Get to know the Framingham Reads Together author, Paulette Jiles by joining us for a discussion of her debut novel, Enemy Women. Jiles’ critically acclaimed debut chronicles the challenges a young woman, falsely imprisoned as a spy during the Civil War, faces when her home is destroyed and her heart given to the enemy. Led by Ruth Winett.
During this program, Professor Harel will cast a spotlight on the composer’s works for keyboard. Refreshments.
As we learned in October, making felties is fun! So now they’re back, and even more adorable than the monsters we worked on last time. In January we’ll be crafting woodland critters fit for any winter scene. Make a fox, or a bunny, or something else. The limit is your imagination!
First, we'll be at the Main Library at 3:30 PM on Thursday, January 4th, and we'll follow up at the McAuliffe Library at 3:30 PM on Thursday, January 18th.
And since it's cold outside, we'll have plenty of snacks and hot cocoa to warm you up.
Drop in to play with the additional, rotating stations in our new Play Space. Check out our Facebook page to discover which rotating station we will showcase each week.
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.
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets at baby lapsit time! Parents can network while babies pick up phonological awareness, one of six foundations of future reading success.
Ages 0-2 with caregiver.
Drop in to play with the additional, rotating stations in our new Play Space. Check out our Facebook page to discover which rotating station we will showcase each week.
Christopher Nolan directs this WWII thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold. Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh and Mark Rylance co-star. Refreshments.
Dunkirk (2017) 107 min. PG-13 (for intense war experience and some language)
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.
Written by Hugo and Nebula award winner Octavia Butler, Kindred tells the time travel story of a young black woman who is transported back and forth between her own life in 1976 and slave quarters in the antebellum South.
Drop in to play with the additional, rotating stations in our new Play Space. Check out our Facebook page to discover which rotating station we will showcase each week.
Drop in to play with the additional, rotating stations in our new Play Space. Check out our Facebook page to discover which rotating station we will showcase each week.
RESCHEDULED FROM FRIDAY, JANUARY 5
Christopher Nolan directs this WWII thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold. Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh and Mark Rylance co-star. Refreshments.
Enter on the Lexington Street side between 6:30-7:15pm.
Dunkirk (2017) 107 min. PG-13 (for intense war experience and some language)
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets at baby lapsit time! Parents can network while babies pick up phonological awareness, one of six foundations of future reading success.
Ages 0-2 with caregiver.
Despicable Me 3 (Rated PG; for action and rude humor). Gru meets his long-lost, charming, cheerful, and more successful twin brother, Dru, who wants to team up with him for one last criminal heist.
They’re back! Due to popular demand, we’ll now be doing a video game hangout at the Library monthly. Face off against your friends in games of your choosing.
Join us for violin and cello duets, with violinist Heidi Braun-Hill and cellist Colleen McGary-Smith. Refreshments.
This series is sponsored in part by Roche Brothers, Metro Credit Union, Morton Shuman Law Offices and Friends of the Framingham Library.
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.
Neuroscientist and bestselling author Lisa Genova brings us a story of resilience in the face of a devastating diagnosis. After a car crash leaves a vibrant mother in her thirties with a traumatic brain disorder called “left neglect,” she learns what truly matters most in life. Led by Paula Marsh.
As we learned in October, making felties is fun! So now they’re back, and even more adorable than the monsters we worked on last time. In January we’ll be crafting woodland critters fit for any winter scene. Make a fox, or a bunny, or something else. The limit is your imagination!
First, we'll be at the Main Library at 3:30 PM on Thursday, January 4th, and we'll follow up at the McAuliffe Library at 3:30 PM on Thursday, January 18th.
And since it's cold outside, we'll have plenty of snacks and hot cocoa to warm you up.
Drop in to play with the additional, rotating stations in our new Play Space. Check out our Facebook page to discover which rotating station we will showcase each week.
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.
Discussion Leader: Stephen Apkon, Producer, Director
Disturbing the Peace follows former enemy combatants—Israeli soldiers from elite units and Palestinian fighters, many of whom served years in prison—who have joined together to challenge the status quo and say “enough.” Winner of the Roger Ebert Humanitarian Award; Ebertfest, Most Valuable Documentary; Cinema for Peace, Conflict & Resolution winner; Hamptons International Film Festival feature. Refreshments.
Disturbing the Peace (2016) 82 min.
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets at baby lapsit time! Parents can network while babies pick up phonological awareness, one of six foundations of future reading success.
Ages 0-2 with caregiver.
Drop in to play with the additional, rotating stations in our new Play Space. Check out our Facebook page to discover which rotating station we will showcase each week.
On the isolated North Atlantic archipelago of the Faroe Islands, the longtime hunting practices of the Faroese are threatened by dangerously high mercury levels in the whales, decimated seabird populations, and anti-whaling activists. The Faroe islanders consider themselves a canary in the mine, their tale a warning to the rest of the world. Winner of the 2016 DOC NYC Grand Jury Prize.
Enter between 6:30-7:15pm.
The Islands and the Whales (2016). 60 min.
9:30-10:00am: Friends Members Only
10:00am-3:00pm: Open to the public
Please keep the Friends in mind during this busy time of year when you have books, CDs, DVDs or games in good condition. Donations are gratefully accepted during the sale. Smaller donations may also be made at the Main Library during the week. Please check with the Library if that is a more convenient way for you to donate.
We are pleased to welcome back Gudrun Hord of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage who has renewed its corporate membership. The full list of corporate members may be found online on the Friends Corporate Members and Supporters page.
As a reminder: Due to the citywide ban on plastic bags, we will no longer have them at our sale beginning in January.
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.
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.
In 2016, Framingham Attorney Christopher Petrini climbed Mt. Kiliminjaro, the highest peak in Africa, with his two children. After they finished their climb, they were joined by Chris’s wife and went on a family safari to the cradle of civilization. Join us for an arm chair travel trip to Africa.
Refreshments.
Join us for an American Girl doll craft and the chance to play with the library’s collection of dolls and accessories.
Registration Required. For Grades K+.
Drop in to play with the additional, rotating stations in our new Play Space. Check out our Facebook page to discover which rotating station we will showcase each week.
A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture, this riveting and rousing follow-up shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Refreshments.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017) 99 min.
Drop in to play with the additional, rotating stations in our new Play Space. Check out our Facebook page to discover which rotating station we will showcase each week.
Join us as we continue our travels with Otto Ringling from the previous book Breakfast with Buddha, putting our skepticism aside and softening to the humor, kindness, and wisdom of his passenger, Volya Rinpoche. The relationship between the two men has changed and they are now family, but even more important, Otto is opening up further to the purpose of his life and to what is possible.
Meditation will follow the book discussion.
Come and have some fun with the Framingham High School Robotics Team! Learn how to build robots and watch the high school team in action! No experience necessary.
Elementary through High School age students are welcome!
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets at baby lapsit time! Parents can network while babies pick up phonological awareness, one of six foundations of future reading success.
Ages 0-2 with caregiver.
9:30-10:00am: Friends Members Only
10:00am-3:00pm: Open to the public
We will feature paperback fiction in the Library lobby and Young Adult materials in the Bookroom.
Because of your support of the Friends, we are able to provide free movies, concerts, museum passes, audio books, CDs, DVDs, Children’s Room apps and many other services to patrons.
Donations are needed and are gratefully accepted during the sale. Smaller donations may also be made at the Main Library during the week. Please check with the Library.
Herb Connolly Auto Group has become our newest corporate member. The full list may be found here.
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! LEGO makers can participate in our LEGO contest! Enter your creation for a chance to win a prize!
For Grades K+. No registration required.
We are starting an AniManga club for everyone who enjoys all things Anime and Manga. To kick things off, we’ll be hosting a trivia night (complete with trophies for the winning team) to test your knowledge.
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.
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.
Framingham Public Library is proud to announce our new 30th Anniversary Celebration film series with many movies of 1988! Re-watch an old favorite, re-live your childhood, or catch something great for the first time. First up in January is the Tom Hanks’ crowd pleaser, Big.
January-March Schedule:
January 31– Big (PG)
February 28 – Hairspray (PG)
March 28 – Beetlejuice (PG)
All ages event (some movies rated R).
With Elizabeth F. Fideler, EdD, Research Fellow, Center on Aging & Work, Boston College
Elizabeth Fideler will be discussing her most recent book about Margaret Pearmain Welch, a Proper Bostonian from Louisburg Square who defied the mores of her social set and got away with it. Her country house was the 1787 Nixon House on Edmands Road, situated between the Millwood Hunt Club on one side and the meetinghouse of the Framingham Friends (which she cofounded) on the other, with Stearns Farm directly across the road, managed by her companion and caregiver Penelope Turton.
