Newton Free Library
Newton Free Library Online: Teen Zoom Poetry
ZoomWrite your physical distancing blues away with our Teen Zoom Poetry Group with James & Jean. During this time, we’ll be writing poems based on fun prompts! Have your keyboards, pencils, and paper handy! Registration is required to receive the Zoom link for this event. Grades 7-12. Begin registration here!
Newton Free Library Online presents: Check Please! with author Ngozi Ukazu
ZoomCelebrated author/illustrator Ngozi Ukazu takes us behind the scenes of her bestselling webcomic/graphic novel series Check Please! Join us on Zoom as Ngozi gives teens a look into her drawing and writing process. A question and answer session will follow! Grades 7 and up. Click here for Zoom information.
Newton Free Library presents: Nature Journaling Techniques
ZoomNewton Free Library presents Nature Journaling Techniques via Zoom on Thursday, July 9th at 3:00 PM. Nature journaling gives you a way to document what you are seeing and bring your attention to the world you are part of. Using drawing and writing, you will explore techniques you can use to create your nature journal.…
Newton Free Library presents: Jungle Jim’s Balloon Magic Show
ZoomNewton Free Library presents Jungle Jim’s Balloon Magic Show on Tuesday, July 14th at 4:00 PM via Zoom. Join Jungle Jim on a comical reading adventure! This engaging performer takes you on an incredible live journey with balloons and magic right through your screens. An interactive and energetic program, Jungle Jim appeals to audiences of…
Newton Free Library presents: Drawing for Beginners
ZoomPerspective is all around you from the angles of rooftops to the highway that recedes into a point in the distance. Explore the tricks that will let you master perspective in your artwork. On the day of the event you will receive an email with a link to join. At the time of the program…
Newton Free Library presents: Music with Emily
ZoomJoin Parents' Choice Award winning singer/songwriter, Emily Hall, for this sing-along musical adventure. With familiar tunes and some originals, visuals and surprises, Emily will get you up and moving along and having fun! You don't want to miss this "not just a sing-along sing-along". This event is presented by the Newton Free Library, on Wednesday,…
Newton Free Library presents: Tales from a Reluctant World Traveler
ZoomSixteen weeks, four continents, three bungee jumps, and Randy Ross couldn't come home soon enough. This is the story of how a Boston homebody turned a solo trip around the globe into a comedy novel and an acclaimed one-man show. The 1.5-hour, multimedia Zoom event includes a humorous travel slide show, readings from his novel God…
Newton Free Library presents: A Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi
ZoomJoin the Newton Free Library for a virtual conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, followed by a discussion about race and racism in Newton. Professor Kendi is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, professor of history and international studies, and the Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. This event will be…
Newton Free Library presents: Raising Anti-Racists Kids
ONLINE United KingdomRegister (required) here. An email with a link for the webinar will be sent out prior to the event. Join Newton Free Library for the first in a multi-part educational series on being an anti-racist. Cosponsored by the FORJ (Families Organizing for Racial Justice), Harmony Foundation and Newton Human Rights Commission. The panelists will be: David A. Fleishman, Superintendent of Schools…
Newton Free Library presents: Celebrating Beethoven’s 250th Birthday
Facebook Live , United StatesOn August 27th at 7:00PM, login here to attend this Facebook Live event where Paul-André Bempéchat will perform a selection of sonatas in honor of Beethoven's 250th birthday. (You do not need to have a Facebook account to attend.) Paul-André Bempéchat is Music Fellow at Harvard's Cabot House. A Juilliard and Sorbonne graduate, he has enjoyed a forty-year performing…