Munchkin 2018 (at Main Library)
We haven’t played Munchkin in a little while, so it’s time for a return! Join us to loot dungeons, fight monsters, and make & break alliances in the pursuit of glory. Also, there will be snacks.
Events Calendar / February 2018
Special Play Space Activities
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.
Adult Coloring Night
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.
Drop-in Baby Lapsit at Main Library
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.
Special Play Space Activities
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.
Brown Bag Learning Series: Road Scholar
Presented by Donna Brock
Do you love to travel, enjoy learning new things, explore interesting places, and like to meet people who share a love of adventure? Come and learn about Road Scholar, America’s first and the world’s largest educational travel organization for adults. Road Scholar is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to inspire adults to learn, discover and travel. Our learning adventures engage expert instructors, provide extraordinary access, and stimulate discourse and friendship among people for whom learning is the journey of a lifetime. With educational travel adventures in 150 countries and all 50 states, Road Scholar is the university of the world.
About Donna Brock: Donna Brock is a member of the Road Scholar volunteer speakers' bureau, the Ambassador Program. She is a seasoned Road Scholar participant who volunteers her time to give informative and enthusiastic presentations about the educational travel adventures available through Road Scholar.
Celebrating African American Children’s Authors
Cheryl Brown, local professor, will read and share her favorite children’s authors, illustrators, and their stories with families on Fridays February 2 and 9.
FRIDAY NIGHT FILM: Stronger
The real life story of Jeff Bauman, an ordinary man who captured the hearts of his city and the world to become a symbol of hope after surviving the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Refreshments.
Stronger (2017) 1 hr. 59 min. Rated R
Enter on the Lexington Street side between 6:30-7:15pm.
BLACK HISTORY/AFRICAN AMERICAN MONTH: Matinee Film: Marshall
About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.
1hr. 58min. (PG-13)
Journal Writers Group: SPECIAL 12 WEEK SESSION: The Artist’s Way
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.
MAIN LIBRARY BOOK GROUP: The Last Painting of Sara De Vos by Dominic Smith
This critically acclaimed novel is a rich and detailed story that connects a 17th-century Dutch painting to its 20th-century American owner and the lonely but fervent art student who makes the life-changing decision to forge it. Led by Liz Fideler.
Poetry Workshop
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.
Special Play Space Activities
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.
Marc Berger: RIDE Concert
Marc has performed at Austin’s SXSW Music Festival and The Kerrville Folk Festival, and showcased at the 2016 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. He has opened shows for Bob Dylan and other national acts. His song, “The Last One,” was a staple of Richie Havens’ concerts for over twenty years. His current release, RIDE, presents ten cinematic recordings capturing the vastness and romance of the American West. Refreshments.
Celebrating African American Children’s Authors
Cheryl Brown, local professor, will read and share her favorite children’s authors, illustrators, and their stories with families on Fridays February 2 and 9.
Special Play Space Activities
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.
HEALTHY LIVING SERIES: Kick Off Event
In collaboration with the Callahan Center, the Library is excited to announce the Healthy Living Series. This one year program is designed to help those over age 55 make lasting healthy lifestyle changes. The series consists of free drop in exercise and health/nutrition classes offered at three locations. The Kickoff Event will include an overview of the program, a presentation by dietitian Jane Polley and senior fitness specialist Laila Vehvilainen on “Healthy Habits: Moving from Survive to THRIVE.” Light refreshments will follow.
Upcoming classes in this series:
- Stretch and Meditate beginning on Tuesday February 13, 1:30-2:15pm, McAuliffe Branch Library
- Qi Gong beginning on Friday February 23, 2-3:00pm, Main Library
- Low Impact Exercise beginning on Wednesday March 7, 3:15-4:00pm, Callahan Center (535 Union Ave).
Book Buddy: Read to Dogs at McAuliffe
Improve your reading skills the fun way by reading aloud to our Book Buddy. Certified Reading/Therapy Dog, Chewie and our newest pal Rocky, listen as children read aloud from a book of their choice.
Registration required. Call 508-532-5636 x5 or drop by sign up for a 15 minute slot.
All ages.
Drop-in Baby Lapsit at Main Library
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.
Valentine’s Day Open Craft
Drop in and make something heart-felt, or heart shaped for someone who makes you feel special! Materials will be provided. All ages are welcome!
Book Buddy: Read to Dogs at Main Library
Improve your reading skills the fun way by reading aloud to one of our furry friends! Book Buddy Certified Reading/Therapy Dogs Lilah, Montana, and Eloise listen as children read aloud from a book of their choice.
Registration required. Call 508-532-5570, press 4, or drop by to sign up for a 15 minute slot.
Sunday Concert Series: Susanne Friedrich and Ana Sorina Popa
Cellist Susanne Friedrich and Pianist Ana Sorina Popa perform the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Muczynski and Sergei Prokofiev. Refreshments.
The series is sponsored in part by Roche Brothers, Metro Credit Union, Morton Shuman Law Offices and Friends of the Framingham Library.
Journal Writers Group: SPECIAL 12 WEEK SESSION: The Artist’s Way
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.
BLACK HISTORY/AFRICAN AMERICAN MONTH: Singing Our Story with Dr. Leonard Brown
The roles and functions of music as social and political commentary in the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans, highlighting the Georgia Sea Island Singers.
Poetry Workshop
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.
Origami Workshop Series
Join us for another exciting workshop series with Origami expert Lucas Gustafson! Lucas is a high schooler who started folding at the age of 6 and is a longtime member of the Origami Club at MIT. With his help, participants will learn how to fold animals and geometric shapes!
For ages 7+.
SCI-FI BOOK GROUP: The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell
In a series of interlocking stories that traverse the 1980s through the 2040s, The Bone Clocks relates the battle between evil “soul decanters” and the “Night Shift” vigilantes. Mitchell, the author of Cloud Atlas, has written a critically acclaimed novel that combines elements of sci-fi, fantasy, and the supernatural.
MCAULIFFE BOOK DISCUSSION: Mrs. Poe, by Lynn Cullen
Inspired by literature’s most haunting love triangle, award-winning author Lynn Cullen delivers a pitch-perfect rendering of Edgar Allan Poe, his mistress’s tantalizing confession, and his wife’s frightening obsession. An intelligent and addictive masterpiece of historical fiction. Led by Kim Jung.
Munchkin 2018 (at McAuliffe Library)
We haven’t played Munchkin in a little while, so it’s time for a return! Join us to loot dungeons, fight monsters, and make & break alliances in the pursuit of glory. Also, there will be snacks.
Special Play Space Activities
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.
Empow Studios Video Game Design Workshop
Envision and create your own video game.
Grades 2-5. Registration required.
Drop-in Baby Lapsit at Main Library
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.
Special Play Space Activities
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.
BLACK HISTORY/AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH: PBS’s POV Movie Series: Revolution ’67
Revolution ’67 (2007) is an illuminating account of events too often relegated to footnotes in U.S. history—the black urban rebellions of the 1960s.
Enter between 6:30-7:15pm
Book Buddy: Read to Dogs at McAuliffe
Improve your reading skills the fun way by reading aloud to our Book Buddy. Certified Reading/Therapy Dog, Chewie and our newest pal Rocky, listen as children read aloud from a book of their choice.
Registration required. Call 508-532-5636 x5 or drop by sign up for a 15 minute slot.
All ages.
Friends Book Sale
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.
Vacation Week Maker’s Workshop
Join us for an afternoon of making! This month we will make Mancala Boards from recycled materials. No registration required!
Learn to Breakdance!
Boston Mobile Dance Studio is taking over the library during February vacation week to teach Framingham’s teens how to pop and lock. Register online, or by calling or email our teen librarian, John Garrigan, at 508-532- 5570x4335 or jgarrigan@minlib.net.
Journal Writers Group: SPECIAL 12 WEEK SESSION: The Artist’s Way
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.
Poetry Workshop
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.
StoryWalk: The Hallelujah Flight
Drop by the Main Library and take a self-guided walk through the historical story, The Hallelujah Flight! The StoryWalk will be up until March 17th.
Giant Games
It’s winter break, which probably means it’s cold and snow outside. Warm up at the McAuliffe Library and play some giant games. We’ve got giant Jenga, giant Connect 4, giant checkers and more!
AFRICAN AMERICAN/BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Documentary: Alice’s Ordinary People
This is the story of Alice Tregay, an unsung heroine of the Civil Rights Movement. Her remarkable story spans the historic period from the marches of Dr. King to the election of Barack Obama.
With filmmaker Craig Dudnick.
StoryWalk: The Hallelujah Flight
Drop by the Main Library and take a self-guided walk through the historical story, The Hallelujah Flight! The StoryWalk will be up until March 17th.
Vacation Week Duct Tape Craft
Use duct tape to create a treasure box or something of your own design.
Grades K+.
Video Game Hangout
Video games are back! And due to popular demand, we’ll be hosting a video game hangout at the library every month from now on. Face off against your friends in games of your choosing.
Special Play Space Activities
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.
Vinylpalooza Party!
Celebrate the return of vinyl by bringing your favorite album from ANY decade, ANY genre! Step up to the mic and tell us a brief story about why this album is important to you, and our DJ will spin a track. Wear one of your old concert t-shirts and enter our t-shirt contest. Munch on Cheez Whiz on a Ritz and other retro snacks. Featuring DJ Jesse Kaminsky.
Lifelong Learning Lecture Series: Georgia O’Keefe: Art, Image and Style
Framingham Public Library and Framingham State University Lifelong Learning Lecture Series: SPRING 2018
Georgia O’Keefe: Art, Image and Style with Dr. Erika Schneider, PhD, Associate Professor, FSU. The Peabody Essex Museum exhibition explores the Art, Image and Personal Style of one of America’s most iconic artists. Dr. Schneider will share her impressions of this very special exhibit.
Vacation Week Story and Craft: The Skin on My Chin
Join us and children's book author Michelle Chalmers reads from her rhyming picture book, The Skin on My Chin, which explores diversity, ancestry, and consversation about skin. Children will learn about the sun and the diverse beauty of humaity, followed by a craft!
No regiustration required. For ages 5 and up.
StoryWalk: The Hallelujah Flight
Drop by the Main Library and take a self-guided walk through the historical story, The Hallelujah Flight! The StoryWalk will be up until March 17th.
Special Play Space Activities
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.
MINDFULNESS BOOK GROUP: How to Train a Wild Elephant: and Other Adventures in Mindfulness
How to Train a Wild Elephant: and Other Adventures in Mindfulness, by Jan Chozen Bays, MD
How restful it is to find a book that guides our untamed minds through waking up to our daily lives. In a series of 53 exercises, you will discover tips, discoveries, and deeper lessons. Join us and share what you have observed and learned about your present moments. Meditation will follow the book discussion.
Drop-in Baby Lapsit at Main Library
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.
StoryWalk: The Hallelujah Flight
Drop by the Main Library and take a self-guided walk through the historical story, The Hallelujah Flight! The StoryWalk will be up until March 17th.
Open LEGO at Main Library
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.
Book Buddy: Read to Dogs at Main Library
Improve your reading skills the fun way by reading aloud to one of our furry friends! Book Buddy Certified Reading/Therapy Dogs Lilah, Montana, and Eloise listen as children read aloud from a book of their choice.
Registration required. Call 508-532-5570, press 4, or drop by to sign up for a 15 minute slot.
AniManga Club
Framingham Library is now hosting an AniManga club for everyone who enjoys all things Anime and Manga.
We had a lot of fun competing in AniManga trivia last month, so this month let's just relax with some snacks and watch some anime of your choice!
StoryWalk: The Hallelujah Flight
Drop by the Main Library and take a self-guided walk through the historical story, The Hallelujah Flight! The StoryWalk will be up until March 17th.
Book Buddy: Read to Dogs at Main Library
Improve your reading skills the fun way by reading aloud to one of our furry friends! Book Buddy Certified Reading/Therapy Dogs Lilah, Montana, and Eloise listen as children read aloud from a book of their choice.
Registration required. Call 508-532-5570, press 4, or drop by to sign up for a 15 minute slot.
StoryWalk: The Hallelujah Flight
Drop by the Main Library and take a self-guided walk through the historical story, The Hallelujah Flight! The StoryWalk will be up until March 17th.
Seed Packaging Party
Still seeds to package! Please join us for this final meeting to prepare for the opening of the seed catalog March 3rd.
StoryWalk: The Hallelujah Flight
Drop by the Main Library and take a self-guided walk through the historical story, The Hallelujah Flight! The StoryWalk will be up until March 17th.
Journal Writers Group: SPECIAL 12 WEEK SESSION: The Artist’s Way
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.
As One Opera Selections and Discussion
As part of a course overseen by Dr. Judith Bose and in collaboration with the Boston Opera Collaborative, students of the school will present excerpts from the opera, a story surrounding Hannah and the many facets of her own transgender experience.
Poetry Workshop
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.
StoryWalk: The Hallelujah Flight
Drop by the Main Library and take a self-guided walk through the historical story, The Hallelujah Flight! The StoryWalk will be up until March 17th.
Origami Workshop Series
Join us for another exciting workshop series with Origami expert Lucas Gustafson! Lucas is a high schooler who started folding at the age of 6 and is a longtime member of the Origami Club at MIT. With his help, participants will learn how to fold animals and geometric shapes!
For ages 7+.
Celebrate ‘88 Film Series: Hairspray
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.
Celebrate '88 continues in February with the original John Waters classic, Hairspray!
February-May Schedule:
February 28 – Hairspray (PG)
March 28 – Beetlejuice (PG)
April 25 - Bull Durham (R)
May 38 - The Naked Gun (PG-13)
All ages event (some movies rated R).
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Some Great Blacks of Framingham: Crispus Attucks and the Fuller Legacy
Dr. Brown will speak about Crispus Attucks, the first man to die in the Revolutionary War. Attucks was a Black Framingham native whose early life was as an enslaved person. Following his talk, Framingham resident David Fuller will speak about the accomplishments of his grandparents, Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller and Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller.