Book Page, or Blackout, Poetry is a treasure hunt to find new, hidden
meanings on the printed page. The basic concept is to take a page from a book or newspaper and by selecting certain words on that page, create a poem. Then color, mark out, or draw over the rest of the page to highlight the words chosen.
All supplies will be provided or bring your own, such as: a random page out of a book, coloring supplies, markers.
Both teens and adults are welcome to this free event celebrating National Poetry Month.
Leading this event is Bibi Summer, a publication designer in Northern California for over 30 years. She has a B.A. in Journalism from U.W.-Madison, and while at Pratt University, N.Y. worked toward a Masters in Graphic Design. She has been the art director of the Mill Valley Record, Acoustic Guitar, Strings, and Wines & Vines magazines, among others, and has designed or illustrated books, CDs and websites. She also teaches bookbinding at Createful Studio in San Rafael. www.bibisummer.com
Come make candy sushi at the library! We’ll provide all the ingredients you need to create tasty and beautiful candy maki and nigiri. Prizes will be awarded for the top sushi chefs!
For teens and tweens in grades 5-8. Space is limited; register in the Children’s Room or by calling us at (415) 485-3322.
This is a 2-day class:
Wednesday, April 11 & Thursday, April 12 from 4:00 – 6:00 pm.
Please sign-up at the Reference Desk or call 415-485-3321.
Come and enjoy pizza while discovering how to create 3-D Art. Katya McCulloch, Program Director for TeamWorks Art Mentoring and Apprenticeship Program, will teach you the basics and help you to create your own 3-D artwork. All supplies will be provided
The more the merrier!
Katya McCulloch, is a co-founding artist of the TeamWorks program in San Rafael, as well as a teaching artist. She has many years experience as a community artist in Marin County and throughout the Bay Area, in remote indigenous communities of central Australia, and Europe. Katya spent most of her early life in Germany, Afghanistan., and Washington, D.C., where she graduated from public school. She believes strongly that art is not just an elitist profession, but a universal human need. Ms. McCulloch has taught art at San Quentin State Prison through William James Association Prison Arts Project (formerly Arts-in-Corrections) since 2004. She has over 15 years experience with exhibit lay-out and installation. You can visit the TeamWorks’ site here: http://www.teamworksart.org/
Reinvent Yourself After 50
A workshop for everyone over 50 – singles, couples, friends…
In our 50’s, 60’s and 70’s, we begin a new phase of life. It’s important now to address the opportunities and fears of retirement and aging. Working with an exercise book, we’ll engage in discussions, journaling and short lectures to create a vision and a plan for your happy, healthy and fulfilling future.
The class is limited to 15 participants. Please sign up at the reference desk or call 415-485-3321 to reserve your space.
Attend the workshop to:
Find answers to the questions: “What’s next?” and “Am I living the life I want to live – my best life?
Imagine: What will I be doing in my 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s?
Take time out to reflect and take a fresh look at your life and your work
Learn how to overcome obstacles and move in a new direction
Working with an exercise book, we’ll engage in discussions, journaling, and short lectures to create a vision and a plan for your happy, healthy and fulfilling future. Topics we will discuss include:
This stage of life
Traits of successful reinventors
Achieving a high level of happiness
Finding Balance
Getting Unstuck
Growth
Motivators
The Right Work – paid and volunteer
Life Purpose and Meaning
Picture your Future. What’s next?
Design your happy, healthy, fulfilling future
Lynn Ryder helps men and women imagine and realize a well-balanced life full of joy. For 30-years Lynn was a career coach and an in-house executive consultant for major corporations. Lynn is the author of “Road to Fulfillment: True Stories about Changing Direction and Finding Happiness.”
Prior to working in leadership development, Lynn was a TV news reporter and anchor and a radio talk show host. She was also a communications lecturer for the Wharton MBA program in San Francisco. She worked in training and organization development for GE, AAA, Kaiser Permanente, Salesforce.com, Chevron, Fireman’s Fund, and McKesson. She has been a career consultant at Drake, Beam, Morin and at Lee Hecht Harrison. Now she is a personal coach for people over 50.
Sandy Pires member of MMSG (Monday Morning Sketch Group) will open her sketch kit and show you how to get started describing the place you are in, using just a few materials.
Sample sketches and some supplies will be provided for you to try. Please feel free to bring your own paper, pencils, pens, or any other dry media supplies you would like to use. Let’s have fun!
Sandy enjoys color with watercolor, crayons, pens and colored pencils.
Inspired by this year’s One Book One Marin title, professional mediator Marissa Wertheimer will lead participants through a number of engaging, interactive exercises designed to help us cross “empathy walls,” and to have compassion and understanding in our conversations with others.
“An empathy wall is an obstacle to deep understanding of another person, one that can make us feel indifferent or even hostile to those who hold different beliefs or whose childhood is rooted in different circumstances. In a period of political tumult, we gasp for quick certainties. We shoe horn new information into ways we already think. We settle for knowing our opposite numbers from the outside. But is it possible, without changing our beliefs, to know others from the inside, to see reality through their eyes, to understand the links between life, feeling, and politics; that is, to cross the empathy wall? I thought it was.” – Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russel Hochschild
Online Resource Guide: Learn more about Strangers in Their Own Land, view interviews with Arlie Russell Hochschild, read reviews from across the political spectrum, and more! This LibGuide was created by David Patterson, Librarian at College of Marin.
A French Village mystery series with expats Katherine and Michael Goff, who have given up on Los Angeles and moved to Reigny-sur-Canne. First in the series, Love and Death in Burgundy is an atmospheric mystery filled with good chablis, French cheese, and, of course, murder. Next in the series, Dressed for Death in Burgundy will be released May 1, 2018
Susan is on the national board of Sisters in Crime and is a member of Mystery Writers of America. She spent twenty-five years in the not-for-profit world before beginning to write full time. She lives in Novato.
Book Discussion for this year’s One Book One Marin selection…
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Thursday, March 22, 6:30 – 7:45 pm Library Meeting Room
Facilitator: Ethan Annis, librarian at Dominican University of California.
“When I learned that OBOM selected Strangers in Their Own Land I enthusiastically volunteered to lead a discussion of the book because it profoundly reshaped my understanding of America. In January 2017 I read Strangers In Their Own Land and it awakened me to what Arlie Russell Hochschild calls the “deep story” of many Americans who did not share my own deep story and why Donald Trump was able to resonate so thoroughly with that deep story.”
Our discussion will cover the entire book but due to time constraints will focus mainly on Chapter 9, The Deep Story (p. 135-152) and Chapter 15, Strangers No Longer: The Power of Promise (p. 221-230).
Online Resource Guide: Learn more about Strangers in Their Own Land, view interviews with Arlie Russell Hochschild, read reviews from across the political spectrum, and more! This LibGuide was created by David Patterson, Librarian at College of Marin.
Let someone know you care with a handmade Valentine’s Day Card!
We’ll provide lots of fun materials for you to use to create the perfect card for the object of your affections. Drop in any time between 1 and 4 ! Feel free to bring your own supplies – but no loose glitter, please!
Let someone know you care with a hand-made Valentine’s Day Card!
We’ll provide lots of fun materials for you to use to create the perfect card for the object of your affections. Drop in any time between 1 and 4 to make one or many!
Feel free to bring your own supplies – but no loose glitter, please!
Leading this event is Bibi Summer, a publication designer in Northern California for over 30 years. She has a B.A. in Journalism from U.W.-Madison, and while at Pratt University, N.Y. worked toward a Masters in Graphic Design. She has been the art director of the Mill Valley Record, Acoustic Guitar, Strings, and Wines & Vines magazines, among others, and has designed or illustrated books, CDs and websites. She also teaches bookbinding at Createful Studio in San Rafael. www.bibisummer.com
Come make candy sushi at the library! We’ll provide all the ingredients you need to create tasty and beautiful candy maki and nigiri. Prizes will be awarded for the top sushi chefs!
Sample sketches and some supplies will be provided for you to try. Please feel free to bring your own paper, pencils, pens, or any other dry media supplies you would like to use. Let’s have fun!
