October 2019
We hope you are enjoying Fall! Please take a moment to look below or to visit our website for this month's program details. Come on by soon!
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October Art Exhibit
Anne H. Brock Community Room
October 1-October 30
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 5, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Meg Clarke
Connected by Sand and Sea:
Photographs from the United Arab Emirates
Artist's Statement:
The show “Connected by Sand and Sea: Photographs from the United Arab Emirates” consists of 18 photographs taken while I lived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 2013 to 2108. The show highlights five areas of traditional importance in the UAE: Desert, Falconry, Camels, Dhows, and Mosques. My hope is that viewers will be drawn to the commonalities of sand and sea that connect Truro and the UAE. I also hope that this exhibit will serve as a gateway to appreciating the beauty, richness and cultural traditions that are treasured there but which are little-known in our country.
While living in the United Arab Emirates, I was an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Design at the New York Institute of Technology and also taught at Abu Dhabi University. My students came from the UAE and around the Arab world. I live in Truro and Washington DC, where I have practiced architecture since 1986. My architectural work has been featured in Dream Homes: Washington D.C., The Washington Post, and The Journal of Light Construction.
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The Local Journalism Project—Open Newsroom Truro
First Thursdays of the month, 6:00 p.m.: October 3
The Provincetown Independent’s nonprofit Local Journalism Project invites community members to join in making local news more collaborative.
The editor (and from time to time reporters and newsmakers) will be on hand to hear about issues that are important to you, and to answer your questions about the role of journalism in sharing news for and about the community.
The Project’s Open Newsroom sessions are being held in each of the Outer Cape’s libraries, with Truro gatherings set for the first Thursday of each month. September's meeting has taken place—but soon it will be October!
Special themes will surely emerge but this first session is open-ended. Come with your thoughts and questions.
Meetings are free and open to all.
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Medicinal Herbs Workshop
with Sarah Naciri
Saturday, October 19, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Join us for a hands-on, informative, and fun workshop with Community Herbalist Sarah Naciri. Please call the Library or check the website for details. People of all ages are welcome!
Herbalist, gardener, forager, yogini and mother, Sarah Naciri has been studying plants and making plant-based herbal medicine for the past fifteen years.
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Evanston's Living History
with Filmmaker Craig Dudnick
Wednesday, October 2, 6:30 p.m.
The Truro Public Library is proud to present Evanston’s Living History. Filmmaker Craig Dudnick (Alice’s Ordinary People) returns to present a screening of the documentary film, which explores the evolution of Evanston, Illinois and the citizens who confronted racism in the city and made it a better place to live. Many of these activists were descendants of African Americans who migrated north during the early 20th Century; they include the family of Anthony Crawford, a prominent African-American businessman and community leader who was lynched when he refused to give up his place in line to a white man. Evanston community leaders also joined the fight to help pass United States Resolution 39 (2005), which finally apologized for the failure of the Senate to enact anti-lynching legislation. The film will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.
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Truro Library Book Group
Wednesday, October 30, 6:00 p.m.
October's selection is available at the circulation desk:
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolff
“Radiant as [To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. I think that beyond being about the very nature of reality, it is itself a vision of reality.”—Eudora Welty, from the Introduction.The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women.
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Tuesdays, 1:00 p.m.
September 24-December 17
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2019 fall session begins on September 24 and continues through December 17. The Next Chapter Book Club is a nationwide program that provides the fun and focus of a book club to members of our communities who often lack opportunities to explore written works in a relaxed, engaging, and constructive setting. Please consider joining us! Contact Tricia or Maggie at the Truro Library for more details.
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Ongoing Mindful Ease
with J.C. (Chuck) Hotchkiss
Tuesdays, October 1, 15, & 29, 5:30–7:00 p.m.
Join an ongoing gathering to practice mindfulness and meditation: Learn how to inhabit life with a mind of peace, joy, and deepening attention. The popular winter series has continued as an ongoing, bi-weekly workshop. JC (Chuck) Hotchkiss is an artist/educator who continues to enjoy a lifelong engagement with meditative practices.
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Please make sure to check the All-Ages section of this eNews for more!
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Children's Community Garden Group
with Sustainable CAPE
**On hiatus for now**
Due to the discontinuation of Truro after-school rec at the Truro Community Center, we are making changes to the community garden schedule. Stay tuned!
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Storytime
Every Thursday at 10:30 a.m.
Stories, songs, fingerplays and crafts for ages birth to five year olds. Drop-ins welcome.
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Truro Tots Playgroup
Resumes on October 21 from 9:00-11:00 a.m.
From October 21, 2019 to May 4, 2020 (except school holidays). For children aged birth to three years old, and their parent or caregiver. Toys, stories, songs, crafts, and snack provided.
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