Fall Decorated Glass Lanterns

Tuesday, October 24 at 10am

Join us as we make a fall decorated glass lantern! A fun and simple fall project for the home or outdoors.

 Location: Virtual

Registration required

Cookbook Club

Tuesday, October 24 at 7pm

Do you enjoy cooking and love good food? If so, register for the October meeting of our new Cookbook Club! This is a combination of a book club and a potluck dinner. Each month, we will choose a cookbook by a popular food author from which each of the participants will select a recipe and prepare it for the group to taste. 

Location: 3rd Floor Rear Arc

Registration required

Inktober Ink Wash Landscape

Wednesday, October 25 at 2pm

Join us to close out Inktober as we learn to paint an atmospheric landscape using only ink and water. This program will let you flex your creativity and explore a new medium. 

Location: Virtual

Registration required

SCORE Small Business Counseling

Thursday, October 26 starting at 9am

SCORE volunteers provide area small business owners with free, one-hour counseling and advice sessions. 

Location: Room A and Virtual

Registration required

What is WhatsApp?

Friday, October 27 at 11am

Learn about this popular messaging app used across the world by millions of people daily. WhatsApp is a free messaging app and there will be a demonstration of how this app can be used on mobile and on a desktop computer. 

Location: Virtual

Registration required

Pinocchio: A Concert and Conversation with Commonwealth Lyric Theater

Sunday, October 29 at 2pm

Set in a Tuscan village, the classic Italian tale of Pinocchio tells the story of a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy. Join the Commonwealth Lyric Theater and the Young Artists Chamber Singers as they bring Pinocchio's music to life, as well as regale the audience with stories of Florence, the hometown of writer Carlo Collodi, and how the tale of Pinocchio came to be.

 Location: Druker Auditorium

In person event, registration not required

Friends of the Newton Free Library

Coming Up

Trick or Treat Tote Bags

Monday, October 30 at 11am

Halloween Votive Candles with Transfer Images

Tuesday, October 31 at 4pm

SCORE Small Business Counseling

Thursday, November 2 starting at 9am

Find Happiness through Mindfulness, Yoga & Meditation

Tuesday, November 2 at 7:15pm

October Main Hall and Gallery Art Shows

“Collaborative Portraits” are co-created between the photographer, Fran Sherman, and young women who share a social justice mission. The young women and Fran make environmental portraits, collaboratively set and staged. The photographic portrait then becomes a canvas re-interpreted and altered by each young woman, through painting and collage, to express their vision and self-view. These portraits and the conversations they inspired are published in an art and social justice book, I Am Why Reclaiming the Lens.

"Magic Lands" chips away at attitudes of indifference by asking “Why am I here, and what is to be gained.” Each painting represents a particular place but more importantly the spirit of each location. Admittedly, these images are places of the mind and spirit.

These memory-scapes aim to impact viewers to think about their world, our environment, and their place within it. 

Contact: [email protected]