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You can support these and other Library services with a tax-deductible donation to the Library's Annual Appeal. You can mail your check or
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Ridgefield Library Community Survey
| It has been a few years since the Ridgefield Library surveyed our town for knowledge about how we meet community needs. Now that we are completing our second year in our new facility on Main Street - designed specifically to respond to the changing role of libraries in America - we would like to learn more about your and others' experience with the new Ridgefield Library.
We invite you to add your voice to this effort by taking this survey at www.surveymonkey.com/r/RLSurvey2016 by April 10th. Thank you for your help!
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Buy your Tickets Now for Great Expectations Gala
| Join us on April 9th for the Great Expectations gala honoring Philip and Christine Lodewick with the 2016 Hope H. Swenson Visionary Award. Click here for information and ticket purchase.
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Volunteers Sought for Sewing Projects
|  Do you like to sew? Would you like to put your skills to use at the Library?
Thanks to Stitch in Time of Danbury and Darien, the Library now has two sewing machines. We are looking for volunteers with sewing skills to help us in offering programs for both beginning and experienced sewers. If you love sewing and have some time you could spare,please contact Adult Services Library Dorothy Pawlowski at 203-438-2282 x11003 or dlpawl@ridgefieldlibrary.org. |
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Job Opening: Fundraising Assistant
| Non-profit fundraising assistant (full-time) sought to be part of dynamic team working to raise funds for Ridgefield Library. Principal duties include database maintenance, donor communications and special events.Click here for details.
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The Refugee Crisis: The Faces Behind the Headlines
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Thursday, March 31, 7:00 PM
Main Program Room
Faces Behind the Headlines
The program is presented by a filmmaking duo who have been documenting the issue on Lesbos Island, Greece, a major entry point where nearly a million people entered the European Union in 2015.
Gus Ford, a Redding based freelance photographer, and Irina Patkanian, an award-winning filmmaker, will present. Irina and Gus will offer a firsthand account of the crisis and will talk about what happens before, during and after rubber dinghies overloaded with 50-60 persons cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece. Using video footage, audio clips, still photography and discarded items from the shore, Gus and Irina will focus on the human side of this growing crisis and will talk about things that usually get overlooked in news reports. Selected photographs from Gus Ford's series "Faces Behind the Headlines" will also be on display.
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Ridgefield Folk: The Edna Project
|  Sunday, April 3, 2:00 PM Main Program Room
Ridgefield Folk with The Edna Project: Liz Queler, Seth Farber and Joey Farber
In celebration of National Poetry Month the Library's live music series welcomes back Liz Queler, Seth Farber and Joey Farber to perform The Edna Project, which is a song cycle of 21 of Edna St. Vincent Millay's poems set to music. It is an eclectic melding of folk, bluegrass, rock and jazz, with humor and great harmonies.
"An eclectic sublimely musical melding of folk, bluegrass, rock and jazz with humor, and great harmonies. Liz and Seth blew the full house audience away."- The Chronicle Weekend"
This concert is free thanks to the Friends of the Ridgefield Library. Free tickets can be picked up at the door starting at 1:00 PM on the day of the show. Doors open at 1:30 and the show starts at 2:00 PM.
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Visions of Southeast Asia Exhibit Opens
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Saturday, April 2, 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Lower Level Gallery
Exhibit: Visions of Southeast Asia
This multi-media exhibition of works by Gayle Gleckler and Tony Woolner reflects their impressions from their travels to Southeast Asia. This couple's joy of travel is evident in the colorful and lively imagery they work on after they have returned from a trip to an inspiring country or continent. While Gayle works with paintings, Tony's works are based in monoprints.
The exhibit will be on display in The Gallery on the Library's Lower Level through April 29th. Please join us for a reception for the artists on April 2nd from 2:00 - 4:00 PM. No registration.
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Parenting Lunchtime Discussions
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Tuesday, March 29, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Dayton Program Room
Brown Bag Lunch Discussions
Open to the public. Join us for follow up discussions of topics raised during our Parenting the Selfie Generation series. No registration.
This program is part of a series of talks designed to help parents navigate the often-complicated waters of child-rearing. The series, Parenting the Selfie Generation: Raising Successful Adults, is a joint collaboration between Ridgefield Public Schools, the Ridgefield Council of PTAs, Project Resilience, Silver Hill Hospital and the Ridgefield Library.
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Memoir Writers Meet
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Saturday, April 2, 1:00 PM
Randolph Room
Memoir Writing Group
Monthly session will include advice from other writers, a prompt with writing time, critique and sharing. No registration. Please contact Eileen O'Halloran at eohalloran509@gmail.com xor 914-441-8092 for more information.
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This Week's Special Performances @ The Playhouse
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 Saturday, April 2, 8:00 PMRidgefield Playhouse
Cabaret: Stephen Schwartz
The Library is pleased to join the Ridgefield Playhouse in bringing to Ridgefield performers and composers who have shaped the American musical landscape. Come to the Library to check out books and recordings to learn about these artists and their work, then join the conversation @ the Playhouse. Contact the Playhouse at 203-438-5795 for information and tickets.
 Sunday, April 3, 12:55 PM
Ridgefield Playhouse
Metropolitan Opera in HD: Puccini's Madam Butterfly
The Library is pleased to join the Ridgefield Playhouse in bringing to Ridgefield great stories, told through opera, ballet and drama by the greatest performing companies in the world - the Metropolitan Opera, Bolshoi Ballet and National Theatre of London. Come to the Library to learn more about the history of these masterworks and their creators, then experience extraordinary performances on the big screen in HD @ the Playhouse.
Ridgefield Library cardholders receive the Playhouse member discount price of $20 on tickets to these HD cultural series - just show your card at the box office. College students pay only $15 and students 18 and under attend FREE, so introduce your favorite young person to these classics. Contact the Playhouse at 203-438-5795 for information and tickets.
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AARP Tax-Aide
|  Thursdays through April 14 8:15 AM - 12 noon by appointment only Dayton Program Room AARP Tax-Aide Volunteers from the AARP will offer free help with income tax filing for low- and moderate-income taxpayers, especially those 60 and older.Tax-Aide sessions will be held at the Ridgefield Library on Thursday mornings through April 14th BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. Tax-Aide is not a Library program. For appointment or information please call 203-438-4288. |
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Children's Special Programs
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 Saturday, April 2, 11:30 AM
Main Program Room
Sunshine Road Concert Sunshine Road will perform a heart warming concert for families with children ages 5 and under. The concert is part of the library's Concerts for Young Families series; no registration required.
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Weekly Drop-In Children's Activities
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Monday, 10:30 AM
Leir Children's Program Room
Drop-In Storytime
Children ages 3 and up are invited for stories, songs and a short book-based film.
 Tuesday, 10:15 AM
Leir Children's Program Room
Mother Goose
Mother Goose is a language enrichment program for "walkers" ages 12 months through age 2 including finger plays, music and movement.
Wednesday, 11:30 AM
Leir Children's Program Room
Baby & Me
Finger plays and songs for newborns through age 12 months with a caregiver. Parents of infants are invited to network with each other.
Wednesday, 2:00 PM
Leir Children's Program Room
Time for 3s and 4s
A program just for the three- and four-year-olds including stories, songs and a short film. Children may attend alone or with an adult.
Saturday, 10:30 AM
Leir Children's Program Room
Drop-In Storytime
Children ages 3 and up are invited for stories, songs and a short book-based film. This week: a special Dr. Seuss theme in conjunction with next week's performance of Seussical the Musical at the Ridgefield Playhouse.
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Time for Teens
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Tuesday, March 28, 4:30 PM
Kellen Family Children's Program Room
Middle School Critics
For people in grades 6 through 8. We'll chat about books, movies, plays, music, games, and more. We'll provide snacks, you bring your opinions about whatever media you've been consuming lately!
No registration needed.
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Bookmarks Mark Ridgefield
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 Running through April 3, 2016Bookmarks Mark Ridgefield is a community initiative undertaken with The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and inspired by Aldrich artist Ruth Root's ongoing project exploring her love of books. You can take part by creating your own one-of-a-kind bookmark and distributing bookmarks throughout the Library's stacks. Learn more here.
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