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Meditation For Beginners

wag.mado@evpl — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:51:00 GMT

It's almost time for the Spring Savvy Senior Series to begin! Our first program will be Meditation For Beginners presented by Mary MacGregor. The program will be held on Thursday February 2 in Central Library's Browning Events Room B at 2:00 PM. Come join us for a mindful afternoon. For a list of upcoming Savvy Senior programs please click here.

Learn to Speak German!

SeeJaneRead@evpl — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:39:00 GMT

Join instructor Hollan Staker in this dynamic German course! This class will cover pronunciation, basic vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, and cultural points. The ample activities and exercises and use of multimedia supplements will provide participants with a solid foundation to communicate in German!

This class series is geared for teens to adults. Registration is required! Check out http://evpl.org/events/search/event.aspx?id=24901 to register or email Andreaw@evpl.org

This class is held on six consecutive Tuesdays, January 18th to February 22nd. 4:00-5:30pm

Celebrate Teen Read Week Oct. 17-23

KickinLibrarian@evpl — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:50:00 GMT

**The Teen Read Week Contest will end Sunday, October 31 at 5pm. Make sure you vote on the Teens' Top Ten in Central's Teen Zone.**

Books with Beat @ EVPL! October 17-23. Stop by the Teen Zone at Central Library during Teen Read Week and check out our Books with Beat! Pick up books and other materials about poetry, music, and more or listen to an audiobook. You can help pick the 2010 Teens’ Top Ten by voting at the display located in the Teen Zone. If you vote, you will be entered to win a Visa giftcard! Stop by today and find a page turner that you can read or listen to, just for the fun of it!

Central's anniversary celebration SUNDAY features mini-golf, Book Cart Drill Team, & more!

professor.knowsitall@evpl — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:59:00 GMT

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Starting with a press conference on Thursday, September 17, we've been honoring Central Library's 5th anniversary with some special events. Our Film Festival wraps up this afternoon with a showing of Citizen Kane. On Saturday, we'll be hosting a Poetry Festival.

On Sunday, party with us at Central Library's Anniversary Celebration! There will be activities & entertainment for all ages to enjoy.

How many times have you had the urge to play mini-golf in the library? Satisfy that urge on Sunday, when we'll have 18 holes of mini-golf set up in Central's stacks (on the 1st & 2nd floors)! And don't worry...there won't be any water hazards. Get your golf game on from 1-5pm.

Enjoy some food & music in the café garden from 1-4:30pm. We'll be grilling hot dogs & hamburgers!

Over 20 cakes will be on display in the lobby from 1-3:30pm as part of our Cake Decorating Contest. Vote for your favorite! Winners will be announced shortly before 4pm, and the cakes (& punch) will be served from 4-5pm.

Nothing will prepare you for our Book Cart Drill Team's first public performance at 2:30pm in the lobby! With epic choreography & drama, the team will recreate a famous battle from literature (& a recent movie trilogy). With book carts.

We'll also have a scavenger hunt & appearances by literary actors (can you guess who they are?) throughout the celebration.

There will be something for everyone at Sunday's Anniversary Celebration. Hope to see you then!

Record an audio book for LibriVox

TeenLibrarian@evpl — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:11:00 GMT

June is National Audiobook Month and teens at Central Library Teen Zone celebrated by learning how to read and record audiobooks for LibriVox.

The program opened with the sound of an accordion and the voice of Death, the narrator of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief. A fine introduction and an example of a well read, expertly produced audiobook.

"Does this worry you?

I urge you -- don't be afraid. I'm nothing if not fair.

-- Of course an introduction. A beginning. Where are my manners?"

The sound fades and I bound onto the scene.

"You just heard a portion of the The Book Thief by Markus Zusak read by Allan Cordune, I say."

In The Book Thief, Liesel steals her first book, The Gravedigger's Handbook, which her foster father uses to lull her to sleep and teach her how to read. When Liesel learns how to read she steals books for fun. Liesel is a book thief. She liberates books from Nazi book burnings and shares them with others enthralling even a Nazi woman with her captivating reading.

We didn't learn how to steal books, but liberate and record books in the public domain. We learned how to read, record, and share our voices with others. It's all very easy, sometimes challenging, but rewarding and fun. You too can volunteer. It's not too late. The volunteers over at the LibriVox forum are anxiously waiting to see what the first book "Evansvillains " (particularly teens) will liberate from the public domain.

The program was eye opening. Teens had an opportunity to practice reading and recording their voice, experiencing the thrill, frustration, and fun. John Martin of the Courier & Press wrote an excellent article - Library session gives teens lessons in creating audiobooks for web.

LibriVox is looking for volunteers to record chapters of books in the public domain and release those audio files back onto the net making them available for free. Yes, free audiobooks. For more information visit LibriVox - http://librivox.org/. Browse the catalog and learn more about volunteer opportunities.

Also, check out YALSA's (Young Adult Library Services Association) Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults for some good books to listen too while travelling, lounging, or simply making moves this summer.

The Book Thief surely won't disappoint. I've also enjoyed on Playaway, Paper Towns by John Green read by Dan John Miller and The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Narrated by Jesse L. Martin. On CD Hero-Type by Barry Lyga read by Jonathan Todd Ross. What's in your CD player or blaring through your earbuds?

Job Corps in the Teen Zone

TeenLibrarian@evpl — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:09:00 GMT

Nyra Sayers from Earl C. Clements Job Corps Academy will be in the Teen Zone at Central Library Wednesday, December 3 from 2:30 - 3:30.

Interested in exploring opportunites with Job Corps? Want to take a tour of the facility? Want to get your High School Diploma or GED and job training?

Outreach and Admissions Liason, Nyra Sayers will be available to provide information, answer questions, and start the application process on the first Wednesday of every month in the Teen Zone.

For more information, please contact Charles Sutton at 428-8271 or by email.

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Culture Night - Greece

TeenLibrarian@evpl — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:57:00 GMT

Culture Night will visit modern Greece Tuesday, October 21 at 6:00pm.

Central Library - Browning Events Room

Presenter: Nico Vasiloff

Curious about what teens are doing in Greece? Don't miss this facinating presentation by Greek UE student Nico.

Enjoy authentic food, culture, music, and more.

Online and electronic networks are bringing our worlds closer together. Online gaming and computing experiences are connecting individuals from diverse backgrounds around the world. Culture Night exposes you to other countries, cultures and lifestyles. Travel with us to Greece on Tuesday, October 21 6pm without leaving Evansville.

Sample Baklava (In Greek: μπακλαβάς, pronounced bahk-lah- VAHS) and enjoy an excellent presentation.

Brief facts about Greece:

Population: 10,722,816 (July 2008 est.)

Area is slightly smaller than Alabama.

Time Difference: Add 8 hours to current Evansville time.

Country information taken from CIA World Factbook

Drawing with Billy Hedel

TeenLibrarian@evpl — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:26:00 GMT

Art 4 art's sake presents - Drawing with Billy Hedel

Thursday, October 9 at 3:45

Local artist Billy Hedel will present a drawing workshop for teens (ages 12-18) at Central Library in the Browning Events Room. Create a work of art and pick up a few drawing techniques.

If you missed Origami with Sean Davis, you missed taking home your very own paper crane. Seriously, Sean did his thing! He demonstrated two basic folds (squash fold and bi-section), sprinkled us with a brief history of the development and spread of origami and no one "killed any cat's". Don't ask. You had to be there! Let me just say everyone was successful and left with some pretty impressive origami.

Billy is sure to be just as successful and you are too. Don't miss Drawing with Billy Hedel.

To read Billy's Artist Profile visit http://www.patchwork.org/billy_hedel.php.