Ongoing Events
 Creative Connections
Learn Something New!
Programs usually meet in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall of the first Wednesday of the month at 3 pm.
Please come early and socialize!
Creative Connections is a group of individuals who meet monthly for friendship, stimulating conversation, to share experiences and to hear interesting speakers. These programs are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
For information please contact Liz Bailey at 508-647-6521 or email lbailey@minlib.net.
Library Book Groups
The Morning Book Group meets the third Wednesday of each month at 11:00 am at the Study Room 1A, First Floor and the Evening Book Group meets the last Wednesday evening of each month at 7:00 pm in the Community Room, Lower Level. The book groups are open to everyone. New members are always welcome. Copies of the current month’s titles are available at the circulation desk at the Library.
Morning Book Club
The Wednesday morning book discussion group meets the third Wednesday of the month at 11:00 am. The
book genre for the year is mysteries.
Selections have been chosen from the Bastulli
Library of Classic Mystery Literature and the
Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe
Awards. For additional information, please call Karen Perkins at 508 647-6520 or email kperkins@minlib.net.
Wednesday, May 21; 11:00 am
May's book is The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King.
Evening Book Group
For additional information, please call Jennifer McGillis at 508 647-6520 or email at jmcgillis@minlib.net.
Wednesday,
May 28; 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Community Room, Lower Level
 Our discussion will feature the book
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
by Kim Edwards.
"Books with great plots can transport you to different
times and places; I found this recently reading The
Memory Keepers Daughter...a haunting tale of love,
loss and secrets that stretch a lifetime."
- The Sunday Age
Movies @ the Library
The Lebowitz Meeting Hall Big Screen
This program is free and open to those of school age and up
Refreshments served
CC indicates movie is closed captioned
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Bee Movie
An ambitious bee soars out into the world with the high-flying pollen
jocks in search of nectar and adventure.
Tuesday, May 27; 4:00 pm
PG 90 min CC |
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Enchanted
A fairy tale comes to life as a princess-to-be is banished from her
animated country and lands in the very un-magical New York City.
Tueday, June 10; 4 :00 pm
PG 107 min CC |
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The Aristocats
In the heart of Paris a high-society cat and her three kittens inherit
a fortune but the greedy butler tries to pull off the ultimate catnap
caper.
Tuesday, June 24; 4:00 pm
G 79 min CC |
Community Languages Project
Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Learn English
Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing
Small classes for 1.5 hours
Beginners:
Thursday Evenings
7 pm - 8:30 pm
Intermediate:
Friday Mornings
10:30 am - 12 noon
All Levels:
Saturday Mornings
11:30 am - 1 pm
FREE
No registration needed
All classes are held in the Henri Prunaret History Room on the 2nd level.
Stop in
and join one of our weekly conversation
groups in the Library.
All are welcome.
Led by Literacy Unlimited tutors.
Free and open to the public.
No registration is required.
For more information, please contact Reference at 508-647-6521, Laurie Christie at 508-647-6400 x 3133 or literacy@morseinstitute.org.
The Library also offers videos, books on cd, and books to assist in learning English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Hindi and many other languages. There are also titles available in these languages for leisure reading. These materials are available at the Reference Desk on the second floor of the Library. Made possible by a Community Languages grant from the MA Board of Library Commissioners.
The Morse Institute Library and Framingham Public Library
coordinate their literacy programs through
Literacy Unlimited.
Exhibits
Local
artists can exhibit their work at the Morse Institute Library
at no charge. The displays can be shown in three gallery areas,
for a minimum of two months. Solo or group displays are allowed.
Some artists' works are available for purchase. For additional
information, please contact Joan Craig, Community Relations Coordinator
by calling 508-647-6524 or email her at jcraig@minlib.net.
Nicholas Ferri began his painting career when he enrolled in the Natick
Adult Education program, and was fortunate to be instructed by two very
talented artists: Paula Grimes and Lorna Lochiatto. He has also been
associated with the studio artists’ group instructed by Davis Carroll.
Nick’s watercolor display will be shown in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall
through the end of March, 2008.
Holly Lombardo’s “Colorscapes” is being shown in the First Floor Gallery,
left.
A resident of Natick, Holly teaches math and science at Eliot Montessori
Middle School in South Natick. With a calling to both, she feels that
teaching is her profession, but painting is her passion. Her works have
been on display in 2007 at TCAN, Villari’s Martial Arts Studio, Crazy
Jayne’s, the Bakery on the Common, and Charles River Coffee House. All
pieces shown on her blog are for sale unless otherwise specified;
greeting cards are also available. Her blog is: www.paintedpaperbyholly.blogspot.com
Sudbury Valley School of Framingham is a private day school for students,
ages 4 years through high school age. All educational pursuits at
Sudbury Valley School are initiatives of the students.
Artwork, including photography, by the students at Sudbury Valley School
is available for viewing in the First Floor Gallery, right, from the
second week in January through the end of March. Additionally, three- dimensional art is being shown on the fiction shelving on the first
floor. For additional information about the school, please visit
www.sudval.org.
Local History Displays, including “Glory” Brigades @ Library
Morse Institute Library is displaying pictures and memorabilia from their Local History collection throughout the Library.
The first floor lobby is the site for a “revolving” display of pictures, with the hope that visitors to the Library might be able to identify people in the photographs. The lower lobby is the setting for items pertaining to the Natick Schools, some dating back to the late 1800s. Also, in the lower lobby, pictures and history of the Civil War “Glory” Brigades, the 54th and 55th Union Brigades featured in the movie Glory.
When Reference Librarian Cary Holmes was copying Civil War artifacts, he was surprised to learn that a number of white officers overseeing the all-black brigades were from or settled in Natick. With further research, Holmes has put together an interesting historic display of the Natick connection – Captain Samual Mann, Lt. Colonel William Nutt, Brevet Brigadier General Alfred Hartwell (later to become Natick’s state representative and a justice of the supreme court of Hawaii), and others. Thus far, Holmes’ research shows that seven men from Natick are known to have served with the black regiments during the Civil War.
The Local History displays will be shown through the end of September. For additional information, please contact Karol Bartlett at 647-6400, ext. 1528.
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