Artist Emily Hamilton Laux approaches the natural world from a different perspective, taking on the roles of anthropologist, botanist, researcher, and occasional set-designer, with the camera as her primary tool. Her recent work, now on view in the Westport Library’s South Gallery, examines and reframes ideas in biodiversity in the botanical world. In Beauty Versus Beauty, plants are presented as still life’s in vintage jars with water to isolate species. The images address the co-mingled relationships of plants that grow…
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Join us on Zoom for songs, fingerplays, bouncing, lifting and a book!
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Meet your friends on Zoom for a lunch time get-together with stories!
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In the midst of considerable changes to the college admission testing landscape, we recognize that you may have questions about what lies ahead and how to begin forming your testing plan. The Staples Guidance Department and The Westport Library invite you to participate in an upcoming webinar with Summit Educational Group. In this webinar, experts will offer in-depth information and guidance regarding the SAT and ACT, differences between the tests and how to decide where to focus, timing of taking the tests, and…
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Jeff Immelt will discuss his book HOT SEAT: What I learned Leading a Great American Company with Steve Parrish. Immelt shares the hard-won lessons he learned during his sixteen years as the CEO of one of America's most iconic companies--General Electric. This is a virtual event. Please click here to register and purchase a copy of HOT SEAT. Beginning with Immelt's first Monday on the job—the day before September 11, 2001—HOT SEAT offers a rigorous and candid self-interrogation of Immelt's tenure,…
Find out more »6 consecutive Thursday evenings, 7:00pm - 8:30pm: April 15, April 22, April 29, May 6, May 13, May 20. If notes are the way to read/write music, SQL is the language of data bases. SQL plays an important role in data analysis. SQL is the standard querying language for all the relational databases. The course will introduce the concepts of SQL and then through hands on exercises, teach about joins, subqueries, expressions, and stored procedures. It involves installing mysql server…
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Paper, scissors and glue are all you need to create some fun and amazing 3D crafts.
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We're excited to announce a new Friday evening series we like to call, How to Sound Cool at Parties! These events will feature interesting people doing and saying interesting things. The first event in this series, Flash Fiction: Tattoo Tales, is an hour-long storytelling event centered around...you guessed it, tattoos! Please note: This is a virtual event. REGISTER HERE Featuring stories by authors and artists, as well as community members, storytellers will share their tattoo tales. And we'll kick off…
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The Westport-Weston Chamber of Commerce and Westport Library are pleased to announce the return of Supper & Soul drive-in concerts. Westport resident, Sophie B Hawkins, will open the season on Friday April 23rd. Doors open at 5:30 pm, with the concert beginning at 7:00 pm. Grammy-nominated Sophie B Hawkins, with two top 100 hits, will kick off the season with her incredible voice and 5-piece band. The show will also be a fundraiser for suicide awareness in association with the…
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Join a rotation of our Children's librarians as they lead families in songs, rhymes, lapsits, fingerplays, movement and a story. Each week will have a different librarian so each week will be a different program.
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The Westport-Weston Chamber of Commerce and Westport Library are pleased to announce the return of Supper & Soul drive-in concerts. Deep Banana Blackout will perform Saturday April 24th. Doors open at 5:30 pm, with the concert beginning at 7:00 pm. Deep Banana Blackout will play a rare show, bringing their high energy mix of jam, funk, and blues to the drive-in with their outstanding 8-piece band. This weekend of shows is sponsored by Assured Partners. Tickets for each show are…
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