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Build A Reader Phone-In Storytime Build A Reader Storytime: Preschool Cover to Cover Book Club Sept. 1-14 Tuesdays, Sept. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Tuesday, Sept. 1 • 6:30-7:30 p.m. Try our Phone-In Storytime! Call 918- 10:30-11 a.m. Join us for lively discussion and literary 549-7323 and follow the menu for a Join us at www.facebook.com/ fun as we explore a range of genres. story, song or rhyme you can enjoy at tulsalibrary as we share the best in This month’s selection is “Fruit of the home with your little ones! children’s literature, songs, games, finger Drunken Tree” by Ingrid Rojas Contreras. plays, rhymes and other reading-related Email [email protected] for Animate It! Library Edition: activities with your preschooler. details to join the discussion. For adults. Stop Motion Animation Contest Sept. 1-30 ELL Conversation Circles Free Comic Book Summer! Get a Join us this month for a short video Tuesdays, Sept. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 bundle of comics for FREE, by mail! challenge! Create a stop motion video 3-4:30 p.m. Sept. 2-9 sharing your love of libraries using Stop Wednesdays, Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Did you miss the annual Free Comic Motion Studio. Be creative and have 10-11:30 a.m. Book Day celebration in May? We fun! Videos should be no longer than Mondays, Sept. 14, 21, 28 • 1-2:30 p.m. did too. Thankfully, we can end Free 60 seconds and contain family-friendly Practice your English speaking and Comic Book Summer by giving away content. You can submit your entry by listening skills in this fun and friendly free comics for all! Register online at Oct. 1 on Central Library’s Facebook Zoom class. To register, contact the www.tulsalibrary.org/events to receive event page at www.facebook.com/ Adult Literacy Office at 918-549-7400 or a bundle of free comics by mail from centrallibrary. Our team of expert judges [email protected]. the Maxwell Park Library. Additionally, (expert status not guaranteed) will pick customers who request comics will one winner in each of the three age PAWS for Reading: randomly be given a special, collectible categories: children 7-12, teens 13-17, Online - Jenks Library swag provided by Image Comics. We adults 18 and up. Each winner will get Tuesday, Sept. 1 • 4-5 p.m. have age-appropriate comics for kids, a $10 e-gift card to a local bookstore Registered therapy dogs are excellent teens and adults. Only Tulsa County or comic shop, winner’s choice. Learn listeners. Kids are invited to virtually residents are eligible to register. the basics of stop motion animation read their favorite books to a furry, at www.youtube.com/tulsalibrary. We four-pawed friend on Zoom. Register by Build A Reader Storytime: Family will post a short instructional video and emailing [email protected]. Wednesday, Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 an example submission on Sept. 1. 10:30-11 a.m. Yoga for Every Body Thursdays, Sept. 3, 10, 17, 24 To-Go Craft Kit: Back to School Tuesdays, Sept. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 10:30-11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1 6-7 p.m. Tune in for this real-time birth-5 Take a break from the new school Join us via Facebook Live at storytime! Enjoy simple songs and year and stop by the Judy Z. Kishner www.facebook.com/tulsalibrary for a books for little ones and more Library this week to pick up a pencil free beginner-friendly yoga class taught interactive stories and activities for topper craft kit. Learn about resources by certified yoga instructor Christine older children. Join us at for helping your family with distance Von de Veld. For all ages. www.facebook.com/tulsalibrary. Can’t learning. Kits are limited and available on make it live? We’ll save the videos on a first-come-first-serve basis. Check our our Facebook page for your children to Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ enjoy later! judyzkishnerlibrary for updates.

Tulsa City-County Library Virtual Event Guide • September 2020 • www.tulsalibrary.org/events 1 What to Read Next Wednesdays, Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 2-3 p.m. Join us at www.facebook.com/ ONE BOOK, ONE TULSA tulsalibrary. Write a comment telling us what you last read and liked, a favorite author or three words describing what VIRTUAL EVENT you’d like to read, and then let us know if you prefer an e-book or e-audio. We’ll respond with two personalized suggestions! Reference USA: Friday, Sept. 4 A Powerful Tool for Nonprofits Wednesday, Sept. 2 • 4-5 p.m. Learn about Reference USA and how to 7 p.m. use this amazing tool to plan and build your nonprofit, find prospective donors and understand your support base. Meet author Jacqueline Woodson as Email [email protected] to register she discusses Red at the Bone. With for this virtual workshop and to receive this new novel for adults, Woodson Zoom link. continues her sensitive exploration of what it means to be a Black girl PAWS for Reading: in America. Read to a Dog Over Zoom Wednesday, Sept. 2 • 4-6 p.m. Order your copy of Red at the Bone Registered therapy dogs are excellent online through Fulton Street Books: listeners. Elementary kids are invited https://bookshop.org/books/red-at-the-bone to read a book to a furry, four-pawed friend and our special Nathan Hale PAWS dogs. Register online at www.tulsalibrary.org/events and provide an email address to receive your Zoom link and reserved time slot.

Shawnee Language Class Wednesdays, Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Build A Reader Storyminute Tech Talk: Mac Computers for Beginners 7-8:30 p.m.  El minuto del cuento Friday, Sept. 4 • noon-1 p.m. Learn the beautiful language of the Thursdays, Sept. 3, 10, 17, 24 Join us for this Zoom webinar for an Shawnee people. This class is taught 11-11:05 a.m. introduction to Mac computers and how by the Shawnee Tribe’s Language Join Ms. Emily on Martin Regional to use them. Learn the basics of using a Department via Zoom. Register 24 Library’s Facebook page at Mac computer as we explore the dock, hours ahead at www.tulsalibrary.org/ www.facebook.com/martinlibrary for searching files, Mac-only applications events. For ages 10 to adult. a song, a rhyme or a story in English and more. This talk will be of interest and Spanish to help your child develop to you whether you are a technology LitWits’ Book Club: “A Tree Grows important early literacy skills.  expert or enthusiast, or just want to in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith Juntamos en el Facebook para cantar, learn more about how technology Wednesday, Sept. 2 • 6:30-7:30 p.m. jugar con los dedos, o escuchar a un works. Register online at Join fellow book enthusiast to discuss cuento. Hacer estos ejercicios le ayuda a www.tulsalibrary.org/events for Zoom “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty tu niño con el desarrollo del alfabetismo. login info. Registrants will need to Smith and discover similar authors provide an email address. The Zoom and titles you may enjoy. Email carissa. Book Talk Thursday login information will be emailed out an [email protected] for details for Thursdays, Sept. 3, 17 • noon-12:15 p.m. hour prior to the program. A recording joining the discussion. For adults. Tune in to the main Tulsa City-County of the talk will be uploaded to YouTube. Library Facebook page at www.facebook.com/tulsalibrary to hear about five themed books to add to your TBR list! For adults.

Tulsa City-County Library Virtual Event Guide • September 2020 • www.tulsalibrary.org/events 2 To-Go Activity Kit: Archaeology New and Coming Soon Tuesday, Sept. 8 Start digging this week with an archaeology activity kit! Discover Titles for Teens/Tweens what’s buried in your individual mystery box and learn how to make your own Visit www.tulsalibrary.org to check secret messages! Stop by the Judy out these titles and find more. Z. Kishner Library to pick up your kit while supplies last. For preschoolers to elementary students. The Constitution Decoded By Katie Kennedy Tulsa Master Gardeners Lunch Be an active citizen. Know your Constitution! In and Learn: Fall Veggies The Constitution Decoded, the ideas, concepts Tuesday, Sept. 8 • noon-1 p.m. and rules that make America are unpacked and Fall is a second chance for Oklahoma explained in detail to help all of us, kids and vegetable gardeners. Join experts parents too, become more informed citizens. from the Tulsa Master Gardeners as they share tips on varieties, timing and techniques on Facebook Live at We Are Power: How Nonviolent www.facebook.com/tulsalibrary. Activism Changes the World By Todd Hasak-Lowy Collinsville Book Discussion We Are Power brings to light the incredible individuals Tuesday, Sept. 8 • 12:30-1:30 p.m. who have used nonviolent activism to change the Read “The Sweetness at the Bottom world. Through key international movements, this book of the Pie” by Alan Bradley and then discusses the components of nonviolent resistance. join us via Zoom for a lively discussion. To receive an invitation to the Zoom meeting, send an email to [email protected]. In his wickedly Serpentine brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger By Philip Pullman Award winner Alan Bradley introduces The world-changing events of The Amber Spyglass are one of the most singular and engaging behind them, and Lyra and Pan find themselves utterly heroines in recent fiction: 11-year-old changed as well. In Serpentine, they journey to the far North Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with once more, hoping to ask the Consul of Witches a most a passion for poison. For adults. urgent question. This beguiling must-read for Pullman fans old and new is a perfect companion to His Dark BeTween the Pages: and a fascinating bridge to Materials The Book of Dust. A Kids Read Book Discussion Tuesday, Sept. 8 • 6-7 p.m. Join us on Zoom as we talk about stories that take place in other countries. I’ll Be the One We’ll also play a game. Don’t forget to By Lyla Lee The world of K-Pop has never met a star like this. Debut bring your own snacks. Contact author Lyla Lee delivers a deliciously fun, thoughtful [email protected] for Zoom invite. rom-com celebrating confidence and body positivity For ages 10-12. – perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Julie Murphy. Geocaching and Time Capsules  Las cápsulas del tiempo y jugar a Geocaching Wednesday, Sept. 9 • 11-11:10 a.m. Join Ms. Emily on Martin Regional One Book, One Tulsa: be a black girl growing up in America. Library’s Facebook page, “Red at the Bone” “Red at the Bone” is a multigenerational www.facebook.com/martinlibrary, for Friday, Sept. 4 • 7-9 p.m. tale of two black families that takes the a tutorial on geocaching and creating One Book, One Tulsa is going reader from the Tulsa Race Massacre time capsules.  Junten con Srta. Emily virtual! This year’s selection is the to present-day Brooklyn. Following her en la página de Facebook para una acclaimed novel “Red at the Bone” talk, Woodson will take questions from tutorial de cómo jugar a Geocaching y by Jacqueline Woodson. Join us the audience. Register online at de cómo crear una cápsula del tiempo. virtually on the evening of Sept. 4 for a www.tulsalibrary.org/events to receive a discussion of Woodson’s novel, which Zoom link to the event. Email sensitively explores what it means to [email protected] with questions!

Tulsa City-County Library Virtual Event Guide • September 2020 • www.tulsalibrary.org/events 3 Lunch & Learn: story. Register online at teenage pregnancy pulls together 401(k) - Leave It, Move It, Roll It, Take It www.tulsalibrary.org/events with your two families from different social Wednesday, Sept. 9 • noon-1 p.m. email address to receive the story and classes, and exposes the private hopes, This seminar will help you learn how to Zoom meeting invite. For teens and disappointments and longings that handle your 401(k), pension or other adults. can bind or divide us from each other. employer-sponsored retirement plan Moving forward and backward in time, when you leave a job. We will discuss Tech Talk: How to Spot Fake News the novel uncovers the role that history strategies to apply to your retirement Friday, Sept. 11 • noon-1 p.m. and community have played in the accounts when you move to a new You can’t believe everything you read experiences, decisions and relationships job. Let us help you and your family to on the internet. In this Zoom webinar, of these families, and in the life of the reach your financial goals. Erica Camp we will explore techniques for spotting new child. For adults. has been a registered representative false or misleading news. This talk will with Edward Jones since 2019. She has be of interest to you whether you are Draw Yourself! Manga/Anime Style been in the Glenpool community for a technology expert or enthusiast, or Monday, Sept. 14 • 4-5 p.m. over three years and has a passion to just want to learn more about how We will meet on Zoom regularly to see people reach their goals within their technology works. Register online at try different illustration techniques financial stories. Register online at www.tulsalibrary.org/events for Zoom on our own portraits or original www.tulsalibrary.org/events for the login info. Registrants will need to characters, including manga, Disney Zoom link. provide an email address. The Zoom and Adventure Time. Register online at login information will be emailed out an www.tulsalibrary.org/events for Zoom Teens: Virtual Gaming hour prior to the program. A recording info. For ages 10 to adult. Wednesday, Sept. 9 • 3-4 p.m. of the talk will be uploaded to YouTube. Join us on Zoom as we play party Hispanic Heritage Month: Build A games, trivia and more! Registration is To-Go Activity Kit: Pirates and Parrots Reader Bilingual Phone-In Storytime required. Register online at Monday, Sept. 14 Sept. 15-30 www.tulsalibrary.org/events and you’ll Ahoy, me hearties! Dock yer ships at Try Phone-In Storytime! Call 918-549- receive a link to join on the day of the Kishner and pick up this treasure! Work 7323 for a mini storytime to enjoy program. For ages 10-18. on your pirate costume, create your with your little ones! During Hispanic own parrot friend and hide your pirate Heritage month, all storytimes will be PAWS for Reading Via Zoom booty with your own pirate map! Sail, presented in both English and Spanish. Wednesday, Sept. 9 • 3:30-4:30 p.m. ho! Kits are limited and available on a Registered therapy dogs are excellent first-come-first-serve basis. Stop by the Tulsa Master Gardeners listeners. Kids are invited to read their Judy Z. Kishner Library to pick up your Fall Lunch and Learn: Trees favorite books to a furry, four-pawed kit while supplies last. Tuesday, Sept. 15 • noon-1 p.m. friend. Register online at Fall is the perfect time to plant trees www.tulsalibrary.org/events to receive CD Scratch Art: Teen To-Go Craft Kit in Oklahoma. Join the Tulsa Master Zoom link. Monday, Sept. 14 Gardeners at www.facebook.com/ Stop by the Brookside Library to pick up tulsalibrary for tips on choosing the Reference USA: a CD Scratch Art kit while supplies last. right tree and planting it well. Finding Customers by Lifestyles The kit comes with a painted CD and a Wednesday, Sept. 9 • 4-5 p.m. scratch stick. For ages 10-18. Kids Read: Curious World of Learn how to use Reference USA Archaeology – Ancient Artifacts Live databases to research consumers by their Build A Reader Storytime: With Gilcrease Museum lifestyles. Email [email protected] Babies and Toddlers Tuesday, Sept. 15 • 2-2:30 p.m. to register for this virtual workshop Mondays, Sept. 14, 21, 28 Join us at www.youtube.com/ and to receive Zoom link. The library 10:30-10:50 a.m. tulsalibrary as we examine ancient subscribes to Reference USA databases Join us at www.facebook.com/ artifacts and discuss all things which customers can use to find detailed tulsalibrary and learn and enjoy songs, archaeology with our friends at information on nearly every household stories and activities that are just right Gilcrease Museum! We’ll look at some in the nation by lifestyles plus detailed for your little one at this virtual lapsit ancient artifacts from the Gilcrease information for nearly every business, storytime for newborns to 2-year-olds collection, discuss what we can learn nonprofit and government location in and their caregivers. from them and demonstrate ways you the United States and Canada. Library can view thousands of artifacts from customers can search these databases Brookside Book Discussion the comfort of your own home. Viewers free 24/7 from any place online. Monday, Sept. 14 • 1:30-2:30 p.m. also will have an opportunity to ask Read “Red at the Bone” by Jacqueline questions. We think you’ll really ‘dig’ it! Short Story Café : "The Yellow Woodson and then join us for a lively Visit www.tulsalibrary.org/kids for more Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman virtual discussion on Zoom. Email activities and resources. 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Teen Book Chat: Sequoyah Masterlist Bixby Library Adult Book Discussion Teen Victorian Fiction: Tuesday, Sept. 15 • 6-7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16 • noon Steampunk, Magic and Mystery Join us on Zoom as we chat about Read “The Strands of Truth” by Wednesday, Sept. 16 a book from the Sequoyah Book Colleen Coble and then join us at Do you like Victorian teen fiction? Awards high school masterlist. This www.facebook.com/bixbylibrary for a Steampunk, magic and mystery? Watch month’s selection is “Warrior of the lively discussion. Call the Bixby Library our video at www.facebook.com/ Wild” by Tricia Levenseller. Email hk@ at 918-549-7323 for a copy of the book martinlibrary of the 10 best reviewed by tulsalibrary.org to get the Zoom link. or download an e-book. For adults. our staff. Then stop by Martin Regional “Warrior of the Wild” is available Library and ask for our handout list! For through the library as a print book, Take & Make Craft: ages 10-18. or downloadable e-book or audio Make Your Own Fossil through Overdrive. How do you Wednesday, Sept. 16 Hispanic Heritage Month Podcast kill a god? As her father’s chosen Stop by Schusterman-Benson Library to Series: Stories of the Unknown heir, Rasmira has trained her whole pick up a Make Your Own Fossil craft kit, Wednesdays, Sept. 16, 23, 30 • 6-7 p.m. life to become a warrior and lead her while supplies last. Share pictures of your Join us for a special podcast series village. But when her coming-of-age completed work at www.facebook.com/ in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. trial is sabotaged and she fails the schustermanbensonlibrary. For ages 5-10. Each week we will share stories of the test, her father banishes her to the paranormal, occult or the unknown. monster-filled wilderness. To win back Faux Stained Glass Luminaries Hosted by the Hispanic Resource Center her honor, Rasmira must fulfill an Wednesday, Sept. 16 coordinator and Tulsa City-County impossible quest: kill the oppressive Light up the approaching autumn Library staff, we will have special guests god who claims tribute from the evenings with your own decorated every week joining us to tell us about villages each year ... or die trying. luminary! We’ll use tissue paper to their relationship with storytelling. create colorful, translucent patterns The podcast will be livestreamed Kiowa Language Class that are backlit with a tea candle for to the Hispanic Resource Center Tuesdays, Sept. 15, 22, 29 a simple, pretty project. Craft kits are Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ 6:30-8:30 p.m. available at the Schusterman-Benson TCCLhispanicresourcecenter and is in Learn the beautiful language of the Kiowa Library on first-come-first-serve basis. tribute to Mexico’s hit radio program people. This class is taught by the Kiowa Call 918-549-7323 for availability. For “The Hairy Hand” or “La Mano Peluda.” Tribe’s Language Department via Zoom. teens and adults. For teens and adults. Register online at www.tulsalibrary.org/ events 24 hours ahead for Zoom link. For ages 10 to adult.

Tulsa City-County Library Virtual Event Guide • September 2020 • www.tulsalibrary.org/events 5 Creativity Matters: String Art Thursday, Sept 17 Visit the Nathan Hale Library to pick up New and Coming Soon your take-home crafting kit curbside and then tune in to the Nathan Hale Titles for Children Facebook page, www.facebook.com/ nathanhalelibrary, for a tutorial on Visit www.tulsalibrary.org to check creating your own string art masterpiece. out these titles and find more. Kits include a wooden tile, push pins and colorful embroidery thread. Call 918-549-7323 for availability. Kits are available on a first-come-first-serve LEGO Halloween Ideas basis. For ages 10-17. By Selina Wood Celebrate Halloween with 50 spooky build ideas! Use Jenks Library Virtual Book Club your LEGO collection to conjure up a giant bat, a ghost Thursday, Sept. 17 • 1:30-2:30 p.m. ship, a witch's house and many more creepy creations. Join us for virtual discussions of Plus, challenge your friends to spooky LEGO games. great books. This month we’ll discuss the mystery “A Curious Beginning” by Deanna Raybourn. Email carissa. [email protected] for the Zoom Your Place in the Universe invite. For adults. By Jason Chin Introduces readers to the mind-boggling scale of the known Beyond the Book universe. Most 8-year-olds are about five times as tall as this Thursday, Sept. 17 • 2-3 p.m. book, but only half as tall as an ostrich, which is half as tall Join us for a lively Zoom discussion as a giraffe and 20 times smaller than a California Redwood! about “The Secrets We Kept” by How do they compare to the tallest buildings? To Mt. Lara Prescott. Email kelli.mcdowell@ Everest? To stars, galaxy clusters and … the universe? tulsalibrary.org for details to join the event. For adults. Twins, Volume 1 By Varian Johnson PAWS for Reading: Maureen and Francine Carter are twins and best friends. Online - Glenpool Library But just before the girls start sixth grade, Francine becomes Thursday, Sept. 17 • 4-6 p.m. Fran – a girl who wants to join the chorus, run for class Registered therapy dogs are excellent president and dress in fashionable outfits that set her apart listeners. Kids are invited to virtually read from Maureen. Maureen and Francine are growing apart and their favorite books to a furry, four-pawed there's nothing Maureen can do to stop it. Are sisters really friend on Zoom. Register by emailing forever? Or will middle school change things for good? [email protected].

Ask a Question, Save a Life: Question, Persuade and Refer Glork Patrol on the Bad Planet Thursday, Sept. 17 • 6-7:30 p.m. By James Kochalka Learn the QPR Method of Question, Who keeps the galaxy silly? The Glork Patrol! Join Persuade and Refer – three simple steps the Glorkian Warrior and Baby Gonk as they explore that anyone can learn to help save a a new planet and make some new friends. But life from suicide. Often referred to as they'll have to watch out for the most dangerous the mental health version of CPR, this creature in the universe: A Baby Quackaboodle! life-saving technique only takes about an hour to learn. Participants will receive helpful referral resources along with strategies to help navigate a mental a Zoom invitation via email. For ages 18 For nearly a century, the Nomeolvides health crisis and re-establish hope. and older. women have tended the grounds of La Join Deborah Hunter, case manager, Pradera, hiding a terrible legacy, until Family & Children’s Services, and Karen Fantasy/Science Fiction Book Club mysterious Fel arrives and Estrella helps LaPlante, director of education, Mental Thursday, Sept. 17 • 7-8 p.m. him explore his dangerous past. Contact Health Association Oklahoma, for this Join fellow fantasy/science fiction [email protected] for workshop via Zoom. Registration is enthusiasts to discuss “Wild Beauty” the Zoom link. For ages 16 and up. required. Register online at by Anna-Marie McLemore on Zoom. www.tulsalibrary.org/events to receive

Tulsa City-County Library Virtual Event Guide • September 2020 • www.tulsalibrary.org/events 6 Hispanic Heritage Month: A Conversation With Valeria Luiselli Saturday, Sept. 19 • 5-6 p.m. Join us for a virtual reading and CURIOUS WORLD discussion with Valeria Luiselli, author of “Lost Children Archive,” hosted by the Tulsa City-County Library’s Hispanic Resource Center. Join us on Tulsa City- County Library’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/tulsalibrary, for this DigDig IntoInto livestream reading and discussion. To-Go Activity Kit: Fall Leaves Monday, Sept. 21 Fall into Kishner this week to pick ArchaeologyArchaeology up an autumn craft kit! Use leaves or your fingers to create a fiery autumn tree painting, and then get out into Find great learning materials developed by professional librarians the fall air with an autumn scavenger for your school-aged children this fall! hunt! Kits are limited and available at the Judy Z. Kishner Library on a Go to www.tulsalibrary.org/kids for KIDS READ CURIOUS WORLD activities, first-come-first-serve basis. Check our texts and more to support learning growth and reading comprehension. Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ Then check out supplemental events and more in this event guide! judyzkishnerlibrary for updates.

Tulsa Master Gardeners Lunch and Learn: Bulbs Tuesday, Sept. 22 • noon-1 p.m. Fall is the time to plant early bloomers like daffodils and tulips. Join experts Tech Talk: Internet Hacks for Beginners Think you know your Marvel from DC? from the Tulsa Master Gardeners at Friday, Sept. 18 • noon-1 p.m. JRR from George RR? Power up the www.facebook.com/tulsalibrary as Are you a new internet user? Join us Tardis, grab your sonic screwdriver, we’ll they share tips on varieties, timing and for this Zoom webinar as we explore see you there! Registration is required to techniques on Facebook Live. hacks to improve your experience receive a Zoom meeting invite. Register online. This talk will be of interest to you online at www.tulsalibrary.org/events. Plains Indian Sign Language whether you are a technology expert or Questions? Contact Rebecca.Harrison@ Tuesday, Sept. 22 • 3-3:30 p.m. enthusiast, or just want to learn more tulsalibrary.org. For teens and adults. Learn Plains Indian sign language about how technology works. Register by third generation signer Mike online at www.tulsalibrary.org/events for Gilmore Girls Trivia Pahsetopah. Watch on TCCL’s YouTube Zoom login info. Registrants will need Friday, Sept. 18 • 7-8 p.m. channel, www.youtube.com/tulsalibrary. to provide an email address. The Zoom Copper boom! Grab a coffee, a book login information will be emailed out an and your most witty pop culture Murder and Mayhem: hour prior to the program. A recording reference as it’s Gilmore Girls trivia time! True Crime Book Club of the talk will be uploaded to YouTube. Register with your email address at Tuesday, Sept. 22 • 6:30-7:30 p.m. www.tulsalibrary.org/events to get the Our featured selection is “The Five” PAWS for Reading: Zoom link for this pub-style game. For by Hallie Rubenhold. Print and digital Read to a Dog on Zoom adults and teens. copies are available via Friday, Sept. 18 • 3:30-4:30 p.m. www.tulsalibrary.org. For a Zoom Registered therapy dogs are excellent Creative Truths: invitation, email [email protected]. listeners. Kids are invited to read their A History Book Discussion For adults. favorite books to a furry, four-pawed Saturday, Sept. 19 • 9-10 a.m. friend using Zoom. Register online at Join librarians Mark and Sarah on www.tulsalibrary.org/events for Zoom info. Zoom to discuss “The Queens of Animation” by Nathalia Holt. Email Fandom Friday Trivia: General Geekery [email protected] for the Zoom Friday, Sept. 18 • 6:30-8 p.m. meeting invitation. For adults. Join us for Fandom Friday Trivia as we test your knowledge on all things geeky.

Tulsa City-County Library Virtual Event Guide • September 2020 • www.tulsalibrary.org/events 7 Courageous Community Conversation: www.tulsalibrary.org/events for Zoom tea workshop with multidisciplinary Begin the Healing login info. Registrants will need to artist Edgar Fabián Frías. This event will Tuesday, Sept. 22 • 7-8 p.m. provide an email address. The Zoom be livestreamed to Tulsa City-County Join us on Zoom for this reading and login information will be emailed out an Library’s Facebook page, discussion program on historical trauma hour prior to the program. A recording www.facebook.com/tulsalibrary. Frías and its impact on today. Courageous of the talk will be uploaded to YouTube. is a nonbinary, queer, indigenous Community Conversations is a reading (Wixárika) and Brown multidisciplinary and discussion program designed to Out-Lit: YA Book Club artist, curator, educator and give participants an opportunity for Friday, Sept. 25 • 4:30-5:30 p.m. psychotherapist. Along with Hispanic authentic, transformative dialogue about Join us as we chat about “Not Your Resource Center Coordinator Amairani challenging issues. Using this year's One Sidekick” by C.B. Lee, which is available Perez Chamu, the two will showcase Book, One Tulsa selection, "Red at the in print, audio and on the Hoopla app. how to make your own tea with Bone" by Jacqueline Woodson, we will Register online at medicinal herbs. For adults and teens. discuss the manner in which traumatic www.tulsalibrary.org/events to be historical events impact an individual's e-mailed the Zoom link. Welcome To-Go Activity Kit: social, mental and physical well-being to Andover ... where superpowers Rolling Marble Painting years – even decades – after their are common, but internships are Monday, Sept. 28 occurrence. Participants will have the complicated. Just ask high school Roll on by Judy Z. Kishner Library to opportunity to share ideas for fostering nobody Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic pick up a rolling marble painting kit! resilient communities during these lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without Be prepared to get messy and find out unprecedented times. Email outreach. superpowers and is merely looking to what you can make simply by rolling a [email protected] for details for beef up her college applications when marble around on paint and paper. Kits joining the discussion. For adults. she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) are limited and available on a first- internship ... only it turns out to be for come-first-serve basis. Another Chapter Book Discussion the town’s most heinous supervillain. On Thursday, Sept. 24 • 2-3 p.m. the upside, she gets to work with her Virtual Book Discussion: Read or listen to "Dear Mrs. Bird" by longtime secret crush, Abby, who Jess “Across That Bridge” by John Lewis A.J. Pearce and then join the discussion. thinks may have a secret of her own. Monday, Sept. 28 • 6-7:30 p.m. Register online at www.tulsalibrary.org/ Then there’s the budding attraction to You are invited to join Rudisill events to receive a Zoom link to join the her fellow intern, the mysterious “M,” Regional Library via Zoom for an discussion. For adults. who never seems to be in the same online book discussion of “Across That place as Abby. But what starts as a fun Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Jeopardy! Random Fandom way to spite her superhero parents takes Future of America” by John Lewis. Thursday, Sept. 24 • 5-6 p.m. a sudden and dangerous turn when she Email Wyvonne.Harris@tulsalibrary. Join us via Zoom for a fun night of uncovers a plot larger than heroes and org for Zoom link. In “Across That Random Fandom trivia from literary villains altogether. For ages 12-18. Bridge,” Congressman John Lewis draws favorites to pop culture. Join as a team from his experience as a prominent or just bring yourself for a chance to Zoom Paint-Along Party leader of the civil rights movement win a fantasy book bundle of YA and Friday, Sept. 25 • 6-7 p.m. to offer timeless wisdom, poignant adult titles. Five spots are available. Meet us on TCCL’s Teen Services Zoom recollections and powerful principles Register online at www.tulsalibrary.org/ for an instructional paint-along party! for anyone interested in challenging events or contact Nathan Hale Library Register online at www.tulsalibrary.org injustices and inspiring real change on Facebook Messenger, www.facebook. /events to receive Zoom link. For toward a freer, more peaceful society. com/nathanhalelibrary. For ages 13 and elementary students to adults. For adults. older. PAWS for Reading: Tulsa Master Gardeners Lunch and Tech Talk: Machine Learning the Basics Online - Zarrow Regional Library Learn: Succulents Friday, Sept. 25 • noon-1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 • 2-3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29 • noon-1 p.m. Join us for this Zoom webinar as we Kids are invited to read their favorite Explore the weird and wonderful world explore the basics of machine learning, books to Arson the Dalmatian online of everyone’s favorite low-maintenance the study of computer algorithms through Zoom. Register online at houseplant, succulents, with the that improve automatically through www.tulsalibrary.org/events to receive experts from Tulsa Master Gardeners experience. Yahya Lazrak, a full stack an assigned time slot just for you and a on Facebook Live, www.facebook.com/ web developer at Scout Group, will Zoom link to join the fun. tulsalibrary. dive into the fundamentals of machine learning. This talk will be of interest Hispanic Heritage Month: to you whether you are a technology Tea Workshop With Edgar Fabián Frías expert or enthusiast, or just want to Saturday, Sept. 26 • 6-7 p.m. learn more about how technology Join us for a guided meditation and works. Register online at

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