Unwind with your knitting and your crocheting at the library! Share tips, conversation, and a love of making. Drop in for a little while or for the whole time. Instruction is provided if needed. Bring your own materials, although we do have some tools to get you started.
Meets every Wednesday and the second and fourth Saturday of the month.
Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, Rose-Lynn wants to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville. But her mother says otherwise. When she takes a cleaning job, Rose-Lynn finds an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house. Oscar buzz about star Jessie Buckley!
(2019) 101 min. Rated R for language throughout, some sexuality and brief drug material
In this Hugo Award winning tale, the end of the world starts with a great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon by an oppressed minority called orogenes.
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Helen Heineman, President Emerita, Framingham State University
Creating a good opening scene is an important launching operation on the part of a novelist. Dickens was a master at it, and this talk will look at how he created unforgettable ‘‘openers’’ in several of his 15 novels. We’ll look at his most famous–and best–in Bleak House as well as openers in Dombey and Son, Great Expectations and Edwin Drood.
Please Note: This lecture will be at the McAuliffe Branch Library.
9:30-10:00am: Friends Members
10:00am-3:00pm: Open to the public
Most Books $1.00 or less; Children’s .50 or less; single DVD’s $2.00.
We have something for everyone!! 3 Rooms + the lobby chock full of books.
This month we are featuring a great selection of beautiful Art Books and Atlases at $2.00 each in our lobby. We also have an assortment of stocking stuffers consisting of toys, games, flash cards and craft kits. It’s never too early to start shopping for the holidays and many of our like-new books and toys make perfect gifts!
Thanks to your continued support of the Friends, we are able to provide free movies, concerts, programs, museum passes, audio books, CDs, Children’s Room apps, and many other services to patrons and the Framingham community.
Starting or running a small business? You can get free and confidential business advice from SCORE of Boston! Make an appointment to meet with a SCORE volunteer at Framingham Public Library.
Runs every Monday.
Drop-in or join the group as we discuss and discover the many ways to journal for personal growth and enrichment.
Led by Alan Feldman, Professor Emeritus at Framingham State University
This drop-in class welcomes serious poets of all ages and levels of experience who would like to participate for one or more sessions. We begin with a discussion of a topic in poetry leading to a brief in-class assignment. Poets who wish to have their work discussed should bring copies.
Alan’s collection, Immortality, was awarded the Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry in 2016.
Unwind with your knitting and your crocheting at the library! Share tips, conversation, and a love of making. Drop in for a little while or for the whole time. Instruction is provided if needed. Bring your own materials, although we do have some tools to get you started.
Meets every Wednesday and the second and fourth Saturday of the month.
Join us for a discussion of this richly plotted book by one of Italy’s most celebrated contemporary authors, Elena Ferrante. Taking place in the 1950s in a poor neighborhood outside of Naples, best friends Elena and Lila grow and transform their relationship over the decades during a period of great change for the country.
Join us for an evening of coloring, calming tea, and music. Whether you love to color for fun or enjoy filling in all the details, coloring is relaxing and therapeutic! We will provide colored pencils and coloring pages for all levels. You are welcome to bring your own materials. No registration is required.
Meets first and third Thursdays of the month.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Sabine von Mering, Director of German and European Studies, Brandeis University
As the fourth largest economy in the world, Germany is currently able to power itself 41% from renewables while having committed to exit nuclear by 2022 and coal by 2038. How did Germany do this? What are the transferable lessons for the U.S.?
Laila Vehvilainen will lead you through some yoga stretches to reduce holiday stress. You will also learn breathing and meditation techniques to calm and center yourself.
Unwind with your knitting and your crocheting at the library! Share tips, conversation, and a love of making. Drop in for a little while or for the whole time. Instruction is provided if needed. Bring your own materials, although we do have some tools to get you started.
Meets every Wednesday and the second and fourth Saturday of the month.
Guest Speaker: State Representative Maria Robinson
State Representative Maria Robinson will share her work and vision for clean energy. Join us to learn about what we can do to help our environment!
Our first environmental awareness fair will include:
Starting or running a small business? You can get free and confidential business advice from SCORE of Boston! Make an appointment to meet with a SCORE volunteer at Framingham Public Library.
Runs every Monday.
Drop-in or join the group as we discuss and discover the many ways to journal for personal growth and enrichment.
Led by Alan Feldman, Professor Emeritus at Framingham State University
This drop-in class welcomes serious poets of all ages and levels of experience who would like to participate for one or more sessions. We begin with a discussion of a topic in poetry leading to a brief in-class assignment. Poets who wish to have their work discussed should bring copies.
Alan’s collection, Immortality, was awarded the Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry in 2016.
Unwind with your knitting and your crocheting at the library! Share tips, conversation, and a love of making. Drop in for a little while or for the whole time. Instruction is provided if needed. Bring your own materials, although we do have some tools to get you started.
Meets every Wednesday and the second and fourth Saturday of the month.
Laila Vehvilainen will lead you through some yoga stretches to reduce holiday stress. You will also learn breathing and meditation techniques to calm and center yourself.
Starting or running a small business? You can get free and confidential business advice from SCORE of Boston! Make an appointment to meet with a SCORE volunteer at Framingham Public Library.
Runs every Monday.
Presented by Dr. Helen Heineman, President Emerita, Framingham State University
Tuesdays December 3, 10, and 17, 9:30-11:00am – Main Library, Costin Room
Macbeth, Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy, one of his most widely read and performed plays, begins in a dark world, on a blasted, windswept heath, empty, uninhabited, inhuman: it’s a world where “men must not walk too late.” Macbeth, its distinguished warrior hero, is quickly transformed into a brutal, murderous villain, consumed with ambition and self-doubt. He is possessed of an imagination unmatched by any of Shakespeare’s other tragic heroes, a man in touch with the world of witches and the night, with a wife equally powerful and chilling. It is the most “modern” of morality plays.
This program will cover the play in three meetings in December. Participants should attend the first meeting having read Act I of Macbeth. Any edition is acceptable, as Acts, Scenes, and Lines are numbered. Participants should bring a copy of the play with them, as that will make it easier to follow the lecture and discussion.
Registration is requested. Please call 508-532-5570 x 4357 by Tuesday November 26.
Join us for an evening of coloring, calming tea, and music. Whether you love to color for fun or enjoy filling in all the details, coloring is relaxing and therapeutic! We will provide colored pencils and coloring pages for all levels. You are welcome to bring your own materials. No registration is required.
Meets first and third Thursdays of the month.
Guest Speaker Mitchell Zuckoff, Redstone Professor of Narrative Studies, Boston University
Author Mitchell Zuckoff, who covered 9/11 for the Globe, will describe the inside story of how he wrote the first comprehensive, narrative nonfiction account of the worst terrorist attacks in American history. As a member of The Boston Globe Spotlight Team, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Presented by Marcy Maiorana, Reference Librarian, Framingham Public Library
Do you want to read eBooks, download digital music or watch a movie online – but without paying fees or signing up for a subscription? Learn how Framingham Public Library and the Minuteman Library Network provide you access to thousands of digital books, audiobooks, movies, magazines, and music titles – all for free and with no late charges ever. We’ll cover Overdrive and Libby for digital books and magazines, Hoopla for digital music and movies, and Kanopy for indie and foreign movies off the beaten path. Bring your tablet, phone, or laptop and your library card to the workshop and we’ll help you get started!
About Marcy Maiorana:
Following her first career as a programmer and technical instructor, Marcy became a librarian in 2004 because she wanted a career that focused on her passion for reading. And then...along came eBooks a few years later, and she was back in the technology! She now spends time drawing on her technical instruction skills to help people access digital books, music, movies, magazines, and more using the library apps Overdrive, Libby, Hoopla, and Kanopy on all kinds of devices. Marcy still indulges in her passion for books - especially sci-fi - either in old-fashioned print format or on her iPad or Nook.
In England in 1987, a teenager from an Asian family learns to live his life, understand his family and find his own voice through the music of American rock star Bruce Springsteen.
(2019) 1hr. 58 min. Rated PG-13.
Starting or running a small business? You can get free and confidential business advice from SCORE of Boston! Make an appointment to meet with a SCORE volunteer at Framingham Public Library.
Runs every Monday.
Presented by Dr. Helen Heineman, President Emerita, Framingham State University
Tuesdays December 3, 10, and 17, 9:30-11:00am – Main Library, Costin Room
Macbeth, Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy, one of his most widely read and performed plays, begins in a dark world, on a blasted, windswept heath, empty, uninhabited, inhuman: it’s a world where “men must not walk too late.” Macbeth, its distinguished warrior hero, is quickly transformed into a brutal, murderous villain, consumed with ambition and self-doubt. He is possessed of an imagination unmatched by any of Shakespeare’s other tragic heroes, a man in touch with the world of witches and the night, with a wife equally powerful and chilling. It is the most “modern” of morality plays.
This program will cover the play in three meetings in December. Participants should attend the first meeting having read Act I of Macbeth. Any edition is acceptable, as Acts, Scenes, and Lines are numbered. Participants should bring a copy of the play with them, as that will make it easier to follow the lecture and discussion.
Registration is requested. Please call 508-532-5570 x 4357 by Tuesday November 26.
Laila Vehvilainen will lead you through some yoga stretches to reduce holiday stress. You will also learn breathing and meditation techniques to calm and center yourself.
Starting or running a small business? You can get free and confidential business advice from SCORE of Boston! Make an appointment to meet with a SCORE volunteer at Framingham Public Library.
Runs every Monday.
A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.
(2019). 1hr.40min. Rated PG.
Presented by Dr. Helen Heineman, President Emerita, Framingham State University
Tuesdays December 3, 10, and 17, 9:30-11:00am – Main Library, Costin Room
Macbeth, Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy, one of his most widely read and performed plays, begins in a dark world, on a blasted, windswept heath, empty, uninhabited, inhuman: it’s a world where “men must not walk too late.” Macbeth, its distinguished warrior hero, is quickly transformed into a brutal, murderous villain, consumed with ambition and self-doubt. He is possessed of an imagination unmatched by any of Shakespeare’s other tragic heroes, a man in touch with the world of witches and the night, with a wife equally powerful and chilling. It is the most “modern” of morality plays.
This program will cover the play in three meetings in December. Participants should attend the first meeting having read Act I of Macbeth. Any edition is acceptable, as Acts, Scenes, and Lines are numbered. Participants should bring a copy of the play with them, as that will make it easier to follow the lecture and discussion.
Registration is requested. Please call 508-532-5570 x 4357 by Tuesday November 26.
Join us for an evening of coloring, calming tea, and music. Whether you love to color for fun or enjoy filling in all the details, coloring is relaxing and therapeutic! We will provide colored pencils and coloring pages for all levels. You are welcome to bring your own materials. No registration is required.
Meets first and third Thursdays of the month.
Laila Vehvilainen will lead you through some yoga stretches to reduce holiday stress. You will also learn breathing and meditation techniques to calm and center yourself.
Starting or running a small business? You can get free and confidential business advice from SCORE of Boston! Make an appointment to meet with a SCORE volunteer at Framingham Public Library.
Runs every Monday.
Starting or running a small business? You can get free and confidential business advice from SCORE of Boston! Make an appointment to meet with a SCORE volunteer at Framingham Public Library.
Runs every Monday.
