Westhampton Free Library and Their Generous Sponsors
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Westhampton January/ Free Library February 2016 ...to serve the community; cultivate knowledge; promote curiosity; and inspire lifelong learning... Serving Westhampton Beach, Westhampton, East Moriches, Eastport, East Quogue, Manorville, Quiogue, Remsenburg and Speonk Literacy Outreach Project The Library’s Literacy Outreach Project continues. This project is made possible with the support of the Friends of the Westhampton Free Library and their generous sponsors. HOT CHOCOLATE DAY! Saturday, January 16 from 10:00am – 4:00pm. It’s a delicious tradition, from Classic Digital Literacy Cocoa to Divine Alpine Mint. Stop by the Library and enjoy a The Library would like to thank Rubio Premier Motors, Platinum cup or two! Sponsors of the Literacy Outreach Project Fundraiser, for CHINESE NEW YEAR is FEBRUARY 8! Join us to celebrate with sponsoring these programs. See our Computers and Digital Services these special events for the whole family! section for more information and to register! RYU SHU TAIKO: DRUMS OF JAPAN: Sunday, January Early Childhood Literacy 24 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm. With performances drawn from the rich The Idea Place would like to thank the Literacy Outreach folk heritage of Japan, the Ryu Shu Kan presents a diverse program of Fundraiser Silver Sponsors for their generous donations. Each child Taiko Drums, Folk Song and Dance, Koto (Japanese Harp), Shakuhachi will receive a hardcover book for every hundred books read. When (Bamboo Flute) and Martial Arts; all offered to immerse the audience in the child completes the program by having read one thousand books, the traditional Japanese experience. This performance will include the ten classic story books will have been earned for that child’s personal interactive story of the Drums of Noto Hanto where the children of the library. This month’s title is Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by audience have a chance to participate in the dancing and drumming. This Mo Willems. event is presented by the Ryu Shu Kan Japanese Arts Center in partnership with the Japan Center at Stonybrook University. Teen Financial Literacy TEA CEREMONY DEMONSTRATION: Sunday, The Library would like to thank Ms. Peggy Anne Dineen, Bronze February 7 at 12:15pm. The ritual of the Japanese Sponsor of the Literacy Outreach Project Fundraiser, for tea ceremony, also called the Way of Tea, is meant to sponsoring this program. display respect through grace and good etiquette. This demonstration by the Long Island Cha-no-Yu-no-Kai SNACK-O-NOMICS: Wednesday, February 17 at 4:00pm. Find Society includes a tea and Japanese sweet tasting for guests, out which local stores you buy your snacks from that offer reward as well as a review of the history of the traditional tea cards. Learn what the rewards are, whether the reward is a coupon ceremony. Registration required. for a future purchase, receiving their low sale price, or even buy one, get one values. We will discuss how easy it is to obtain their often CHINESE THEATER WORKS PRESENTS: CHINESE NEW free member card and if they have a points to dollar system. No YEAR CELEBRATION! Sunday, February 7 from 2:00pm to 2:40pm. registration required. Celebrate Chinese New Year with this amazing performance company. VALENTINE’S DINNER at BUOY ONE: Thursday, February 11 between 6:00pm and 8:00pm. The Westhampton Free Library and the Moriches Bay Project in partnership with Buoy One Restaurant are MEET THE DATABASE delighted to present the return of our special Valentine’s Celebration Come into the Library and let us show Dinner which includes a prix-fixe dinner with our special guest bartender you how to use Ancestry.com, one of the Brian Tymann and music by singer/songwriter Sheri Miller to set the premier online genealogy research databases. mood. The menu includes a choice of appetizer, main course, We provide in-library access to this site, which offers dessert and glass of wine or champagne; a specially wrapped gift billions of searchable records including census, military, card placing 50 seed oysters in Moriches Bay in your (or your immigration, city directories and much more. Let us help Valentine’s) name; and a ticket for automatic entry in a raffle for you get started on tracing your family tree! a Valentine’s Gift Basket. Registration is required and is $35.00 per person. The last day for registration is Monday, February 8 at 12:00pm. Fun times are ahead as we roll into Spring so mark your calendars now. The iconic fashionista doll Barbie was born in March – her birthday is March 7 – and we have Barbie scholar Meghann Ryan for our Your Library is a Five Star Library! Lunch and Learn on March 11. Tea and the BBC concludes with a grand finale on Saturday, March 19. In March we have a few tickets to THE Broadway show Hamilton. (Tickets go on sale Tuesday, March 1 at 9:30am, in the Library only. No phone or online registration is The Westhampton Free Library is one of several libraries in Suffolk available. Payment is due upon registration, one ticket per patron, limited County to be awarded American Star designations from Library Journal, to Westhampton Free Library cardholders. Details will be published the oldest and most respected publication covering the library field. This is the seventh year in a row that Westhampton Free Library has in the March/April received this distinction and the third year in newsletter.) a row that the Library has received five star For more information LIBRARY CLOSINGS status. Library Journal Star ratings are based regarding programs on a library’s annual number of patron visits, and clubs, go to Friday, January 1 - for New Year’s Day circulation, program attendance, and public westhamptonlibrary.net Monday, January 4 - for Staff Development Internet computer use. This data is reported and click on “Program Monday, January 18 - for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day yearly by public libraries to their state library Calendar” or visit the Monday, February 15 - for Presidents’ Day agencies and compiled nationally by the Library — and don’t Institute of Museum and Library Services. forget your Library card! WESTHAMPTON FREE LIBRARY 7 Library Avenue, Westhampton Beach, NY 11978 Phone: (631) 288-3335 • Fax: (631) 288-5715 NON PROFIT BOARD OF TRUSTEES ORGANIZATION Thomas Moore, President POSTAL CUSTOMER Jennifer Mendelson, Secretary U.S. POSTAGE PAID Susan Rosenberg, Treasurer WESTHAMPTON BEACH, NY Barbara Matros, Trustee PERMIT NO. 144 LIBRARY DIRECTOR Danielle Waskiewicz HOURS Monday through Friday 9:30am —9:00pm Saturday 9:30am —5:00pm Sunday 12:00pm —4:00pm westhamptonlibrary.net MUSIC EVENT ARTS AND CRAFTS WRITERS’ CORNER JAZZ: THE FIRST AMERICAN ART DIY FELT WOOLLIE DRYER BALLS: Wednesday, WRITERS’ GROUP: Tuesdays from FORM with CRAIG BOYD: Sunday, January 20 at 5:00pm. Wool dryer balls: 1) dry your clothes faster and more efficiently; 2) replace dryer sheets 6:00 - 8:30pm. Instructor: Donna McGullam. January 31 at 1:00pm. From African Limited space available. Registration required. Drums and Dance to the Smooth Jazz of and fabric softener; and 3) make everything nice and fluffy. They are also easy to make. So join us WRITERS’ KITCHEN: Wednesdays, the 1960s, from Boogie Woogie to Hard and make your own. Each participant will Bop, jazz encompasses and embraces this leave with 3 dryer balls for a fraction of January 13 and 27; February 10 and 24 country’s history and heart in a way that the cost of commercial wool dryer balls. from 6:00-8:30pm. $35.00 to register for nothing else does. Join Professor Craig There is a $3.00 materials fee to register. the 4-class series. Limited space available. Boyd to listen and learn in this musical journey through Registration required. the uniquely American art form that changed the world of THE WRITERS READ: Sunday, February 28 at music – and the music of the world. Don’t miss it! 1:00pm. Join us for readings and refreshments with members of our successful (and growing!) writers’ workshops. Registration requested. ART GALLERY AT THE LIBRARY WESTHAMPTON POETS SOCIETY: Wednesdays, SPECIAL THEATRE EVENT January 6 and 20; February 3 and 17 at 6:00pm. This JANUARY The workshop will include readings of original and published At the Gallery in : works, writing prompts, and critiques in a round table SPECIAL THEATRE and DINNER famous Liz Duerschmidt from EVENT: Dead Accounts presented setting led by Nicole Stanek. Limited space available. Westhampton will be displaying Registration recommended. by the HAMPTON THEATRE works from her black and white series COMPANY: Thursday, January and colorful North Fork scenes. 21, 2016, 5:00 p.m. dinner and 7:00 p.m. play. Enjoy a wonderful meal in the company of friends at The Patio, In the Display Case in JANUARY: Bill followed by the Hampton Theatre Baker of Center Moriches is a master carpenter, SOMETHING NEW FOR Company’s production of Dead wood carver, and creator of lawn/garden art Accounts, Theresa Rebeck’s timely made from repurposed material. THE NEW YEAR! new comedy that takes on greed and skewed ideas about morality when a quirky financier who has done a little too At the Gallery in MEDITATION: Learn to find your focus! well in New York comes home to surprise his family in FEBRUARY: What Read all about it under Health and Exercise. the heartland. could be better for February than HYPNOSIS: Can hypnosis help you with your Gayle and Elizabeth Wagner’s New Year’s Resolution? Check out our special Fee: $57 (includes 3-course dinner, tax, tip and theater ticket) Dessert and Discuss with Albert O’Connell and luscious photographs of flowers find out! Meet: 5:00 p.m. at The Patio, 54 Main Street, and candy? Westhampton Beach CANASTA and MAH JONG CLASSES! Exercise your brain! The games are afoot under FEBRUARY Show: 7:00 p.m.