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Oliver Twist The Source MARCH 2012 EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH LIBRARY What the Dickens? Family, Films, Fagin and Photos: Oliver! Families, come to the Greenwell Springs Branch for a Saturday matinee, popcorn and pictures! On Saturday, March 10, at 2:30 p.m., view Lionel Bart’s spirited Oscar-winning musical Oliver!, an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. See Mark Lester as young Oliver Twist and Ron Moody as Fagin. Popcorn provided. Following the movie, have fun taking pictures standing behind your choice of 19th– century photo stand-ins. For more information, call (225) 274-4440. Oliver Twist Book Discussions In conjunction with the spring One Book One Community selection of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, the Zachary Branch will host a book discussion on Thursday, March 8, at 11:00 a.m. The Baker Branch's Morning Book Club will also discuss this book on Monday, March 12, at 10:30 a.m., and the Pride-Chaneyville Branch's Like It Or Not Book Club will discuss Twist on Saturday, March 31, at 10:30 a.m. For more information, call the individual branch. For many more Dickens programs being held in conjunction with our selection of Oliver Twist for spring’s One Book One Community, look inside or visit the Dickens Infoguide! Special Series: Writing Your Family History Have you ever wanted to produce your family Class participants are responsible to bring story? At the Bluebonnet Regional Branch, genealogy writing notebooks or a laptop if preferred. This librarian Cassie Fedrick will facilitate a series of three class is not limited to those with genealogy evening classes once a month focused on writing your experience or to experienced writers. family history. We will discuss writing responsibilities, It is a chance to explore the art of blending explore copyright and practice exercises. The class family stories and family history with topics of discussion objective is to produce a bindable family heirloom work like: Why and What I Should Write, Organization, Memory by December. vs. Truth, Fact Checking and Production. The first meeting of the series will be held on For more information or to register, call (225) Thursday, March 8, at 6:30 p.m. 763-2283. Inside: Financial Freedom • Dickens Fun • Study Skills • Read Across America • and more! LSU Dickens Film Festival View films based on some of Charles Dickens' greatest novels at LSU in Coates Hall, Room 143. Monday, March 12, 6:00 p.m.. Great Expectations Monday, March 19, 6:00 p.m.. Boy Called Twist Monday, April 2, 6:00 p.m.. Oliver Twist Monday, April 16, 6:00 p.m.. David Copperfield Financial Freedom Workshop Learn about informative as well Oliver and Company as fun and interactive topics that will educate you on how to become The Greenwell Springs Road Regional Branch will screen the movie Oliver & a better consumer and experience Company on Sunday, March 18, at 2:30 p.m. Watch Oliver, a feisty young homeless Financial Freedom! cat, explore New York. Following the movie, have fun taking pictures behind Mid City Redevelopment 19th century stand-ins. Alliance is an HUD-approved For more information, call (225) 274-4440. nonprofit agency in Baton Rouge that provides free financial literacy Oliver! Film Screening education. The movie Oliver! will be shown in the auditorium of the Main Library on Representatives will visit Thursday, March 15, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. branches of the East Baton Rouge For more information, call (225) 231-3740. Parish Library each month to address different topics about finances. The Oliver Musicale On Tuesday, March 20, at 7:00 In conjunction with the Spring One Book One Community series, you are p.m., learn about the topic Talking invited to hear (and sing along to) songs from the Broadway show, Oliver, at the to Teens About Money at the Central Jones Creek Regional Branch on Saturday, March 31, at 2:00 p.m. Branch. Other 19th century songs will also be featured. Dr. Matt Steinbron from the For more information, call (225) University of Louisiana at Lafayette will be featured on the keyboard. Staff and 262-2640. guest vocalists will lead the audience in song! For more information, call (225) 756-1150. What the Dickens? Our Infoguide Visit our Dickens Infoguide for all info Dickens! Rose Craft http://ebrpl.libguides.com/dickens Adults are invited to the Central Branch to learn how to make roses using tissue paper on Saturday, March 24, from noon to 1:30 p.m. They can be used as a long- lasting centerpiece or a package design. Making them yourself will allow you to have roses long after the season has ended. For more information or to register, call (225) 262-2640. 2 The Source, March 2012 East Baton Rouge Parish Library “Can A Fellow Be a Villain All Dancing With the Stars: His Life?” Victorian Style Dr. Sharon Weltman of LSU’s Join the Greenwell Springs Road Regional Branch for an Department of English will discuss afternoon of Victorian performances and celebration! the character of First, at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 31, students of the Fagin in the novel McKinley Middle Magnet Drama Program will perform skits Oliver Twist and from Oliver Twist. Then, at 2:00 p.m., the Louisiane Vintage in the musical Dancers will perform 19th century dances, including waltzes Oliver! on Sunday, and reels. Afterwards, the Vintage Dancers will teach the March 4, at the audience some simple dance steps. Main Library at Finally, audience members will be invited to join the 3:00 p.m. dancers and drama students for our version of “Dancing with Because so many of us the Stars: Victorian Style.” encounter the film Oliver! before A costume is not necessary to participate, but an award will be given for the we read the novel, the music, lyrics, Most Creative Victorian Costume. dances, and images from the play For more information or to register, call (225) 274-4440. or film powerfully affect the way we read Dickens’ Oliver Twist. In “Can a Fellow Be a Villain A Dickens of a Concert: All His Life?’ Oliver!, Fagin, and Performing Jewishness,” Professor All About Oliver Twist Weltman analyzes how Oliver! (and The Greenwell Springs Road Regional Branch will host “A Dickens of its many pop culture quotations) a Concert: All About Oliver Twist” on Sunday, March 25, from 3:00 p.m. to softens Fagin, providing a new 5:45 p.m. pathway into the book whose basic Boys, girls and young adults, under the direction of Carolyn Reed, will anti-Semitism shocks readers. share original songs and poems about Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens and other For more information, call (225) traditional selections using keyboards, the marimba, flute-phones, hand bells as 231-3710. well as group and solo singing. For more information, call (225) 274-4440. “Please Sir, I London Walking Tour Want More!” - Come on a walking tour of Jolly Old London at the Greenwell Springs Road Regional Branch on Saturday, March 24, at Eating Well on 2:30 p.m. See the sights as Charles Dickens saw them during his lifetime. an Oliver Twist The tour will be followed by tea and scones. For more information or to register, call (225) 274-4440. Budget Reflecting on the theme of poverty in Oliver Twist, the Get Twisted at the Library Greenwell Springs Road Regional Patrons of all ages are invited to play Twister at the Jones Creek Regional Branch in conjunction with Eva Branch on Saturday, March 17, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Davis, EBR Parish Assistant To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, we will serve green punch and hand out green Extension Agent, will host a three- beads. part event on Saturday, March 24, For more information, call (225) 756-1150. from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The three parts include: The East 4-H Annual Cookery, Small Gardening The Abolition of Slavery, the Poor Projects: Eating Well on a Budget, and Law, and Oliver Twist Make Your Own Ice Cream. If interested in participating in Join Dr. Elsie Michie of LSU’s Department of English for a scholarly talk on the cookery, contact Eva Davis at Oliver Twist and its historical context on Wednesday, March 14, at 7:00 p.m. at the (225) 389-3055. Please leave a Bluebonnet Regional Branch. message. For more information, call (225) 231-3710. East Baton Rouge Parish Library March 2012, The Source 3 Science Fiction Book Club Are you interested in science fiction? Come and join us at the Science Fiction Tight Knit Book Club as we discuss The Time Machine by H.G. Wells on Tuesday, March 27, at the Greenwell Springs Road Regional Branch. Group All adults and teens are welcome to join us in exploration of this important Love to knit or crochet? work by one of the pioneers of science fiction. We can discuss its parallels to The Tight Knit Group meets Victorian society, compare and contrast with the movie, and just have a great every first and third Thursday of time! the month at the Central Branch Registration is not necessary, but please read the book before attending. from 4:00-6:00 p.m. Any experience Refreshments will be served at 6:00 p.m., and the discussion will begin at level welcome. 6:30 p.m. For more information, call (225) For more information, call (225) 274-4440. 262-2640. The Best Apps For Me! Don’t know what “apps” to add to your smart phone? Day of Come to the Jones Creek Regional Branch and learn to select and add available “apps” to your phone on Tuesday, Beauty March 20, at 7:00 p.m.
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