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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
These 20-to-30-minute story times are full of books, songs, rhymes and finger plays for children birth to 2 years old. Our Baby and Toddler Story Time is a great way to introduce your child to language skills in a positive and fun environment. With slightly more activity and movement than our lap times, children and their grownups are encouraged to engage with the books and songs and to actively participate in the program.
These 20-to-30-minute story times are full of books, songs, rhymes and finger plays for children birth to 2 years old. Our Baby and Toddler Story Time is a great way to introduce your child to language skills in a positive and fun environment. With slightly more activity and movement than our lap times, children and their grownups are encouraged to engage with the books and songs and to actively participate in the program.
American art, from the time of the founding of the republic, was derivative of the art of Europeans. Towards the end of the nineteenth century the Newtonian world was replaced by the relativity of Einstein (and Planck) and the art world responded with radical new forms and approaches. Some American artists tentatively began adopting these new forms, while others employed traditional realistic styles to comment on American life. Modernism and Realism both ran through the history of American art through the first half of the twentieth century, ending with the art world explosiv
For many, modern life is powered by digital technology -- and blissfully so. But along with the many benefits of digital life, there are questions.
What degree of privacy can we expect and how can we ensure it? What does large scale connectivity mean for individual relationships? And how will the balance of power in society shift alongside technology?
The following novels explore these and other similar topics.
For its detailed references to political history, and featuring as centerpiece the topic of island immigration, try reading The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, which is set in Trinidad before, during and after the time of its independence from colonial England.
The Georgetown Neighborhood Library continues its second year of First Thursday Evening Poetry Reading Series.
Herb Guggenheim is the series coordinator. Well-known local poets will gather at the library to read from their works every month. There will be two featured poets for each month, and the readings will be followed by an open mic.
June's featured poets are Beth Konkoski and Gregory Luce:
In the title story of Phil Klay's collection Redeployment, winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction, the Marine narrator says about his actions during wartime, "The thinking comes later, when they give you the time."
Hopefully, all you cooks will find fresh herbs in abundance at the farmer's markets.
Here is a novel time saving tip for preserving those bountiful green bunches of cilantro, mint, rosemary, spring onions, parsley and dill: blend them with onion, fresh garlic cloves, some water and a touch of regular vinegar! Then, refrigerate the bottled mixture, and use spoonfuls to season your culinary masterpieces! What a time saver!
For more information about herbs and preservation on a wider scale, check out books from your library, including:
On Saturday, May 16 at 2 p.m., The Emily Dickinson International Society, DC Chapter, presents Eleanor Heginbotham, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Concordia University Saint Paul and Board Member of EDIS, D.C. Chapter.
On the day after the 129th anniversary of the death of America's great poet, Dr. Heginbotham will discuss how the poet lived on in her publishing history and what she says to us about "immortality" from beyond the grave.
Dr. Heginbotham has published two books and several articles on Emily Dickinson.
Please join us on Thursday, May 14 at 2 p.m. as Chloe Yelena Miller, Writing Coach, returns to the Georgetown Neighborhood Library to lead an interactive workshop on how to start writing your memoir. The class will consider plot, scene, character development, research, and how to pull it all together.
Please bring paper, pens, or a charged laptop.
Ages 18 and older please.
Vivid, urgent, and often aching -- growing up is anything but easy. And even though we all do it, everyone experiences the process differently.
Such complexity and variability, as well as the way the experience can loom large even after adulthood is reached, makes growing up a rich topic to explore in fiction.
Here, a few personal favorites -- in large part drawn from literary fiction -- that only begin to hint at the wealth of powerful coming of age novels out there.
Interested in practicing your Spanish language speaking skills in a casual environment?
Join the Georgetown Neighborhood Library this May, as we offer Spanish Conversation Club sessions every Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
The sessions will be led by instructor Luz Verost, and all levels of Spanish speakers are welcome!
Questions? Email julia.strusienski@dc.gov.
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