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Drop-in ukulele session on the first Thursday of the month from 4-5pm. No registration necessary. Some ukuleles available to borrow. We may spend the first 1/2 hour on skill-building, depending on demand, followed by playing songs together.

Join us for stories, rhymes, songs and crafts.  Light refreshments served. Free books are provided to all registered families, while supplies last, thanks to generous funding from the Rosen Family Library Fund. Open to all ages!  

Join Lisa Harris for Worlds Within Us, a three part writing workshop for people with stories to tell.

• March 11 from 1- 2:30 : creating a world (setting)
• March 25 from 1 – 2:30: populating that world with people (character)
• April 8 from 1 – 2:30: framing problem(s) to examine, explore and perhaps resolve (plot)

Each session will be 60 minutes, in three 20 minute slots inclduing the lesson;writing in response to prompts that explore the three concepts; and 20 minutes to share and discuss/questions. Open to teens and older. Please register here to participate

https://southworthlibrary.org/worlds-within-us-a-creative-writing-course-with-lisa-harris/

Cartooning for Kids with Ryan Abb - a 5 week course on Wednesdays from 4-5 pm for ages 8-12 at the library starting March 5 and going until April 5.

If you love monsters, manga, and art, this is the class for you! Create your own eye-catching comics with stories that will surprise. Drawing on elements of art history, mythical creature design, and cartoonism, this class will help kids tell their own unique stories! Each week will explore a different aspect of the creation of your story and comic.

Supplies will be provided. Registration required.

Do you have a story to tell? Join the Southworth Library Writing group. The group will meet every second Thursday of the month at 11 am starting on September 12th. Please register here.

Join us for stories, rhymes, songs and crafts.  Light refreshments served. Free books are provided to all registered families, while supplies last, thanks to generous funding from the Rosen Family Library Fund. Open to all ages!  

Calling all adventurers! Our new Saturday D&D Club will be led by DM Joseph Bosworth. This club is open to kids in grades 4-8. All experience levels welcome and all materials provided. Registration is required.

Cartooning for Kids with Ryan Abb - a 5 week course on Wednesdays from 4-5 pm for ages 8-12 at the library starting March 5 and going until April 5.

If you love monsters, manga, and art, this is the class for you! Create your own eye-catching comics with stories that will surprise. Drawing on elements of art history, mythical creature design, and cartoonism, this class will help kids tell their own unique stories! Each week will explore a different aspect of the creation of your story and comic.

Supplies will be provided. Registration required.

Join us for stories, rhymes, songs and crafts.  Light refreshments served. Free books are provided to all registered families, while supplies last, thanks to generous funding from the Rosen Family Library Fund. Open to all ages!  

Calling all adventurers! Our new Saturday D&D Club will be led by DM Joseph Bosworth. This club is open to kids in grades 4-8. All experience levels welcome and all materials provided. Registration is required.

Join Lisa Harris for Worlds Within Us, a three part writing workshop for people with stories to tell.

• March 25 from 1 – 2:00: populating that world with people (character)
• April 8 from 1 – 2:00: framing problem(s) to examine, explore and perhaps resolve (plot)

Each session will be 60 minutes, in three 20 minute slots inclduing the lesson;writing in response to prompts that explore the three concepts; and 20 minutes to share and discuss/questions. Open to teens and older. Please register here to participate

Lisa Harris has published poetry and short fiction in a wide range of journals and her fiction and poetry have been anthologized. Her most recent novel, The Raven’s Tale, completes The Quest Trilogy. The first two books, ‘Geechee Girls and Allegheny Dream, received first place and honorable mention, respectively, in 2015 from The Author’s Zone (Pittsburgh). Traveling Through Glass, Harris’ first poetry collection, was created collaboratively while in dialogue with Patricia Brown’s drawings and paintings. This collection is Cayuga Lake Books’ first poetry and art publication. Harris has taught and administered at private and public schools and colleges in Georgia, Vermont, New York and Pennsylvania. For ten years, she was an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Writing and Thinking. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Avery School of the Arts at Bard College

This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Cartooning for Kids with Ryan Abb - a 5 week course on Wednesdays from 4-5 pm for ages 8-12 at the library starting March 5 and going until April 5.

If you love monsters, manga, and art, this is the class for you! Create your own eye-catching comics with stories that will surprise. Drawing on elements of art history, mythical creature design, and cartoonism, this class will help kids tell their own unique stories! Each week will explore a different aspect of the creation of your story and comic.

Supplies will be provided. Registration required.

Join us for stories, rhymes, songs and crafts.  Light refreshments served. Free books are provided to all registered families, while supplies last, thanks to generous funding from the Rosen Family Library Fund. Open to all ages!  

Calling all adventurers! Our new Saturday D&D Club will be led by DM Joseph Bosworth. This club is open to kids in grades 4-8. All experience levels welcome and all materials provided. Registration is required.