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  • Patti Smith promotional graphic for VersoFest 2025

    VersoFest Visionary: Musician, Artist, and Icon Patti Smith, in Conversation with Alisyn Camerota

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    The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

    Buy Tickets: $45 VersoFest 2025 is kicking off with a legend of music and letters. Patti Smith, the acclaimed singer/songwriter, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and National Book Award winner, will open The Westport Library’s fourth annual music and media festival on April 3. Doors open at 6:15 pm. The talk begins at […]

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    Language Conversation Group: Japanese

    Language Conversation Groups
    Other 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

    The Westport Library's hybrid Japanese conversation group is available both in person and via Zoom. In-person meetings are held each Friday from 10 to 11 am in Room 216 on the Library's Upper Level. This is a conversation group rather than a language class — there are no textbooks, homework, or formal lessons. Participants engage […]

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    Language Conversation Group: French

    Language Conversation Groups
    Room 210, The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

    This conversation group is for advanced French speakers who have proficiency in speaking French. There is a beginner/intermediate group that meets on Wednesdays. In order for all participants in the Library’s language groups to have the opportunity to meaningfully use their language skills, we limit the size of the groups. The Advanced French group is […]

  • VersoFest 2025 Graphic: The Wallflowers, with a photo of Jakob Dylan

    VersoFest 2025 Concert Event: The Wallflowers, LIVE at The Westport Library

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    The Trefz Forum, The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

    Buy Tickets!: $100 The Wallflowers, who rose to fame behind their iconic 1996 album Bringing Down the Horse and who have continued to thrive as one of rock’s most dynamic and purposeful bands in the three decades since, will be the headlining act for the VersoFest 2025 concert event. Doors open at 7 pm (no […]

  • Delayed Opening: Library opening to all patrons at 12 pm (Library opening at 10 am for special VersoFest 2025 kickoff event)

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    The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

    The Library will be closed to the general public in the morning, though open to anyone who wants to join us for our VersoFest 2025 kickoff event. Throughout the morning, however, the Library will be offering phone services, hold pickups, and materials management. And our digital library remains open 24/7.

  • VersoFest 2025 Panel Discussion: Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run at 50

    VersoFest 2025 Panel Discussion: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ at 50

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    The Trefz Forum, The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

    Register Here: Free Join us for a special VersoFest panel discussion celebrating the 50th anniversary of Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen’s breakthrough 1975 album — a seminal work that is widely considered to be one of the greatest rock albums of the 20th century. The discussion will be hosted by Arlen Schumer, author, pop culture […]

  • Verso Visionary: Black Thought

    Verso Visionary: Black Thought, Lead Emcee of The Roots, in Conversation with June Archer

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    The Trefz Forum, The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

    Register Here: FREE Black Thought, lead emcee and founding member of The Roots, will headline Saturday afternoon at VersoFest 2025 alongside music industry executive, entrepreneur, and community leader June Archer. The event is free to attend. Copies of Black Thought’s 2023 memoir, The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are, […]

  • Henry Rollins, VersoFest 2025 promotional graphic

    VersoFest Visionary 2025: Hardcore Punk Legend Henry Rollins in Conversation with Nabil Ayers

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    The Trefz Forum, The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

    Buy Tickets: $35 Henry Rollins — musician, spoken word artist, and one of the forerunners of the hardcore punk scene — will be the Verso Visionary conversation during Saturday night of VersoFest 2025, in conversation with fellow author and musician Nabil Ayers. Rollins has held many titles in the past 45 years: singer, writer, spoken […]

  • Near Peer Homework Help

    Near Peer Homework Help
    Children's Library, The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

    Staples High School students will be available in the Children’s Library for drop-in homework help. If you don't have a specific homework assignment to work on, please bring a workbook or some other material with which you need assistance. Tutors will be available between 4 pm and 7 pm, Monday to Thursday. Because our tutors […]

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