Friday, May 12th at 11:00am Registration has begun! Moms, Grandmas, Aunts, or any other Family Friend can join us for tea and stories and crafts! Call now to register! BYOD and a Movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (123 Minutes/ PG 13) Thursday, May 25th at 6:00 Registration begins May 1st Held in the Community Room The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. Bring your own dinner and a movie and enjoy a feature film! The room will be set-up café style. You can bring anything from pizza, to sandwiches, to sushi! Call 860-489-6684 to register or register online at www.torringtonlibrary.org PBS Film: Forgotten Elis Island (60 Min) Thursday, May 18th at 6:30 Registration begins May 1st Held in the Program Room This is the first film about the once abandoned immigrant hospital on Ellis Island. In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island, 3,500 were buried in pauper's graves around New York City. Register online! Join us on Thursday, May 11th at 6:00pm for Nature as Mentor: Building on your authentic foundation. Registration begins May 1st. Both the wisdom of elder/earth based cultures as well as recent empirical research in the fields of ecopsychology and environmental psychology, mindfulness based stress reduction, meditation, and energy medicine, provide the foundation of this 90 minute program. A beautifully illustrated short Keynote talk, wake-up out-of-door nature connecting activities, and a deep guided meditation form this program. Register by calling 860-489-6684 or online. Tuesdays at Two: Join us for these events geared towards, but not limited to, seniors! Card Game Social Tuesday, May 9th at 2:00 Registration begins April 15th Held in the Community Room We’ll provide the playing space; you provide the games! Gather your friends together, bring a deck of cards and enjoy a relaxing afternoon at the library. Call 860-489-6684 to register or register online. Ragtime Jack Thursday, May 4th at 6:30 Registration begins April 15th Held in the Community Room Join us for an evening of Ragtime music that entranced the country between 1890 and 1920! 'Ragtime' Jack Radcliffe has been performing for more than 45 years. He is a master of traditional country blues and stride piano, and a powerful singer/songwriter, as well. He also accompanies himself on the guitar and harmonicas and has lately added the fiddle to his arsenal of musical weapons. This is a must-see musical event for all ages! Call 860-489-6684 to register or register online! |
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