Tuesday, March 14 is Pi Day!
Do you like math? Do you love dessert? Come celebrate with us! We will have family-friendly pi-themed activities AND plenty of pie to share!
The Fletcher Free Library welcomes the exhibit Telling A People's Story: African-American Children's Illustrated Literature. The Traveling Panel Exhibition, curated by Miami University Art Museum (Oxford, OH) and featuring 12 panels with 120 reproduced illustrations, will be on display in the Main Reading Room of the Main Library at 235 College Street from April 3-30, 2023. Please join us for the opening of this exhibit.
Families are invited to talk, play, read, write and sing while exploring a range of themes and rotating activities designed to promote school readiness, encourage creativity, and healthy development.
Ages 0-5 with adult
Kids explore science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics activities. Ages 5-11.
Drawing Down the Generations: Memoir, Family and Self
Panelists: Amy Kurtzweil, Glynnis Fawkes, Elise Dietrich, Elisa Järnefelt
Moderator: Dan Barlow
The most personal genre of nonfiction comics, memoir fosters empathetic engagement through frankness and intimacy, bringing into focus our shared humanity. In this panel, four accomplished cartoonists, Elise Dietrich, Glynnis Fawkes, Elisa Järnefelt and Amy Kurtzweil explore the interplay of identity, self and family in their intergenerational work.
Seven Days Cartoonists Speak!
Panelists: Rachel Lindsay, Keith Knight, James K, Julianna Brazil
Moderator: Chris Farnsworth
Join Seven Days Music Editor (and lifelong comics fan!) Chris Farnsworth and a panel of cartoonists featured in the pages of Vermont’s favorite free weekly, including local artists Julianna Brazil, James Kochalka and Rachel Lindsay and special guest, Keith Knight of the nationally-syndicated K Chronicles.
Experiment with watercolors with artist Florence McCloud in this 2 hour class for beginners and those wanting to have some fun with the medium.
All materials needed will be available at the workshop.
Registration required and limited.
Contact Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov to register and for more information.
A musical comedy adventure based on the film. When the teenaged, trouble-making children of Disney villains are sent to prep school alongside the children of beloved Disney heroes, they have a difficult choice to make: should they follow in their parents’ wicked footsteps or learn to be good?
All ages. Library lawn.
Very Merry Theatre's new musical version of A.A. Milne's classic book features the adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their friends in the Hundred Acre Wood.
All ages. Library Lawn.