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What's Going on at the Library

Summer Reading Programs

   Make a Splash READ! - Children's Room

   Imagine - Teen Summer Challenge


Books Wanted!
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The Friends of the Simsbury Public Library
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Adult Summer Reading at the Simsbury Public Library 

Looking for a good book to read? Join the Book Talking Circle! Every Friday in July and August, 2-3 p.m. in the Friends Café, Upper Level.  Come and share your favorite books, fiction and non-fiction, old or new. Staff will introduce each session with their personal favorites and then open the program for sharing on any topic at all. Please call Sue Bullock at 658-7663 x. 2103 or email sbullock@simsburylibrary.info for more information.  Drop ins are encouraged!

Following is a list of staff book talks:

          


On Display at the Library through the month of July…… 

Program Room:

FOUR SEASONS OF THE VALLEY
The “Four Seasons in the Valley,” exhibit created by Farmington photographer, Carol Lowbeer  features landscapes and portraits of the Farmington Valley and surrounding area in all months of the year.  Carol uses photographic special effects such as watercolor, pen and ink and charcoal enhance her photography and the beauty and spirit of the area. Photos of the exhibit and other nature collections can be viewed on carol's website, www.caroleenaphotography.com

West Gallery:

WILDWING: Images by Bruce Metzger of the Simsbury Camera Club. For more information please contact Bruce at meteagle@comcast.net

East Gallery:

 IMAGES by Danielle D’Ermo of the Simsbury Camera Club. For more information please contact Danielle at oldermo@aol.com For information about the Simsbury camera Club, including information about their monthly photography classes at the Library, please go to: www.droycefoto.com/SCC.htm

Upper Level Stairwell:

SPACE FUEL FREIGHTER
This miniature model was built by John Galvin, of Burlington. It’s a shortened prototype for a feature length movie that his company, JWI Entertainment, has in development. 

This model is made from many different materials, mainly cardboard, balsawood, plastic, and over 13,000 toothpicks. It has over 100 working lights on five separate circuits, two working ‘cargo bay doors’ and working ‘shuttle bay flaps’. The ‘radar tower’ also rotates. In order to film it from many different angles, its aluminum frame can be suspended from any of three different places.


Abi Tapia
July 30, 8 pm
Friends Program Room

Singer and songwriter Abi Tapia doesn’t quite know where to call home. She’s lived in 9 states and her ear-catching tunes reflect the spectrum of Americana. The inviting warmth of the South, the expansive Midwestern Plains, and the pluck and determination of a New England Yankee are all audible in her straightforward, honest and ear-catching tunes. Abi’s latest CD, The Beauty in the Ruin, explores sadness, frustration, and life on the road against a lush backdrop of Austin’s best musicians.  Based on her immediately engaging live performance, she was voted one of 2009's “Most Wanted” Emerging Artists from the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival.


DANCE PHOTOS ON DISPLAY
 

The 12 winning images from the 2010  Momentum: Images of Dance International Photo Contest will be on display at the Simsbury Library during the month of September. Sponsored by 
The Connecticut Valley Regional Ballet Company, Inc., this annual contest is in memory of Sanford L. Rosenberg, a corporate attorney, practicing in Hartford, who appreciated both dance and photography. The movement in all forms of dance imaged in the moment by photography is the goal of the contest. The 2010 contest attracted photographers from 19 states, the District of Columbia and 5 international sites.

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