Our July session will offer an introduction to the spinning wheel and drum carder, as well as continued practice on the drop spindle.
Join us at the library to learn new techniques, share your work and sharpen your skills. Or bring along a project to knit or crochet, and enjoy the company of your fellow fiber artists.
The Cleveland Park Fiber Arts Workshop is held every fourth Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Hope to see you here!
Join us on Thursday, August 4, to discuss Paul Doiron's The Poacher's Son, in which Maine game warden Mike Bowditch's estranged father, a poacher, is the prime suspect in multiple murders.
Join us on Thursday, July 7, at 1 p.m. to listen to Sushmita Mazumdar’s story about how she got her Buddhist Prayer Wheel in the mountains of India.
Hear how it inspired her to create a book of wishes, and learn to make your own.
For children ages 7-12.
The Cleveland Park Library Chess Program will continue through the summer! We meet Tuesdays at 3:45 p.m. Please join us while we review historical games, study scenarios and play chess. All ages welcome!
Join the Cleveland Park Mystery Book Club on Thursday, July 7, at 6:30 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, 12th and E streets N.W.
You know the story of Rumplestilskin, but do you know about his daughter? You've probably heard fables that teach you a lesson, but what about those stories to which you shouldn't pay any attention? And if you've only heard the pig's side of the "Three Little Pigs," you're missing half the story.
Come listen as Miss Patty tells fairy tales and fables with a twist!
Do you ever wonder why you can’t find a flavorful tomato in the grocery store, or why they are hard enough to substitute for a baseball? Next time you are in the library, ask for a copy of Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Estabrook.
Please join us for a special story time on Friday, June 17, at 11 a.m.
Storyteller Janice Rosen tells the story of Kami and the Yaks by Andrea Stenn Stryer. Told out loud and in American Sign Language for the hearing impaired, this story follows Kami, a deaf Sherpa boy, and his family as they carve out a life for themselves guiding families up the mountain on yaks. When the yaks go missing one day, Kami sets out to find them and is confronted by storms and separation from his family. Kami, however, finds the courage to bring the yaks home.
For ages 5-12.
America is a nation of immigrants, but Americans have long shown ambivalence toward those who seek a better life in our country. Emma Lazarus’ words, “Give me your tired, your poor,” have often been at odds with how the “tired and poor” have been treated upon arrival. We seem to go through periods of tolerance and intolerance, sometimes related to economic conditions, and other times because there is a perception that there are too many people coming from a single place, or they’re “taking over” and tarnishing what it is to be an American.
If you saw the recent Tony Awards ceremony on TV, you saw Neil Patrick Harris ride in on an extraordinary horse puppet from War Horse, which was awarded the 2011 Tony for Best Play, four additional Tonys, and a Special Award to the Handspring Puppet Company for the life-size puppets created for the production.
