Join us for an evening of coloring 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.
This talk will look at Copland’s film scores from Hollywood’s Golden Age and his influence on the Hollywood soundtrack.
This free lecture series is a partnership of Framingham State University (FSU) and Framingham Public Library (FPL). The series is sponsored in part by a grant from the Framingham Cultural Council. Refreshments.
Presenter: Dr. Paula Musegades, Florence Levy Kay Fellow, Brandeis University
Come explore learning at this ECAAF sponsored group. Brain build with us with early literacy and school readiness activities!
All Ages.
Learn how to increase knowledge and understanding of normal changes in memory as we age and to provide strategies for improved remembering. Come prepared to discuss concerns and have fun learning new techniques.
About Judy Sabol
Judy has been the Memory Care Director at the Heritage in Framingham since 1998. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and is proficient in the field of dementia and Alzheimer’s Care since 1982. She is a Co-Chair of the MetroWest Alzheimer’s Partnership since 1998 and a Member of the Alzheimer's Association Advisory Board. Judy also conducts a Support Group for Caregivers of people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.
A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. Starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. Refreshments.
Doors open at 6:30pm. Please use the Lexington Street entrance.
(2016) 2 hrs, 8 min. PG-13.
Max, a terrier, has his favorite-pet status turned upside-down when his owner takes in a stray named Duke. Also, it reveals the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day.
All ages at parents’ discretion. Rated PG for action and some rude humor.
Let us support you along your parenting journey with this ECAAF sponsored program for those soon-to-be parents and/or parents of infants 6 months and younger. Meet other new parents and discuss common child development topics. Complete an Ages & Stages Parent Questionnaire and understand more about your baby and yourself. We guarantee fun activities along with helpful information.
0-6 months and parents.
Sponsored by
The Framingham Artists’ Guild is presenting a members’ art exhibit from June 3-June 30 in the Library Gallery. Beautiful and unusual subjects interpreted in paint, fabric, and photography will be on display. A qualified judge will choose his/her winners. Do you agree? Which will be your favorites? Please join us to meet artists and enjoy some refreshments during our opening reception.
Huge board games! Inflatable dice! Giant Jenga! Snacks! The final Teen Tuesday of the school year has it all. Also, these will be the first chances to sign up for our Summer Reading program this year.
3:30-5:00 PM on Tuesday, June 6th @ McAuliffe - Community Room
3:30-5:00 PM on Tuesday, June 20th @ Main Library - Costin Room
Two young women, separated by a century, are united in their determination to fight for the thing they love most. The novel entwines the stories of Sofie, living in her German occupied French village in 1916, and Liv struggling with the loss of her husband in modern day London. At the center of their stories is a painting entitled The Girl You Left Behind. An enchanting novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You. Led by Ronda Andrews.
Guest Speaker, Gil Harel, will be speaking about the career of the great jazz legend, Miles Davis. Refreshments.
Join us for an evening of coloring 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.
Judith Kalaora, founder and artistic director of History at Play will be teaching a series of four Improv Classes at the Library. This is a great opportunity to learn from someone who has performed on stage as Lucy Stone, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hedy Lamarr and Christa McAuliffe. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Sign-ups are limited to 20. Please register by calling 508-532-6347 or sending an email to: asadkin@minlib.net before May 1 to reserve a seat.
Please join us for a discussion of Real Happiness: the Power of Meditation. A short meditation will follow the book discussion. Together, we will find the best way to incorporate it into, and perhaps beyond, the book group. We hope to bring more peace and awareness into your days.
You can request the book here or here or pick up a copy on display at the Main Library. eBook and downloadable audiobook versions of Real Happiness are available through Hoopla. They may be used on a computer, tablet, or smartphone. And as with all titles in Hoopla they are always available, so there is no waiting! If you have any questions about using Hoopla we have drop in help at the Main Library on Monday and Wednesday nights from 6-9pm and by appointment by calling 508-532-5570 x4361.
International concert pianist Roman Rudnytsky will be performing pieces from Haydn, Beethoven, Prokofiev, Debussy, Albeniz and Liszt. CDs will be available for purchase. Refreshments.
The series is sponsored in part by the The Saul B. and Naomi R. Cohen Foundation, Cumberland Farms, Roche Bros., Metro Credit Union, Hammond Residential Real Estate, Morton Shuman Law Offices and Friends of the Framingham Library.
Let us support you along your parenting journey with this ECAAF sponsored program for those soon-to-be parents and/or parents of infants 6 months and younger. Meet other new parents and discuss common child development topics. Complete an Ages & Stages Parent Questionnaire and understand more about your baby and yourself. We guarantee fun activities along with helpful information.
0-6 months and parents.
Sponsored by
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. Each session begins with a discussion of a topic in poetry leading to a brief in-class assignment. Poets who wish to have their work discussed need to provide copies to distribute during the session.
As a witness to atrocities committed during the Cultural Revolution in China, Ye Wenjie is deeply dismayed by the cruelty of humanity. While working for the military, she covertly sends a coded message into space, asking for help. An alien civilization called Trisolaris from the Alpha Centauri system intercepts the message and over the next few decades, makes contact with Earth inhabitants by engaging them in an unusual video game. Ultimately, Earth splits into two factions: those who see the Trisolarans as an invasive threat, and those who welcome their arrival. Cixin Liu, a multiple award winning science fiction writer in China, has written "a masterpiece with the scope of Dune and the rousing action of Independence Day." (publisher notes)
Del Case presents the World of African-American Music: An historical survey of a wide variety of musical genres. Refreshments.
Enjoy a break from the cares of 2017 and visit the world of Frank, a ten year old eccentric, his literary recluse mother, and the just-hired assistant who is on the scene to smooth the path for a long awaited new…
Join us for an evening of coloring 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.
Judith Kalaora, founder and artistic director of History at Play will be teaching a series of four Improv Classes at the Library. This is a great opportunity to learn from someone who has performed on stage as Lucy Stone, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hedy Lamarr and Christa McAuliffe. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Sign-ups are limited to 20. Please register by calling 508-532-6347 or sending an email to: asadkin@minlib.net before May 1 to reserve a seat.
Come explore learning at this ECAAF sponsored group. Brain build with us with early literacy and school readiness activities!
All Ages.
9:30-10:00am: Friends’ Members Only
10:00am-3:00pm: Open to the public
The Friends’ annual membership drive will officially start July 1 for the 2017-2018 season. The bonus is that anyone who becomes a member in June 2017 will be allowed into the sale at the earlier time of 9:30am through June 2018.
Our corporate membership is growing monthly. Please patronize the companies that are helping support the work we do. The list of members may be found on the Friends’ website.
We are pleased to announce an extra sale to be held Saturday July 15 from 10:00am-3:00pm at the Main Library. There will be no bag room. Friends’ members will be admitted at 9:30am.
Let us support you along your parenting journey with this ECAAF sponsored program for those soon-to-be parents and/or parents of infants 6 months and younger. Meet other new parents and discuss common child development topics. Complete an Ages & Stages Parent Questionnaire and understand more about your baby and yourself. We guarantee fun activities along with helpful information.
0-6 months and parents.
Sponsored by
A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam’s children. Starring Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr and Rita Moreno. Refreshments.
This series is sponsored in part by Trader Joe’s and Friends of the Framingham Library.
(1956) 2 hr. 13 min.
Drop in and make something creative with our supplied LEGOs. Look through our LEGO idea books to make something super exciting or design your own structure! Leave your name with the creation, and we’ll display it on top of our shelves for a month!
Grades K+.
Huge board games! Inflatable dice! Giant Jenga! Snacks! The final Teen Tuesday of the school year has it all. Also, these will be the first chances to sign up for our Summer Reading program this year.
3:30-5:00 PM on Tuesday, June 6th @ McAuliffe - Community Room
3:30-5:00 PM on Tuesday, June 20th @ Main Library - Costin Room
We are celebrating another wonderful year with a barbecue! Tutors and students, please join us! We will provide hot dogs, hamburgers and drinks—you bring the side dishes (salads, vegetables, desserts, chips).
*If it rains, we will use the Costin 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. Each session begins with a discussion of a topic in poetry leading to a brief in-class assignment. Poets who wish to have their work discussed need to provide copies to distribute during the session.
Family recipes fill us with nostalgia and draw us closer, but what if they are hard to read, or even unwritten? Or, cherished letters and albums are falling apart? Valerie J. Frey, archivist and author of Preserving Family Recipes: How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions, will explore various aspects of preserving your family’s heirloom recipes and important documents. Learn how to address these challenges and see what might be hiding between the lines. Refreshments.
Twenty fun-filled minutes of tiny tales and tunes in interactive fashion for little library-goers and their adults, with playtime afterward!
Ages 0-3.
This bluegrass band features clean harmonies, strong pickin’ and a solid groove that is not afraid to frolic in the funky for laughs. Refreshments.
Join us for an evening of coloring 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.
Judith Kalaora, founder and artistic director of History at Play will be teaching a series of four Improv Classes at the Library. This is a great opportunity to learn from someone who has performed on stage as Lucy Stone, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hedy Lamarr and Christa McAuliffe. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Sign-ups are limited to 20. Please register by calling 508-532-6347 or sending an email to: asadkin@minlib.net before May 1 to reserve a seat.
Despite the old saying, the Framingham Public Library will be offering free lunch three days a week this summer to children between the ages of 5 and 18. Drop by, eat, and pick up some summer reading while you’re here.
Ages 5-18.
Let us support you along your parenting journey with this ECAAF sponsored program for those soon-to-be parents and/or parents of infants 6 months and younger. Meet other new parents and discuss common child development topics. Complete an Ages & Stages Parent Questionnaire and understand more about your baby and yourself. We guarantee fun activities along with helpful information.
0-6 months and parents.
Sponsored by
Twenty fun-filled minutes of tiny tales and tunes in interactive fashion for little library-goers and their adults, with playtime afterward!
Ages 0-3.
Despite the old saying, the Framingham Public Library will be offering free lunch three days a week this summer to children between the ages of 5 and 18. Drop by, eat, and pick up some summer reading while you’re here.
Ages 5-18.
Guest speaker Leslie Starobin, Framingham State University Professor, will be talking about the current MFA exhibit on the Lodz Ghetto.
Join us for an evening of coloring 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.
Judith Kalaora, founder and artistic director of History at Play will be teaching a series of four Improv Classes at the Library. This is a great opportunity to learn from someone who has performed on stage as Lucy Stone, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hedy Lamarr and Christa McAuliffe. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Sign-ups are limited to 20. Please register by calling 508-532-6347 or sending an email to: asadkin@minlib.net before May 1 to reserve a seat.
Despite the old saying, the Framingham Public Library will be offering free lunch three days a week this summer to children between the ages of 5 and 18. Drop by, eat, and pick up some summer reading while you’re here.
Ages 5-18.
A group of quirky animals lives on a tropical isle that is pure wild animal paradise. Then Robinson Crusoe, a marooned human, arrives in the midst of a furious storm, and their lives are changed forever by this bewildering new 'creature.'
All ages at parents discretion. Rated PG for mild action/peril and some rude humor.
