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Preschool Story Time

Tuesday, June 4, 2019, 11:00 am

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.

All Levels Knitting

Tuesday, June 4, 2019, 5:00 pm

For beginner, intermediate and advanced knitters. Any knitting question or issue will be solved. For more information, please contact my.nguyen@dc.gov.

The Plato Project: Phaedo

Tuesday, June 4, 2019, 6:30 pm

Please join us for a discussion on Phaedo.

Fearless Art Explorations

Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 10:00 am

Discover (or re-discover) and tap into your own creative power.

Zumba Gold

Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 1:00 pm

A fun, easy to follow dance exercise class that meets Wednesdays and Fridays. The class introduces easy-to-follow Zumba® moves at a lower intensity designed for older adults. Enjoy Latin-inspired movements that provide a great aerobic workout while also focusing on balance, range of motion and coordination. This class is designed for seniors aged 60 and up. Please bring your own water bottle. First 20 participants welcome. Please note: There will be no class on June 19.

Family Craft

Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 4:00 pm

Join us for arts & crafts in the children's room. We will provide supplies. Recommended for ages 5-10.

Movie Night at West End: "Hearts Beat Loud"

Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 6:00 pm

Visit the West End Library for a screening of Hearts Beat Loud.

Baby and Toddler Story Time

Thursday, June 6, 2019, 10:00 am

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.

Movie Night at West End: "The Miseducation of Cameron Post"

Thursday, June 6, 2019, 6:00 pm

Visit West End Library for a screening of The Miseducation of Cameron Post. Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post dramatizes the story of the titular teenage character who, in 1993, is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after being discovered with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night. The Miseducation of Cameron Post is not rated, and should end around 7:30 p.m.

Shut Up & Write

Friday, June 7, 2019, 10:00 am

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?

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Meditation

A tool to balance your life, mind, body and soul

David Newcomb, a long-time practitioner/teacher, will lead a two-part workshop on the inner peace and joy of Jyoti meditation, Wednesday, May 6 at 7 p.m., and Wednesday, May 13 at 7 p.m. We live in a fast-paced world, filled with challenges and constant demands made on our precious time. Wouldn't it be nice if we could step back, take a little vacation from all the tension and find a place filled with joy, bliss and peace?

Book Club Pick 'o the Month

'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding

The West End Fiction Book Club will meet Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 12:30 p.m. to discuss Lord of the Flies by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

New Adult Grab Bag

All About That... Angst

Though there seem to be clear markers of the sub-genre, "New Adult Fiction" is a slightly contentious label. The term was coined to individuate books about people navigating an entry into the "real world" that follows high school and/or college.

Walt Whitman on Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Washington

A talk by a local expert

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln's assassination, Martin G. Murray, Founder, Washington Friends of Walt Whitman, will speak on the poet's reflections on the slain leader and on life in the wartime Capital, accompanied by slide illustations, on Tuesday, April 14, at 7 p.m., and in celebration of April as National Poetry Month.

West End Fiction Book Club Presents . . .

A tribute to America's best-loved poet

The West End Fiction Book Club will meet Tuesday, April 21 at 12:30 p.m. to read/discuss "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "The Road Not Taken," "Tuft of Flowers," "Birches," "Mending Wall," "Out, Out--," "Death of the Hired Man" and other poems by Robert Frost (1874-1963), in celebration of April as National Poetry Month.

Head shot of recently deceased poet Claudia Emerson

'Lament for the Makers'

A tribute to recently deceased poet Claudia Emerson and others

Please join us for a reading of poems in memory of Claudia Emerson (1957-2014), winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and former Poet Laureate of Virginia, as well as anecdotes and tributes to this remarkable and beloved poet, and with apologies to Scottish poet William Dunbar (c.1460-c.1513),

Weekly Online Trivia Contest!

Women's History Month

Join us in celebrating Women's History Month, and win fantastic prizes! Every Monday in March, a new trivia question will be posted on Twitter (@dcpl) and Facebook. Respond by Friday with the correct answer using #herstoryDCPL, and get entered to win a different prize each week! We'll reveal the correct answer at the end of the week.

Image of book cover for Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"

Book Club Pick of the Month

'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin

The West End Book Club will meet to discuss The Awakening by Kate Chopin, in celebration of March as Women's History Month. Copies are available a the library. Please pick one up and join us!

CANCELED: Abraham Lincoln and the Cosmos

A talk on the 16th president as an amateur astronomer

This event has been canceled due to a change in the speaker's travel plans. Commander Kirk R. Benson, Precise Time and Astometry Technical Lead, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, will speak on President Lincoln's interest in the heavens on Wednesday, March 11, at 7 p.m. in the library's meeting room.

Library Closed February 17

DC Public Library is closed Tuesday, Feb. 17 due to inclement weather.

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