Newton
Massachusetts
Newton Free Library Events: October 30 - November 5, 2023
Schools and Libraries
October 31, 2023
From: Newton Free LibraryMonday, October 30 at 11am
Design a unique tote bag for Trick-or-Treating adventures! Please be aware that this program is for adults to design tote bags for all ages.
Location: Virtual
Registration required
Halloween Votive Candles with Transfer Images
Tuesday, October 31 at 4pm
Join us for this in-person maker event to learn about image transfers and create your own Halloween themed votive candle.
Location: Virtual
Registration required
SCORE Small Business Counseling
Thursday, November 2 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
Find Happiness through Mindfulness, Yoga & Meditation
Thursday, November 2 at 7:15 pm
Experience ancient practices of breathing and meditation in an informal virtual setting. Discover secrets to increasing happiness in everyday life and learn ways to make it grow each day. No previous experience required. Sessions are led by mindfulness, yoga and meditation teacher, Janhavi Wadwhani.
Location: Virtual
Registration required
Coming Up
Wednesday, November 8 at 4pm
Wednesday, November 8 at 6:30
SCORE Small Business Counseling
Thursday, November 9 starting at 9am
Thursday, November 9 at 4pm
Learn How to Use Libby, hoopla & Kanopy
Friday, November 10 at 10am
Genealogy: Learning to Work with FamilySearch and Ancestry
Monday, November 13 at 6:30pm
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.
November Main Hall and Gallery Art Shows
I started painting in 2019 after a break of 65 years and had my first exhibition in February 2020. My initial exhibitions were titled "As I See It" and "Whimsical Animation.” I named my most recent exhibitions "Whimsical Surrealism,” a title I have retained for this show.
My favorite subjects are bananas, peppers, potatoes and everyday objects such as a coffee pot. My bananas make fists, fly in the sky, play, swim and more. My peppers embody a range of human emotions from joy to anger. My potatoes bear a variety of human-like faces, primarily humorous. My aim is to entertain visitors by making them smile and even laugh.
"Pushing the Envelope" was a response to the contraction and confinement of life during the Covid-19 lockdown. Even in isolation, mail arrived. My medium was restricted to the envelopes themselves (at first only the patterned paper linings, later words and images from the exteriors) and the commemorative world of postage stamps, some received through the mail, some bought, some gifted and some inherited from the boyhood collections from my father and husband. These I joined by cutting and gluing, using the pattern of a traditional house quilt block, later taping the houses together, 15 per frame, to create 35 "collaged villages."