March, 2010

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Chatham Library
In This Issue....
Teen Tech Week
Friends - March Book Group
Collection Spotlight - Hobbies and Crafts
Friends - Film - Women in Liberia
TEEN TECH WEEK AT THE LIBRARY MARCH 7 - 13
  Teen Tech Week
Join the Chatham Public Library for its first
"Teen Tech Week," March 7-13.
 
During this week the library is hosting a two-part workshop on Adobe Fireworks, a premier graphics and web design program with teenage tech guru, James Hill.
 
The Library also invites teens to take part in a "short film challenge."  Borrow the Library's FlipMino camera, to create whatever message want.  Make a book trailer of your favorite book, or dramatize a book and use friends as actors. Then switch roles, so they video and you act. The creative possibilites are endless. 
 
Our teen room computers are loaded with Flip Video software and Microsoft MovieMaker so editing footage with friends will be fun and interactive. We have a Windows MovieMaker manual available so participants can delve into making sophisticated effects.
 
Adobe Fireworks workshops:
Tuesday, March 8 - 3:00-4:30pm
Thursday, March 10 - 3:00-4:30pm
 
Short Film Challenge
computer labs available:
Monday, March 7 - 2:30pm - 7:45pm
Wednesday, March 9 - 2:30pm - 7:45pm
Friday, March 11 - 2:30pm - 3:45pm 
to register for either, call at: 392-3666
 
FRIENDS
March Book Group Selection
 
The Dew BreakerThe Friends book group's choice for our second meeting on Wednesday, March 28 is the novel, The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat. 
 
Danticat, a Haitian-American writer of growing renown, has titled her book after the Creole phrase which refers to those who break the serenity of the grass in the morning dew and came to be the nickname for "torturer."
 
The novel, published in 2004, weaves in and out between the current lives of Haitians in the US and the past history of torture and murder of thousands of Haitians during the 1960's with the regime of Francoise and Jean Claude Duvalier in Haiti.
 
The Kirkus Review writes, "Danticat's voice is that of a seasoned veteran, her pages wise and saddened, struggling on the pendulum between regret and forgiveness.  Searing fiction with the lived in feel of the best memoir."
 
Please join us for what promised to be an insightful discussion at 6:30pm, downstairs at th Library.  Feel free to bring a title for May's discussion. 
 
Questions? Please contact Maggie Hand-Miller at: maggiebudd@fairpoint.net.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT:
Hobbies & Crafts
 
Art of Personal ImageryThe Library has craft and hobby books for all ages. Indulge your creative self with a selection of books on scrapbooking, paper plane making, furniture making and much more!
 
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For Young People:
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
FRIENDS
Award-Winning Film at Library
 
Liberian WomenThe Friends of the Chatham Public Library will screen an inspiring documentary about the women of Liberia on Saturday, March 20 at 3pm.  
The film has won numerous awards, including best documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008.  Leymah Gbowee, the central figure in the film was also awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in 2009.
Ms. Gbowee was instrumental in organizing thousands of ordinary women to achieve the umimaginable: Christian and Moslem women worked together to persuade warring factions to sign a resolution ending a bloody civil war.
Liberian women were also a major foce in the 2005 election of President Ellen Johnson-Sirlea, who is stilll the only woman elected to lead an African nation.
Anyone who would like to know more about Liberia before seeing the documentary might read "The House at Sugar Beach" a memoir about growing up in Liberia by Helene Collins, a reporter for The New York Times.
Admission to the screening is free. The film is 72 minutes long and will be followed by light refreshments. 
 
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