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Song and Dance

Friday, May 10, 2019, 10:30 am

Get ready to get down! Join us as we explore different rhythms and do basic dance steps. This 20-minute program of music and movement develops listening and motor skills while stimulating an interest in music. Percussion instruments help children and caregivers follow the leader or dance to the beat of their own drummer. Recommended for ages birth to 5.

Gaming Club

Friday, May 10, 2019, 3:30 pm

Join us at the Georgetown Library to discuss, play, design, and create simple computer and tabletop games while learning more about the creative process behind your favorite games. Don't know anything about making games? Come and learn! For ages 10 and up. Each week, we will discuss a different topic relating to video and/or tabletop games, but you can join at any point: Week 1 - New/old releases you've been playing Week 2 - Brainstorm and design your game ideas Week 3 - Build or code your game Week 4 - Test out everyone's games

Preschool Story Time

Saturday, May 11, 2019, 10:30 am

Share the fun of reading with your children ages 3-5 years. Children and their grownups will explore stories and activities to encourage children to develop a lifelong love of reading and learning. These 30-to-40-minute programs are designed to promote language and listening skills, expand children’s imaginations and arouse their curiosity about the world around them.

Greetings from Hometown Washington, D.C.

Saturday, May 11, 2019, 1:00 pm

Jerry A. McCoy, special collections librarian at the DC Public Library’s Peabody Room and Washingtoniana, shares unusual vintage postcards of Washington, D.C. and the stories behind the local sites they depict.

image of a hand writing, paper, and a cup

Come in and Write!

Sunday, May 12, 2019, 2:30 pm

Join fellow writers for 90 minutes of uninterrupted writing. You bring a laptop or pen and paper. We provide a quiet room, power outlets and free Wifi. The group checks in at the beginning and end of each session to share successes and challenges. We meet on the second Sunday of every month from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Please register here.

Morning English Conversation Groups

Monday, May 13, 2019, 10:00 am

English Conversation Group meets on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Georgetown Library. Volunteer teachers from the Washington English Center will facilitate the sessions. For more information, please call 202-727-0232.

Toddler Art Storytime

Monday, May 13, 2019, 3:30 pm

Get up and get creative at Toddler Art and Stories. These 20-to-30-minute programs are full of books, songs and art activities that are designed to help develop your child’s language and motor skills. After story time, your child will participate in a process-oriented art project to explore art materials and the world around them. Process-oriented art focuses on what can be learned from the act of making art rather than the product.

Free Poetry Workshop - Poets on the Fringe

Monday, May 13, 2019, 7:00 pm

The Poets on the Fringe (POTF) are local poets who meet every Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Georgetown Neighborhood Library to read and critique one another's poems. Please bring one of your own poems with copies for the group to read and workshop. For more information, please call 202-727-0232.

Short Fiction Writing Workshop

Monday, May 13, 2019, 7:00 pm

Give constructive feedback to fellow writers. Receive it, too! Bring one printed copy of your own flash fiction or an excerpt from a longer piece (up to 1,000 words). At each session, we randomly select three participants to receive critique, facilitated by author Ingrid Anders. Recommended for ages 18 and up. Meets on the second Monday of every month from 7 - 8:30 p.m.

Evening English Conversation Circles

Tuesday, May 14, 2019, 7:00 pm

DC Public Library - Georgetown branch, in partnership with the Washington English Center, offers free Evening English Conversation Group facilitated by well qualified volunteers. The group meets on Tuesdays evenings from 7:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. If you need further information, please call 202-727-0232.

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Picture Books for Fashionistas

Books for Children Who Love All Things Fashion

Do you have a child at home who is obsessed with clothes or shoes?

All the Light We Cannot See

The Georgetown Book Club's April Selection

Marie-Laure is a blind girl whose life in Paris with her father, a Museum of Natural History locksmith, is upended by the Nazi occupation, which forces the pair to abandon the city for the coast. Werner and his sister are orphans in Essen, Germany, but he is singled out for his technical capabilities, and as a soldier in the war, his skills lead him to an assignment investigating Resistance activity in France.

Book Clubs

Poetry Reading - Barrett Warner and Donald Illich

National Poetry Month

We continue to celebrate Nation Poetry Month with two readings from well-known local poets, Barrett Warner and Donald Illich on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 7:00 p.m.

Margaret Soltan, Associate Professor, English, George Washington University, DC

Poetry Lectures: Professor Margaret Soltan

Three-part lecture series Saturdays April 2, 9, and 16, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Margaret Soltan, Associate Professor, English, George Washington University has kindly agreed to offer a series of lectures at the Georgetown Neighborhood Library celebrating National Poetry Month. The lectures will be offered on three Saturdays: Lecture One: Winter kept us warm: Poetry as Paradox April 2, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The Georgetown Book Club's March Selection

Richard Flanagan's 2014 novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, winner of the Man Booker Prize, looks closely at how the perils of love and war shape the life of one man.

Books for Young Bakers

Middle grade novels that incorporate baking

I am normally an outdoorsy person, and with parents who grew up in Maine and Wisconsin, you would think I would spend all winter sledding down hills and finding places to ski. I love snowshoeing and walking through freshly fallen snow, but I also appreciate cold, snowy afternoons spent indoors with my cats and a hot cup of tea.

Image of The Age of Innocence book cover

Impossible Love

Novels of ill-fated relationships

Complex even when unchallenged and reciprocal, love grows in complication when met with any type of resistance. Such resistance can be large scale, such as cultural disapproval, or more intimate, such as the health of one of the lovers. Drawn mostly from Literary Fiction, the following works differ in the reasons why the lovers’ relationships are fraught -- but they share heartbreaking results rendered with such emotional acuity that they inspire in the reader as much appreciation as heartache.

Author Talk - Professor Eric Dregni

Discussing his book "Never Trust a Thin Cook..."

Dean of the Italian Concordia Language Village and Assistant Professor of English and journalism at Concordia University, Eric Dregni is the author of sixteen books. Professor Dregni will talk about some of his books including the popular Never Trust a Thin Cook and ot

Suspended Sentences

The Georgetown Book Club's February selection

Before being awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French novelist Patrick Modiano was not widely known outside his home country. However, for his readers, his preoccupations have long been clear, as his work often explores the Nazi occupation of Paris and its aftermath.

Friendships Between Women

Well-depicted female bonds in Literary Fiction and one Memoir.

Intimate. Challenging. Supportive. Absorbing. Provocative. Close friendships between two women can be all of these things and many more -- sometimes all at once. Just as no woman -- no human being -- is like another, so too are bonds between women diverse, and just as women as individuals continue to develop throughout life, so too can the bonds between them.