Summer 2019 Table of Contents Kick Offsummer Reading with Comicfest

Summer 2019

Table of Contents Kick off summer reading with ComicFest

Children 2 Nashua Library ComicFest on June 22 launches the library’s summer reading programs, whose theme is A Universe of Stories. From June 22 Teens 3 to August 17, log how long you read, and you’ll earn prizes and raffle tickets. We hope to see you at the dozens of space-themed events we Computer have planned for babies, kids, teens, and adults. Find out more by pick- Classes 4 ing up brochures (available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese) at the library, or reading them at nashualibrary.org under the Explore menu. Adults 6 ComicFest is your chance to geek out. The day is loaded with events Ongoing 7 for all ages–cosplay, gaming, crafts, and more! For details visit nashualibrary.org/comicfest. Concerts 8 Saturday, June 22 12–7 pm, Throughout Library

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Free lunches Our Kid Summer Reading brochure lists more children’s events. Available at nashualibrary.org. Kids ages 18 and under can eat a free bag Under Explore, click Print Calendar. lunch at the library starting June 19. Lunches are available through August 30 Family Films are on hiatus until September. (except July 4), Monday–Friday, 11 am–2 pm.

Kids can ask any staff member for a lunch, Babies and Books Storytimes then eat it either outdoors or downstairs in Through stories and music, learn how to read the Chandler Memorial Wing. No ID or regis- aloud and develop your baby’s language and tration is required. The program is sponsored pre-reading skills. Babies and their caregivers are by the USDA Summer Food Service Program welcome to join us; no registration required. and Southern NH Services. The library is an equal opportunity provider. Thursdays (canceled 8/22) Birth–12 months: 11 am 13–30 months: 9:15 am and 10:15 am Toddler crafts: 9:45 am, 6/27–8/15

Open Storytimes and Library earns Family Place Play and Learn Workshops Puppet Shows certification For children ages 0–3 and parent or care- For all ages. Cancelled August 18–22. Volunteer Fair On April 3, the Nashua Public Library formally giver. Did you know that as soon as they are Sundays at 2 pm (when open) An opportunity for earned its Family Place Library certification. born, children start learning the skills they’ll Mondays at 10 am (Followed by Beginner Arts & teens and adults to The goal of Family Place Libraries is to need to succeed in school? Join us at this Crafts for ages 2–5 from 6/24 to 8/12. Sign in for the talk to agencies who develop a family-friendly environment five-week workshop and find out how you— craft at the Children’s Room desk when you arrive need volunteers and by transforming libraries into community your child’s first teacher—can help them and make a nametag.) interns, whether for the centers for literacy, early childhood develop- learn, long before they get on the school Tuesdays at 10 am (Followed on 6/25, 7/9, 7/23, summer or year-round. Visit ment, parent education and engagement, bus. Play with educational toys, meet other and 8/6 by Music and Movement for ages 2–5.) enough agency tables and you could win family support, and community information. families with young children, and talk to ex- Thursdays at 7 pm (Portuguese bilingual story- prizes in our raffle! Sign up to volunteer and perts in early literacy, speech and language, time 6/6 and 8/1.) For two years the Children’s Room staff has child development, nutrition, music, play, build a better world. Cosponsored by the United Way of Greater Nashua. been working toward this honor. You’ve and health. Register at tinyurl.com/nplkid Storytime Bus Trip probably seen the results: the Cuddle Corner, by June 2. Open only to those who have not Thursday, June 6 with toys and books especially for babies; previously attended these workshops. Take a field trip on a Nashua Transit bus 5:30–7 pm, Chandler Memorial Wing new programs like Play & Learn workshops, from the library to storytime at Greeley Park. Mondays, 6/3–7/1, 10:30 am–12 noon, Seating is limited; check in at the Children’s Music and Movement, and SunDay FunDays; Activity Room Room desk 10 minutes before the 10 am or More summer programs for teens are listed and additional books, toys, music, and multi- in the Teen Summer Reading brochure. media materials for babies, toddlers, parents, 11 am departure. If it rains, we’ll stay on the bus to listen to the story. Children must be caregivers, and service providers. Teens can get free lunches at the library in accompanied by an adult. the summer. See the article above for details. Monday, June 17, at 10 am and 11 am Page 2 603.589.4600 Page 3 For ages Summer 2019 For ages Summer 2019 18+ 18+

Computer Classes Amazon Alexa and Microsoft Word Introduction Microsoft Excel Introduction Digital Personal Assistants Learn how to use the ribbon; create, save, Basic to intermediate functions of Excel, These classes are held in our Computer Monday, June 10 ��10:30 am and print documents; format lists; check the spreadsheet and calculating program, Training Room. No registration is required. Monday, August 5 ��2:30 pm spelling and grammar; create tables; and including screen and worksheet elements; More details: tinyurl.com/nplcomputerclass. apply headers and footers. copying and pasting; using mathematical Introduction to Craigslist formulas and functions; and creating graphs Drop-in Technology Help Wednesday, June 12 ��2:30 pm Basic introduction to using the online clas- and charts. Drop-in for help with e-readers, apps, Thursday, June 27 ��2:30 pm sifieds website: create a Craigslist account; Tuesday, June 4 ��6:30 pm Microsoft Office, surfing the web, and using list items for sale; find items to purchase; and Tuesday, July 9 ��2:30 pm Monday, June 17 ��10:30 am the library databases or catalog. Feel free learn tips for avoiding fraud and scams. Tuesday, July 23 ��10:30 am to bring your laptop, flash drive, or device. Monday, July 8 ��10:30 am Monday, June 24 ��10:30 am Tuesday, August 6 ��10:30 am Unfortunately we can’t help with computer Saturday, July 27 ��2:30 pm repair or virus removal. Tuesday, August 20 ��6:30 pm Thursday, August 29 ��2:30 pm Monday, August 19 ��10:30 am Wednesdays �� 3:30–4:30 pm Introduction to Facebook Microsoft Word Advanced Tuesday, August 27 ��6:30 pm 6/5, 6/19, 7/3, 7/17, 7/31, 8/14 and 8/28 Advanced Word skills including creating a Create an account; set up a Facebook profile; Microsoft Excel Advanced Thursdays ��10:30 am–12:30 pm “friend” people; post content; control your newsletter; inserting WordArt, pictures, clip 6/13, 6/27, 7/11, 7/25, 8/8 and 8/22 privacy; and use Messenger. Prerequisite: An art, symbols, hyperlinks, URLs, footnotes, and Skills not covered in the introductory class: Saturdays �� 10:30–11:30 am email address and basic Internet knowledge. page breaks; finding and replacing; format- filter and subtotal data; link and split text 7/27 and 8/24 ting tabs and columns; tracking changes and into columns; add comments and text boxes; Computer Basics Friday, July 12 ��10:30 am inserting comments. and use logic-based functions, advanced Prerequisite: Word Intro class or experience. charts, and conditional formatting. Basic elements of Windows and the PC Introduction to Twitter operating system: use a mouse/keyboard; A basic introduction: create an account; set Friday, June 14 ��10:30 am Prerequisites: Excel class or experience outside highlight, copy, and paste text; learn of class, including creating formulas and basic up a Twitter handle and profile; post tweets; Friday, July 26 ��2:30 pm common menus, toolbars, and shortcuts; follow other users; and control your privacy. charts. This is an advanced computer class. understand software and storage media. Wednesday, August 28 ��10:30 am Thursday, August 22 ��2:30 pm Wednesday, June 26 ��2:30 pm Tuesday, July 16 ��2:30 pm Mail Merge Introduction to Pinterest Wednesday, July 10 ��2:30 pm Introduction to the Internet Create batches of labels, letters, envelopes, Friday, August 16 ��10:30 am A basic introduction: create an account; etc., from tables, spreadsheets, Outlook Go online by typing in web addresses; create boards; search and pin items. email contacts, or databases. Microsoft PowerPoint learn basic terminology and buttons of the Prerequisite: Word Intro class or experience. Create a basic slide presentation: use design Mozilla Firefox program; use search engines Friday, August 23 ��2:30 pm templates; add content, transitions and to find information and websites; evaluate Friday, August 30 ��2:30 pm Genealogy animations; save and print a presentation; websites and online information; and ensure Resume Resources view a presentation. Prerequisite: Word class online safety. Introduction to two online databases: Ancestry Library Edition and Heritage Quest; Discover resources at the library and around or experience using Word and/or Office. Tuesday, June 11 ��2:30 pm searching census, death, and family records. Nashua to improve your resume writing. Monday, July 22 ��10:30 am Tuesday, July 2 ��2:30 pm Friday, June 7 ��10:30 am Tuesday, June 18 ��10:30 am Tuesday, August 13 ��2:30 pm Saturday, August 24 ��2:30 pm Tuesday, August 20 ��10:30 am

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June Ongoing Adult Programs Volunteer Fair Bicycle Repair Clinics Adult Coloring and Crafts Group An opportunity for Volunteers from Gate City Bike Co-op will Bring your coloring, craft projects, knitting, teens and adults to talk provide free minor repairs and adjustments crocheting, or needlework. We provide color- to agencies who need to help you get your bike back on the road ing books, colored pencils, and gel pens. volunteers and interns, this summer. They’ll adjust brakes and Mondays, 2–3:30 pm, Activity Room whether for the summer or shifters, pump up tires, and replace tubes. year-round. Visit enough agency Service is first come, first served. Citizenship and Immigration tables and you could win prizes in our Saturdays, 9 am–12 noon, Library Plaza Open Houses raffle! Sign up to volunteer and build a better 7/20, 8/24 world. Cosponsored by the United Way. Come anytime between 9:30 and 11:30 am Thursday, June 6 Downtown Book Group and meet with an officer from US Citizenship 5:30–7 pm, Chandler Memorial Wing and Immigration Services to ask questions This daytime book group, run by a reference about applications, green cards, naturaliza- librarian, is open to all. Spring Book Retreat tion, forms, fees, and immigration benefits Fridays, 3 pm, Large Meeting Room and procedures. Get away for a day to talk about The Remains Wednesdays, 9:30–11:30 am of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, watch the film 6/14 Orlando by Virginia Woolf Conference Room, 6/5 and 8/7 inspired by it, and then compare the two. 7/12 A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson We’ll also announce the title of this year’s 8/9 The Day the World Came to Town Public Health Clinics Nashua Reads book and tell you all about by Jim Defede our Adult Summer Reading program. Lunch August The City of Nashua Division of Public Health served, free, compliments of the Friends of Nashua Novel Readers offers blood pressure screenings, HIV and the Library. Registration is required; go to Author Visit: Bruce Robert Coffin hepatitis C testing and counseling, and tinyurl.com/npldiscussion. All are welcome to this community book club. immunizations in its van. Services are free Bruce Robert Coffin, author of the Detective or low-cost, and no one is turned away for Saturday, June 8 Thursdays, 7 pm, Conference Room Byron Mysteries, is a former detective sergeant inability to pay. If you have Medicare, please 10 am–4 pm, Large Meeting Room 6/13 Day After Night by Anita Diamant who supervised all homicide and violent bring your card. For the list of services crime investigations in Portland, Maine. 7/11 Boston Girl by Anita Diamant offered on each date call (603) 589-4500. Nashua Pride Festival After 9/11, he spent four years investigating 8/8 To be announced Second & fourth Wednesdays A celebration of diversity, acceptance, music, counterterrorism cases for the FBI, earning 9:30–11:30 am, Library Plaza and fun, focused on promoting equality and the highest award a nonagent can receive. Friends of the Library Meetings inclusion of all people. The Pride Parade, The Friends of the Library are excited to host (continued on page 9) which starts at noon at Elm Street Middle his visit, when he’ll talk about how he broke All are welcome to attend and support the School and proceeds down Main Street to into writing and his prior career. He’ll do a library through special projects, fundraising, and public outreach. the library, will be followed by speakers, bit of reading from his novels and field your More summer programs for adults are listed musical performances, a drag show, vendors, questions. Toadstool Books will bring copies Mondays, 7 pm, Conference Room in the Adult Summer Reading brochure. and much more! of his books for sale and signing. 6/10 and 8/12 Saturday, June 29 Thursday, August 15 Cinema Cabaret is on hiatus until September. 12 noon–5 pm, Library Plaza 7 pm, Chandler Memorial Wing

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Bach’s Lunch Concerts | Wednesdays at 12 noon Bach’s Lunch Concerts continued ...

Keep your Wednesday afternoons open this summer for our famous classical music concert Craft Ensemble Meiningen Trio series. Each performance lasts about an hour and is held downstairs in the Chandler Memorial Colleen Brannen, Amy Sims, Velleda Miragias, This ensemble includes renowned clarinet Wing. Sponsored by the Ira F. Harris Trust, the Moses Hunt Trust, the Zylonis Fund, and the and Amelia Hollander Ames joined forces in soloist Jonathan Cohler, prize-winning Nashua Public Library. (Not appropriate for children under 5.) 2016 to make joyful music among friends. cellist Sebastian Bäverstam, and pianist Rasa While the string quartet canon forms the back- Vitkauskaite, who charmed her Bach’s Lunch Chamber Orchestra of Boston bone of their programs, they also take pride in audience in 2017. Hear their lush interpre- Seven musicians will perform selections promoting the work of female composers. tations of Beethoven’s Trio in B-flat Major, from Michael Gandolfi’s playful work for Wednesday, July 17, at 12 noon Op. 11, and Brahms Trio in A Minor, Op. 114, strings and winds, “Plain Song, Fantastic along with selections of Lithuanian music. Dances.” The piece encompasses not only Concordia Consort Wednesday, July 31, at 12 noon contemporary concert music but also jazz, Concordia Consort has performed in hundreds blues, and rock. Also on the program is of concerts in the Boston area and on WCRB Beethoven’s Septet in E flat, a lighthearted and WGBH radio. The recorder quartet of work in the spirit of the 18th century serenade. Sheila Beardslee, Peter Dixon, Nouri New- Wednesday, June 26, at 12 noon man, and Brian Warnock will be joined by a guest soprano for songs and fantasias from Jonas Kublickas Renaissance Italy. Performed on guitar, renaissance lute, and Wednesday, July 24, at 12 noon theorbo, the music of Jonas Kublickas blends the charm and charisma of ethnic melodies with the grace of the Baroque. Wednesday, July 3, at 12 noon Ongoing Adult Programs continued ... Polish Discussion Group Italian Conversation Group This group talks about Polish culture, history, Avete studiato italiano o avete vissuto in Ita- current affairs, and other topics members are lia e vorreste avere l’opportunità di utilizzare Darlene Dobish and interested in. They speak in Polish or English, quello che avete imparato parlando italiano depending on people’s preferences. con alter persone? Aderite al nostro gruppo Sima Kustanovich Fridays, 1 pm, Conference Room di conversazione che si riunisce il mercoledì Soprano Darlene Dobish, who currently sings 6/7, 6/14, 6/21, 6/28 alle 14.00. (For details call 603-589-4610.) the Queen of the Night in Breakin’ Mozart Wednesdays, 2 pm, Conference Room with the DDC Break Dancing Company, Spanish Class is joined by Sima Kustanovich, one of the Artist’s Receptions Northeast’s most sought-after pianists. This class, taught at the intermediate level, is open to the public. (Not appropriate for Each month we host a new art exhibit in our Wednesday, July 10, at 12 noon beginners.) gallery, and a reception for the artist. Go to Tuesdays, 9:30 am, Conference Room tinyurl.com/nplartexhibit to see the schedule.

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Summer Concerts on the Plaza | Thursdays at 7 pm Library closures Keep in touch

Bring a lawn chair or a blanket, pack a picnic basket, and chill out to music on the library lawn Closed Independence Day Administration: 589-4622 this summer on Thursdays at 7 pm. Summer Concerts on the Plaza are held inside the library if Thursday, July 4 Outreach Services/Books by Mail: 589-4610 it rains. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library and the Bloomfield Trust. Closed for Labor Day weekend Children’s Services: 589-4631 Saturday, August 31–Monday, September 2 Veronica Robles Mariachi Band Compaq Big Band Front Desk: 589-4600 Known as La Mera, Mera (The Real One) This authentic 20-piece big band plays stan- Library hours Meeting Rooms: 589-4603 to her fans, Veronica Robles has Mexican dards of the 1930s and 1940s, the best swing Information Desk: 589-4611 music in her blood, having learned charts from the 1950s, and today’s hottest jazz. Monday to Thursday: 9 am–9 pm Teen Services: 589-4612 corridos, rancheras, and huapangos at her Thursday, July 18, at 7 pm Friday & Saturday: 9 am–5:30 pm grandmother’s knee. At age 15 she began Sundays: 1–5 pm Read us in print a musical career that has included perfor- Sweet Wednesday mances at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the We will be open on Sundays in June. Pick up a calendar when you visit the library, JFK Presidential Library and Museum, and Sweet Wednesday’s songs spin tales that Additional summer Sunday openings or have it mailed to you by joining the Berklee Performance Center. allow the listener to peek into the human soul will be announced in late June. Friends of the Library: nashualibrary.org/ in its most intimate and magical moments. connect/friends-of-the-library/join. Thursday, June 27, at 7 pm Hear for yourself why singer/songwriters Dave Falk and Lisa Housman won first place Receive our emails in the Great American Song Contest and the Keep up-to-date on library events by Dallas Songwriting Competition. subscribing to This Week @ Your Library. Thursday, July 25, at 7 pm Go to tinyurl.com/nplenewsletter to sign up. Follow us online Women in World Jazz This ensemble of all-female performers showcases world music—from Cuba’s Marc Berger Band cha cha to Cape Verde’s Coladeira to Marc Berger’s brand of folk and songs from Israel, Pop in to a popup library Americana is inspired by his life- Brazil, and Japan— long love affair with the American Stop by our popup libraries around town this mixed in with jazz summer. Sign up for a library card, register West. His music captures its vast- favorites. ness and romance while exploring for Summer Reading Programs, use free its roots in the American psyche. Thursday, August 1 Wi-Fi, or grab a giveaway. We’ll be at Fairy Marc has performed at the South 7 pm Tale Festival, the Taste of Downtown, the by Southwest Music Festival and Ash Street Block Party, and from time to time has opened for Bob Dylan. at city pools, Nashua Soup Kitchen, Holman Stadium, and other sites. Thursday, July 11, at 7 pm

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What’s inside This calendar contains information about events at the library in June, July, and August that are not related to our summer reading programs. To read about the dozens of events planned for summer reading, visit www.nashualibrary.org or pick up a brochure in the library.