NEW! Info Hub
Look HERE first for the latest news and resources from Framingham Public Library, along with important information -- about COVID-19, voting, and more -- from the City of Framingham.
Request a puzzle to pick up at McAuliffe through http://bit.ly/Puzzle_Swap_Request and then take it home! Choose how many pieces you'd prefer the puzzle to contain and bring home some fun. Just like with our in-person Puzzle Swap, you can choose to return it to the Branch when you are finished, or bring back a completely different puzzle (or any extra puzzles you wish to join the swap!).
Join us for a knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! Mondays from 11:00am-12:00pm and/or Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm. This is not a learn to knit or crochet program.
Email us for the Zoom link at: framinghamlibrarybookgroups@gmail.com.
A variety of functional fitness exercises to tone core, upper and lower body muscles followed by stretches. This is a low impact class designed to be adaptable to participants’ different levels.
Email framinghamlibraryexercise@gmail.com by noon on the day of the class for the link to join.
Dear Edward tells the story of a 14 year old boy who is the sole survivor of a plane crash that kills all of the 191 other passengers. Join us for a discussion of this bestseller The New York Times calls “A surprisingly uplifting story, full of hope and dry humor, with an underlying...message about the decency of strangers.”
Please email framinghamlibrarybookgroups2@gmail.com for the Zoom link to join.
Available in our catalog, and as an eBook and Audiobook on Overdrive/Libby.
Join us for a knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! Mondays from 11:00am-12:00pm and/or Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm. This is not a learn to knit or crochet program.
Email us for the Zoom link at: framinghamlibrarybookgroups@gmail.com.
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. David Smailes, Associate Professor, Political Science, Framingham State University
This year has been unlike any other in America, and the presidential election we have just witnessed has been like no other as well. Join us as we discuss the election that just concluded by looking back on the nomination process by the two major parties as well as third party candidates, and some of the reason for the outcome of the election. Looking forward, we’ll also talk about what might come next in American political life.
Led by Alan Feldman, Professor Emeritus at Framingham State University
This 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. Poets may discuss their work. If you are new to the group and would like to participate, please email FPLpoetryworkshop@gmail.com.
Presented by Marcy Venezia, CEO, MBA, RN, PMP
Depression is part of the natural ebb and flow of life. If you think it’s a sign of illness you may be missing its benefits. Understanding this rhythm from a spirit, mind and body perspective reveals some surprising healing properties. Experience the healing difference. You will feel better and learn practical skills for managing depression. This class will lift your spirits!
Please email brownbagprogram49@gmail.com by 9am on November 6 to receive the link to the Zoom session.
Join us for a knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! Mondays from 11:00am-12:00pm and/or Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm. This is not a learn to knit or crochet program.
Email us for the Zoom link at: framinghamlibrarybookgroups@gmail.com.
A variety of functional fitness exercises to tone core, upper and lower body muscles followed by stretches. This is a low impact class designed to be adaptable to participants’ different levels.
Email framinghamlibraryexercise@gmail.com by noon on the day of the class for the link to join.
MEET THE BLACK COMPOSERS: a Deep Dive Series with Castle of our Skins Part II.
Join the Framingham Public Library and Ashleigh Gordon for a deep dive into the Black composers who have influenced classical music.
Monday November 9, 7pm – Giving Thanks: meet the early pioneers and trailblazers who paved the way for generations to come.
Monday December 14, 7pm – Singing for Freedom: the power of African American spirituals.
Please email framinghamlibraryevents@gmail.com for an invite and link to the Zoom session.
This moving story of a 7-year-old boy who was kidnapped from his home in India, sold to an orphanage and then adopted by a family in the United States is based on a real narrative. As an adult, he confronts his past on a journey of self-discovery.
Led by Linda Goldberg. Please email lgoldberg@minlib.net for the Zoom link to join.
Available in our catalog, and as an eBook on Overdrive/Libby and Hoopla.
The title for our December 8 discussion is The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. Moore.
Led by Alan Feldman, Professor Emeritus at Framingham State University
This 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. Poets may discuss their work. If you are new to the group and would like to participate, please email FPLpoetryworkshop@gmail.com.
Special browsing hour for Seniors only (60 years+) from 9-10am.
Browse carts of books, movies and music set up in our Learning Yard at the Main Library. Staff will be on hand to help you check out your books. Please be advised that masks are required to enter the learning yard and social distancing guidelines will be in place.
Violinist James Buswell and cellist Carol Ou will perform Handel-Halvorsen’s Passacaglia, Glière’s 8 Pieces for Violin and Cello, op. 39, and Kodály’s Duo for Violin and Cello, op. 7.
The series is sponsored in part by Middlesex Savings Bank, Metro Credit Union, Brookdale Cushing Park, Roche Bros., Law Office of Framingham Attorney Jeffrey M. Steinberg, St. Mary’s Credit Union, and Friends of the Framingham Library.
Facebook Live: www.facebook.com/framinghamlibrary
YouTube Live: www.youtube.com/framinghampubliclibrary
Request a puzzle to pick up at McAuliffe through http://bit.ly/Puzzle_Swap_Request and then take it home! Choose how many pieces you'd prefer the puzzle to contain and bring home some fun. Just like with our in-person Puzzle Swap, you can choose to return it to the Branch when you are finished, or bring back a completely different puzzle (or any extra puzzles you wish to join the swap!).
Join us for a knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! Mondays from 11:00am-12:00pm and/or Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm. This is not a learn to knit or crochet program.
Email us for the Zoom link at: framinghamlibrarybookgroups@gmail.com.
In 1940, Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, but when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways that it will take her years to fully understand. Now 95 years old and telling her story at last, she recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her life.
Led by Jillian Holmberg. Please email framinghamlibrarybookgroups@gmail.com for the Zoom link to join.
The title for our December 15 discussion is The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey.
(Available in our catalog, and as an eBook and audiobook on Overdrive/Libby).
Jazz guitarist, composer and Berklee professor, John Baboain performs with fellow Berklee professors, bassist Bruce Gertz and vibraphonist Rich Greenblatt.
Sponsored by the Framingham Cultural Council.
Facebook Live: www.facebook.com/framinghamlibrary
YouTube Live: www.youtube.com/framinghampubliclibrary
Join us for a knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! Mondays from 11:00am-12:00pm and/or Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm. This is not a learn to knit or crochet program.
Email us for the Zoom link at: framinghamlibrarybookgroups@gmail.com.
A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end.
(Note 3rd instead of 2nd Wednesday of the month due to Veteran’s Day) (Available in our catalog, and as an eBook on Overdrive/Libby)
Led by Lucy Loveridge. Please email lloveridge@minlib.net to receive the Zoom invitation.
The title for our December 9 discussion is A Million Open Doors by John Barnes.
Start your week off right with a half hour of guided meditation and other opportunities for care free relaxation techniques!
Join us the third Thursday of each month as Leslie teaches us valuable techniques to relax and reinvigorate before the stresses of the week take hold. With Love and Gratitude is a nonprofit organization dedicated to service and education.
Email framinghamlibraryevents@gmail.com for an invitation and link to the Zoom session.
About Leslie Gabriele:
Leslie founded With Love and Gratitude in 2001. Leslie is a clairaudient, clairsentient, clairempath "energetic catalyst” who is trained in multiple healing modalities. Leslie’s work is guided in the moment, done without attachment.
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Helen Heineman, President Emerita, Framingham State University
The great romantic poet William Wordsworth was born 250 years ago in a little market town in northern England. For all his distance from us, in space and time, he is our contemporary, mainly because he boldly chose himself as his great and best subject. His masterpiece is The Prelude, a poem of 13 books in iambic pentameter, never published in his lifetime and often called the finest 19th century English autobiography. He lived the longest of the tragically short-lived Romantic poets like Keats and Shelley, but was the most original. Resisting the influence of his 18th century forebears, he insisted on using the real language of people, and traced his creative life back to his infancy, prefiguring recent child psychology and the work of Freud. The Prelude’s first two books are the best, and this talk will concentrate on these, while summarizing the remainder, which encompass more than half his life. His daring subject is the birth of the creative imagination, as he gives the reader the experience of his childhood and young adulthood with vivid and haunting power. The lecture will also include images of his surroundings in paintings and drawings of his time.
Please email framinghamlibraryevents@gmail.com to receive a Zoom link.
Led by Alan Feldman, Professor Emeritus at Framingham State University
This 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. Poets may discuss their work. If you are new to the group and would like to participate, please email FPLpoetryworkshop@gmail.com.
Join us for a knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! Mondays from 11:00am-12:00pm and/or Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm. This is not a learn to knit or crochet program.
Email us for the Zoom link at: framinghamlibrarybookgroups@gmail.com.
A variety of functional fitness exercises to tone core, upper and lower body muscles followed by stretches. This is a low impact class designed to be adaptable to participants’ different levels.
Email framinghamlibraryexercise@gmail.com by noon on the day of the class for the link to join.
Can being vulnerable make you happier? Brené Brown studies human connection—our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. Watch her TEDTalk, “The Power of Vulnerability” and then join us for a discussion. Email us at framinghamlibraryevents@gmail.com to receive an invitation and link to the Zoom session.
Request a puzzle to pick up at McAuliffe through http://bit.ly/Puzzle_Swap_Request and then take it home! Choose how many pieces you'd prefer the puzzle to contain and bring home some fun. Just like with our in-person Puzzle Swap, you can choose to return it to the Branch when you are finished, or bring back a completely different puzzle (or any extra puzzles you wish to join the swap!).
Join us for a knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! Mondays from 11:00am-12:00pm and/or Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm. This is not a learn to knit or crochet program.
Email us for the Zoom link at: framinghamlibrarybookgroups@gmail.com.
A variety of functional fitness exercises to tone core, upper and lower body muscles followed by stretches. This is a low impact class designed to be adaptable to participants’ different levels.
Email framinghamlibraryexercise@gmail.com by noon on the day of the class for the link to join.
