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YOUR GUIDE TO VIRTUAL PROGRAMS
Winter 2020/2021 • Dec, Jan & Feb • www.brightonlibrary.info
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Alphabet Soup Baby Rhyme Time Tuesdays, Dec 1-Feb 23 STORY TIME! Mondays, Dec 7-Feb 22 10-10:30am, Zoom 10-10:15am, Youth Blog Join us each Tuesday as we Flannel Friday or YouTube share books, songs, rhymes, Fridays, Dec 4-Feb 26 Share rhymes and and simple early literacy 11-11:15am. Youth Blog literacy tips with your tips for you and your young or YouTube little one. Ages 0-12 child! Geared toward ages Join us for songs, rhymes, fingerplays, months. This program 2-5, but all ages are puppets, and flannel stories. Flannel will be featured on our welcome. If you are unable Fridays will be posted on our Youth YouTube channel and to attend this live but virtual Services blog and YouTube channel Youth Services blog for program, you may view the for convenient viewing. All ages. your viewing recording at your convenience. convenience via our private Youtube channel. No sessions Dec 29 or Jan 5. Youth Blog: bdlyouth.blogspot.com Registration begins Tuesday, Nov 17. YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/brightondistrictlibrarymichigan
Pajamarama: Stories to Warm Your Toes Here and There, It’s Underwear! Tuesday, December 15 Wednesday, February 24, 11am, Zoom 6:30-7:00pm, Zoom Let’s celebrate “Underwear Day” with funny stories Put on your warmest PJs, curl up with and lots of silly songs and rhymes! Ages 2 & up with a cup of hot cocoa, and listen to a caregiver. Registration begins Wednesday, cozy stories with Ms. Laurie and your February 10. favorite stuffie. A bedtime snack bag may be picked up in the Youth Department beginning, Monday, December 14, while supplies last. Ages 2 & up with a caregiver. Registration begins Tuesday, December 1.
Letters to Santa Drop off your letter to Santa Homemade Holiday! and receive a free Take and Wednesday, December 16, 11-11:30am, Zoom Make holiday craft bag, Ring in the holidays! Join us for a live Zoom DIY beginning Monday, program where you’ll make festive gifts to keep or December 7, through give to someone special! We’ll provide you with the December 21, while supplies last. how-to steps along the way. Ages 7 & up. A Take and Make bag will be available December 9-15. Golden Harry Potter Snitch Registration begins Wednesday, December 2. Wednesday, December 9, 11am Youth Blog or YouTube Create a Harry Potter Quidditch Snitch! Make beautiful golden ball ornaments with ordinary thumb tacks. Ages 7 & up. A Take and Make Bag will be available December 6, while supplies last. This DIY recording will be featured on our YouTube channel and Youth Services blog.
2 Virtual Youth Events Visit brightonlibrary.evanced.info/signup to register and view virtual program details
X-Wing Fighter IU Wednesday, January 20, 11:00am Wednesday, February 10 Youth Blog or YouTube 11-11:30am, Zoom Are you a Star Wars fan? Join Miss Vickie as she shows Join us for a sweetheart of a you how to build a Star Wars X-Wing Fighter from time. Design handmade gifts everyday office supplies! Ages 6 & up. This DIY to give your special someone recording will be featured on our YouTube this Valentine's Day. Ages 6-10. channel and Youth Services blog. A Take and Make bag will be available February 3-9. Yoga for Your New Year Registration begins Adult & Me Class Wednesday, January 27. Saturday, January 16, 10:30-11am, Zoom Start the year with the relaxing and mindful Cameron Zvara Live Online: practice of yoga with Ashley from Soulshine A Comedy Magic Show for Families Yoga. Ages 4 & under with a caregiver. Tuesday, December 29, 11-11:45am Registration begins Saturday, January 2. Livingston County Libraries present… a fun filled morning featuring Cameron Family Scavenger Hunt Zvara: Comedy Magician & Entertainer! Saturday, January 30 Mind-blowing magic, 1-1:30pm, Zoom comedy, juggling, The search is on and it’s in your music, and TONS of own home! Do you think your audience participation. family has what it takes to You do not want to dominate in this scavenger miss this! All ages. hunt? 1, 2, 3 get ready to Registration begins compete against other families Tuesday, December in this fun, interactive, virtual 15. Please register one event. All ages. Registration person for each family/ begins Saturday, January 16. household.
DIY-To-Go Yo-Yo Tricks Workshop 2nd Monday of the month Saturday Feb 20, 11-11:50am OR 12-12:50pm, Zoom Youth Blog or Youtube Livingston County Libraries present a fun hands-on Let’s get our DIY on with some fun yo-yo workshop offered by instructors from yoyotricks.com. projects using common household Watch as they show off their moves, then learn some cool items. Stop by the library to pick up yo-yo tricks yourself! Ages 7 & up. Registered kids may pick a craft bag containing some of the up their free yo-yo February 13-19. Registration harder-to-find supplies (first come, begins Saturday, February 6. You may register for only one time slot. first served) beginning on the dates This program is paid for by Sport Port, an initiative of Project Play : Southeast listed below. A video tutorial will be Michigan in partnership with the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation and Community made available via the Library’s Foundation for Southeast Michigan. YouTube page so you can DIY on your own time. Ages 10 & up. Mother Daughter Book Club Tuesdays, Jan 26 & Feb23, 6:30pm, Zoom Craft Bag Pick-up Begins the Join us for an online discussion that allows mothers and daughters to Second Week of Each Month discuss and share books they might not normally read together. Led by Youth Department Head, Carla Sharp. Dec 14 Cocoa Ornaments Registration begins Tuesday, December 29. Books will Jan 11 Stress Balls be available in the Youth Department. Feb 8 Paracord Bracelets Jan 26 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus Dusti Bowling Feb 23 The Book Wanderers Anna James 3 Virtual Youth Events Visit brightonlibrary.evanced.info/signup to register and view virtual program details It’s All About Arts & Crafts A recording of these DIY Demos will be featured on our YouTube channel and Youth Services blog.
Holiday Ornamental Work Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Mother/Daughter Thursday, December 3, 11am Thursday, January 7, 11am Valentine T-Shirts Create beautiful art to give as a Create your own winter Thursday, February 4, 11am gift or to hang. Using watercolors wonderland house using shapes Create your very own painted and pastels we’ll paint ornaments and white paint as snow! Ages heart inspired shirt just in time for and evergreen stems showing 5 & up. Valentine’s Day! This easy project different hues of color. provides fun and great memories. Ages 8 & up. Ages 7 & up.
winter Reading Challenge January 4 - February 28 www.brightonlibrary.beanstack.com
Ages 0-11 STEAM is all around us! From the questions we ask, technology we use, and creative solutions we develop, our world is powered by STEAM. Learn more about its progress, pioneers, games, and activities in this interactive challenge!
Grades 7-12 Every bookworm needs their brain food! Feed your mind by tracking the books you read this winter and earn new badges!
Ages 18-109 “Read Woke is a movement...It means learning about others so that you can treat people with the respect and dignity that they deserve no matter their religion, race, creed, or color.”
Discover diverse books, log activities, and READ WOKE. 4 Virtual Teen Events Visit brightonlibrary.evanced.info/signup to register and view virtual program details
Virtual Teen Writers Workshop Tuesdays, Dec 1 & 29, Jan 5 & 26, and Feb 2 & 23 Brighton Teen 6:30-8:00pm, Zoom Join us for a virtual Teen Writers Workshop. Great writers are Check our made, not born. The Brighton District Library’s Teen Writers’ Instagram page for Workshop helps tomorrow’s John Green or J.K. Rowling plot fun recipes, book a course in the literary world. Facilitated by Erma Bombeck reviews, quizzes, Award-winning humorist Mike Ball, this workshop is fun and book quotes, and rewarding. Young writers enjoy a free-wheeling camaraderie more! with other aspiring writers, and receive positive reinforcement as they progress. Grades 7-12. Registration is required and Find us at: brightonlibraryteens begins two weeks prior to each session.
Teen Art Club Thursdays, Dec 3, 10, & 17, Jan 7, 14, & 21 and Feb 4, 11, & 18, 6-7pm, Zoom Virtual Paint-Along Teens are invited to get together and make art, Thursday, Jan 28 & Feb 25 see live drawing demos, and work on whatever project they like. 6-7:30pm, Zoom For the last Let’s paint! Register and pick up a Thursday session supply kit for a virtual paint-along via of each month, Zoom. Paint supplies will be provided packets can be for teens to follow a painting picked up for a tutorial. Registration is required paint-along session. and begins two weeks Registration for before each session. Supplies each session can be picked up the week begins 2 weeks of the paint-along. before the event!
Virtual Teen Advisory Board First meeting Monday, January 26, 6-7pm, Zoom Need volunteer hours, but have a hectic schedule? The new Virtual Teen Advisory Board may be the volunteer program for you. This program involves a 1 hour virtual meeting each month where volunteers will help plan virtual teen library programs (and hopefully future in-person programs), create virtual content for the Library’s social media, and more. Projects can be worked on from home and project timelines are flexible to fit your schedule. Apply online at our website brightonlibrary.info/teens/tab
5 Virtual Adult Events Visit brightonlibrary.evanced.info/signup to register and view virtual program details
Social Security 101 Taxes in Retirement Mondays, Dec 7 at 12pm OR Jan 11 at 6pm, Zoom Mondays, Jan 25 at 12pm OR Feb 8 at 6pm, Zoom Are you confused and overwhelmed when you Do you have questions about your retirement in think about Social Security? If you’re like most Today’s New Normal? In this seminar, you will: Americans, the answer is a resounding ‘Yes!’ Social • Understand the official new tax reform rules and their Security is enough to make anyone’s head spin! impact on your retirement. Please join us for an educational seminar on these • Discover the key highlights of the new SECURE Act & the topics and more as Certified Financial Planner™ CARES Act. and Retirement Income Specialist, Nick • Learn about the window of opportunity IRA & 401K Defenthaler, CFP®, RICP® shares his knowledge owners have to leverage 2018 Tax Reform for lower and expertise on Social Security and retirement current AND future taxes and Medicare premiums! income planning. Registration begins two weeks • Discover ways to potentially protect yourself against prior to each session. volatile market conditions. Registration begins two weeks prior to each session. Nick Defenthaler, CFP®, RICP®, is a Partner and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional at Center for Financial Planning, Inc.® Nick specializes in tax-efficient retirement income and distribution planning for clients and serves as a trusted source for local and national media publications, including WXYZ, PBS, CNBC, MSN Money, Financial Planning Magazine and OnWallStreet.com.
Virtual Brunch Bunch Virtual Books & Brews Tuesdays, Dec 8, Jan 12 & Feb 9 Wednesdays, Dec 9, Jan 13 & Feb 10 11am-12pm, Zoom 6:30-8pm, Zoom Dec 8 An American Marriage The Dec, Jan & Feb titles will Tayari Jones be chosen at the November book discussion. Please Jan 12 The Lost Book of Adana Moreau check our online calendar Michael Zapata for title information. Feb 9 The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek Kim Michele Richardson
• Both discussion groups are led by library staff, and welcome everyone. • Currently all meetings will take place via Zoom. A day before the meeting, you will be emailed a link and pass- word to join the discussion. (Check your spam folder if you haven’t received your email.) • You can request a physical copy of the book or book on CD through the shared library system, and most titles will be available thorugh Hoopla as an ebook or eaudiobook.
History of Hamilton The Snow Killings Monday, December 14, 7-8pm, Zoom Monday, January 11, 7-8pm, Zoom America has Hamilton-mania! With Disney+ Join us as Marney Rich Keenan shares her now streaming the show, everyone’s talking research and writing process for the recently about Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning published nonfiction book,The Snow Killings: musical. University of Maryland historian Dr. Inside the Oakland County child killer Richard Bell explores this musical investigation. This fascinating work focusses on phenomenon to reveal what its success the unsolved murders that took tells us about the marriage of history and place over a period of 13 months, show-business. We’ll learn what this amazing more than four decades ago. musical gets right and gets wrong about Marney Rich Keenan has over 26 Alexander Hamilton, the American Revolution, and the birth years of investigative journalism of the United Sates and about why all that matters. We will experience and is now retired also talk about Hamilton’s cultural impact: what does its from the Detroit News. The Snow runaway success reveal about the stories we tell each other Killings is her first book. Registration about who we are and about the nation we made? begins Monday, December 28. Registration begins Monday, November 30. 6 Virtual Adult Events Visit brightonlibrary.evanced.info/signup to register and view virtual program details Grand River Ave. Virtual Adult Writer’s Workshop Wednesday, February 17, 7-8pm, Zoom Tuesdays, Dec 8, Jan 12 & Feb 9 Co-authors Gail Offen and Jon Milan present a fun and 6:30-8pm, Zoom fascinating history of Grand River in Michigan through rare Whether you want to be the next Margaret photos and lively anecdotes, with a special focus on places Atwood, or you simply want to write a family in Detroit, such as Hudson’s, Olympia Stadium, the Grande history for your kids (and their kids), the Brighton Ballroom, the Redford Theater and more. District Library’s Adult Writers’ Group is where you belong. This is a fun, ongoing workshop facilitated Over time, Grand River Avenue has served by Erma Bombeck Award-winning humorist and as a footpath, a stagecoach route, a plank author Mike Ball, where you will find exactly the road, and ultimately, a two-lane motorcar information and support you need as an aspiring highway that gave America’s earliest writer. Registration begins two weeks prior to each motorists one of their first tastes of long- session. distance automobile travel - one of Michigan’s true “Blue Highways.” So, come on a road trip with us! Registration begins Wednesday, February 3.
Yooper Talk: The History and Development of a Dialect Medicare 101 Monday, March 1, 7-8pm, Zoom Thursday, December 10, 6-7pm, Zoom Kathryn Remlinger, PhD, Professor of English at Grand Valley The MMAP (Medicare Medicaid Assistance State University will present a virtual program on the history of Program) team will host a presentation Yooper Talk. This presentation will demonstrate how the covering the basics of Medicare, including social and political history of the Upper Peninsula is information on enrollment, coverage, and reflected in the variety of English spoken there. In doing so, more. If you are new to Medicare, this is it will explore the intersections among land, labor, people, presentation will help you navigate the and language to describe the development of UP English maze. Registration begins Wednesday, and key linguistic features that characterize the dialect. November 25. Registration begins Monday, February 15.
Genealogy Events Visit brightonlibrary.evanced.info/signup to register and view virtual program details
Free Genealogy Websites Researching Your Family Tuesday, January 19 History: Where Do I Start? Virtual Genealogy 3-4pm, Zoom Tuesday, February 23 Want to research your family tree but 3-4pm, Zoom Assistance don’t want to spend a fortune doing Have you always wanted to learn Tuesdays, Dec 1, Jan 5 & Feb 2, it? Every U.S. state (and many foreign more about your family’s history but 2-2:30pm OR 3-3:30pm, Zoom countries) have websites devoted didn’t know where to start? Join Mark Brighton District Library’s to genealogy and family history that Mullinax, Genealogy and Local Genealogy and Local History can be accessed for FREE! Join Mark History Librarian at Brighton District librarian, Mark Mullinax, will be Mullinax, Genealogy and Local Library, for an informative program available for a 30 minute one-on- History Librarian at Brighton District on beginning genealogy research. one genealogy assistance session. Library, as he demonstrates a Learn how to find, organize and Registration begins two weeks variety of popular and less well record information, choose a prior to each session. known genealogy websites you can genealogy software program and access from home at absolutely no use some of the most popular cost to you! Registration begins genealogy websites. Registration Tuesday, January 5. begins Tuesday, February 9. 7 virtual adult events Visit brightonlibrary.evanced.info/signup to register and view virtual program details
Take & Make Crafts for Adults Videos will be posted on our YouTube page by 3pm the 2nd Tuesday of each month. Why should the kids get to have all the fun? Stop by the Information Desk the first week of each month to pick up your Take & Make craft kit. Kits are first-come-first-served, and are for adults only! December 8 No-Sew Quilted Christmas Ornament (Pickup materials November 30-December 5) January 12 Book Wreath (Pickup materials January 4-9) February 9 Candy Topiary (Pickup materials February 1-6)
Philosopher’s Club Virtual Business Counseling Work with our librarians to set up an Third Wednesday Of Each Month appointment that’s convenient for you! 6:30pm to 8:30pm Do you have a business idea and want to know whether it’s viable? Are you Zoom Meeting looking for funding? New and current entrepreneurs can meet virtually, one-on-one, for up to an hour with Check our Library calendar at brightonlibrary.evanced.info/signup SCORE business coach, Craig Lesley. for additional details and to register. Registration begins two weeks Call 810-229-6571 x227 or email prior to each discussion. [email protected] for details.
New Library of Things “Things” arriving this January - stay tuned!
100 Library Drive The Brighton District Library Board of Trustees Brighton, MI 48116 brightonlibrary.info Arla McPeek President 810-229-6571 Jim Muzzin Vice President Jordan Genso Treasurer Kathryn Poppy Wagner Secretary Please visit brightonlibrary.info for the Caitlyn Perry Dial Trustee most up-to-date hours and services. Patrick McDonald Trustee Holiday Closures Jane Petrie Trustee Thursday - Sunday, December 24-27 Thursday - Sunday, December 31-January 3 Cindy Mack Library Director 8