Join us for Women's History Month
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Greetings!
Happy Women's History Month! This month, we're honoring the accomplishments and contributions of women throughout history. To celebrate, we've put together an array of programs and activities for all ages and backgrounds. We'll have weekly art lectures, a film screening, and a women's self-defense class.
Women's History Month is an excellent opportunity to reflect on the progress that has been made over the years in terms of gender equality. It is also a time to recognize how much further we still have to go, so that all people are treated fairly and equally. Join us this month as we celebrate all of the incredible women who have broken down barriers, inspired change, and whose drive for progress continues today.
March is also National Social Work Month, focusing on the vital services provided to people in need. We are holding two special community events to highlight the resources available right here in Hoboken. I encourage you to attend to learn about the full-range of services.
Regards,
Jennie Pu
Library Director
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Hoboken Community Solar Program Information Table
Second Floor @ 500 Park Ave
Saturday, March 11 @ 10 am
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Learn more about how you can save 25% off your electric charges through a new utility assistance program, offered by the City of Hoboken. Hoboken’s Community Solar Program is bringing solar energy benefits to eligible Hoboken residents: low-to-moderate income earners that pay their own electricity bills – including renters! Join us to learn more about the City’s program.
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Hidden Figures
Film Screening, in honor of Women's History Month
Thursday, March 16 @ 2 pm
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Join us in the Small Programming Room at 500 Park Ave for a discussion and screening of Hidden Figures, the story of the African-American women who worked the mathematics that actually put American astronauts into space.
Light refreshments will be served.
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Read with a Therapy Dog
The Branch @ 124 Grand Street
Thursday, March 16 @ 3:30 pm
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Head to 124 Grand Street, 2nd Floor, for our Read With a Therapy Dog Program with Maple the Therapy Dog! Geared for early readers, this is a great program for kids to practice their reading skills and gain self confidence. Questions about this? Please email Ms. Valerie.
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Leprechaun Craft to Go
Main & Grand Street Branches
Friday, March 17
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Please visit our Main Branch at 500 Park Avenue and our Branch at 124 Grand Street on Friday, March 17 to pick up a fun Leprechaun Craft-to-Go!
Craft bundles are first-come, first-served, and are suitable for all ages.
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Featured Title
After Sappho
by Selby Wynn Schwartz
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An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century. "The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho," so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen; in 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: "I want to make life fuller and fuller." Writing in cascading vignettes, Selby Wynn Schwartz spins an invigorating tale of women whose narratives converge and splinter as they forge queer identities and claim the right to their own lives.
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Birnam Wood
by Eleanor Catton
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A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its drama, Austenian in its wit, and, like both influences, fascinated by what makes us who we are.
A brilliantly constructed study of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is a mesmerizing, unflinching consideration of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.
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National Social Work Month
Community Fair
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Join us the afternoon of Saturday, March 25, in the Main Branch's Large Program Room, for our Community Resource Fair where you can meet our community partners, and learn about their services and ways you can get involved. While you're there, take a moment to meet and chat with the Library's Community Service Worker, Emily Dalton.
There will be plenty of free resources, information, and giveaways! Light refreshments will be provided. All are welcome.
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