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Home My WebLink AboutJanuary 2019 Monthly ReportPort Townsend Public Library Monthly Programs Report January 2019 Program Name: Book Lover’s Café: Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Date: 1-7-19 Presenter: Melody E Intended Age: Adults Attendance 15 Location: City Hall 1st Floor Sponsored By: Friends Description: Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War". Comments: The bookclub enjoyed reading this classic and discussing the power of a novel to help change the course of history. Port Townsend Public Library Monthly Programs Report January 2019 Program Name: Fiber Arts Night Date: 1st & 3rd Tuesday Presenter: Kathi J & Joan W Intended Age: Adults Attendance 16 Location: Pink House Sponsored By: Friends Description: Come and enjoy an evening of working on handiwork projects with other fiber artists (from knitting to quilting to weaving all fiber arts projects are welcomed). Please bring your own supplies. Comments: Program Name: Changeling Shakespeare Reading Group Date: 2nd & 4th Tuesday Presenter: Bob D Intended Age: Adults Attendance 10 Location: Pink House Sponsored By: Library Description: CHANGELING will meet twice monthly to read and discuss the plays of William Shakespeare. Comments: Port Townsend Public Library Monthly Programs Report January 2019 Program Name: 2019 North Olympic Peninsula Farming Film Festival Date: Jan. 7, Jan. 14, Jan. 28, 2019 Presenter: Friends of the Trees and Jefferson County Local Food Systems Council Intended Age: Adults Attendance 55 Location: Pink House Sponsored By: Friends - $100 total for all the movies. Description: Find out how regenerative farming is part of the climate change solution and global earth repair. Inspiring films about farmers working with and restoring ecosystems. Local efforts will be highlighted in discussion after each film. Comments: Port Townsend Public Library Monthly Programs Report January 2019 Program Name: Flip Flop on the Appalachian Trail with Maribeth Crandell Date: Jan. 10, 2019 Presenter: Maribeth Crandell Intended Age: Adults Attendance 100+ Location: Carnegie Room Sponsored By: FOTL for $200 Description: At age forty-seven, Maribeth Crandell decided to walk the 2,175 mile Appalachian Trail. Join Maribeth for an author talk and slides from her book and adventures hiking the Appalachian Trail northward from Georgia to New York and then again from Maine south. Comments: Port Townsend Public Library Monthly Programs Report January 2019 Program Name: From Homer to #hashtags: Our Changing Language with Christine Hemp Date: Jan. 17, 2019 Presenter: Christine Hemp Intended Age: Adults Attendance 40 Location: Carnegie Room Sponsored By: Humanities Washington and FOTL for $100 Description: Though always evolving, language is undergoing an unprecedented shift, thanks to the digital age. Emojis, tweets, and hashtags are transforming how we write and converse. Some might argue that language has been diminished, but just as Homer’s epic Odyssey made sense of ancient Greece, a tweet can distill a feeling, a thought, or an idea. Poet Christine Hemp explores these new forms of communication, connecting them with the language of the past. How do changes in language affect the way we think and feel about our world, our history, and ourselves? Comments: Port Townsend Public Library Monthly Programs Report January 2019 Program Name: Toddler Time Date: Every Thursday Presenter: Hilary V. Intended Age: 18-36 months and families Attendance 37 Location: Children’s Room Sponsored By: FOTL Description: Toddlertime builds pre-reading skills like vocabulary, phonological awareness, and sequencing. Young children and their caregivers share fun rhymes and songs and very short stories. The emphasis is on modeling for caregivers how to build literacy skills in very young children. Comments: Program Name: Baby Time Date: Every Wednesday Presenter: Jeanne S. Intended Age: 0-18 months and families Attendance 58 Location: Children’s Room Sponsored By: FOTL Description: Babytime uses a warm, caring atmosphere to make parents of very young children comfortable in the library and in singing and playing with their babies. The emphasis is on modeling and teaching simple games, rhymes, songs and sign language that can help build very early literacy. Comments: Port Townsend Public Library Monthly Programs Report January 2019 Program Name: Preschool Storytime Date: Every Tuesday Presenter: Jeanne S. Intended Age: 3-5 year olds and families Attendance 112 Location: Children’s Room Sponsored By: FOTL Description: Preschool storytime brings early literacy to kids and their caregivers with songs, rhymes, and activities. The emphasis for this age group is on kindergarten readiness and fostering a love of reading. On January 15th, we had a special Preschool Storytime. Hilary went to a training in September 2018 present by the Franklin Institute called Leap into Science. It focused on teaching concepts of balance to children. Jeanne read stories that focused on balance and weights, and after storytime, different activites like teeter totters, and scales were set up for the kids to experiment with. Comments: Port Townsend Public Library Monthly Programs Report January 2019 Program Name: Sing-a-Ling Date: Jan. 10, 2019 Presenter: Keeth Apgar Intended Age: Children and Families Attendance 40 Location: Children’s Room Sponsored By: FOTL $75 Description: Sing-A-Ling gets toddlers, preschoolers, families and the greater community into our bodies and singing together. Part story time, part sing-along and fully loaded with laughs, the select songs and rhyming stories in this show combine finger play, movement, picture books, uplifting acoustic music and an engaging, highly-interactive banter between audience and presenter. In this early literacy-infused program children (and their grownups) will create original rhymes and lyrics to traditional American folk songs, raise their voices to play with the alphabet’s many amusing sounds, and sing along to the words of favorite children’s books. Comments: Port Townsend Public Library Monthly Programs Report January 2019 Program Name: Children’s Choir Date: Tuesdays, January 8-Feb 26 Presenter: Phina Pipia Intended Age: 8-12 Attendance 76 Location: 1st Baptist Church Sponsored By: FOTL $1125 Description: Local youngsters get an incredible chance to make music this Winter! The PT Public Library Children’s Choir is back - a fun, free music program for youth ages 7 - 12! Directed by Phina Pipia. Comments: Port Townsend Public Library Monthly Programs Report January 2019 Program Name: Blue Heron School Visit Date: Jan. 15, 2019 Presenter: Joy W., Hilary V. Intended Age: Teens Attendance 34 Location: Blue Heron Sponsored By: FOTL $25 for supplies and snacks Description: Middle School Students made glass char luminaries with tissue paper and modge podge. Comments: Port Townsend Public Library Monthly Programs Report January 2019 Program Name: PTHS School Visit Date: Jan. 23, 2019 Presenter: Joy W., Hilary V. Intended Age: Teens Attendance 20 Location: PTHS Sponsored By: PTHS Description: Teens made friendship bracelets from loom circles made from cardboard. Comments: Port Townsend Public Library Monthly Programs Report January 2019 Program Name: PTHS Book Club Date: Jan. 9, 2019 Presenter: Joy W., Hilary V. Intended Age: Teens Attendance 4 Location: PTHS Sponsored By: PTHS Description: Teens received The Hate U Give for book club. More books were left at the library for other interested teens. We talked about group norms, and how we wanted to run our book club. Comments: