or story. The bronze “Searching,” forcefully embodies the inner thoughts of a man sitting cross-legged, one hand reaching out, eyes open, seeking something. “Leaving the Nest” poignantly conveys the feelings of a daughter dreaming of her life ahead and her mother looking back towards the past. The ceramic and wood figures in her Spirit series express deep emotion: silent determination, deep sorrow and weariness, wisdom and perhaps contentment.
“This exhibit is a celebration of life and those generative forces that give it meaning…and the search for our connection to a larger life force,” the sculptor explains.
Dibner has been teaching sculpture for the past four years and opened the Beaumont Sculpture Center in Newton this past January. She has exhibited in New York at the National Sculpture Society, the Allied Artist Exhibitions and other places and at the Chesterwood National Trust in Stockbridge, MA. She is a juried member of the Copley Society, the New England Sculpture Association, the Cambridge Art Association and the Pen & Brush in New York. President of the Board of Governors for the New Art Center in Newton, where she resides, she is a former member of the Board of Overseers of DeCordova Museum.
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| Clubs |
Library
groups meet at the Newton Free Library, 330 Homer Street, Newton Centre,
unless otherwise noted. All meetings are free and open to the public.
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African
Literatures Discussion Group |
Led by Anne Serafin, this group explores the rich variety of writings from Africa. The group meets on the third Wednesday of the month at 7:30PM in Meeting Room A. Meeting Date: November 15: Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe. For further information, call 527-1072.
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Children's
Book Writers Group |
Meetings are usually held on the first Monday or on the fourth Wednesday of the month at 7:00PM. This group is for writers who have work in progress. Pre-registration required. Please call Maria Gianferrari at 781-891-0153 or Karen Day at 244-4830 for more info. Meeting Dates: Monday, Nov. 6, in Meeting Room A or Wednesday, Nov. 29, in Room B.
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Contemporary
Books Discussion Group |
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Great
Books Discussion Group |
Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:15PM in Meeting Room A. Members read books from the Great Books Foundation (available at the Library). Meeting Date: November 14: Gulliver’s Travels by Swift. For further information, call Ruth Greene at 527-4143.
Great Books Booklist - January 2007 - June 2007 |
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Camera Club |
Meetings are held at 7:30PM on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month at the Nonantum branch. Coordinator: Amy Oppenheimer: amy.oppenh@ verizon.net, ww.newtoncameraclub.org. Meeting Dates: Nov. 13: Street Photography by Andrew Miller: Nov. 27: New Zealand Travels by Karen Zimbrich/ Paul Olsen.
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Sequences:
Women Tell Our Stories Group |
In this women’s workshop, participants read, discuss and write about literature by women. The group meets the second Wednesday of each month from 10 - 11:30AM in Meeting Room A. Leader: Robin Mayer Stein. Meeting Date: November 8.
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Short
Fiction Writing Group |
This workshop provides an atmosphere of expert support to polish short fiction. It is geared for published writers as well as those who are actively pursuing publication. Leader is Michael Kaufman. Pre-registration is required: call 617-332-3347. The group meets the first Tuesday of the month, 7:00PM, in Room A. Meeting Date: November 7.
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Short
Story Discussion Group |
Meetings are usually held on the second Monday of the month at 7:30PM in Room A. Group co-leaders are Mary Lanigan and Barbara McGinley. For further info., call 527-1505. Meeting Date: November 13: “The Museum” by Leila Aboulela and “Justice Shiva Ram Murthy” by Rishi Reddi.
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Singing
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This group is for singers of all levels who enjoy singing classical and popular music. It meets monthly on Saturday afternoons, Noon – 1:30PM in Druker Auditorium. Meeting Date: November 18. Call coordinator Miriam Simen at 617-244-6705 for more info.
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Women in Career Transition |
Led by career counselor Joyce Picard, this group is for women downsizing careers, entering (or re-entering) the workforce or thinking of opting out. It focuses on goals, allowing time to share concerns. Pre-registration required: Call (617) 332-7600. It meets the third Tuesday of the month at 7:30PM in Meeting Room A. Meeting Date: Nov. 21.
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| Concerts/Entertainment |
All
concerts are free and open to the public. For directions to the Library,
please click here.
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| Marimba Concert of
Eastern & Western Music |
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Dazzling marimba player Fumito Nunoya will be joined by pianist Eliko Akahori for a concert of Eastern and Western music at the Library on Sunday, November 5, at 2:00PM.
Acclaimed as “agile and terrifically talented” by the Boston Herald and “magnetic…[producing] hauntingly luminous sounds” (Houston Chronicle), Nunoya’s bell-like tones perfectly suit the music of Bach, as well as Eastern and modern pieces, alternating from soft and ethereal to percussive and dramatic. The concert will include Chinese and Japanese traditional and popular songs, a lyrical modern concerto and a chaconne by Bach.
Nunoya has won many top prizes at national and international competitions including the World Marimba Competition in Stuttgart, Japan Classic Music Competition and the 2003 PAS International Marimba Competition in Kentucky. He has presented solo recitals in Paris, Italy, Japan and the U.S and has collaborated in chamber music concerts in Japan and locally at the Goethe Institute and the Boston Conservatory. His first CD, “Red Dragonfly,” was recently released. This past summer he performed at the Fukui Marimba Festival in Japan.
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Akahori has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative pianist to great acclaim on four continents. She has collaborated in chamber music concerts, recordings and radio and television programs with members of the Berlin, Chicago, Montreal, Boston, Vienna and San Francisco orchestras. In 1996 she performed for the Japanese Emperor’s family in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
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The Library will commemorate Veterans’ Day with a concert by Sears and Conner, “Boston’s favorite song duo,” (Boston Globe) on Saturday, November 11, 2:00PM. “Over There – Songs for Veterans’ Day” will feature songs from the WWI and WWII eras by Irving Berlin, George M. Cohan, George and Ira Gershwin and others, including “Over There,” “Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning” and “Strike Up the Band. |
Recipients of IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) and LIP (Life in Provincetown) awards, Benjamin Sears, voice, and Bradford Conner, piano and voice, have performed as a duo since 1989. They’ve released 9 CDs of music by Irving Berlin, George & Ira Gershwin and other classic songwriters. The duo has appeared at the Emerson Majestic Theatre, Wang Center, Scullers, Boston Cabaret Festival, CabaretFest! (Provincetown and Newburyport), Mabel Mercer Foundation Cabaret Convention (Town Hall, New York City), Don’t Tell Mama (New York), Tom Rolla’s Gardenia (Los Angeles), the International Fringe Festival (Orlando), Cabaret at Windows (Washington, DC) and at many other festivals and concert series nationwide. They are producing directors of American Classics and founding members of the Boston Association of Cabaret Artists.
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Piano Concert of Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin
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Pianist Artem Belogurov will present a concert of works by
Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin on Sunday, November 12 at
3:00PM at the Library.
This concert replaces the one previously announced for this day
and time. We are sorry for the inconvenience and will reschedule
Carla Chrisfield's concert for a later date. |
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| 4-Hand Piano Concert of Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff |
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Laureates of numerous international competitions, the Varshavsky-Shapiro Piano Duo, composed of Stanislava Varshavsky and Diana Shapiro, will give a concert of music by Stravinsky, Mendelssohn and Rachmaninoff at the Library on Sunday, November 19, at 2:00PM.
They have captured Grand Prize honors at the Frederick Chopin Cultural Association Piano Competition “Rome 2004”, Second Prize at the Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition in Miami (the biggest competition for two pianos) and First Prize at many more competitions in Jerusalem, Munich, Czech Republic and Poland, resulting in world tours and concert recordings.
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The duo has participated in international festivals, performed recitals in Europe, Hong Kong, Russia, Israel and the US in major concert halls and has appeared with many first-class orchestras. They are currently pursuing Graduate Performance Degrees as a Piano Duo at Longy School of Music.
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Cellist Injung Song will present a concert of works by Bach and Ginastera, accompanied by pianist Ayako Yoda at the Library on Sunday, November 26, at 2:00PM.
An active soloist, Song made her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall after winning the Artist International New York Debut Audition and was invited to play in the recital series at King’s Chapel, Boston. She has performed at the Piazza Pola in Sicily, the Vienna Musik Hochsule, Academie Musique de Sion, Switzerland, Flaine Music Festival, France, Sejong Performance Center and at the Korea & Japan International Friendship Concert, both in Seoul, among others.
Yoda has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in Japan, Switzerland, Portugal and Germany. This past summer she played by invitation in the Portsmouth [NH] Peace Treaty Centennial Concert Series, sponsored by the Consulate General of Japan in Boston. She has also performed with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Montreal Symphony Orchestra. |
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| Lectures |
| Combining Alternative & Conventional Medicine |
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Millions of people are turning to alternative medicine such as yoga, acupuncture, herbs and bodywork. But what works? Which ones are safe? What to ask your doctor? How to combine alternatives with conventional care?
Roanne Weisman, author of Own Your Health: Choosing the Best from Alternative & Conventional Medicine will speak at the Library on Thursday, November 9, at 7:30PM, followed by a booksigning. Joining her will be Alexa Fleckenstein, MD, one of the experts featured in Own Your Health and the co-author, with Weisman, of Healthy to 100: Aging With Vigor and Grace.
Weisman and Fleckenstein will offer valuable health information and the latest research from more than 100 interviews with experts and alternative practitioners about combining alternative and conventional treatments. Topics may include: improving your diet for health and weight loss, living more easily with chronic illness, tolerating cancer treatment, aging with optimism and good health, finding effective gentle treatments for childhood ear |
infections, allergies, asthma, and stomach problems or managing the symptoms of menopause. The speakers will also discuss insurance reimbursement and how to find the best alternative practitioners and holistic doctors.
Weisman is an award-winning author specializing in science, medicine and health care. She is principal of Words That Work, a company that provides writing services to medical, academic and corporate clients. Own Your Health received a health & healing award from ForeWord Magazine, and was a finalist for the 2004 Nautilus Book Award. She has co-authored three other books in the “Own Your Health” series.
Fleckenstein is a board-certified internist trained in the U.S. and Ger-many who specializes in both conventional medicine and alternative treatments, particularly European Natural Medicine, about which she will speak. She held positions in medicine for more than 20 years in Hamburg and Boston.
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| Poetry Series Features Marc Widershien,
Sarah Getty, Wendy Mnookin & Open Mike |
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The Library Poetry Reading Series will feature Marc Widershien, Sarah Getty and Wendy Mnookin on Tuesday, November 14, at 7:00PM. An Open Mike will follow with a one-poem per person limit.
Newton resident Mnookin has thee books of poetry published, What He Took, To Get Here and Guenever Speaks with another forthcoming: The Moon Makes its Own Plea. Her poems have been published in many journals, online publications and anthologies. She has won prizes from Comstock Review, Federal Poet, Kansas Quarterly and New Millennium Writings. She received an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and What He Took won the 2002 Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club.
Getty is an award-winning poet and fiction writer. Her second poetry collection, Bring Me Her Heart, was recently published. Her first collection, The Land of Milk and Honey, was published as part of the James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series (USC |
Press) and won a Cambridge Poetry Prize in 2002. Getty’s poem “That Woman” appeared in the anthology Birds in the Hand. Her poetry can also be found in magazines such as The Paris Review, The Western Humanities Review and Calyx. She received the New England Poetry Club’s Barbara Bradley Prize in 2004.
Poet, translator, book reviewer, essayist, teacher and editor, Widershien has been published in over 200 magazines, journals and newspapers. He is a member of the advisory board of New Renaissance. The Life of All Worlds, a lyrical memoir of Boston from Ibbetson Street Press, is now in its third edition. His current poetry collection is Poems of Survival.
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Massachusetts enacted landmark legislation that requires all residents to carry a minimum level of health insurance by July, 2007. The law presents many innovative programs and policies. Hear Thomas M. Jones, Esq., speak on "Health Care Reform for Mass. Residents: What it Means for You and Your Employer" on Wednesday, November 15, from 3:30 - 4:30PM as part of the Library's Legal Series.
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Jones is Vice President and legal counsel of Associated Industries of Massachusetts, a nonpartisan association of Mass. employers. He has exten-sive experience working with employers on labor and employment law.
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Indian-American Author to Speak
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Local children's author Mitali Perkins will speak on "Life Between Two Cultures" for adults and children 10+ in age on Wednesday, November 15, at 7:00PM. Through slides, personal anecdotes and Q&A with the audience, Perkins will offer insight on balancing two worlds, focusing on her experiences as an immigrant from India, a reader and eventually, a writer.
Her award-winning books include Monsoon Summer and The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen, with more forthcoming. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Library. |
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| Writer Charles Pierce to Speak on Tom Brady |
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When Tom Brady entered the 2005 NFL season as lead quarterback for the New England Patriots, the defending Super Bowl champions, he was hailed as the best to ever play the position. And with good reason: he was the youngest quarterback to ever win a Super Bowl; the only quarterback in NFL history to win three Super Bowls before turning twenty-eight; the fourth player in history to win multiple Super Bowl MVP awards. He started the season with a 57-14 record, the best of any NFL quarterback since 1966.
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Hear award-winning sports journalist Charles P. Pierce speak on his new book Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything at the Library, Monday, Nov. 20, at 7:30PM, followed by a booksigning.
This finely crafted, entertaining tale explains how Brady reached the top of his profession and how he stays there. It is a study in highly honed skills, discipline and making the most of good fortune, shot through with irony showing how this ordinary man and ordinary team become extraordinary. Pierce interviewed Brady’s friends, family, coaches and teammates. He interviewed Brady (notably for Sports Illustrated’s 2005 Sportsman of the Year cover article). And then he got the one thing he needed to truly take Brady’s measure: 2005 turned out to be the toughest Patriots season in five years.
On the staff of the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and a regular panelist on NPR’s “It’s Only a Game,” Pierce has written for, among others, Sports Illustrated, GQ, and Esquire. He is the author of Hard to Forget and of Sports Guy, on which he’s spoken at the Library.
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Puppet Sale
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We've got the most imaginative puppets, large and small, for sale at our annual Puppet Sale. You'll find gifts for every child on your holiday shopping list when Fred Reidy brings his large assortment of puppets on Monday, November 27, 10AM - 7PM. Proceeds go to the Friends of the Library. |
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Child Psychology Talk on Learning Problems
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Licensed clinical psychologist Iris Miller will speak on "Understanding the Cognitive Development of Children and Knowing When to Obtain an Evaluation for Learning Problems" in Meeting Room A at the Library on Wednesday, November 29, at 7:30PM.
Miller has more than 20 years of clinical experience. She offers school advocacy services, child and family therapy and neuropsychological assessments, specializing in Cognitive Control Therapy. She practices in Newton.
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Newton's Invasive Plants - A Talk by Peter Alden
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Newton is under attack from alien plant invaders creeping into our public open spaces, disrupting the natural balance of nature and crowding out our native plants.
Well known author, lecturer and naturalist Peter Alden will present a lecture and slideshow with a stunning display of the twenty worst invasive alien plants in the Newton area on Thursday, November 30, at 7:00PM at the Library, sponsored by the Newton Conservators. He will speak on how to recognize and control these plants, report on state legislative action and also conduct an instant village-by-village poll to assess where in Newton these invasives pose the most threat.
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A renowned birder and speaker, Alden has led ecotours to over 100 countries on all seven continents and lectured all over the world. He is the author of over a dozen nature field guides including the groundbreaking National Audubon Society Field Guide to New England. He has in preparation a new Field Guide to the Invasive Plants of New England and the Northeast.
For more information, visit www.newtonconservators.org.
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"An Inconvenient Truth" Screening, Discussion
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Green Decade Coalition/Newton and the Library present a special screening of "An Inconvenient Truth," followed by a discussion led by ecology expert Eric Olson on Saturday, December 2, at 1:00PM.
Former Vice President Al Gore presents a compelling look at the state of global warming in this inspirational documentary. Larry King called it, “One of the most important films ever” and Roger Friedman of FoxNews.com wrote, “It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative...your mind will be changed in a nanosecond.”
Olson teaches ecology and environmental impact assessment at
the Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University.
He also serves as Chairman of the Newton Citizens Commission on Energy. Olson’s focus on energy policy and technology stems from his concern that much of the world’s biological wealth will be harmed by too-rapid climate change, especially now that we have relegated so much of wild nature to national park “islands” in a sea of developed land.
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Try Our Best Recipes!
A Legacy for Literacy is proud to present its ESL Cookbook, Our Best Recipes, with 150 tasty international recipes provided by ESL tutors and learners in the program. Our popular potluck suppers, held twice a year in Druker Auditorium, inspired this fund-raising vehicle.
The cookbook will make a great gift for friends and family. Look for it at the Friends' Gift Cart in the lobby of the Main Library.
A Legacy for Literacy serves more than 250 adults with limited English proficiency. Your support of the cookbook project will help update and expand our literacy collection.
We are grateful to the Friends of the Library for their gracious support.
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Sign up for a free one- session computer class in Internet, PC Basics, Search Engines, Travel, Genealogical Research or other topics. Stop by a Reference Desk or call 617-796-1380.
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Morning Programs at the Library |
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From Story to Song
Morning Program
Have you wondered what comes first when creating a song, the music or the lyrics? How is a song born? Singer/pianist/songwriter Cici Fougner Hunt will have you singing some of your favorite songs, and then sing and play some of her favorites inspired by children of all ages, 5 to 95.
Do you have a poem you’d like to have set to music? Bring it with you on Thursday, November 9, at 10:30AM.
Hunt will collaborate with you on the spot to create your song.
Known as “the musical Erma Bombeck” (Saratogian newspaper), Hunt has presented her unique musical programs around the country and in Europe for years, singing in her beautiful Broadway voice, recorded for TV and radio and written for many organizations.
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Auburndale Book Group
The Auburndale branch book club will discuss Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner on Monday, November 27, at 10:30AM.
All are welcome to attend the book clubs at any of the branches.
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Booklists
Available
Looking
for a good book to read or conducting research in a particular area?
The Reference Department has compiled many booklists in a variety of
subjects: African Americans in American Life, College Admissions, Books
for Modern Parents, Buddhism, Day Trips, Gardening Guides, Rise and
Fall of Saddam Hussein, Retirement and much more.
Ask a Reference librarian at the YA Desk on the second floor for help in locating a list, or click here. |
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| For Your Information |
Consider
a Gift to the Library
Please help supplement our municipal funding and contribute towards
the purchase of books, audio/visual materials or equipment. Send your
check, payable to the Trustees, to: Development Office, Newton Free
Library, 330 Homer Street, Newton, MA 02459. For further information,
call 796-1400. Thank you.
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To Our Concert Goers:
Please be considerate of the performer
today as well as your fellow audience members and refrain from leaving
the auditorium during a piece of music. If you have small children with
you, please sit in the back rows. If you leave the auditorium between
pieces, please close the door quietly behind you and wait to re-enter
after a musical piece. Also, if you have a cellphone, please shut if
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DON'T SAVE SEATS!
When attending a Sunday afternoon concert,
please do not save more than one seat as this deprives others of attending
the concert. The rule is first come, first served.
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