Edgar Allan Poe Theatrical Presentation

Dick St. George and Susan Hopkins presented the Black Cat and the Tell Tale Heart in our meeting room on Saturday October 10th.  They did a fantastic job portraying the feelings of the narrators in both stories.  The audience on many occasions jumped out of their seats when Susan or Dick yelled a phrase at them.  Both stories were told simultaneously and melded well together.  It was  a great way to spend a saturday October afternoon.

We still have two Edgar Allan Poe events during the month of October.  A book discussion of poes short stories and poetry on October 21 at 7 pm and a movie screening of the pit and the pendulum on October 28 at 7 pm.

Winners of the Quilted Wall Hanging Contest

I want to thank everyone who participated in the Quilted Wall Hanging contest.  We had 21 people participate by entering quilted wall hangings. Every wall hanging was different and beautiful.  People were excited to vote on the wall hangings too.  We had 538 people vote in the contest.  It was a great turn out for our first year having the contest.

Thanks to Country Treasures and Marie Bell we had two prizes donated to the library.  We had a $15.00 gift certificate and a charm pack.  The people participating in the contest wanted to enter even more just to get these prizes. 

We had an overwhelming victory of 131 votes for Susan Polle’s Catastrophe (2008).  Everyone loved the cat coming to life on the quilted wall hanging.  We had to hang up the tail because kids kept wanting to pull on it.

The second place winner had tons of detail.  Joan Aceto’s Sister Act (December 1993) was a beautiful second place.  The hand stitching and small pieces really impressed viewers.  Joan said that it was called Sister Act because her sister made a quilt with the same material just different patterns.  I’d love to see the two quilts side by side and see what the two sisters did differrently.

I want to thank everyone again for participating.  The voting was very close and everyone deserved a prize.  It was hard for viewers to pick just one quilt.  We will definitely do this again next year so everyone should get their designs in mind and start working.  We won’t accept entries from this year again, only previously unshown pieces. 

The winners are displayed below. 

Alma Latina (Latin Soul) Mexican Dancers

We had a wonderful performance of Mexican Dance by the group Alma Latina.  The group did such a fantastic job and the little kids dancing were so cute.  I loved how the skirts flowed through the air as they whipped them around.  Leonel Rosario, the groups leader told the audience some intersting facts about the dances and his home country of Oaxaca, Mexico. 

Quilted Wall Hangings in Duryea Room

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Come down to the library and view the beautiful quilted wall hangings we have displayed in the Duryea room.  People in the community are asked to vote on the quilt they like the best.  That person will win a $15.00 gift certificate to Country Treasures, located on Main Street in Brockport. 

We are still accepting entries to the contest.  The wall hangings can be no bigger than 36″ by 36″.  Bring your entry today or just come in and make a comment in our comment book!

Seymour Library on RNews

Cassie Guthrie, director at the Seymour Library was on RNews talking about people who use the internet for job searching.  It’s an interesting article that you should check out.  Click on play under watch the video.  Are you using the library for job searching? Tell me what you think about the article.

http://rnews.com/content/top_stories/475455/libraries-busy-as-job-searching-moves-online/?RegionCookie=2004

Be Creative@ your library

We will be doing two projects this summer at the Library with the Be Creative theme.  Both classes are taught by our talented library staff, Linda Miller and Debbie Cody.  Information about the classes are displayed below.  We are also displaying the two projects in our display case this month.  If you want to see what we will be making come in and take a look.  I also have pictures of the items below.

Wednesday, July 15 from 2—5 pm
Quilted Purses with Linda Miller
Know how to use a sewing machine?  Ever wanted to try your hand at making a quilt?  Linda Miller will show you how to make your own quilted bag.  This is not a beginners class, basic sewing machine skills are required.  Registration is requested.

Supplies for Class: Sewing machine, extension cord, scissors, pins, thread, seam ripper.Rotary cutting board and rotary cutter (optional)
Fabric for bag: 1 fat quarter light color cotton fabric for block background, 1 fat quarter medium color cotton fabric, 1/2 yd of dark color cotton fabric and 1/2 yd of muslin for lining.

Wednesday, August 12 at 7 pm
Altered Books with Deb Cody
Come with your creativity and learn how to alter an old book. Deb Cody, our resident creative genius at the Seymour Library, will show you how to create art from the everyday. Registration is requested.

Linda Groves Master Gardener

Linda Groves Master Gardener came from Cornell Cooperative Extension.  She has been a Master Gardener for 10 years.  She also works at the RIT Library as if the life of a gardener wasn’t enough.  She presented a wonderful presentation this evening and really informed the people who attended.  We all had a good laugh about poison ivy and bee stings (gardeners favorite things to deal with). 

Linda brought in some samples of the plants she was talking about so people could understand what they were dealing with.  Using her power point presentation people could see the plants from all angles.  She also told people how to get rid of them which was what everyone really wanted to know. 

Here’s a couple of pictures of Linda in action.

Tea Party!

Today Jo Matella from the Red Bird Tea Shop will be at the Library today to show people how to properly steep tea.  She will give people samples of sandwiches and show them how to make them.  A recipe for her famous scones will given out as well. Come down to the library and have a great time.  Here are some pictures of the program as it has just been set up.

Up Coming Programs

Check out the Seymour Library program calendar to see all the great programs that are coming up through out the month of May and all the way through August. 

We will be having a poetry jam tonight.  Students and teachers from SUNY Brockport will be here to recite their own poems.  If you have any creative works you’d like to read please come and participate. If you don’t want to recite you can just sit and listen to the inspirational works of others. 

Check out our calendar for other great programs! Click on the link below and then click on adult in the side box.  It will show only adult programs at the library.

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Poetry Workshop with M J Iuppa

M. J. Iuppa held another poetry workshop this year in honor of national poetry month.  M. J. is a professor at SUNY Brockport.  Over 200 of her poems have appeared in small press, university and national publications including Poetry, Yankee, Press and New Letters.  She has several chapbooks including Sometimes Simply, Temptations and Greatest Hits 1986-2001, and a full-length poetry collection called Night Traveler.  Presently, she is Writer-in-Residence at St. John Fisher College and also teaches creative writing and poetry workshops at Writers and Books, Young Audiences, Project U.N.I.Q.U.E., Rochester City School District, Genesee Valley BOCES, Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES and BOCES 2.  Also she has been curator of the Genesee Reading Series at Writers & Books since 1990.

The program went very well and all the writers had a lot of fun.  She had many writing excercises for people to try and then many of them attendees got to read their work out loud. 

If any one is also interested in Poetry we will be having our Poetry Jam on May 6, 2009 at 6 pm.  SUNY Brockport students will be here reading their creative works and also people from the community are invited to read as well.  If you have the creative spark please come and inspire us.