March 2017

Special Event Exhibit and Talk With Humorist Dr. Gina Barreca Expressive Women of NAWA Join us for this special event that is being Penny Dell, award-wining artist and past sponsored by the Ridgefield League of president of the National Association of Women Voters and the Ridgefield Library Women Artists, Inc., will give a talk about in honor of Women's History Month. Dr. the history and current mission of NAWA. Gina Barreca is a syndicated columnist Dell will talk about some of the early for the Tribune News Service and most members of the organization and how it was recently author of If You Lean In Will Men founded and developed since 1889. Just Look Down Your Blouse? Questions and Thoughts for Noteworthy NAWA members have included Mary Cassatt, Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times. Barreca is Cecelia Beaux, Louise Nevelson, Alice Neel and Dorothy professor of English literature and feminist theory at the Dehner. A juried exhibit by current members of NAWA will University of CT and has appeared on 20/20,The Today be on display at the Library throughout March. Show, CNN, the BBC, Dr. Phil, NPR and Oprah. Talk: Sunday, March 5, 2 PM Saturday, March 4, 2 PM Reception: Sunday, March 5, 3 - 5 PM Register at ridgefieldlibrary.org Register for Talk ridgefieldlibrary.org Author Talks The Ethics of Sports An Afternoon of Mystery with Dr. Arthur Caplan with Dr. Jean Cullander and Dorothy Hayes Dr. Arthur Caplan is a Professor of Bioethics and Director Join us as two local authors, Jean of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Cullander and Dorothy Hayes discuss their Center. He is the co-founder of the NYU Sports and Society recently released mystery novels. Program. He has served on the special advisory committee to the International Olympic Committee on genetics and Cullander’s first novel The Train to Skeleton gene therapy and the FIFA special advisory committee on Coast was a finalist in the international Eludia the use of technology in allowing athletes to adapt to 2015 book award competition. Dorothy altitude and other environmental challenges. He has also Hayes’ latest novel in the Carol Rossi Mystery written extensively about medical and political ethics. series is Keys to Nowhere. Wednesday, March 1, 7 PM Saturday, March 11, 2 PM Register at ridgefieldlibrary.org Register at ridgefieldlibrary.org

Say Nothing Pleasures and Perils of Writing a Novel with Brad Parks with Alice Mattison

The Library and Books on the Common are For anyone who is thinking about writing a novel, has written pleased to welcome back author Brad Parks to one novel or many, or enjoys reading novels but prefers to discuss Say Nothing, his latest heart-pounding leave the writing to others, Alice Mattison will discuss what domestic thriller that has already garnered may go right and wrong when you are the lucky and cursed praise from greats like , , Joseph person with an impulse you can’t ignore to write a book-length Finder and . Parks is a former reporter for work of fiction. Her new book is The Kite and the String: How and The Star-Ledger and the only to Write with Spontaneity and Control—and Live to Tell the author to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, Tale. Alice is also the author of six novels and four collections three of crime fiction’s most prestigious prizes. of short stories. She lives in New Haven and teaches fiction in the MFA program at Bennington College. Friday, March 17, 7 PM Thursday, March 23, 7:00 PM Register at ridgefieldlibrary.org Register at ridgefieldlibrary.org Parenting series skillsbox All Our Children: Understanding Simple Steps for Starting Your Business the LGBTQ World Want to start a business but don’t know where with Cathy Plourde to begin? This 5-part workshop, conducted by a Cathy Plourde, MA, author, educator and editor of Out team of professionals from SCORE's Norwalk and Allied: An Anthology of Performance Pieces Written by and Western CT Chapters, will give you the LGBTQ Youths and Allies will speak. There will also be boost to get you on your way! student performers from Ridgefield High School. Attendees are expected to attend all five sessions and those who attend at least four classes will be given a certificate of The program is part of Raising the Selfie Generation series class completion. Check-in is at 5:45 PM; the programs start and will help our community understand the differences in promptly at 6:00 PM. Snacks will be served. This program is gender and sexual orientation; underscore the importance part of the Skillsbox: Tools for Business Success series of open, honest dialogue in families, schools, organizations sponsored by the Library, Ridgefield Chamber of and faith-based communities; and develop strategies to Commerce and SCORE. Dates: Monday, February 27, talk with teens about acceptance and tolerance. March 6, 13, 20 and 27. (Snow dates the following day)

Thursday, March 9, 7 PM 5 Mondays Starting February 27, 6 PM Register at ridgefieldlibrary.org Register at ridgefieldlibrary.org artalk Community Sing-a-long The Light and the Life Join us for Community Sing-a-long. If you play a portable in- strument feel free to bring it along! Musical hosts are Edwin with Joe McNally and Faith Taylor and Deborah Katchko-Gray. Songbooks Joe McNally is an award-winning are provided. photographer whose career has spanned Sunday, March 26, 3 PM more than 35 years. He has been an No registration ongoing contributor to National Geographic and a contract photographer for Sports Illustrated. He has also shot cover stories for TIME, Newsweek, Fortune, Fiction Writing Workshop Sunday Magazine and more. His prints are in numerous with Kim Kovach collections, most significantly the National Portrait Gallery New writers and those with more experience can learn how to of the United States and National September 11 Memorial make fiction writing come alive in this 5-week fiction writing & Museum. course. Dates: March 29, April 5, 19, 26 and May 3. Sunday, March 12, 2 PM Wednesday, March 29, 10:30 AM Register at ridgefieldlibrary.org Register at ridgefieldlibrary.org Meet Your Legislators Learn through film with John Frey, Michael Ferguson How Do We Treat Addiction? and Toni Boucher We are currently experiencing a prescription painkiller and Meet Your Legislators at this public event where heroin overdose epidemic. Join us for screenings of powerful Ridgefield’s state representatives John Frey and Michael films along with discussion. This series is presented by the Ferguson and state senator Toni Boucher will give a Library, L & L Media and Western CT State University report on the state of the budget-making process and on the with support from the Ridgefield Prevention Council. current legislation before the General The Anonymous People Assembly. Those attending will learn more about where these legislators stand on important issues and have The Anonymous People, a documentary an opportunity to ask questions about the proposed budget created by a Danbury native, puts forth a and legislation coming up at the Connecticut State Capitol. radical concept about how those with long- Light refreshments will be served. term recovery can help dispel the stigma of addiction for those who still suffer. Greg Co-sponsored by the Ridgefield League of Women Voters Williams, the film’s Director, and Jeffrey and the Ridgefield Library. Earls from Family Reentry will moderate. Saturday, March 11, 10:30 AM Thursday, March 16, 7 PM Registration suggested at ridgefieldlibrary.org Register at ridgefieldlibrary.org Library Book Groups - New Readers welcome!

MURDER BY THE BOOK FOUNDERS HALL CRITICS’ CIRCLE commissions artwork to Thursday, March 2 BOOK GROUP BOOK GROUP illustrate a book glorifying 10:30 AM Thursday, March 9 Tuesday, March 21 his master the Sultan – and Hit Man 3:00 PM 7:00 PM then turns up dead. by Lawrence Block The Marriage of The Golden Age Opposites: A Novel Based by Joan London John Keller is a contract on the Life of Rachel In the 1940s, thirteen-year- killer who is going through Pizzaro old Frank Gold’s family a personal and professional by Alice Hoffman escape the perils of World mid-life crisis, while War II to the safety of continuing to accept work Open to all members of Australia. Not long after doing what he is so good at – Founders Hall. their arrival Frank is killing people for hire, in diagnosed with polio and POETRY DISCUSSION this collection of linked sent to a children’s hospital GROUP stories that inaugurates the called The Golden Age, Friday, March 24 darkly sardonic series from where he meets Elsa. The 1:00 PM the prolific writer. two fall in love, fueling one Poems of Jorge Luis another’s rehabilitation and Borges NONFICTIONEERS facing the perils of polio and with Dr. Alan Holder March 7 adolescence hand in hand. This program is made 7:00 PM With tenderness and humor, possible thanks to the The Best and the The Golden Age tells a Friends of the Library. Brightest deeply moving story about by David Halberstam illness and recovery. (February 7 Chapters 1-16; LIVE IN HD @ March 7 Chapter 17 to end) BOOKS & A.M. BOOK GROUP RIDGEFIELD BREAKFAST Wednesday, March 22 Monday, March 13 A rich, entertaining, and 10:00 AM PLAYHOUSE profound reading 10:30 AM My Name Is Red Metropolitan Opera, National experience. "--The New York by Orhan Pamuk Theatre of London and the Times "[The] most Bolshoi Ballet on the big comprehensive saga of how The Nobel Prize laureate screen! Ridgefield Library America became involved in spins a tale that is part card holders now receive the Vietnam. It is also the Iliad mystery, part love story and Playhouse membership rate of the American empire and Join us for an informal book part rumination on the of $20 for these events. For a the Odyssey of this nation's chat led by Dorothy nature of art, as a 16th full listing visit - search for its idealistic Pawlowski century Ottoman artist ridgefieldplayhouse.org. soul.” - The Boston Globe. Tech Topics Adult Maker Group: The Internet of Things 101 - Come Using Adobe Reader DC for Viewing, Printing, join our Adult Maker Group and tinker with us. We'll explore and Annotating PDFs wireless connections with SparkFun "Thing" boards. - Wednesday, March 15 @ 1:00 - 2:00 PM - Register - Wednesday, March 8 @ 6:30 - 8:00 PM - Register Intro to WordPress.com - Using a lynda.com course as our 3D Printing Orientation- Are you interested in printing your guide, we’ll learn the basics about creating a free blog on own 3D design on the Library's Makerbot? We are now offering WordPress.com. use of our 3D printer to Ridgefield Library cardholders. Those - Thursday, March 16 @ 6:00 - 7:30 PM - Register who are under age 18 must come with an adult. - Thursday, March 9 @ 6:00 - 7:30 PM - Register Social Media for Nonprofits with Kate Fitzpatrick - Saturday, March 18, @ 10:00 - 11:30 AM - Register - Wednesday, March 22 @ 2:00 - 3:00 pm - Register

Twitter 101 with Kate Fitzpatrick - Learn the strengths Adult Maker Group: Virtual Reality Demo - We'll demon- and weaknesses of this social media platform. This program is strate our virtual reality headset, including an opportunity for made possible thanks to the Wadsworth Russell Lewis Fund. a hands - on experience with VR. This group is for those 18 years - Friday, March 10 @ 1:00 - 2:00 PM - Register of age and older. New makers are always welcome! - Wednesday, March 22 @ 6:30 - 8:00 pm - Register Teens Teach Tech - Need to know how to change that annoy- ing ring tone on your cell phone? Want to learn how to save Convert Your VHS Videos to DVD. We have elev- contacts or retrieve messages? Just bring in the gadgets that en 2-hour slots available for those wishing to convert drive you crazy and let our teens unlock their secret power! a VHS tape to DVD. Visit ridgefieldlibrary.org or - Saturday, March 11 @ 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - Drop in call 203-438-2282 for availability and to register. Featured Events Calendar - March 2017

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*Fairfield County’s Community 1 2 3 4 Foundation's Giving Day ... all Author Talk: Murder By Special Event: The Ethics of The Book: Humorist Dr. 26 day27 long on March28 9th. Help support everything you love at Sport with Dr. Hit Man by Gina Barreca Arthur Leonard Lawrence Block 2 PM the Library! Caplan 7 PM 10:30 AM 5 6 7 8 9 *Giving Day! 10 11 Talk and Skillsbox: The Nonfictio- Meeting: Founders Hall Tech Topics: Field Trip: Reception: Simple Steps for neers: The Best Ridgefield Discussion: Twitter 101 Shutterbugs NAWA: 128 Starting Your and the Theater Barn The Marriage of with Kate 9 AM Years of Own Business Brightest by Playwrights Opposites: A Fitzpatrick Forum: Meet Women’s Art Part 2 of 5 David Collective Novel Based on 1 PM your Legislators with Penny Dell 5:45 PM Halberstam 6 PM the Life of Ra- 10:30 AM 2 PM 7 PM chel Pizzaro by Tech Topics: Reception runs Making Alice Hoffman Teens Teach from 3 to 5 PM STEAM: Adult 3 PM Tech Maker Group Parenting the 11 AM - 1 PM 6:30 PM Selfie Genera- Author Talk: tion: All Our An Afternoon of Children: Mystery with Understanding Jean Cullander the LGBTQ and Dorothy World 7 PM Hayes 2 PM 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ARTalk: The Discussion: Tech Topics: Tech Topics: Author Talk: Tech Topics: Light and the Books & Using Adobe Intro to Say Nothing 3D Printing Life with Breakfast Reader DC for WordPress with Brad Orientation Photographer 10:30 AM Viewing, 6 PM Parks 10 AM Joe McNally Skillsbox: Printing, and Learn 7 PM 2 PM Simple Steps for Annotating Through Film: Starting Your PDFs The Anonymous Own Business 1 PM People Part 3 of 5 7 PM 5:45 PM 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Skillsbox: Critics' Circle A.M. Book Author Talk: Poetry Simple Steps for Book Group: Group: My The Pleasures Discussion Starting Your The Golden Age Name is Red by and Perils of Group: Poems Own Business by Joan London Orhan Pamuk Writing a Novel of Jorge Luis Part 4of 5 7 PM 10 AM with Borges 5:45 PM Tech Topics: Alice Mattison 1 PM Social Media 7 PM for Nonprofits 2 PM Making STEAM: Adult Maker Group 6:30 PM

26 27 28 29 30March Exhibit: 31 Community Skillsbox: Writing Expressive Women of NAWA Sing-a-long: Simple Steps for Workshop: Show runs from Thursday, Let’s Sing! Starting Your Fiction with March 2 through Thursday, 3 PM Own Business Kim Kovach March 30 Part 5 of 5 Part 1 of 5 The Gallery on the Lower Level 1 5:45 PM 10:30 AM Making Talk & Reception: Sunday, Meeting: STEAM: March 5, 2 PM Talk - Library Board Felting with Reception 3 - 5 PM 7:30 PM Pat Corrigan 1 to 4 PM