Jan
10
Wed
Screen-Free Creativity with Chris!
Jan 10 @ 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm

Come join Easthampton Public Health Nurse, Chris Southworth, and quiet your mind with line design by making gel pen snowflakes! Drop in or stay the whole hour, we will have materials to make beautiful, geometric snowflake line drawings. Program is designed for school aged children and teens.

Jan
22
Mon
Office Hours with State Rep Dan Carey
Jan 22 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Office Hours with State Rep Dan Carey

Join State Representative Dan Carey for Office Hours in the first alcove of the Library.

Feb
5
Mon
Office Hours with Liz Plouffe, Easthampton Community Social Worker
Feb 5 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Photo of Liz Plouffe, Easthampton Community Social Worker.Easthampton Community Social Worker Liz Plouffe joins us for ‘office hours’ in the alcove. Bring your questions about City services, mental health resources, elder care support, or other needs! Questions? Reach out to Liz at: eplouffe@easthamptonma.gov or 413-529-1400 ext. 106

Feb
12
Mon
CANCELLED: Office Hours with Councilmembers Koni Denham and Homar Gomez
Feb 12 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Join City Council Members Koni Denham & Homar Gomez for Office Hours in the first alcove of the Library.

Feb
16
Fri
Winter Mural Making!
Feb 16 @ 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm

Come add to our Winter Mural before it goes up on display! Come drop-in to this collaborative multimedia mural-making session! We will have lots of fun and engaging materials and an inspiring winter backdrop of the city for participants of all ages to add to; it will be displayed at the library afterward. Stay for as long or as little of a time as you like.

Feb
21
Wed
Winter Mural Making!
Feb 21 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Come add to our Winter Mural before it goes up on display! Come to this collaborative multimedia mural-making session! We will have lots of fun and engaging materials and an inspiring winter backdrop of the city for participants of all ages to add to; it will be displayed at the library afterward. Stay for as long or as short of a time as you like.

Feb
22
Thu
Office Hours with Liz Plouffe, Easthampton Community Social Worker
Feb 22 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Photo of Liz Plouffe, Easthampton Community Social Worker.Easthampton Community Social Worker Liz Plouffe joins us for ‘office hours’ in the alcove. Bring your questions about City services, mental health resources, elder care support, or other needs! Questions? Reach out to Liz at: eplouffe@easthamptonma.gov or 413-529-1400 ext. 106

Feb
26
Mon
Office Hours with State Rep Dan Carey
Feb 26 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Office Hours with State Rep Dan Carey

Join State Representative Dan Carey for Office Hours in the first alcove of the Library.

Mar
1
Fri
Teen Bookbinding Workshop
Mar 1 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

In this class, led by artist Lisa Hersey of Antler Editions, we will explore different bookbinding techniques that can be recreated at home. Making a book can be as simple as folding one sheet of paper, or involve 16 pages and sewing! Students will learn how to put content into their books for reproducing editions of their work for themselves or to bring to Press On: Indie Publishing Festival! We will have time to work together and create original books by either decorating the covers, or putting words/drawings onto the pages. Ages 12+, participants must be able to hold and handle a needle. Space is limited, sign up at the library in person or by calling us at 413-527-1031 or emailing us at youthdept@ewmlibrary.org.

Mar
2
Sat
Walking & Writing Sessions with Carolyn Cushing, Easthampton’s Poet Laureate
Mar 2 @ 8:30 am
Walking & Writing Sessions with Carolyn Cushing, Easthampton’s Poet Laureate

Three Saturdays, March 2nd, 9th and 23rd, 8:30am meet outside the library to begin walk, 9:30am reconvene inside the library.

Meet on the steps of the library at 8:30am. A map of the “official route” will be provided that you may follow or adapt to your own needs and interests. Our time of walking and writing is followed by a library meet up with this structure:

9:30-9:45 am: Chat about how the writing and walking went

At 9:45am: Anyone who wants to read from their notebook for up to 3 minutes may

Closing: A go around where people are invited to voice an intention about further developing or sharing their writing from the walk

All of these activities are optional. People who have walked at other points in the week are welcome to join for the sharing.

This event is weather dependent. If it is too wet for our notebooks (i.e. steady rain or snow) we will not go. If it is too icy to walk we will not go.