NOTE: All ongoing or regular Library programs may not appear on the Event Calendar. Please check Library Departments for additional programs/schedules. Computer/Technology Training Class Schedule, Children’s Room, Center for Lifelong Learning, Business & Workforce Center, Family Literacy Initiative

September 2012 Events

Mon

10

• History Hijinks Book Club: Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America by Alison J. Clarke

  7:00 PM-8:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Sat

15

• Meet Peter Mandel, Author of Jackhammer Sam and Zoo Achoo!

  11:00 AM-12:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Thur

20

• Global Lens Film Series: The Finger

  6:00 PM-8:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Fri

21

• Small Talk Language Academy - Free DEMO Class

  11:30 AM-12:30 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Sat

22

• RI Center for the Book's Annual Art of the Book Program: Rhode Island Broadsides Rule!

  2:00 PM-3:30 PM Rhode Island Historical Society Aldrich House 110 Benevolent Street Providence, RI 02906

Mon

24

• Personal Development Book Club: Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, M.D.

  7:00 PM-8:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

• Meet Anthony Amore, Author of Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists

  7:00 PM-8:15 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Tue

25

• Brown Bag Book Club: Gardner Museum Trilogy!

  12:00 PM-1:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

• Ready to write? Sign up for a workshop with Frequency Writers

  Tue 6:30 PM-Thu 9:00 PM Classes are held at Ada Books 717 Westminster Street Providence and 186 Carpenter Street Providence

Thur

27

• Book Talk & Signing: What Ever Happened to Sunday Dinner by Dr. Edward Iannuccilli

  7:00 PM-8:15 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

• Global Lens Film Series: The Prize

  6:00 PM-8:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Sat

29

• Travel with PPL: Boston and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

  9:30 AM-4:30 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903 Bus leaves from Library. Park all day for $3.

October 2012 Events

Mon

1

• History Hijinks Book Club: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3: Master of the Senate by Robert Caro

  7:00 PM-8:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Thur

4

• Book Talk & Signing: Cascade by Maryanne O'Hara

  7:00 PM-8:15 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

• Global Lens Film Series: Fat, Bald, Short Man

  6:00 PM-8:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Fri

5

• Providence Public Library 2012 Annual Meeting

  12:30 PM-2:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Wed

10

• Making Sense of the Civil War: Opening Session

  6:30 PM-8:30 PM Governor Henry Lippitt House 199 Hope Street Providence, RI 02906

Thur

11

• Book Talk & Signing: RI Legends - Haunted Hallows and Monsters' Lairs by M.E. Reilly-McGreen

  7:00 PM-8:15 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

• Making Sense of the Civil War Discussion Series

  7:00 PM-8:30 PM William Hall Library 1825 Broad Street Cranston, RI 02905

• Global Lens Film Series: Craft

  6:00 PM-8:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Sat

13

• Film Writer's Circle

  10:00 AM-1:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Sun

14

• Making Sense of the Civil War Discussion Series

  2:00 PM-4:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Mon

15

• WORKSHOP: Savvy Social Security Planning for Baby Boomers

  6:00 PM-7:30 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Tue

16

• Making Sense of the Civil War Discussion Series

  7:00 PM-8:30 PM Weaver Library 41 Grove Avenue East Providence, RI 02914

Thur

18

• Making Sense of the Civil War Discussion Series

  7:00 PM-8:30 PM William Hall Library 1825 Broad Street Cranston, RI 02905

• Global Lens Film Series: Mourning

  6:00 PM-8:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

• Google Tools for Small Business

  6:00 PM-8:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Sat

20

• Workshop: Savvy Social Security Planning for Baby Boomers

  10:00 AM-11:30 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

• Starting a Small Business? Workshop Series

  9:30 AM-12:30 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

• Film Writer's Circle

  10:00 AM-1:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Sun

21

• Making Sense of the Civil War Discussion Series

  2:00 PM-4:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

• Sunday Afternoon at the Movies: The Misfits

  1:30 PM-3:30 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Mon

22

• Personal Development Book Club - Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life by Priscilla Warner

  7:00 PM-8:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

• Book Talk & Signing: Misfit by Adam Braver

  7:00 PM-8:15 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Tue

23

• Making Sense of the Civil War Discussion Series

  7:00 PM-8:30 PM Weaver Library 41 Grove Avenue East Providence, RI 02914

Thur

25

• Making Sense of the Civil War Discussion Series

  7:00 PM-8:30 PM William Hall Library 1825 Broad Street Cranston, RI 02905

• Global Lens Film Series: Qarantina

  6:00 PM-8:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

• SEMINAR SERIES: Power of Email Marketing

  6:30 PM-8:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Fri

26

• RI International Horror Film Festival

  1:00 PM-3:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

• RI International Horror Film Festival: SPOOKILY FANTASTIC LITERARY ADAPTATIONS

  3:30 PM-5:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Sat

27

• Starting a Small Business? Workshop Series

  9:30 AM-12:30 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

• Mastering Social Media

  10:00 AM-12:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

• 6th Annual African Studies Workshop

  1:30 PM-4:00 PM St. Paul's Church 445 Elmwood Avenue Providence, RI

Sun

28

• Making Sense of the Civil War Discussion Series

  2:00 PM-4:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

• RI International Horror Film Festival: H.P. LOVECRAFT SALUTE DOUBLEBILL

  2:30 PM-4:30 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903

Tue

30

• Making Sense of the Civil War Discussion Series

  7:00 PM-8:30 PM Weaver Library 41 Grove Avenue East Providence, RI 02914

• Brown Bag Book Club: Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessi

  12:00 PM-1:00 PM Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street Providence, RI 02903