This month, Youth programming at YPL is chock full of all things dinosaur.🦕

While November's Adult programs regrettably do not center around Mesozoic friends, you are warmly invited to many equally spectacular Library events! Feast your eyes on Robert Shetterly's "Americans Who Tell the Truth" portraits---and your ears on live music inspired by the works of May Sarton. The November 18 performance of "Journey of Seasons" by Boston's Nightingale Vocal Ensemble will be enhanced thanks to a new collaboration with Surf Point Foundation: concert registrants are invited to tour the Wild Knoll Foundation Garden on the scenic grounds of May Sarton's last residence, now home to Surf Point.

We are thrilled to welcome back poet Tom Carnicelli, who will read from his latest collection, and York Diversity Forum's 1619 Project series continues with a look at incarceration in the United States.

We hope you'll join us!

-YPL

UPCOMING ADULT PROGRAMS

Art Reception and Lecture with Robert Shetterly

Thursday, Nov. 2, 5:00 - 7:00 PM

Upper Level

For more than 20 years Robert Shetterly has been painting the series of portraits Americans Who Tell the Truth. The portraits have given Shetterly an opportunity to speak about the necessity of dissent in a democracy, the obligations of citizenship, sustainability, US history, and how democracy cannot function if politicians don’t tell the truth, if the media don’t report it, and if the people don’t demand it.

Thurs. 11/2

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Tues. 11/7

The Healing Connection:

A Partnership for Your Health
Tuesday, Nov. 7
7:00 PM

Upper Level

Do you have concerns about your healthcare access and quality? What are some of the factors involved in obtaining optimal healthcare today, and what is the responsibility of the patient? Dr. Drew Remignanti will address these issues and more. He has just published a book entitled "The Healing Connection," in which he makes the case for a strong partnership between patient and provider. He will provide an overview of his book, touching on a few major themes, and then will invite attendees to share their experiences and questions regarding healthcare today. It is certain to be a lively discussion.

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Tues. 11/14

Martha's Garden Through the Year: Autumn

Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Community Room

Join Martha Fenn King to talk about the fall gardening season - what have we experienced and possible solutions to our issues, what needs to get done in the Fall garden, and a garlic planting demonstration will be a part of the presentation!

Rescheduled from October 26.

Tues. 11/14

Looking Outward

with Tom Carnicelli

Tuesday, Nov. 14
7:00 PM

Community Room

Tom Carnicelli will give a reading of poems from his latest collection, “Looking Outward.” This is Carnicelli's fourth poetry collection, and fourth reading hosted by York Public Library. In his first three collections, “Old Guy, Part One,” “Older Guy,” and “Older Still,” he focuses on his thoughts and feelings about old age and retirement. He still does some of that in the new collection, but he’s also shifted more of his attention to the world around him, to people, places, and things in the outside world. “After all,” he says, “I don’t want to end up writing ‘Poems from the Crypt.’”

Sat. 11/18

Special Event!

Journey of Seasons -

Nightingale Vocal Ensemble

Saturday, November 18
1:00 PM

Community Room

The Nightingale Vocal Ensemble will perform the Maine premiere of Andrew List's vocal quartet, clarinet, and piano cycle titled "Journey of Seasons" for its 2023-24 concert season here at York Public Library. Featuring poetry by Queer, Belgian-American writer, May Sarton, "Journey of

Seasons" uses the image of a garden as a metaphor for the self amidst life's seasons. In tandem with the performance, we will invite a modern poetry scholar to present on Sarton and her impact on 20th century American literature.

May Sarton lived the last twenty-two years of her life in York, Maine at her "house by the sea" she called Wild Knoll. Although she increasingly experienced multiple challenges during this time, her writing continued strong which resulted in several volumes of poetry and journals as well. Her last volume of poems "Coming Into Eighty" was published in 1994. May Sarton died in York, Maine, in July of 1995 at the age of 83. Read more about Wild Knoll HERE.

THOSE WHO REGISTER FOR THIS PROGRAM WILL RECEIVE A SPECIAL INVITATION TO VISIT THE Wild Knoll Foundation Garden BEFORE THE CONCERT, ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 11:30AM TO 12:30PM.

This gorgeous site alongside the ocean is only open to the public by appointment, so this is a unique opportunity. This is an optional activity available to program registrants only, but not a required part of the program. Thank you to Surf Point Foundation for offering this wonderful addition to the concert.

Tues. 11/16

LAW & DISORDER:

Crime and Punishment from 1619

Thursday, Nov. 16

5:00 - 7:00 PM

Upper Level

Join York Diversity Forum for a discussion about incarceration as it relates to The 1619 Project and today. The panel will be moderated by the Rev. Jill Saxby, who will be joined by panelists Janet Drew, human rights activist; Sarah Johnson, an educator in the Maine correctional systems and member of the York County Jail Board of Visitors; and Craig Williams, formally incarcerated in New York. The panel discussion will be followed by a Q & A.

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Thurs. 11/30

Ten Piscataqua Writers
Thursday, Nov. 30
6:00 - 8:00 PM

Community Room

Come meet and greet the ten writers from the greater Piscataqua watershed whose chapters of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are included in this a unique anthology of established and emerging regional voices.

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Virtual Author Talks

John Stamos

Hollywood, Home, Heart & Healing

Wednesday, Nov. 1, 8:00 PM

Tiffany "The Budgetnista" Aliche

Get Good with Money Thursday, November 9, 2:00 PM

Joy Harjo

Why She Writes

Thursday, November 16, 4:00 PM

Naomi Alderman

Power of Women in Science Fiction

Thursday, November 30, 3:00 PM

Ongoing Programs & Events

Italian Conversation Group: Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 6:30 PM, Wheeler Room

Writer's Group: Tuesday, Nov. 21 at 5:30 PM, Wheeler Room

Morning Yoga Wednesdays, Nov. 1, 8, 22 & 29 at 10:15 AM, Register!

Crafting Group: Thursdays, Nov. 2 & 16 at 10:00 AM, Wheeler Room

Week in Review: Fridays, Nov. 3 & 17 at 3:00 PM, Wheeler Room

YPL Walking Club: Mondays, Nov. 6, 13, 20, & 27 at 11:00 AM.

Art Exhibit: Portraits from Robert Shetterly's series Americans Who Tell the Truth, November & December.

Click here to see what's coming up in November!

UPCOMING CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS

Dinovember!

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T-Rex Tea Party!

Friday, November 17 at 10:30 AM

Children's Room

Join Barb for a T-Rex tea party storytime to celebrate Dinovember. We'll hear stories, sing songs, learn dinosaur etiquette, and we might even be joined by a special prehistoric guest. Fancy or dino dress encouraged, but not required. This is a drop-in program.

Thurs. 11/9

Storytime at
York Land Trust
Thursday, Nov. 9
10:30 AM

Off-site at YLT

Mon. 11/13

Snack Attack

Dino Dirt Dessert

Monday, Nov. 13

4:00 PM
Craft Area

November

Dinosaur Scavenger Hunt

All month inside!

Children's Room

Ongoing Programs - Kids

Preschool Storytime: Tuesdays, Nov. 7, 14, 21 and 28 at 10:30 AM

Baby and Toddler Time: Wednesdays, Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29 at 10:30 AM

Lego Builders: Wednesdays, Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29 at 3:00 PM

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UPCOMING TWEEN & TEEN PROGRAMS

Monday, Nov. 6 at 3:00 PM

Teen Advisory Group (TAG): Do you want to contribute your ideas and voice to help develop the teen spaces and collection at the Library? Join our Teen Advisory Group! TAG is open to students in 5th - 12th grade.

Our first meeting is Monday, November 6 at 3:00 PM. There will be snacks.

Interested? Fill out this form: Join TAG