Calendar – Southworth Library Association

	April 2025
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		1 Brewed for Suspense: Eight Perfect Murders [Southworth Events - Adults] April 1, 2025 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Brewer's Kitchen & Taproom, 8735 1384 Dryden Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA Brewed for Suspense, the Mystery Book Club at Brewer’s Kitchen and Taproom (1384 Dryden Road across from NYSEG) will meet on Tuesday, March 4 at 6:30 pm to discuss Peter Swanson’s book Eight Perfect Murders —A brilliant tale of death and deception that will keep you guessing to the end. Books are available at the library with a library card or from Brewer’s. We hope to see you there! See more details •	2 Cartooning for Kids with Ryan Abb [Southworth Events - Children] April 2, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA 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. •	3 Ukulele Jam Session [Southworth Events - Adults] April 3, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA 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. See more details •	4 Storytime at the Library [Southworth Events - Families] April 4, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA 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! See more details •	5 Paws to Read [Southworth Events - Families] April 5, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA Come to the library to meet our reading pups and practice your reading or listen to a story. See more details •
6	7	8 Writing Workshop with Lisa Harris [Southworth Events - Adults] April 8, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA Join Lisa Harris for Worlds Within Us, a three part writing workshop for people with stories to tell. 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. See more details •	9	10 Adult Writing Club [Southworth Events - Adults] April 10, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA 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. See more details •	11 Storytime at the Library [Southworth Events - Families] April 11, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA 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! See more details Teen Takeover: Repoussé [Southworth Events - Teens] April 11, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA Join Southworth Library and The Johnson Museum of Art for an amazing opportunity to dive into repoussé. Repoussé is a metal working technique where you create a design by hammering and pushing metal from the back to create a raised edge on the front. All materials for this program will be provided. This program is limited to teens in grades 6-12. All teens attending must agree to our code of conduct, and stay in the library until they are picked up by a guardian. Registration is required. Register here. See more details • •	12 Bunnies and Books [Southworth Events - Families] April 12, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA Join us and the town of Dryden for Bunnies and Books! The town of Dryden will have an Easter Egg Hunt at Montgomery Park at 10:00 am. Then we will have a Bunny Bonanza at the library at 10:30 am with stories, crafts & the amazing 4-H bunnies. Register here to save a spot! See more details •
13	14	15 Jennie's Book Club: The Women by Kristin Hannah [Southworth Events - Adults] April 15, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA Join us at the library on Tuesday, April 15 at 10 am for a discussion of this groundbreaking work from Kristin Hannah. Books are available on loan from the library. Contact the library to put a copy on hold. “Women can be heroes, too.” When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. The Women is that rarest of novels―at once an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided by war and broken by politics, of a generation both fueled by dreams and lost on the battlefield.A novel of searing insight and lyric beauty, The Women is a profoundly emotional, richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose extraordinary idealism and courage under fire define a generation. See more details •	16 Lunchtime Learning: Word & Image- A Trip Through the Ages [Southworth Events - Adults] April 16, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA See more details •	17 Books and Brew [Southworth Events - Adults] April 17, 2025 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Hopshire Farm and Brewery, 1771 Dryden Rd, Freeville, NY 13068, USA Find a book that makes you laugh out loud! It could be a memoir, fiction, or anecdotes and join us at Hopshire Farm & Brewery for our genre based book club on the third Thursday of the month- April 17th- at 6 pm. Humor is an individual choice, but you can check out the display at the library for some possible titles. Bring a snack to share if you would like. ALL ARE WELCOME! See more details •	18 Storytime at the Library [Southworth Events - Families] April 18, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA 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! See more details •	19
20	21	22	23 Graphic Novel Book Club [Southworth Events - Children] April 23, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA The Graphic Novel Book Club will meet on Wednesdays from 4 to 5 pm at the library. Each week we will look at a graphic novel to examine the story, the artwork and the characters to see how these components come together. April 23rd- Adventures in Cartooning by James Sturm April 30th- Little Robot By Ben Hatke May 7th- The Cosmic Adventures of Astrid and Stella by Sabrina Moyle May 14th-Timo the Adventurer by Jonathan Garnier May 21st- Timo the Adventurer by Jonathan Garnier continued… The book club is recommended for kids in grades 2 – 5. Book are available at the library. Space is limited to 10. Register here to reserve your spot. •	24	25 Storytime at the Library [Southworth Events - Families] April 25, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA 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! See more details •	26 Miss Angie's Music and Movement [Southworth Events - Families] April 26, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA Get your toes tapping and your body moving with stories and songs! See more details •
27	28 Southworth Silent Book Club- The Paris Daughter [Southworth Events - Adults] April 28, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA See more details •	29 Unscripted Adventures- An Improv Workshop [Southworth Events - Adults] April 29, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA Improv is back! Join us Tuesday, April 29th at 4pm at the library for this fun workshop. Join Dave William and his hilarious antics to learn some new techniques from a theater master. This program is guaranteed fun for all! This program is for ages 18+ Registration is appreciated. Register here. See more details •	30 Graphic Novel Book Club [Southworth Events - Children] April 30, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden, NY 13053, USA The Graphic Novel Book Club will meet on Wednesdays from 4 to 5 pm at the library. Each week we will look at a graphic novel to examine the story, the artwork and the characters to see how these components come together. April 30th- Little Robot By Ben Hatke May 7th- The Cosmic Adventures of Astrid and Stella by Sabrina Moyle May 14th-Timo the Adventurer by Jonathan Garnier May 21st- Timo the Adventurer by Jonathan Garnier continued… The book club is recommended for kids in grades 2 – 5. Book are available at the library. Space is limited to 10. Register here to reserve your spot. •

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