Library Events

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Arts/Hobbies/Movies	History/Genealogy
Author Talks/book signings	Home & Garden
The Big Read	Master Gardeners
Book Clubs & Discussion Groups	Movies
Book Sales	Music/Dance
Computer/Internet Classes	Nature
Every Child Ready to Read	Poetry Month
Exhibits	Stitching Clubs
Games	Summer Reading Program
Health

 

Arts/Hobbies

 

Saturday 5/23

3:00-5:00 PM @ Lomas Tramway Library

Collage Workshop With artist Kathleen schweizer
In this class for adults (age 16 and above) you will learn the basics of collage, then using textured, metallic, tissue, handmade, embossed and other exotic papers, create your own 11x14 piece of art.  All materials will be supplied, but PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN SCISSORS!  Space is limited, so call 291-6295 to register in advance. This event is brought to you by the Friends for the Public Library.

AuthorTalks/book signings

Saturday 5/9- 11:00 AM-12 PM @ North Valley Library

Saturday 5/16- 1:00-2:00 PM @ East Mountain Library

Author Talk: Mary Stuever

Mary Stuever, a forester for the State of New Mexico, will join us to discuss her new book, The Forester’s Log. Her book documents the challenges and changes in forestry in Stuever’s unique view as a woman in a male-dominated profession. Her syndicated column, “The Forester’s Log,” appears in newspapers and communities scattered throughout the U.S. and Canada.

 

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Saturday 5/23

11:00 AM-12:00 PM  @ Cherry Hills Library
Avoid Mosquitoes & Other Impossibilities

Actress and director Nancy Sellin shares details of her stint in the Peace Corps in the 1960s. She and her husband went to Monrovia, Liberia to save the world, armed with a three-inch-thick medical manual—the first two words read Avoid Mosquitoes and it included all the things they shouldn’t do. Forty years later, Nancy talks about homesickness and the daily challenges of living in a different culture—including encountering a deadly snake on the road and Christmas in the tropics. She recognizes that she may not have been able to save the world during her short stint with the Peace Corps, but she returned home with visceral experiences and altered perceptions that influenced the direction of her entire life.

 

 

Saturday 5/23
3:00–4:30 PM @ Taylor Ranch Library
Janet Chapman-author talk
Janet Chapman, author of Kenneth Milton Chapman: A Life Dedicated to Indian Arts and Artists, will join us for a book talk and signing. The many contributions of this early expert on Pueblo Indian anthropology and art are highlighted by one of his descendants.

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Book Clubs and Discussion Groups

 

Monday (1st)

Fiction Book Group @ Erna Fergusson Library
1st Monday of the month, 6:00-7:30 PM. New members always welcome. For more information call 888-8100.

    5/4: Year of Wonders: a novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks

     6/1: Away by Amy Bloom
     7/6: The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez

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Tuesday (1st)

Mystery Book Group @ Cherry Hills Library
1st Tuesday of the month, 6-7:30 PM          

  

    5/5: Christine Falls by Benjamin Black

    6/2: The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

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 Tuesday (2nd)    

The More Serious Book Club @ Juan Tabo Library     Note new day/time

meets monthly, 2nd Tuesday @ 1:30 PM. New members welcome.

• 5/12: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

Tuesday (3rd)

Library Detectives--A Mystery Book Club @ Juan Tabo Library
Meets monthly, 3rd Tuesday @ 1:30 PM. New members are always welcome.

• 5/19: The Ballad of Frankie Silver by Sharyn McCrumb

Is the book really always better than the movie?

Decide for yourself with our new movie series for adults @ Cherry Hills Library.

Read the book, watch the movie with us, & then we’ll discuss it! For Adults--age 17 and over only. Photo ID required.  more information...

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Thursday (3rd)

Tony Hillerman Book Club @ Wyoming Library
Monthly, third Thursday, 3:00-4:30 PM. Come Join Us.

     5/21: Our Lady of the Forest by Dan Guterson

     6/18: House of Rain by Craig Childs

     7/16: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

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Friday (1st)

Book Discussion Group @ Cherry Hills Library
1st Friday of the month,10:30 - noon. New Members are always welcome.

               

       5/1: Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic by Steven Johnson

       6/5: Beloved by Toni Morrison

       7/10: 1491-New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann.

               Due to the holiday weekend the meeting will be held the 2nd Friday in July.

       8/7: Wild Swans-Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

       9/4: Wild Nights-Stories by Joyce Carol Oates

     10/2: The Big Read (title TBA)

     11/6: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

     12/4: Shane by Jack Schaefer

 

Saturday (2nd)

2008 Los Griegos Reading Club @ Los Griegos Library
2nd Saturday of the month, 3 PM. New members welcome.

• 5/9- Animal, vegetable, miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
• 6/13- Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
• 7/11-Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean

 

2009 Reading Group @ Taylor Ranch Library
2nd Saturday of the month, 2:00-3:30 PM. New members welcome

        5/9: Jane Lindskold: Child of a Rainless Year
           Ms. Lindskold will personally participate in the discussion.

    6/13: Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Bees

     7/11: Aimee and David Thurlo: Prey for a Miracle

     8/8: Tracy Chevalier: Girl With a Pearl Earring

     9/12: Diane Ackerman: The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

 

Book Sales

Used Book Sale Sponsored by the Friends for the Library @ Main Library
Monthly, second Saturday

5/9 | 6/13 | 7/11 | 8/8 | 9/12 | 10/10 | 11/14 | 12/12

For more information, visit www.friendsforthelibrary.org

You can also find great bargains at the Main Library Used Bookshop.

 

Gently used fiction hardback, paperbacks, and videos for sale during library hours @ Juan Tabo Library

 

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Computers & Technology

Computer classes for adults are available at some libraries. You must have a SmartCard™ to register. View classes.

Exhibits:

Albuquerque: A History in Postcards: View postcards online

 

Exhibit @ Lomas Tramway Library

Birds, Leaves, Flowers, Bees: Welcome Spring! A beautiful array of books on gardening, birding, beekeeping and other outdoor pursuits.  

National Poetry Month. Celebrate a world of poetry and prose. Check out a favorite poet, or take a poem from our display.  

 

Exhibits @ Los Griegos Library

Karen Deaton (www.kdscapes.com) is showing a series of surreal paintings on canvas, which range from images of the magical, yet fleeting moments we experience in life and love to the primal spirit in which we are all connected. (art wall)

Kathleen Murray (art wall) is showing part of a series of giclee prints of small acrylic paintings on paper. The Mandala pattern is used as the basic structure of organization in the series. The images are a visual collection of bones from an ongoing search for alignment in the desert. (art wall)

Judy Abbott is showing a provocative series of sculpture, using found objects to create her spiritual and whimsical assemblages. (display case)

 

 

Exhibit: @ Main Library

Hand In Hand – collaborations between book artists and poets.  Stop by the Main Library during the month of April to view this extraordinary exhibit of handmade and artists’ books sponsored by Libros, the New Mexico Book Arts Guild.  Exhibit open during library hours of operation.  For more information call (505) 768-5141.

 

Picturing America Part II – An Exhibit of Some of Our Nation’s Most Significant Images. Stop by the second floor of the Main Library this January to see this great exhibit of well known images that depict the diversity of people and places as well as the travails and triumphs of America. Open during library hours of operation. For more information call (505) 768-5141.

Exhibit @ North Valley Library

Picturing America, an initative of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Follow the course of American history through print reproductions of some of the nation's finest art. This selection of paintings, sculpture, architecture and decorative arts presents a glimpse into the values and culture that shaped our country. Exhibit B will be on display form March - May 2009.

Learn more about Picturing America

 

Retrospective 2000-2008: Handmade Books by Carol Elizabeth Erickson
April 24 - May 18, 2009 @ North Valley Library
North Valley Library's current exhibit features multiple structures and varied content created by the artist over the past eight years. In this display, you'll discover handsome and intricate examples of book craft made totally by hand, "from scratch" -- with no element of the works produced by machine. Examples of Ms. Erickson's handmade book art are personal, humorous and elegant. Works feature binding techniques and styles such as miniature case binding, coptic bound accordion, accordion book with marble tabs, case bound binding, and round book case binding.

 

 

Exhibit: Postcards of Albuquerque’s Alvarado Hotel @ South Broadway Library
March 5 – May 29
From the Library’s collection of Albuquerque historical postcards, the South Broadway Library presents a display in celebration of the “Jewel of the Railroad Era: Albuquerque’s Alvarado Hotel” exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History. The exhibit portrays the Alvarado Hotel, the Fred Harvey Indian Building and the Santa Fe Railroad Depot over the years from 1902 to 1976. Open during library hours of operation. For more information call (505) 764-1742.

 

Exhibit: Memories of Albuquerque @ Special Collections Library

(from the collections of the Center for Southwest Research, UNM). Display courtesy of Nancy Brown Martinez, Reference, CSWR.

Health

Tuesday 4/28

1:30-2:30 PM @ Juan Tabo Library
Allergies: Getting Rid of them forever!   If you've been bothered by allergies this season, this workshop is for you. Join Dr. Vernon Redd, Clinical Nutritionist and learn how to bring your body into balance and eliminate both environmental and food allergies without harmful drugs. For more information call (505) 291-6260.

 

Tuesday 5/5- 10:30-11:30 AM @ Cherry Hills Library

Wednesday 5/6-10:30-11:30 AM @ Taylor Ranch Library

Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians.
Women doctors are the focus of a new traveling exhibition called "Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians," running April 10 - May 20, 2009, at the UNM Domenici Center for Health Sciences Education. Laura Hall, local curator for the exhibit and Manager for Special Collections for the UNM Health Sciences Library, will talk about the exhibit, review some of the themes and issues involved with women in medicine, and give a demonstration of the online database that accompanies the "Changing the Face of Medicine" exhibit.  more information

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History/Genealogy

Albuquerque Historical Postcards. View postcards online

Many of the local genealogy organizations meet at the Special Collections Libary. View programs.

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Home and Garden

Wednesday 4/29
4:00-5:00 PM @ South Broadway Library
Easy Healthy Cooking on a Budget

Join Gilda Latzky, a cooking and baking teacher at UNM and the Albuquerque Academy as she demonstrates a variety of cooking techniques that provide simple and elegant fare that is easy to make, low in fat and healthy – all on a budget. Today’s menu is: Pasta Salad, Scallops Provencal, Beef and Broccoli, Chicken with Mushrooms, and Artichokes in Mustard Sauce. Tasting samples and recipes will be provided. Seating is limited, so please call the library at 764-1742 to reserve your space.

 

         
Free Xeriscape and Land Conversion Seminars
Saturdays, 10 AM - Noon: @ Cherry Hills Library

5/16 | 6/20 | 7/18 | 8/15 | 9/19 | 10/17

Join Claude Ceniceros, Xeriscape Incentive Inspector, as he discusses: xeriscaping principles, plant selection, design strategies, drip irrigation, and how to get a city rebate.

 

5/2 | 5/16 | 5/30 | 6/6 |6/20, 7/18 | 8/1 | 8/15 | 8/29

Master Gardeners will answer your gardening questions at these locations:

@ Cherry Hills Library   
@ Erna Fergusson Library
@ East Mountain Library

               @ Juan Tabo Library
               @ Lomas Tramway Library
               @ North Valley Library
               @ Wyoming Library

               @ Taylor Ranch Library

Master Gardener Hotline:  292-7144 or 243-1386  (Sunday-Saturday, 9:30 AM-2:30 PM)

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Games

Chess Club @ Cherry Hills Library
1st Saturday of every month, 1 - 3 PM
All ages welcome, no sign-up required

 

Movies

Please be advised that attendance at all movies shown is at viewer discretion and that some materials may be unsuitable for some individuals.  A full description of the Motion Pictures Association of America rating system is available at the Information Desk. Views expressed in the film are not those of the City of Albuquerque nor the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System.

Is the book really always better than the movie?

Decide for yourself with our new movie series for adults @ Cherry Hills Library.

Read the book, watch the movie with us, & then we’ll discuss it! For Adults--age 17 and over only. Photo ID required.  more information...

See also Family Movies

 

 

Music/Dance/Drama

 

Friday 5/1

1:30-2:30 PM @ Juan Tabo Library

Ancient Dreams with Wolfs Robe

Native American flute player, Wolfs Robe, will take us on a journey. Through stories and music, you will learn the history of the Native American flute from its ancient roots through modern times. During this free lecture/performance, Wolfs Robe will play many different flutes. A question and answer session will follow.  This event is brought to you by the Friends for the Public Library.

 

Friday 5/1

4:00 PM @ Main Library
The Nature of Monsters will perform on the Main Library Patio. This is a Battle of the Bands performance. For more information call (505) 768-5136.

 

 

Saturday 5/2
1:00—2:00 PM @ Los Griegos Library
R.D.R. Trio & Cool Jazz
Join us for easy listening music. This event is brought to you by the Friends for the Public Library.

 

Saturday 5/15

3:15-4:30 PM @ Cherry Hills Library
Young Musicians Up Close & Musical. New Mexico Federation of Music Teachers presents local children playing classical and popular music on the piano at this live concert! The audience will have an opportunity to talk with the musicians about their music, and get up close to the piano to see how it is played.

 

Wednesday 5/20

Noon to 1:00 PM @ Main Library
Lunchtime @ Main Library-A brown bag event. Bring your lunch and listen! For more information call (505) 768-5141. This event is brought to you by the Friends for the Public Library.

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Poetry

Tuesday 4/28
6:30-7:30 PM @ Lomas Tramway Library
Favorite Poems Night (for teens and adults).
Bring your favorite poem to read, share and discuss.

 

Wednesday 4/29

11:30 AM -1:00 PM
Spring Poetry Circle @ Cherry Hills Library

Read and discuss with us two translations of a poem from Han Shan’s Cold Mountain Poems and two translations of Tu Fu’s ‘Moonlight Night’. All are welcome to join our exploration of Chinese poetry! Pick up copies of the poems at the Information Desk.

 

Thursday 4/30 @ Lomas Tramway Library
"Poem In Your Pocket Day." Share a poem, take a poem.

 

 

Science & Nature:

Saturday 5/9- 11:00 AM-12 PM @ North Valley Library

Author Talk: Mary Stuever

Mary Stuever, a forester for the State of New Mexico, will join us to discuss her new book, The Forester’s Log. Her book documents the challenges and changes in forestry in Stuever’s unique view as a woman in a male-dominated profession. Her syndicated column, “The Forester’s Log,” appears in newspapers and communities scattered throughout the U.S. and Canada.

 

 

 

Stitching Clubs


Wednesday 5/6

2:00 PM @ East Mountain Library
“Knit to Fit: Shaping Knitted Garments”
A Very Special Presentation by New Zealand Knitwear Designer, Lynette Harvey. All Knitters & Stitchers Welcome. Refreshments will be provided!

 

Tuesdays (weekly)

10AM–Noon @ Cherry Hills Library

An Itch to Stitch. Do you have an itch to knit, crochet, embroider, or any other needle craft? Would you like to work on your stitching projects together with like-minded folks, asking questions and sharing experiences? Join our drop-in stitching group! All ages and skill levels welcome!

 

11 AM—1 PM @ Juan Tabo Library

A Stitch in Time. If you enjoy knitting, crocheting, or any other stitching type craft—you are invited to join our drop-in stitching club. All ages and skill levels welcome. Feel free to come when you can and leave as needed.

 

Thursday (1st)

4:00—5:30 @ Wyoming /Hillerman Library
Hillerman Library Stitch Club. The first rule of stitch club is, you MUST talk about it. The second rule of stitch club is, if it is your first time at stitch club you must stitch. 
                                           

 

Friday

2:00-3:30 PM @ Taylor Ranch Library
A Good Yarn. If you enjoy knitting, crocheting or other needle craft, join our drop-in stitch group. All ages and skill levels welcome. A skilled knitter will be on hand for instruction and questions. Feel free to come when you can and leave as needed.

 

Saturday (4th)

3:00-5:00 PM @ East Mountain Library

Sandia Stitch 'n Time.  Do you knit, crochet, cross-stitch, needlepoint or latch hook? Bring your stitchery projects to our afternoon needlework group. Refreshments provided! Stitchers of all ages are welcome!  Come when you can, on a drop-in basis, to any of our get-togethers.

 

Sunday (2nd and 4th)

2:00-4:00 PM @ Erna Fergusson Library
Sunday Stitching Society .Join us twice a month for stitching of all kinds-- knitting,Crocheting, spinning, cross-stitch, embroidery, tatting, spinning. Teach someone, learn something new, or meet new friends. All ages welcome.

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