Newton
Massachusetts
Newton Free Library Events - October 23 - 29, 2023
Schools and Libraries
October 25, 2023
From: Newton Free LibraryTuesday, October 24 at 10am
Join us as we make a fall decorated glass lantern! A fun and simple fall project for the home or outdoors.
Location: Virtual
Registration required
Tuesday, October 24 at 7pm
Do you enjoy cooking and love good food? If so, register for the October meeting of our new Cookbook Club! This is a combination of a book club and a potluck dinner. Each month, we will choose a cookbook by a popular food author from which each of the participants will select a recipe and prepare it for the group to taste.
Location: 3rd Floor Rear Arc
Registration required
Wednesday, October 25 at 2pm
Join us to close out Inktober as we learn to paint an atmospheric landscape using only ink and water. This program will let you flex your creativity and explore a new medium.
Location: Virtual
Registration required
SCORE Small Business Counseling
Thursday, October 26 starting at 9am
SCORE volunteers provide area small business owners with free, one-hour counseling and advice sessions.
Location: Room A and Virtual
Registration required
Friday, October 27 at 11am
Learn about this popular messaging app used across the world by millions of people daily. WhatsApp is a free messaging app and there will be a demonstration of how this app can be used on mobile and on a desktop computer.
Location: Virtual
Registration required
Pinocchio: A Concert and Conversation with Commonwealth Lyric Theater
Sunday, October 29 at 2pm
Set in a Tuscan village, the classic Italian tale of Pinocchio tells the story of a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy. Join the Commonwealth Lyric Theater and the Young Artists Chamber Singers as they bring Pinocchio's music to life, as well as regale the audience with stories of Florence, the hometown of writer Carlo Collodi, and how the tale of Pinocchio came to be.
Location: Druker Auditorium
In person event, registration not required
Friends of the Newton Free Library
Coming Up
Monday, October 30 at 11am
Halloween Votive Candles with Transfer Images
Tuesday, October 31 at 4pm
SCORE Small Business Counseling
Thursday, November 2 starting at 9am
Find Happiness through Mindfulness, Yoga & Meditation
Tuesday, November 2 at 7:15pm
October Main Hall and Gallery Art Shows
“Collaborative Portraits” are co-created between the photographer, Fran Sherman, and young women who share a social justice mission. The young women and Fran make environmental portraits, collaboratively set and staged. The photographic portrait then becomes a canvas re-interpreted and altered by each young woman, through painting and collage, to express their vision and self-view. These portraits and the conversations they inspired are published in an art and social justice book, I Am Why Reclaiming the Lens.
"Magic Lands" chips away at attitudes of indifference by asking “Why am I here, and what is to be gained.” Each painting represents a particular place but more importantly the spirit of each location. Admittedly, these images are places of the mind and spirit.
These memory-scapes aim to impact viewers to think about their world, our environment, and their place within it.
Contact: [email protected]