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Mindful Art with Meg Artley

Thursday, March 21, 2019, 1:00 pm

Using Betty Edward’s seminal text Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and mindfulness techniques, participants will try their hands at drawing what they really see. Register by sending an email to carol.auerbach@dc.gov with “Mindful Art” in the subject line or call 202-727-1488.

Words Beats & Life Workshops

Thursday, March 21, 2019, 3:30 pm

Interested in art or performing? Learn how to master your skills with the Words Beats & Life team. Collaborate to create something new each week. March 7 - Photography March 14 - Music Production March 21 - Graffiti

Pajama Movie Night: Finding Dory

Thursday, March 21, 2019, 6:00 pm

Join us for Finding Dory and watch as the forgetful fish searches for her long-lost parents with help from her friends. Food, pillows and blankets are welcome.

Upper NW Knitters

Thursday, March 21, 2019, 6:30 pm

Join us as we learn to knit and crochet. We meet for two hours, several times a month, and supplies are free.

Toys and Tots Play Date

Friday, March 22, 2019, 11:00 am

Join us for an informal, indoor playdate. Kids can play with toys, browse books, visit with friends, and toddle! We'll set out toys to develop motor skills and books to encourage early literacy, you bring the little ones. For children ages birth to 3 years with their parents or caregivers.

Preschool Story Time

Friday, March 22, 2019, 4:00 pm

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 30-40 minute programs are designed to promote language and listening skills, expand children’s imaginations and arouse their curiosity about the world around them.

Connecting Hearts seminar and workshop series at Tenley Friendship Library

Lead From The Heart: A Case for Individuals, Communities, and Organizations

Saturday, March 23, 2019, 10:00 am

Join for the "Lead From The Heart: A Case for Individuals, Communities, and Organizations” interactive seminar, as we kick-off our "Connecting Hearts" seminars and workshop series. Come to explore how connecting through shared interests and values (the “heart”), can lead to positive outcomes for yourself, organization, and your community.

ESL Conversation Circles

Saturday, March 23, 2019, 10:00 am

Volunteers from the Washington English Center facilitate practice sessions for speakers with previously acquired English language skills. The group is seated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Family Story Time

Saturday, March 23, 2019, 10:30 am

Fun for the entire family, these 30-40 minute story times are packed full of books and activities designed to be enjoyed by all ages. Promoting language and literacy skills, these story times are a great way to further your child’s lifelong love of reading and learning. Children and their grownups are encouraged to actively engage and participate with the stories and activities during the program.

Yoga Mondays

Monday, March 25, 2019, 10:30 am

Join us for a gentle yoga class, appropriate for adults of all ages, taught by certified yoga instructors. Please bring your own mat.

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Wonderful "Wee Beasties"

The teeny, teeming world of microbes

Yes, this winter's flu season has been the worst in many years. And, okay, an outbreak of norovirus caused concern at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Home is Where the Hatred is

Stories of Brutality at the Hands of Your Own Country

We often think of bigotry in terms of individual failings. We shame individuals who perpetuate racism and homophobia as people separate from a well-meaning whole. Instead, we should think of them as members of society that allows such attitudes to continue. These books explore how societies are very much complicit in the veils we claim to reject.

Tenleytown Mural

Have you seen the new Tenleytown mural? It’s on the northeast corner of Grant Road at Wisconsin Ave., NW on the wall of the oldest original building in Tenleytown. Take a look at the representations of area landmarks, and then come over to the library to learn more about the second-oldest village in Washington.

Teen Reader's Advisory

Tenley-Friendship Library is proud to announce that one of the teens from the Tenley area who participated in the Teen Summer Reading Program and Teen Book Review Contest won that contest with her excellent review of Monster by Walter Dean Myers. With their permission, we have posted the review below. We hope you enjoy it, and that it inspires you to check out this title and the many others we have at DC Public Library.

Book Cart, Drink Cart

Spiked Titles with a Twist

Yes, it’s true: the craft cocktail revolution is over and won and people can have complex and balanced stiff drinks wherever they find themselves. And yet, this continuing, decade-long interest in fancy drinks speaks to the intersection of history, locavorism, performance art, craftsmanship, and science.

Art All Night

Made in D.C.

Join us as local businesses and public spaces along Wisconsin Avenue transform into pop-up galleries and performance stages for an evening of art in all its forms. Tenleytown’s artistic future is on display at the library as some of tomorrow’s brightest artists and performers from local schools showcase their paintings, sculpture, and ceramics. The award-winning Wilson High School poetry club hosts an invitational poetry slam.

Let us Now Praise Famous Dogs

Good Dogs in History

Pupper love is having a moment, with blogs and social media capitalizing on the abiding affection between humans and their noble companions.

Story Time with the Washington Nationals

As part of Summer Reading, DC Public Library will have two special story times with a player from the Washington Nationals baseball team. The names of the players will be announced closer to the day of the event. Join us on Saturday, July 8, 2017, 10 a.m at Woodridge and Tenley-Friendship! Click here to learn more about Summer Reading or stop by your neighborhood library to sign up today.

Let's Party - Vegan Style

For those of you who are into entertaining or needing to bring some fixings to your next get-together, the vegan cookbooks on this list will help you learn to prepare an easy and healthy feast. Best of all, you and your guests will be stuffing yourselves up with nothing but delish plant-based treats.

Retro Gay Lit

LGBTQ narratives set in the 'gay times' of yesteryear

Here is your chance to read fiction, biographies and historical selections set in gay times long gone. As you read them, rack up your nostalgia by listening to the lyrics of Fela Kuti and La Sonora Matancera or the sounds of Banjo music and Violin Blues by African American fiddlers. The combination will surely transport you to another time.

Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library

Thursday, March 21, 2019, 1:00 pm

Thursday, March 21, 2019, 3:30 pm

Thursday, March 21, 2019, 6:00 pm

Thursday, March 21, 2019, 6:30 pm

Friday, March 22, 2019, 11:00 am

Friday, March 22, 2019, 4:00 pm

Saturday, March 23, 2019, 10:00 am

Saturday, March 23, 2019, 10:00 am

Saturday, March 23, 2019, 10:30 am

Monday, March 25, 2019, 10:30 am

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