Please join the Rochester Library in welcoming Jim Hogle, Communication and Outreach Coordinator for the Vermont Forest Cemetery In Roxbury as part of our Earth Day celebrations. Jim will present informational materials about the cemetery, including how it works, why it’s a great choice, and the careful science involved in establishing and maintaining the VFC. There will be time for your questions after the talk. This is a great chance to learn more about a legacy to the whole earth! April 25, 10 am, upstairs.
RACI (Rochester Area Climate Initiative) will have some helpful information about lessening our detrimental impacts on the world around us–this, in celebration of Earth Day. Look for this mid-month.
On Thursday, April 23, join Maya in making some seed paper. We’ll make our own paper, add some seeds to it. When the paper is dry and the weather is warm, you can plant it! It will grow! Very cool. 4 PM, all ages.
Regular programming continues with Purls of Wisdom Handcrafting on Tuesdays at 1:30. On Thursdays, join us for The Preschoolers’ Rumpus at 3. The Writers’ Workshop with Amy Braun happens on the 3rd Saturday of each month at 1 PM.
April showers bring another round of indoor activities. Try your hand at a new craft on us! Make good use of our art and crafting supplies in the Library of Things without the expense of buying supplies you may not ever use again. Check them out, take them home, and return what you don’t use.
For aspiring artists we have a Color Wheel to learn color theory, Charcoal Pencils, Colored Pencils, Watercolor Pencils, Sketching Pencils, Watercolor Brushes and Watercolor Tube Paints, and a set of Oil Pastels. There are various Drawing tools, Geometric Templates, and Geometry Tools, stencils, and a LED Light Box, mandala Dotting Tools, and a Spirograph.
We have a Mat Cutter and Mat, as well as Tools and Clamps to construct and hang a picture frame.
For fiber artists there is a Sewing Machine, a basic Sewing Kit, a Cutting Mat and Rotary Cutter, Embroidery Kit, Knitting and Crocheting Supplies, a Kumihimo Disk, and even a Flexible Tape Measure.
Try your hand at Beading and a selection of different types and thicknesses of wire to try Wire Wrapping, and avail yourself of a set of Jeweler’s tools.
If you are feeling especially industrious, try our Upholstery Kit, Woodburning Kit, or Leather Working Kit. If you promise to be careful, there is even a special Crafting Mallet, a Hot Glue Gun, and a set of Exacto Knives.
Don’t forget to save the date for the Friends of the Library 2nd Annual Spring Fling Fundraiser for RPL! Vermont’s Poet Laureate, Bianca Stone, will join us for a reading from her newest collection, there will be live art with Caro Tavelli-Abar, soup inspired by Major Jackson’s new poetry, AND Jack Rowell and Sara Tucker talking about Jack’s new book of photography. WOW! It’s happening on Saturday, May 16, from 4 – 6 PM here at the library.
