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Newton Free Library Events: October 30 - November 5, 2023

Schools and Libraries

October 31, 2023

From: Newton Free Library

Trick or Treat Tote Bags

Monday, October 30 at 11am

Design a unique tote bag for Trick-or-Treating adventures! Please be aware that this program is for adults to design tote bags for all ages.

 Location: Virtual

Registration required

Halloween Votive Candles with Transfer Images

Tuesday, October 31 at 4pm

Join us for this in-person maker event to learn about image transfers and create your own Halloween themed votive candle.

Location: Virtual

Registration required

SCORE Small Business Counseling

Thursday, November 2 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

Find Happiness through Mindfulness, Yoga & Meditation

Thursday, November 2 at 7:15 pm

Experience ancient practices of breathing and meditation in an informal virtual setting. Discover secrets to increasing happiness in everyday life and learn ways to make it grow each day. No previous experience required. Sessions are led by mindfulness, yoga and meditation teacher, Janhavi Wadwhani.

Location: Virtual

Registration required

Coming Up

Vision Board 4 Living

Wednesday, November 8 at 4pm

Genealogy Club

Wednesday, November 8 at 6:30

SCORE Small Business Counseling

Thursday, November 9 starting at 9am

Herbal Heating Pad

Thursday, November 9 at 4pm

Learn How to Use Libby, hoopla & Kanopy

Friday, November 10 at 10am

Genealogy: Learning to Work with FamilySearch and Ancestry

Monday, November 13 at 6:30pm

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.

Contact: [email protected]

"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]

November Main Hall and Gallery Art Shows

I started painting in 2019 after a break of 65 years and had my first exhibition in February 2020. My initial exhibitions were titled "As I See It" and "Whimsical Animation.” I named my most recent exhibitions "Whimsical Surrealism,” a title I have retained for this show.

My favorite subjects are bananas, peppers, potatoes and everyday objects such as a coffee pot. My bananas make fists, fly in the sky, play, swim and more. My peppers embody a range of human emotions from joy to anger. My potatoes bear a variety of human-like faces, primarily humorous. My aim is to entertain visitors by making them smile and even laugh.

Contact: [email protected]

"Pushing the Envelope" was a response to the contraction and confinement of life during the Covid-19 lockdown. Even in isolation, mail arrived. My medium was restricted to the envelopes themselves (at first only the patterned paper linings, later words and images from the exteriors) and the commemorative world of postage stamps, some received through the mail, some bought, some gifted and some inherited from the boyhood collections from  my father and husband. These I joined by cutting and gluing, using the pattern of a traditional house quilt block, later taping the houses together, 15 per frame, to create 35 "collaged villages."

Contact: [email protected]