Festival of the Birds Saturday May 8th 9am-3pm FREE
Sellwood Park, just south of Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge
This Saturday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the City of Portland and Portland Audubon are sponsoring a festival celebrating the migratory birds that make Portland their home part of the year. This free family friendly event includes guided bird tours of Oaks Bottom, bird-related crafts and activities, live storytelling and music, and a chance to meet live birds of prey up close.
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Wordstock Book-to-Film Festival (Apr 30-May 2)
This weekend Woodstock is sponsoring their 2nd annual Book-to-Film Festival, showing at local McMenamin’s Theaters. This year the selections are cult classics rarely shown on the big screen. Can’t make it to the screenings? Check ‘em out from the library! And once you’ve seen the movies, try the books. The featured films are The Princess Bride, The Outsiders, Charlotte’s Web, High Fidelity, and Fight Club.
Place holds on the books & movies here:
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Teens – do you have art skills?Here’s your chance to prove it – and win a prize! WCCLS is sponsoring a Teen Summer Reading program artwork contest.
The theme “Make Waves @ Your Library” must be part of the design.
Top prize: a Flip Ultra Camcorder.
Enter between 1/4/10 and 2/26/10.
For more info, visit the library or the library’s website: Teen Central @ CMCL.
The Portland Opera 2009/10 season began this week, with the theme of Love & Marriage. As they say:
It’s a great line-up beginning with La Boheme by Puccini, then moving on to Orphee by Philip Glass, Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, a work by Leonard Bernstein called Trouble in Tahiti, and finishing with The Barber of Seville by Rossini. If you can’t make it to the performances, check out the many recordings Washington County has of these great operas:
La Boheme performances
Orphee (coming soon)
Cosi Fan Tutte performances
Trouble in Tahiti performances
The Barber of Seville performances
Celebrate your freedom to read- with banned books.
Every year the American Library Association and libraries across the country take a week to bring attention to the practice of book banning. The ALA compiles a yearly list of books challenged by individuals and groups who want to remove books from schools and public libraries. Reading should be an individual choice, and libraries support freedom of access to materials. We believe that everyone should have the freedom to choose what to read, and that no one individual shouldn’t have the ability to decide what is right for all.
At Cedar Mill Library, there is a display of banned & challenged books available for checkout. Cedar Mill & Bethany have many of the books that were banned or challenged elsewhere. Take a look- you may be surprised at what you find. A brochure, available here, lists the books that were banned or challenged in 2008-2009, why they were challenged and by whom, and what decision the reviewing entity made. The history of banned books from previous years is available at the CML Adult Reference desk.
While they last, there are bookmarks and “I read banned books” buttons, free for the taking. New this year, there is also a “name the quotes” contest at both Cedar Mill and the Bethany branch. Quotes from famous banned books are displayed & everyone can enter to win a prize. Come into the library to see how many quotes you can identify.
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