D&D is back with your favorite Dungeon Master, Andrew, now in two smaller groups with capped registration! "Group A" will play on the second Sunday of each month, and "Group B" will play on the third Sunday of each month. Pre-registration required, a waitlist will be available if we fill up. Please choose only one Group each month. For all experience levels, ages 9-14 RSVPs open the last Sunday of each month at 12:15pm.. Location: Local History Room, Main Library.
Pause-Café Mardi Conversations in French. Francophones and French-language learners meet pour parler la belle langue. Drop-ins welcome. Location: Local History Room, Main Library.
Kids 7-12: drop in and meet up with fellow Minecraft enthusiasts to play together on the library’s private server! Snacks will be available. Location: Local History Room, Main Library.
Join us for a full day of workshops and panel discussions with cartoonists from all over the country who create publications on nonfiction topics. In the Fletcher Room, check out the following workshops.... Lightning Round Comics 11:15am - 12:15pm Instructor: Bonkd Comics Collective This one-hour workshop will be a good workout for your comics drawing muscles. Participants will take on different, time-constrained drawing tasks. Some exercises will be personal, others in small groups. By the end of the workshop you'll have had a lot of fun and be ready to create your own fast comics. ⭐ Ages 10 ! ⭐ Local History Zine Making 12:30pm - 1:30pm Instructor: Vivian Li What memories, experiences, or events about your hometown do you want to preserve? Come create a zine and learn how local history research can help you discover new things about the places you already know. ⭐ Teens & Adults! ⭐ Comics, Poetry and Song Lyrics 1:45pm - 2:45pm Instructor: Julian Peters Come discover the many surprising similarities between the art forms of comics and poetry! After a short presentation of different strategies for translating poetic techniques, atmospheres, and imagery into comics form, attendees will have the opportunity to try their hand at creating their own comics adaptation of a favorite passage of poetry or a song lyric. ⭐ Teens & Adults! ⭐ Comics-Based Research! An Introductory Workshop 3:00pm - 4:00pm Instructors: Rivi Handler-Spitz, Audra McNamee, Luis Vivanco Although comics have long been a focus of scholarly inquiry, researchers have recently been integrating comics creation into the scholarly research process itself through “Comics-Based Research." Join CBR practitioners Luis Vivanco (UVM), Rivi Handler-Spitz (Macalaster), and Audra McNamee (Oregon), who will provide a brief overview of CBR’s place in the broader non-fiction comics scene and provide a hands-on activity working with research materials in comics form. ⭐ Teens & Adults! ⭐ Think It, Ink It, Zine It! Bringing Stories to Life in The Classroom 4:15pm - 5:15pm Instructor: Shuchita Mishra Ready to turn big ideas into tiny books? This hands-on, DIY workshop invites educators to explore the power of personal storytelling through mini-comics and zine-making! Participants will discover the fundamentals of storytelling, then roll up their sleeves to experiment with folding, drawing, writing, cutting, and pasting their way to creating zines in a variety of formats. No artistic experience required—just a little curiosity and a willingness to play! All materials will be provided, so come ready to create, experiment, and have fun. Educators will leave with their own handmade zines, practical ideas, and easy-to-adapt activities they can bring straight into their classrooms, regardless of grade level or teaching discipline. Because sometimes, the biggest ideas come in the smallest packages! ⭐ Teens & Adults! ⭐ https://www.nonfictioncomicsfest.org/ Volunteer for Non-Fiction Comic Festival: https://fletcherfree.libcal.com/event/15613626 Location: Fletcher Room, Main Library.
https://www.nonfictioncomicsfest.org/ Volunteer for Non-Fiction Comic Festival: https://fletcherfree.libcal.com/event/15613626 Location: Local History Room, Main Library.
Join us for a full day of panel discussions and workshops with cartoonists from all over the country who create publications on nonfiction topics. In the Pickering Room, check out the following panel discussions... From Panel to Print: Comics Construction and Distribution 11:30am - 12:30pm Panelists: Christine Tyler Hill, Isabella Rotman, Shay Mirk, Unfolding Connections Moderator: Rachel Bivens How do you get an idea from your head into the eyes of the public? Is social media a useful tool or frustrating necessity? Is there value in the physical form of a comic? This panel will explore the individual processes comic artists use to create their comics as well as various venues they utilize to showcase their work. Drawing on Folklore 12:45pm - 1:45pm Panelists: Daryl Seitchik, Kristen Shull, Emily Zea, Ben Wickey Moderator: Dr. Isaac Cates Vampires, elves, and dragons aren’t real. But if an imaginary figure is shared broadly enough — if it becomes folklore — it may dwell in our knowledge almost like history, accessible in the culture’s deep knowledge. How do these shared figments support the “nonfiction” of a new fantasy world, even in the cases when they can be traced back to a known author? Laughing with Trauma 2:00pm - 3:00pm Panelists: Gemma Correll, Dave Horowitz, Alex Graudins, Alex Nem Moderator: MK Czerwiec From illness to accident, from breakups to breakdowns, trauma comes in many forms. This panel considers comics, humor, and trauma. Can comics about trauma help us cope? If so, how does that work? When is and isn’t it appropriate to use humor to help us cope? Artists Dave Horowitz, Gemma Correll, Alex Graudins, Alex Nem, and MK Czerwiec will discuss. Researching Comics: History and Current Events on a Paneled Page 3:15pm - 4:15pm Panelists: Katy Doughty, Camila Kerwin, Caitlin McGurk, Hazel Newlevant Moderator: Marek Bennett How & why do artists work with historical materials? What can we draw from primary sources & archives, and what does it mean to artists & readers in the present moment? Love, Culture, and History 4:30pm - 5:30pm Panelists: Sanika Phawde, Stephanie Stalvey, Tillie Walden Moderator: Holly Painter Love, weddings, and romance may be tales as old as time, but a couple’s historical and cultural context will undoubtedly shape their joined story. What unique challenges will be placed on the characters in these three distinctly romantic tales based on when and where they were set? https://www.nonfictioncomicsfest.org/ Volunteer for Non-Fiction Comic Festival: https://fletcherfree.libcal.com/event/15613626 Location: Pickering Room, Main Library.
For all experience levels, ages 9-14: D&D is back with your favorite Dungeon Master, Andrew, now in two smaller groups with capped registration! "Group A" will play on the second Sunday of each month, and "Group B" will play on the third Sunday of each month. Pre-registration required, a waitlist will be available if we fill up. Please choose only one Group each month. Registration opens the last Sunday of each month at 12:15pm. Location: Local History Room, Main Library.
Gathering of interested adults to read aloud Shakespeare’s plays. This Current Play: The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare No experience or expertise required; we will gather, select parts and read this engaging play aloud. Bring a text from which to read. All are welcome to come and read or sit and listen as the play unfolds. Location: Local History Room, Main Library.
In FFL's newest book club, discuss how these fictional stories and characters come to life (or don't) over snacks and coffee. Register below or contact, Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov About This Month's Book: The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife—in the much-anticipated second book from National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy. Desiree, January, Monique, and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood, and of big-city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood—overwhelming, mysterious, and full of freedom and consequences—swoops in and stays. Desiree is estranged from her sister Danielle, and the two nurse bitter family wounds in different ways. January’s got a relationship with a “good” man she feels ambivalent about, even after her surprise pregnancy. Monique, a librarian and aspiring blogger, finds unexpected online fame after calling out the university where she works for its plans to whitewash fraught history. And Nakia is trying to get her restaurant off the ground, without relying on the largesse of her upper middle-class family who wonder aloud if she should be doing something better with her life. As these friends move from the late 2000’s into the late 2020’s, from young adults to grown women, they must figure out what they mean to one another—amid political upheaval, economic and environmental instability, and the increasing volatility of modern American life. The Wilderness is Angela Flournoy’s masterful and kaleidoscopic follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut The Turner House. A generational talent, she captures with disarming wit and electric language how the most profound connections over a lifetime can lie in the tangled, uncertain thicket of friendship. Limited copies of the book are available for checkout at the Main Desk. Location: Pickering Room, Main Library.
¿Hablas Español? Practice Spanish and meet other Spanish speakers and learners at the weekly meetup. Beginners welcome. Location: Local History Room, Main Library.
Kids 7-12: drop in and meet up with fellow Minecraft enthusiasts to play together on the library’s private server! Snacks will be available. Location: Local History Room, Main Library.
Gathering of interested adults to read aloud Shakespeare’s plays. This Current Play: The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare No experience or expertise required; we will gather, select parts and read this engaging play aloud. Bring a text from which to read. All are welcome to come and read or sit and listen as the play unfolds. Location: Local History Room, Main Library.
Pause-Café Mardi Conversations in French. Francophones and French-language learners meet pour parler la belle langue. Drop-ins welcome. Location: Local History Room, Main Library.
Interested in reading and discussing LGBTQIA books? Join us for monthly hand-picked queer reads across genre and identity! Copies of each book are available to borrow. Registration required below. All meetings will be the final Sunday of each month, 1:30-2:30pm, at the Main Branch (235 College St). May 31: Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo June 28: The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta July 26: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan August 30: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller September 27: Boulder by Eva Baltasar October 25: Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu November 29: The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell December 27: Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid Location: Local History Room, Main Library.
Gathering of interested adults to read aloud Shakespeare’s plays. This Current Play: The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare No experience or expertise required; we will gather, select parts and read this engaging play aloud. Bring a text from which to read. All are welcome to come and read or sit and listen as the play unfolds. Location: Local History Room, Main Library.
Pause-Café Mardi Conversations in French. Francophones and French-language learners meet pour parler la belle langue. Drop-ins welcome. Location: Local History Room, Main Library.
Kids 7-12: drop in and meet up with fellow Minecraft enthusiasts to play together on the library’s private server! Snacks will be available. Location: Local History Room, Main Library.
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