Come knit with Norma on Thursday mornings. Knitters at all levels from newbies to experts are welcomed. Please remember to bring your your own supplies and projects.
No Registration Required
Our resident fiber artist Willow will be available for tips, tricks, and crafting conundrum help. Come hang out and work on your latest project!
No Registration Required
It’s that time of year again – time to break out those marshmallow treats and get crafting! Our 14th Annual Peeps Diorama Contest takes place all month long in March.
Create a diorama of your own design featuring Peeps in some way. Enter in one of three categories: Grades K-5, Grades 6-12, and Adult/Family (mixed ages).
Build your diorama at home or join us for all-ages Peeps Diorama crafting events: Wednesday March 6th 2:30-4:00, Saturday March 9th 2:00-4:00, and Wednesday March 13th 2:30-4:00.
Dioramas must be delivered to the Reference Desk by 7pm on March 18th.
Everyone is invited to vote between March 19th and March 25th.
Our Annual Awards Ceremony will take place on Wednesday March 27th.
Full details and entry form can be found on our Peeps webpage. There are also links to photos from previous years if you need some inspiration!
Author and professor Christine Abely will discuss her brand new book, “The Russia Sanctions: The Economic Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine”. Learn about the international trade measures and sanctions deployed against Russia in response to its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Explore how sanctions have affected, and will continue to affect, global trading patterns, financial integration, and foreign policy in novel ways. In particular, examine the effects of sanctions on energy, food, fertilizer, the financial system, and the global use of the US dollar, including trends of de-dollarization. Understand the steps that must be taken to make sanctions more effective by promoting financial transparency worldwide. Christine Abely is an assistant professor at New England Law in Boston. She previously practiced international trade and sanctions law and is a licensed customs broker. Her work has appeared in The Hill, Just Security, and numerous academic journals.
Please register via this link.
In partnership with the Tewksbury Public Library and several other Massachusetts libraries.
Authors Ali Hazelwood, Nikki Payne, and Denise Williams will discuss their latest romance novels in this unforgettable panel discussion followed by audience Q&A.
Ali Hazelwood is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically and The Love Hypothesis, as well as a writer of peer-reviewed articles about brain science, in which no one makes out and the ever after is not always happy. Originally from Italy, she lived in Germany and Japan before moving to the US to pursue a PhD in neuroscience. When Ali is not at work, she can be found running, eating cake pops, or watching sci-fi movies with her three feline overlords (and her slightly-less-feline husband). Her latest is Bride, a paranormal romance published on February 6.
By day, Nikki Payne is a curious tech anthropologist asking the right questions to deliver better digital services. By night, she dreams of ways to subvert canon literature. Nikki is a member of Smut U, a premium feminist writing collective, and a cat lady with no cats. Her latest is Sex, Lies and Sensibility, a contemporary diverse retelling of Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility published on February 13.
Denise Williams wrote her first book in the 2nd grade. I Hate You and its sequel, I Still Hate You, featured a tough, funny heroine, a quirky hero, witty banter, and a dragon. Minus the dragons, these are still the books she likes to write. After penning those early works, she finished second grade and eventually earned a PhD. Denise lives in Iowa and can usually be found reading, writing, or thinking about love stories. Her books have been listed as an Indie Next pick, Library Reads pick, and received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. Her latest is Technically Yours, the story of a second chance romance set in a STEM-industry workplace, published in December.
Join Peter Bellerby, founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, in this visual tour through the history of Globemaking, how it almost became a lost art, and how he is bringing it back, one beautiful hand painted globe at a time. His book, a full-color photographic portrait of a fantastic art, “The Globemakers” is an enlightening exploration of globes, or “earth apples,” as they were first known, and their ability to show us ourselves and our place in an infinite universe. If you don’t want to run out and buy globes for yourself and all of your friends after this talk, we’ll be surprised!
Peter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, the world’s only truly bespoke makers of globes. His team of skilled craftspeople make exquisite terrestrial, celestial and planetary globes. The business began after he failed to find a special globe for his father’s 80th birthday – and decided to make one himself, taking him on an extraordinary journey of rediscovering this forgotten craft.
In collaboration with the Ashland Public Library
Interested in taking your ideas from the page to the publisher? Join us to learn how these three writers formed a group that produced three debut authors in 2023!
Learn about their stories and how the writing group – meeting for six years and counting – became an invaluable resource through the phases of writing, editing, publishing, and now book promotion! They will share how they structured their group and how it has evolved. The event will end with a question-and-answer discussion period.
Mindy Pollack-Fusi, Bedford resident, writing coach, Minuteman columnist and Boston Globe correspondent, and book publisher and author, will introduce the panel:
· Laura Beretsky, author of Seizing Control (November 2023, Haley’s Publishing), a memoir about the challenges of living with epilepsy, Laura’s quest for justice over workplace discrimination, and the patient self-advocacy required to get the best possible medical care.
· Bev Boisseau Stohl, author of Chomsky and Me: A Memoir (2023 OR Books), about her 24 years running the MIT office of renowned linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky. Bev finds humor and light amid dark topics while revealing the man behind the icon, examining her life choices in the process.
· Jean Duffy, author of Soccer Grannies: The South African Women Who Inspire the World (2023 Rowman & Littlefield) about a team of 40 to 80-year-olds who defy social convention to play soccer for the health benefits and companionship it provides.
The authors (all four of them) will have books for sale and signing!
This is an in-person program only.
Martin Luther King, Jr. once said “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” This program examines that arc as it relates to African American history enshrined in American Art. From colonial-era portraits to 19th-century and Jim Crow-era prints to 1960s Civil Rights photography, this program will provide a visual overview of African American oppression, struggle, and progress toward equality.
In partnership with the Sargent Memorial Library. Thanks to the Friends of the Bedford Free Public Library for sponsoring this program. Free and open to the public.
We are delighted to chat with Independently published romance authors Alexandria House, Katrina Jackson, and Ines Johnson! As an all Black panel, we’ll be talking about their journey to being self-published, the romance community, their books, and the rise of indie publishing in the last few years. And, just in time for V-Day – it’s perfect!
You can learn about the authors at their websites:
In collaboration with the Ashland Public Library.
Thursday, February 15th at 6:30 – 7:30 pm online on Zoom
This program is at 6:30pm ET. It is a part of a monthly series, so when you register you can sign on for just this one or for a few in the future, too!
Learn more about Alterian, Inc.
About our Host:
Jeff DePaoli grew up in Woburn, Massachusetts and graduated from Emerson College with a B.F.A. in the Performing Arts. He has been obsessed with Halloween from a very early age, and it truly is his favorite day of the year. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California where he provides his skills and talents for Halloween conventions and events including Midsummer Scream, Creep It Real OC, and beyond. Jeff is an avid podcaster where he shares his love of Halloween with special guests on “That Halloween Podcast.” He has been podcasting since 2014 when he launched his flagship show, “Dizney Coast to Coast.” Jeff attends and reports on many Halloween and themed entertainment events throughout the year as a journalist for Attractions Magazine. As a voiceover artist, he has worked with Universal Pictures, Netflix, and is the host of the official Alexa Disney Trivia game on the Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition. He has always enjoyed hosting and was honored with the opportunity to host TEDx Culver City as well as numerous panels for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation and numerous conventions. One of Jeff’s more unique credits is his role as the Stage Manager of the Ed Sullivan Show in the Clint Eastwood film “Jersey Boys.” You can learn more about Jeff’s podcasts at www.DePodcastNetwork.com
Registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6017017894736/WN_7ZeokdwVRD-uDdgFnJSVow
Program is made possible in partnership with Ashland Public Library and a multitude of MA Libraries. Thanks to the Friends of the Bedford Free Public Library for sponsoring this program. Free and open to the public.