Book Buddies

Reading encouragement class. Pre-registration required.

Open 10 – 2

Engineering For Kids

Children will construct a power boat, marble run and lunar lander. A special robotics session is also planned. Registration is required. Friends of the Library

Join Us for National Coloring Day

Coloring has always been popular with children, but over the years adults have gotten more and more involved. Adult coloring is now a huge trend and many are finding that it is not only fun but also a great way to reduce stress and spend time with friends — or meet new ones. We invite you to spend some time coloring with your friends, children or grandchildren or by yourself. Enjoy the creativity of making a picture come to life! We will supply coloring pages and colored pencils or bring your favorite coloring book.

Book Buddies

Reading encouragement class Pre-registration required

Open 10 – 2

Build It Crafts

Enjoy a story and build a craft. Registration is required.

TNT (Twos and Threes)

Stories, crafts, and songs for children ages 2 and 3 years of age accompanied by an adult. Registration is required.

Book Buddies

Reading encouragement class Pre-registration required

Open 10 – 2

TNT (Twos and Threes)

Stories, crafts, and songs for children ages 2 and 3 years of age accompanied by an adult. Registration is required.

Book Buddies

Reading encouragement class Pre-registration required

Open 10 – 2

Harp Concert and Demonstration

Maya Vadell will play Classical and Modern pieces on the harp. The Rutger University student will also demonstrate how the harp is played and will give audience members an opportunity to try out the instrument. Maya has been playing since the 9th grade.

Chalk the Walks

“Spread joy, optimism, and inspiration through the magical power of sidewalk chalk!” All ages are welcome to join us as we decorate the sidewalks behind the library! http://chalkthewalks.com/

Snap Circuits

Come play around with these innovative kits that contain color-coded, real circuit components that snap together to create working electronic circuits and devices. We will be trying out Sound and Lights kits!

Meditation Circle

Join Bobbie Ellis, director of Soma Center for a refreshing approach to meditation suitable for everyone. Learn simple embodied meditation and breathing techniques you can use everyday to reduce stress and increase presence in your life, work, and relationships. Bobbie has teaching yoga, movement and embodied meditation for 31 years. Meditation can help you live a healthier, happier life.

Open 10 – 2

Library Board Meeting

Closed

Closed

Home Decorating Workshop

This home decorating workshop is for early nesters, new home buyers, renters and everyone in between. Learn fun and inexpensive ideas to spruce up any space. and answer questions on home decorating do and does. Gifty Anane, from Detailler, a New Brunswick home Decorating company will conduct the workshop and answer your questions about interior decorating.

Library Board Meeting

Poet John J. Trause

John J. Trause is author of Inside Out, Upside Down and Round and Round, (Nirala Publications, New Delhi, India, 2012). His Chap books include Eye Candy for Andy and Seriously Serial: Poems 2014. He is director of the Oradell Public Library and past director of the Wood-Ridge Memorial Library. An open reading will follow the main reader.

Breast Cancer Awareness Talk

October is Breast Care Awareness Month. Join Jean Withers, RN, the Community Outreach Coordinator from JFK Medical Center, who will provide information to women and men on the importance of breast cancer screenings, healthy eating, and well being to prevent breast cancer. This talk is part of Highland Park Public Library’s Health and Wellness Series.

Library Board Meeting

Poet Tina Kelley

Tina Kelley is the author of the poetry collections Abloom and Awry (CavenKerry Press, 2017), Precise, and the Gospel of Galore, winner of a 2003 Washington State Book award. She co-authored Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope, and reported for the New York Times for 10 years, sharing a staff Pulitzer for 9/11coverage. She won the Jacar Press Chapman Competition. An open reading will follow the featured reader.

Cool Women Poets

Known for their themed, improv-style poetry readings, Cool Women riff on each other’s poems like jazz musicians, providing an unpredictable and compelling performance. All nine members—Eloise Bruce, Juditha Dowd, Lois Marie Harrod, Betty Lies, Judy Michaels, Sharon Olson, Penelope Schott,
Maxine Susman, and Gretna Wilkinson—have deep New Jersey roots. An open reading follows the featured poets.

Library Board Meeting

Spook Handy’s 9th Annual Winter Holiday Concert

The whole family is invited to a Spook Handy Folk Concert that is being held during the winter holiday break. Spook Handy’s Tales From The Road lifts your spirits with sing a longs that every family member can enjoy. His travels through the byways of America fuel his music.Spook can be heard in venues of almost all stripes, from festivals and arts centers to senior centers and churches – from TV and radio to libraries and schools. With a simple Martin D-35 guitar, harmonica, his own voice and the voices of the audience, Spook presents concerts of good honest acoustic songs that are true to the spirit, passion of purpose of American folk music. He sings about the local Mom and Pop’s store, the widow of a soldier, the landscape of Montana, economic hardship, dogs with fleas, and so many other experiences that everybody can relate to in one way or another.