Events Calendar / October 02, 2018

Book Buddy Read to Dogs: October Dates!

• October 02, 2018 , 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Main Library, Children's Program Room

Improve your reading skills the fun way by reading aloud to your new Book Buddy. Certified Reading/Therapy Dogs Eloise, Montana, and Lilah listen as children read aloud from a book of their choice.
- Tuesday October 2, 2018, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- Saturdays October 13 & 27, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00 pm
- Sundays October 14 & 28, 2018 - 2:00 - 3:00 pm

Reading will take place in the Children's Program Room. All ages are welcome! Registration is required.Please call 508-532-5570 x4 or drop by to sign up for a 15 minute slot.

• Main Library
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• Kids

Journal Writers Group: SPECIAL 12 WEEK SESSION: The Artist’s Way

• October 02, 2018 , 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm / Christa McAuliffe Branch Library, Community Room

Join us for an amazing twelve weeks as we discuss Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. This international bestseller has inspired millions to overcome the limiting beliefs and fears that inhibit the creative process. In it, Julia Cameron takes readers on an amazing twelve week journey to discover the inextricable link between their spiritual and creative selves.

This groundbreaking program includes:
• An Introduction to two of Cameron’s most vital tools for creative recovery – “The Morning Pages and The Artist Date”
• Hundreds of highly effective exercises and activities
• Guidance on starting a “Creative Cluster” of fellow artists who will support you in your creative endeavors
 

Program runs every Tuesday from January 8 - March 26.

• McAuliffe Branch
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• Adults
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• Writing

Main Library Book Group: An Odyssey: a Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn

• October 02, 2018 , 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm / Main Library, Trustees Room

From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author Daniel Mendelsohn, comes the critically acclaimed story of a father and son’s transformative shared journey in reading Homer’s Odyssey in the wake of the father’s late-in-life enrollment in his son’s undergraduate seminar.

• Main Library
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• Adults
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• Book Discussion

Poetry Workshop

• October 02, 2018 , 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm / Christa McAuliffe Branch Library, Craft Room

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.

• McAuliffe Branch
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• Adults
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• Writing