This Chess Club is an informal group welcoming everyone from new players to junior chess masters! Chess boards are provided, but you can bring your own. Staff are available to help with questions, but will not be teaching chess. For Elementary and Middle School students.
1st Tuesday of every Month, 5PM | MAIN, HOMEWORK CENTER
3rd Tuesday of every Month, 5PM | MCAULIFFE, COMMUNITY ROOM
The ox is a very important figure in many popular festivals in Brazil, and the Bumba-meu-boi from Maranhão takes place during the Festas Juninas season. Brinca Piranga is honored to bring the Boi Olhos Azuis ("Blue-Eyed Ox") to Framingham. We invite all ages to come learn how to sing a toada de boi (ox chant), play the matraca (traditional percussion instrument), and dance along with the ox in this joyful celebration of a sovereign Brazil's Independence Day. Brazilian Consul General Mourão will open the festivities!
Have career-related questions? Need help with a resume? Maybe you want to practice your interview skills. Stop by our Walk-in Career Services and meet with resident career coach Ed Lawrence for expert advice.
Find Ed every Tuesday evening from 6–8PM at the Main Library in the former Homework Center on the first floor. No appointment necessary and always free!
"Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian—an enigmatic and volatile man—spends her inheritance and insists she accompany him on an expedition to New France. Isolated and afraid, Marguerite befriends her guardian’s servant and the two develop an intense attraction. But when their relationship is discovered, they are brutally punished and abandoned on a small island with no hope for rescue.
Once a child of privilege who dressed in gowns and laced pearls in her hair, Marguerite finds herself at the mercy of nature. As the weather turns, blanketing the island in ice, she discovers a faith she’d never before needed.
Inspired by the real life of a sixteenth-century heroine, Isola is the timeless story of a woman fighting for survival."
Register here for the Zoom link.
Also, join our author talk with Allegra Goodman on September 9 at the McAuliffe Branch. She joins us virtually to discuss her novel Isola.
