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Help us shape the future of the Downtown Library
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Join us for a Community Engagement Session to support the 2023 renovation of Hartford Public Library's Downtown Library.
HPL's Downtown Library will reactivate spaces for a variety of services - all driven by community need, challenges, goals, and lifestyles.
As a valued member of our community, we invite you to engage in this process.
Monday, June 5
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Downtown Library
500 Main Street
1st Floor, Room 140 (Enter on Arch St)
Register Today!
Can't make the event? Please fill out our survey, you can find the link HERE
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Celebrating Asian American &
Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng
New York Times Notable Book of 2022
Timely and stunning this novel about the bond between a mother and child in a society living in fear will absolutely embed itself in your heart.
Heartbreaking, beautifully written and unforgettable.” — The Seattle Times
“A book you won’t be able to put down, nor stop thinking about long after you do.” — USA Today
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Yellowface
R. F. Kuang
A masterful interrogation of white privilege and cultural appropriation within the publishing industry that will stick with you long after you've finished the last page.
"Kuang has written something spellbinding.” — Oprah Daily
"A satirical literary thriller that’s enjoyable and uncomfortable in equal measure." — NY Times
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Expressions In Sound & Motion
Photography Exhibit by Maurice D. Robertson
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"My ongoing photo work is a love affair with nature and jazz and its offshoots. My photo artistry is simply a quest for displaying the energy of nature’s glory and with performance, connecting the audience to some of the past and present contributors to America’s greatest cultural, contribution to the world."
-Maurice Robertson
Maurice D. Robertson artist, photographer, jazz music aficionado, and nature lover, has been serving the music community in Hartford as a volunteer jazz announcer since 1976.
Exhibit at Park & Albany Libraries
Opening Reception
June 8
6:00 - 8:00 pm
1250 Albany Ave.
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Hartford Musicians: Submit to The Beat Today! | |
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The Beat is looking for the next group of artists to join HPL's collection!
The Beat is an online streaming service that offers a collection of diverse, local music through its user-friendly digital platform. Only HPL library card holders can download the recordings to play later.
Musicians are invited to submit three full length tracks representative of their overall work. Selected musicians will receive an honorarium of $250 and could be invited to perform in concerts organized by Hartford Public Library and The Bushnell
More info and instructions on submitting HERE
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Hartford Public Library Presents:
Stride Piano - Be Bop
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Jazz 101 is an interactive six-week series with audience discussion and instrumental demonstration. Discover why Jazz is our most enduring art form.
Matt CeChamplain
Stride Piano - Be Bop
June 5
The Artists Collective
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Pianist Matt DeChamplain attended the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts studying under Jimmy Greene and Dave Santoro and obtained his bachelors degree from the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at the Hartt School in 2010 and graduated with his masters from the University of Toledo in Ohio in 2012. Learn more about Matt HERE
Free! Register HERE
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LinkedIn Learning at The American Place
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LinkedIn Learning is an online learning tool for career growth, providing video courses taught by experts across fields and can make you more marketable for recruiters. Excel Training, Power BI for Beginners, Python Essentials, Digital Marketing Foundations, and more.
Register Today! (only a few seats remaining)
HPL's The American Place provides certificate training, GED preparation services, ESL, and a U.S. Citizenship program, supporting immigrants in achieving citizenship and becoming vested citizens. Learn more HERE
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Craft & Create - Macrame Key Chains | |
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Unlock your creativity and revisit the 70's
Make macrame key chains
Wednesday, June 7
Barbour Library
1261 Barbour Street
4:00 - 5:00 pm
All ages
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Mindfulness Workshop: Step and Dance with Loren Milledge
In its origin, step is about unity. It pushes students to express their voices, to practice listening to one another, and actively work together. In this class, we will use the unity of stepping to learn about building and being a support system.
Mondays, June 10 + June 12
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Albany Library
1250 Albany Avenue
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All the Shades of Black:
An Exploration of Race, Gender, and History
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Is history and damage able to be corrected? And if so, how?
Scholar, a freelance teaching/performing artist, poet, writer, and environmentalist, Alycia D. Jenkins, a.k.a. Lady Abstract, will be in conversation with Shanta Lee, writer across genres, journalist, visual artist and public intellectual.
Alycia D. Jenkins is the author of The Laughing Elephant in the Room. Shanta Lee is the author of GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues, and, Black Metamorphoses.
Saturday, June 3
Albany Library
1250 Albany Ave
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Register HERE
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Hartford Stage Tickets for HPL Cardholders | |
Trouble in Mind May 25 – June 18, 2023
A 1950s landmark play that still rings true today.
Tickets are available through our museum pass program. Get your tickets HERE
Learn more about Trouble in Mind.
P.S. We have lots of cool passes available- check them all out HERE
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Security Guard Training
Successful completion of this one-day program will qualify candidates to apply for a Security Officer ID card issued by the State of Connecticut Department of Emergency Services & Public Protection.
Classes Begin June 14
Register by June 7
Information & Register HERE
P. S. Check out our many job openings HERE
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“She was always doing that, telling him stories. Prying open cracks for magic to seep in, making the world a place of possibility. After she left, he had stopped believing all those fantasies. Wispy, false dreams that disintegrated in the morning's light. Now it occurs to him that, perhaps, there might be truth in them after all.”
― Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts
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