From Embrace Race:
Appreciating diversity - of skin colors, hair textures, foods, and music. Embracing friendships across racial lines. Understanding that every racial and ethnic group includes people who believe different things and behave in different ways, that there is as much diversity within racial groups as across them.
May: Fearless Jones by Walter Mosley
Explore topics such as racism as they are covered in this month's book and relate to parenting. This is an opportunity to create a safe space for discussion, keeping in mind that the facilitators are not experts and are looking to connect and support each other around important parenting issues.
Please register for Zoom meeting information and to reserve a copy of this month's book.
Please join us for a discussion of the documentary “Owned: A Tale of Two Americas-The Dark History Behind the US Housing Economy.” Facilitated by Mary Danko, Director of the Fletcher Free Library and a representative from the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Fair Housing Project
Virtual ELL Classes: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30-8:00 pm. (Beginner and Intermediate/Advanced Levels)
English-language learners of all abilities can practice written and spoken English with trained instructors.
FREE. Please Register for classes by emailing Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov
From Embrace Race:
The murders of eight people at several spas in the Atlanta area, most of them Asian American and women, marks only the most awful, recent contribution to a year-long spike in violence against Asians and Asian Americans in the US. The advocacy group STOP AAPI [Asian American Pacific Islander] Hate received some 3,000 reports of assaults against group members between March and December 2020 alone, many of them targeting women and seniors.
Celebrate National Poetry Month with this "Take and Make" Activity kit designed just for teens and adults!
Each kit includes all the elements you need to release your inner poet including supplies, instructions, project ideas and suggested reading. No registration needed! Kits will be available April 1st at the library's Front Desk while supplies last.
Each year during National Poetry Month in April, the Academy of American Poets presents a special celebration of poetry's important place in our culture and its impact on the lives of readers and artists working in other disciplines.
For more information and to register for this free event, click here.
March: The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty
Explore topics such as racism as they are covered in this month's book and relate to parenting. This is an opportunity to create a safe space for discussion, keeping in mind that the facilitators are not experts and are looking to connect and support each other around important parenting issues.
Multi-day Song of Solomon Marathon Reading featuring many authors including Brit Bennett, Edwidge Danticat, Jacqueline Woodson, Jason Reynolds, Tommy Orange and Margaret Atwood.
Registration Required. https://litpartners2020.org/toni-morrison/
February 26, 2021
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm EST
February 27, 2021
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm EST
February 28, 2021
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm EST