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Featured Featured Event Series Verso University Presents: French Wine Theory

Verso University Presents: Iberian Wine: Exploring Wines of Spain & Portugal

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

Join Certified Sommelier, Barbie Messa, as she explores Iberian Wine, including mainland Spain, Portugal, and their surrounding islands. We'll discuss the most famous classic regions, such as Rioja and Porto, and up-and-coming areas like the Canary Islands. After learning about these regions' history, geography, and grapes, we will have the opportunity to taste three wines in the final class. This class will meet on Wednesday, June 5-July 3, from 1:30-3 pm (Note, class will not meet on June 19th in honor of the Juneteenth holiday when The Library will be closed). The class will meet in the Brooks Program Room, located on the main level, around the corner from the Library shop.

$50
Featured Featured Event Series Tell a Yarn...

Tell a Yarn...

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

What could be better than working on your favorite knitting or crocheting project while someone reads out loud to you? Join our yarn circle/adult story time for your dose of productive relaxation! On June 5, we will start reading Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder by Kerryn Mayne — “Beautiful, painful and ultimately completely satisfying, this […]

Event Series Chess Club for Adults

Chess Club for Adults

Room 212, The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

Drop by for a chess game on Wednesdays! There will be both open play and instruction for adults and high school students who know how to play the game. For more information, please contact the group contact, Rodney Garcia at [email protected]. Need a Hobby? Sports! Sports! Sports! Dungeons & Dragons

Author Talk: Martha Hodes on ‘My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering’

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

Register Here Martha Hodes, professor of history at New York University, will be in conversation about her latest book, My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering. Professor Hodes will be in conversation with Valerie Ann Leff.  In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory. […]

Event Series Language Conversation Groups

Language Conversation Group: French

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

This conversation group is for advanced French speakers. Participants should have some proficiency in speaking French. There is a beginner/intermediate group that meets on Wednesdays. The group will meet every Friday from 11 am-12 pm in room 210. Contact Joan McAteer at [email protected] for more information. Learn a Language Foreign Language Library Collections A to […]

Event Series WestportWRITES: Stand Up Comedy and Humorous Storytelling

WestportWRITES: Stand Up Comedy and Humorous Storytelling

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

Register Here Award-winning comedian Mina Hartong ( Joe’s Pub, Olivia Travel, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab) offers a two-part writer’s workshop on how to write comedy and humor into your storytelling and work. Join us to learn about set ups, flow, exposition, and joke structure while finding the joy and humor in life’s challenging moments. Absolutely […]

Free
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The HIVE Presents: Artists Story-Share at The Westport Library

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

Have you ever had an experience where you found yourself coming together with others whose mindsets, approaches and/or backgrounds were completely different from your own and it ended up with very surprising or inspiring results? In "Unexpected Human Pollination" artists share art & true stories on the wonderful stage at The Westport Library about just such a time. The storytelling ends with a community conversation with the audience on the subject. A wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon! 

Free
Event Series Rhythm & Rhyme

Rhythm and Rhyme

Komansky Room, The Westport Library

Join us for lots of movement, nursery rhymes, and a story! For children birth to five with an adult. Just drop in!

Free
Event Series Language Conversation Groups

Language Conversation Group: English

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

If you are looking for a chance to practice your English language conversation with others, this is the meeting group for you! This will be informal conversation for both non-native and native speakers. This group meets every Monday from 11 am to 12 pm (noon) in Room 210 on the Library's upper level. Please contact […]

Event Series Verso University: Location Drawing at The Westport Library

Verso University Presents: Location Sketch Class

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

A series of classes where participants draw a location and study uses of composition, line, and value to capture the mood and story of a place. The class will meet on Tuesdays, June 4 -June 25 from 10-11:30 am. Weather permitting, be prepared to draw locations outside, along the Saugatuck River and Jesup Green environment. The instructor, Tim Cronin, has taught drawing and cartooning at Silvermine School of Art, Darien Art Center, Norwalk Art Space. He is a graduate of NYC’s School of Visual Arts with a BFA in cartooning and illustration. Tim also has had a colorful career as a tattoo artist, illustrator, sign painter, and calligrapher. This is a wonderful opportunity if you're an artist who wants to improve and stay in shape with their drawing skills, or if you're a beginner looking to try something new. This workshop is also for people that would like to participate in something creative with others. The group will be invited to challenge themselves about how they see, look, think and create their drawings.

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