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| Feature News
| | Central Library Hosting New Art Gallery Exhibit Featuring Birmingham Artist Merrilee Challiss
“Everything going forward must be either an elegy (for what we have lost) or a celebration (of what we have left). Or both.”
Those are the reflective words of Birmingham artist Merrilee Challiss. From May 7, 2016, through June 24, 2016, the Birmingham Public Library will showcase the artwork of Merrilee Challiss at the Central Library’s Fourth Floor Gallery. Enjoy energetic paintings and mixed media works of a pensive, psychedelic nature. Together these works make up Challiss’ New Ideal: New Works exhibit. ...Read More Summer Reading Signup Begins March 16
Register online or in person at your favorite library for Summer Reading 2016. The Birmingham Public Library has a summer of fun planned with activities, programs, and prizes for children, teens, and adults. Check with your library for more information about Summer Reading, and visit our online calendar for a list of BPL summer reading events. (Check back throughout May as the list is updated with additional programs.)
| Events & Programs
| | Body Changers Program at Springville Road Library to Offer Weight Loss Support
These days, many people are concerned with reaching and maintaining a healthy weight and lifestyle, but don’t know where to get started. At Springville Road Regional Branch Library, we're introducing a new, informal community-based health program: Body Changers. ...Read More The Afterthoughts
Springville Road Regional Branch Library, May 17, 2:00 p.m.
Nonfiction book group that meets during the day. We get together to discuss a pre-selected book we've read. Light refreshments served.
Active Living @ Your Library
Five Points West Regional Branch Library, May 18, 10:30 a.m.
The Five Points West Library's Active Living group will have a presentation by the Deep South Network mammogram group. Target audience: seniors.
| Resources & Classes
| | Introduction to Genealogy
Central Library, May 17, 11:30 a.m.
Want to learn how to do genealogical research? Come to this introductory class that will help get you started on your genealogical journey. No registration is required.
Beginning Sewing Instruction for Adults
Springville Road Regional Branch Library, May 20, 1:00 p.m.
Instruction for adults on basic sewing techniques from hemming, cutting out patterns, and piecing.
Learn the Game of Chess
West End Branch Library, May 19, 3:30 p.m.
Chess teaches a higher level of thinking skills such as the ability to visualize, analyze, and think critically. Bring a friend make new friends and have some fun learning the game of chess. Target audience: children.
| Books & Materials
| | YA Book Review: Carry On
Remember how much Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy hate each other in the Harry Potter series? Imagine if they were forced to be roommates. Imagine if they were forced to work together! Now, imagine that, despite their intense mutual dislike, they’re both secretly crushing on each other! ...Read More Book Review: Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
I rarely use the word "delightful" in a book review, but that's what comes to mind after listening to this book about depression and some possible mental illness that somehow manages to be somber and hilarious at the same time. Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple is told through e-mails, letters, receipts, and official documents, a writing style I normally avoid like the plague because of how it chops up the flow of the story for me....Read More
| | | May 13, 2016
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