Come by for an hour of morning writing with fellow creative folks. Everyone works on their own thing. No obligation to share. Just show up and write!
What to expect?
The West End Library Friends are Looking for a Few Good Books!
They are seeking books and select media in very good condition for their future USED book sales.
These 20-to-30-minute story times are full of books, songs, rhymes and fingerplays 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 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 engage with the books and songs and to actively participate in the program.
Share the fun of reading with your children ages 3-5 years old. 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.
For beginner, intermediate and advanced knitters. Any knitting question or issue will be solved. For more information, please contact my.nguyen@dc.gov.
Using Betty Edward's seminal text Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and mindfulness techniques, participants will try their hand at drawing what they really, truly see. Other projects will focus on the beauty of the world around us as seen and interpreted by artists through the ages, the ways in which colors impact our art and our lives, the visualization of a favorite poem -- all fun, all playful, all designed to turn your attention to your creative side.
A two-part series on balancing your life–body, mind and spirit
The library will sponsor a two-part series on the inner peace andjoy of Jyoti meditation to be held Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m. and Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m.
Soccer has taken center stage nationally, as the U.S. Women's National Soccer team secured victory at the 2015 World Cup in Canada. While the country celebrated the achievement of the Women's team, allegations of corruption within soccer's governing body, FIFA, left a dark cloud over the sport.
Career Coach Blair Goins will lead a 2 1/2-hour workshop on the first steps in identifying the career and life path that is an expression of your true passions and unique genius on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015 at 2 p.m. This is an interactive workshop using revealing written exercises and a focused dialogue so that participants will:
Gain clarity on what they want in an ideal career
Uncover any special gifts
Start to discover their true passions in life
See what stops them in fulfilling their dreams
The West End Fiction Book Club will meet Tuesday, Sept. 1, at 12:30 p.m. to discuss Cold Sassy Tree (1984) by Olive Ann Burns.
Copies are available at the library.
Please pick one up and join us!
The library will sponsor a screening and discussion of "The Greatest Man in the World," from the American Short Story Collection as seen on PBS and adapted from the classic short story by James Thurber (1894-1961) in celebration of the DC Public Library's summer reading program.
