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2023 Polaris Community Award Winner
Presented by Leadership Greater Hartford
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The Leadership Greater Hartford Polaris Award celebrates exemplary leaders and organizations in our region embodying Leadership Greater Hartford’s core values of Community, Leadership, and Connections.
“We applaud your long-standing contributions to the capital city and your recent neighborhood expansions making it easier for all residents to access your educational resources and innovative programming. We are excited to recognize with you 2023 community Polaris award”
Larisa Kottke, LGH CEO and President
Many thanks to LGH and all the HPL staff that work hard every day to create a place like no other.
Watch a great video about the award HERE
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Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
PEN/Hemingway Award Winner
The lives of three women—transgender and cisgender—collide in this deeply moving novel.
“Even the most complimentary adjectives feel insufficient to describe Torrey Peters’ first novel.”— Bookpage (starred review)
“This emotionally devastating, culturally specific, endlessly intelligent novel is . . . really, really funny.”—Austostraddle
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All Boys Aren't Blue
George M. Johnson
New York Times Bestseller
Heartfelt personal essays around themes of identity and a family exploring childhood, adolescence, and college years.
"A critical, captivating, merciful mirror for growing up Black and queer today." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"An exuberant, unapologetic memoir infused with a deep but cleareyed love for its subjects." —The New York Times
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3-2-1 Hartford Blast Off Summer Learning | |
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Check out your favorite HPL location for our Summer Learning Kick Offs
Barbour - Wednesday, June 14, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
1261 Barbour St.
Kick off summer in style with games, raffles, story time, pizza and an ice cream social.
Dwight - Wednesday, June 14, 1:00 - 5:00 pm
7 New Park Ave.
Activities, food, drinks and much more.
Albany - Saturday, June 17, 12:00 - 3:00 pm
1250 Albany Ave.
Family-friendly paint party in a finale celebration of the Nellie-Mae Mindfulness Art workshop series and the start of Summer Reading!
Park Street Library @ the Lyric - Wednesday, June 28, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
603 Park St.
Food, music, prizes, art & more!
¡Lanzamiento de la programación de verano @Park!
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HPL's Baby Grand Jazz Series
We're seeking submissions from local and regional musical artists to be part of our 2024 Baby Grand series. Ensembles must include a pianist who will play HPL’s grand piano.
Submission deadline for the 2024 series is August 1, 2023.
Learn more and submit HERE
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Family Story Time hosted by The American Place | |
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Stories, music, movement, rhymes, and new friends
Thursday, June 15, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Center Church
60 Gold Street
Ages infant to 5 with parent/caregiver
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Hartford Public Library Presents: Jazz 101
Discover why Jazz is our most enduring art form
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Emmett Goods
Hard Bop & Modern Day Jazz
Monday, June 19, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
The Artists Collective
1200 Albany Ave.
Dr. Emmett Goods is a trombonist and Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Emmett has shared the stage with a wide variety of artists including: Dr. Billy Taylor, Eddie Harris, Avery Sharpe, Wycliffe Gordon, the Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, and Gladys Knight and more.
Learn more about Dr. Emmet Goods HERE
Register Today!
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Graphic Novel Reading Contest | |
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Check out and read any three graphic novels for a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card.
Register Today!
P.S. The Today Show shared how graphic novels translates into literacy skills and a love of reading for pleasure HERE
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Online Book Discussion
Women Who Run With Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.
Within every woman there lives the Wild Woman, a powerful force filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. In this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, celebrate, love, and understand the Wild Woman.
Sunday, June 25, 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Register HERE
"The work shows the reader how glorious it is to be daring, to be caring, and to be women. Everyone who can read should read this book.”—Maya Angelou
P.S. Hartford Reads In Color was featured on NBC Connecticut- Watch it HERE
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Calling All Hartford Musicians
Submit to The Beat Today!
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Hurry! Submissions Close on June 23
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. Selected musicians will receive an honorarium of $250 and could be invited to perform in concerts organized by HPL and The Bushnell.
Info and instructions on submitting HERE
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Celebrate Juneteenth, featuring a puppet show, bucket drumming, jewelry making, making, an ice cream social, face painting and more!
Wednesday, June 21, 11:00 am - 5:30 pm
Barbour Branch
1261 Barbour St.
Learn more about legacy of Juneteenth HERE
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STARLAB: Stories by Starlight
Learn how different cultures view constellations and the science behind them.
Saturday, June 17, 12:00 - 3:00 pm
Albany Branch
1250 Albany Ave.
Register for one of 3 time slots HERE
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Sundays at the Stadium
Take your summer reading to the field
Enjoy a book on the Hartford Athletic's home turf and participate in a free soccer clinic. (Just make sure you look up from your book every now and then for incoming balls!)
Sunday, June 18, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Trinity Health Stadium
250 Huyshope Ave.
Register Today HERE
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“Love who you want to love, and do it unapologetically, including that face you see every day in the mirror.”
― George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren't Blue
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