Family Movie Matinee: Minions at Southside, Saturday, February 13, 2:30 p.m.

La Farge Young Adults Meet Randi's Reptiles

The La Farge Library Youth Advisory Board had some special visitors come for their YA meet up. Randi’s Reptile Rescue visited the group to talk about our reptile friends and how we too may help them. Many got over any fears of snakes and everyone enjoyed holding all of the scaly creatures.

 

 

 

Photos and post by JG

Read Shakespeare Out Loud -- Close Reading of Shakespeare

Do you love Shakespeare? Or think it too hard ? Either way, let’s read from a play out loud together and talk about it. All ages are invited, whether you have experience with Shakespeare or not. You can read or just listen. Join us and have fun.

Join with readers of Shakespeare to read Shakespeare out loud together. Close Readings will be held at the Santa Fe Public Library Branches in February in conjunction with the New Mexico Art Museum’s exhibit of Shakespeare’s First Folio.

Close Readings will be held Monday, February 1 at the Main Library, 145 Washington Avenue at 6 p.m. Free and open to the public.

Other readings will take place February 8 at 6 p.m. at the La Farge Branch, 1730 Llano Street, and February 15 at 6 p.m. at the Southside Library, 6599 Jaguar Road. No reservations required. The group will read the first scene of King Lear together! All materials supplied.

Readers of all ages and any level of experience with Shakespeare are encouraged, as well as anyone who just wants to listen. No experience of Shakespeare or acting needed!

Sponsored by the Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library.

New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence Announce Town Hall at Southside Library, Feb. 1st

The City of Santa Fe and a coalition of service providers and advocates will host a town hall meeting on February 1st, 2016. The meeting serves as an opportunity for the community to come together and discuss gun violence and prevention in Santa Fe.

A panel of community leaders leading the discussion will include Mayor Javier M. Gonzales, Miranda Viscoli (New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence), the Santa Fe Police Department, District Attorney Jennifer Padgett, Erin Doerwald (Sky Center Santa Fe), Sheila Lewis (Santa Fe Safe), State Senator Nancy Rodriguez, and SFPS Student Anthony Rivera.

The event will be held at the Santa Fe Public Library's Southside Branch at 6:00 PM, on Monday, February 1st.

 

 

Science After School at the Santa Fe Public Library, Spring 2016

Check out La Farge's new displays!

Our first display is in honor of Shakespeare. We wanted to showcase Shakespeare’s work in celebration of the New Mexico Museum of Art’s exhibition of the First Folio!

We also have a Romance display in honor of Valentine’s Day.

 

Post and photos by MV

Friday Afternoon Art: Come Play With Clay, January 29 at the Main Library

beWellnm, New Mexico's Health Insurance Exchange, Tuesday, January 26 at the Main Library

Healthy Lifestyles and Diabetes Prevention Discussion, Tuesday, February 2 at Main

Preschool Story Time Spring 2016 Schedule

Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library Annual Meeting, Sunday, January 24

The Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library will hold their annual business meeting on January 24, from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at the Main Library, beginning with a briefing of Friends business matters and followed by special guest speaker Lois Palken Rudnick.  Refreshments will be served.

Lois Palken Rudnick has been researching and writing about northern New Mexico for almost all of her adult life. A retired professor, she chaired the American Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston for 26 years, before retiring in 2009 and moving to Santa Fe. She has taught, published, and lectured widely throughout the U.S.A. and internationally on modern American culture, history, and literature, most especially on the writer and artist communities of Santa Fe and Taos. She is best known for her numerous books on Mabel Dodge Luhan, the doyenne of the Taos art colony in the early 20th century. Among her many books are Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds; Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality; Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture; and The Suppressed Memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan: Sex, Syphilis, and Psychoanalysis in the Making of Modern American Culture.

Friends of the Library’s Annual Meeting
January 24, 2016, 1:30–3:30 p.m.
Main Library, 145 Washington Avenue

Brainpower & Brownbags Free Lecture Series at the New Mexico History Museum starts Jan. 13

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Family Movie Matinee at Southside, January 9