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All classes and programs are virtual and free. Enrollment is required. Please click on the titles below to enroll and provide an email address. A meeting link will be emailed upon enrollment.
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Saturday Morning Writers' Group
Saturday, April 3, 11:00am-12:30pm
Virtual discussion
Are you a budding or professional writer? Would you like feedback from other writers on your book chapters, short stories, poetry or vignettes? Are you interested in building an ongoing team of like-minded people for creative support and inspiration? If so, you are a perfect candidate for a writers' group. Led by Caren S. Neile, the group meets the first and third Saturday of every month on Zoom. You will be asked periodically to send the facilitator a brief manuscript (up to 10 pages) for distribution to participants to read before each meeting. Then the group will engage in productive critique of three or more manuscripts per session. Ages 18 and up. Drop-ins welcome, but frequent participation is encouraged.
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Historical Fictionados Book Club: Tsarina, by Ellen Alpsten
Thursday, April 8, 7:00-8:00pm
Virtual discussion
From the sensuous pleasures of a decadent aristocracy, to the incense-filled rites of the Orthodox Church and the terror of Peter’s torture chambers, the intoxicating and dangerous world of Imperial Russia is brought to vivid life. Tsarina is the story of one remarkable woman whose bid for power would transform the Russian Empire. Click here to reserve or access your copy of the book.
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Lives of the Poets: Audre Lorde
Saturday, April 10, 2:00-3:00pm
Virtual discussion
Join Neil Schulhoff to discuss poet Audre Lorde, an American writer, feminist, librarian, and civil rights activist. She dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.
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Story Central Virtual Storytelling Slam
Sunday, April 11, 5:00-6:30pm
Virtual program
Have you been to one of our virtual storytelling slams yet? Don't miss out on the fun! Join us for this friendly competition for adults to share true, first-person stories of 5-7 minutes in length. Sign up to tell a story or just listen and enjoy! Judges in the audience select the winner, who will be awarded a prize. No poems or essays. Stories are not to be read or memorized. Hosted by Caren Neile, PhD, who has taught storytelling studies at FAU for nearly two decades.
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An Hour to Kill Mystery Book Club: Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler
Friday, April 16, 10:30-11:30am
Virtual discussion
Join Neil Schulhoff to discuss crime-fiction master Raymond Chandler's second novel featuring private eye Philip Marlowe. Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard. Click here to place a hold on this book with your library card.
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Bad Poetry Night
Friday, April 23, 6:00-7:00pm
Virtual program
We invite you to purposefully break the rules and have fun with bad poetry! Let us show you how to break out of a writer’s rut and relax some of those writing muscles. You will have the opportunity to share your bad poetry at the end of class. No previous writing experience is required. Open to adults and teens.
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Pathway to Sustainability |
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Friends Speaker Series: Richard W. Emory, Jr., Fighting Pollution and Climate Change: How to Join in Saving Our Life on Planet Earth
Sunday, April 25, 3:00-4:30pm
Virtual presentation
Richard Emory is a career environmental-law enforcement attorney retired from the US Environmental Protection Agency. After presenting briefly on the threats posed by climate change, he will review how EPA has dealt successfully with other issues of air pollution and can readily manage climate change, too. For a problem that can only be solved globally, he will focus on the national and international solutions of both technology and policy that are available and can be applied quickly.
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City Nature Challenge
Friday, April 30-Monday, May 3, all day
City of Boca Raton or Boca Raton Beach and Park District
The Boca Raton Public Library encourages you to participate in the City's 2021 City Nature Challenge! This event brings together over 350 cities from around the world to document the plants and animals that share our city using the citizen science platform, iNaturalist. Click on the link above to learn how to participate!
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Recorded Sustainability Classes
Watch anytime, Library website
Sustainability & Green Living Page
Our free recorded classes for adults include several videos on the topic of sustainability. New classes include: • Planning an Eco-Friendly Burial • Easy Steps to Sustainability • Give Your Laundry the Cold Shoulder: Pathways to Sustainable Water Use
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What's New for Children, Tweens and Teens |
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Earth Day Activity Kits
Beginning Saturday, April 17, while supplies last
Both libraries
Pick up your free bag filled with educational activities that will inspire children to care for the Earth and its natural resources. Kits include seed pots and plantable bookmarks to start an herb garden, sun-print paper to create art with plant leaves from your backyard, a Dig It surprise to excavate minerals or bugs, a coloring climate action plan, and a book list. Pick up in the Youth Services section of either library or through curbside pickup beginning April 17 while supplies last.
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New Book at StoryWalk at Serenoa Glade Preserve: Lola Plants a Garden
April 1 - May 31, Serenoa Glade Preserve
Adjacent to George Snow Park
Check out Lola Plants a Garden at our Serenoa Glade StoryWalk! Book-loving Lola is inspired by a collection of garden poems that she reads with her mommy. She wants to plant her own garden of beautiful flowers. Soon, she has a garden full of sunflowers and invites all her friends for a party and story among the flowers.
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Rookie Rooks: Beginner Instructional Chess for Families
Wednesdays, April 14, 21, 28, May 5, 12, 19, 5:00-6:15pm
Virtual program
Ready to learn how to play chess and improve your focus, memory, logic and creativity? Families with children in Grades 4-12 are invited to sign up for a 6-week virtual class with professional chess instructor and international competitor, Bob Holliman. Learn how the pieces move and their values, starting moves, cool checkmating patterns, and more. Each class is 45 minutes long. After you register, you will receive an email invite to join the Boca Raton Public Library Chess Club so you can practice your new chess moves with others during an optional post-class virtual, 30-minute, open-play period via chess.com.
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Teen Graphic Novel Club: The Witch Boy, by Molly Knox Ostertag
Thursday, April 15, 6:30-7:30pm
Virtual discussion
Join us for a fun discussion of the debut graphic novel, The Witch Boy! In 13-year-old Aster's family, girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Anyone who dares cross those lines is exiled. When a mysterious danger threatens the other boys, Aster knows he can help -- as a witch. It will take the encouragement of a new friend, the non-magical and non-conforming Charlie, to convince Aster to try practicing his skills. And it will require even more courage to save his family ... and be truly himself.
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What's New in the Digital Library |
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Beauty in the Ordinary: Photography Exhibit by Giada Robinson
April 5-May 31, Monday-Saturday, 9:00am-5:00pm
Downtown Library Lobby
Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts student, Giada Robinson, demonstrates the contrast between human-made items and the nature that surrounds us every day. Notes Robinson, “My goal in this exhibition is to showcase that our daily lives are a constant reminder of the juxtaposition of natural elements alongside the creations that humans have made.”
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Chess Sets Now Available for Checkout
Available now, both libraries
Click here to place a hold
Are you a big fan of The Queen's Gambit? Love to play chess or want to learn? Borrow a chess set with your Boca Raton Public Library card! Check out one for 28 days to build your focus and logic skills, plus have fun! Basic instructions are included. Available at both libraries at the checkout desk, or place a hold through the link above and pick it up through our curbside service.
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Library Team Member Spotlight |
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