Special Events for Adults at Southbury Public Library: Earth Day Poetry, Classical Music, and More!

Special Adult Events at Southbury Public Library

Information and Registration: Reference Department at 203-262-0626 ext. 130

All programs require registration unless otherwise noted. The majority of programs are sponsored by the Friends of the Southbury Public Library. Library programs are not funded by the town fiscal budget. For all virtual adult programs requiring registration, registrants will receive an email with the Zoom links the morning of the program.

Earth Day Poetry Reading
Tuesday, April 18, 6:30-8:30pm, Online and in the Kingsley Room, Registration Required

To celebrate Earth Day, the Southbury Public Library invites you to share a poem on the theme of nature and our connection to the environment. Please come read for us, share your favorite poem of yours or another poet in celebration of our magnificent planet and the earthly wonders we all can embrace. We look forward to celebrating with you. Southbury Poet Laureate Faith Vicinanza will provide some poems of celebration to support this program. For Zoom Program, register here. For Kingsley Room, register here.

Women Talking (2022) PG-13
Wednesday, April 19, 1-3pm, Kingsley Room, Registration Requested

Do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith. Register here.

My Century Book Talk by Dr. Kristaps Keggi
Thursday, April 20, 2-3:30pm, Kingsley Room, Registration Required

Join Dr. Kristaps J. Keggi for an author talk and book signing event about his memoir My Century. As a boy in Latvia during World War II, Kristaps Keggi and his family dodged both Soviet Communist and German Nazi invaders, eventually escaping to America. Copies of My Century will be available for sale. To register, click here.

Classical Music Concert - Alyce Cognetta Bertz and Meg Cognetta Heaton
Friday, April 21, 7-8pm, Brinker Fireplace Room, Registration Required

Join us by the fireplace for the return of this talented duo. Alyce and Meg will be performing a program of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, John Williams and Fritz Kreisler. To register, click here.

This email was sent by the Southbury Public Library, 100 Poverty Road, Southbury, CT 06488. www.southburylibrary.org 

 
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