January 2020 Adult Programming at NMPL
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Winter Reading Book Bingo
Monday, January 6th through Saturday, February 29th
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Celebrate the New Year at New Milford Public Library with our Winter Reading Bingo.
Pick up your Bingo Card and start reading. There are seven ways to receive a raffle ticket on each card and there are three different cards to keep you busy. There are ongoing prizes, as well as a grand prize. Come and join the fun!
LOCATION: NEW MILFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
Questions 860 355 1191 x 2 or vfisher@biblio.org
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China Notes of the Venerable Foreign Expert
Thursday, January 9th 6:30 PM
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Join Patricia Endress as she recounts her experiences as a teacher in China. Patricia writes,
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My book, China Notes of the Venerable Foreign Expert, is an account of the years I taught in China. On and off from 2000 to 2008, I taught at a small college in Changzhou, China, one of a recently designated new enterprise city, midway between Shanghai and Nanjing. I witnessed a drab city turn into a modern tourist center, attractive to both Chinese and foreigners alike.
Along with the city’s transformation, I describe my daily life, students, the new foods I ate, the friends I made, and adventures with Chinese medicine, language mistakes and the little markets. In China, foreign teachers and business consultants are known as foreign experts, and as I was the oldest teacher to come to Changzhou, I was always seated at the head tables with all the important officials. Thus, in the accounts I sent to the Sherman Sentinel, I signed myself as the Venerable Foreign Expert. I also found the students considered me a model for old age, so I might easily have titled my book “A Grandmother’s China Adventure.”
I hold bachelor and master degrees from Northwestern University and have taken graduate courses in sociology from the New School of Social Research as well as history courses as Western Connecticut State University. I have taught at three universities and three community colleges."
LOCATION: NEW MILFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
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College Admissions Playbook
Tuesday, January 14th 6:30 PM
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Want to relieve some of the college stress? Join
Independent College Counselor, Francesca Morrissey to find out what makes a 3.2 student more desirable than a 4.0 student . . . FOR REAL!!
This program is appropriate for middle and high school students (Grades 8-11) There is a minimum of 12 participants required, so bring your friends.
LOCATION: NEW MILFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Wild Woman Coffee Tasting and Dessert Bar
Wednesday, January 22nd 6:30 PM
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Warm up in January with Cindy and Jozzi from Wild Women's Coffee LLC in Milford, Ct for a slide show presentation about coffee, ending with a blind "cupping" taste test. This will be accompanied by a coffee dessert bar which features servings of freshly brewed coffee (including decaf), chocolate-bomb coffee and gourmet baked goods. This coffee is from responsibly sourced coffee beans. Space is limited
LOCATION: NEW MILFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
Registration is required at 860-355-1191 x2 or online vfisher@biblio.org
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Movie: Adopt a Highway
Wednesday, January 29th 6:00PM
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This movie is about a convict -Russ Millings - who has just been released from prison after serving 20 years for possessing an ounce of marijuana. The world outside, changed beyond his recognition, seems like seen through a glass pane and moves at a different pace. He diligently fulfills his tasks, but human contact is a forgotten and scary concept to him. Still on parole and working in a burger joint, one night he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster. Unsure of what to do, and caught between being overwhelmed by affection and panic, Russ starts to 'thaw'. He finally finds connection to another human - and himself, through this baby which is lost, cast out and ignorant of the world around her- like him. He dares to come out of his emotional shell and go on the journey to retrace his past persona from that distant time 'before' , when he was Russky: A person, a son, a man and not a subject. Written by
Sibelle Arti
LOCATION: NEW MILFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
Registration is required at 860-355-1191 x2 or vfisher@biblio.org
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Cafe Color-Adult Coloring Fun
Thursday,, January 30th, 6:30 PM
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Coloring
with
friends
is not just a unique way to get together.There are amazing health
benefits
, like lower anxiety and improved cognitive function. One of the key
benefits
of
coloring
is relieving stress, so join us and color away!
LOCATION: NEW MILFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
Registration is required at 860-355-1191 x2 or vfisher@biblio.org
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Cookbook Club
Thursday, January 16th 6:30 PM
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Want to get out of your cooking comfort zone, sample multiple new recipes, and get to know a variety of cookbooks, then join the Cookbook Club, it’s a book club and dinner party rolled into one.
Join us with a recipe from this unique cookbook and share your experience.
Choose a recipe and bring samples to the meeting (always the third Thursday of each month).
LOCATION: NEW MILFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
Questions? 860 355 1191 x vfisher@biblio.org
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CT Crossroads
Monday evenings by appointment
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New Milford Public Library
24 Main Street
New Milford, Ct
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