Westport’s own Dan Woog brings his popular blog “06880: Where Westport Meets the World” to life, via the Verso Studios at the Westport Library – recorded LIVE in the Trefz Forum! The link goes live at noon, every other Monday, so you can watch Dan engage in insightful conversations with voices from around the community - discussing the stories behind the stories. On Monday, July 26 at noon, listen to Dan's conversation with Annette Norton, who opened Savvy + Grace, a…
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The Westport Library will be hosting the Kicking + Screening Soccer Film Festival for its first in-person showing in two years. The film festival is described by founder Rachel Markus as an "annual series of soccer cultural events that bring together soccer and film enthusiasts to celebrate the beautiful game." First developed in New York in April of 2009, the festival has developed an international following, helping it spread around the globe. In past years, the festival has been held…
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Learn the basic elements of home music production. Topics will range from how to record vocals, create beats with a drum machine, and record instruments. Opportunities to practically apply concepts learned each day will be provided throughout. Advanced lessons such as drum recording, and guitar amp recording will be put to the test on our final day of camp where all students will participate in a solo recording project with a real artist! Participants will learn about low-cost equipment and…
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Coders will be introduced to LightLogo, a microworld where we make a variety of light patterns with only ten lines of code.
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Interested in environmental issues, sustainability, nature or science? Join members of the Earthplace naturalist team in discussing Merlin Sheldrake's ENTANGLED LIFE: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures. This event is scheduled to be at Earthplace, 10 Woodside Lane. Reservations are suggested for this in-person program. When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet…
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The Library will remain open for Columbus Day (October 11, 2021).
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Interested in environmental issues or nature or science? Join members of the Earthplace naturalist team in discussing Richard Powers' 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning THE OVERSTORY. This event is scheduled to be at Earthplace, 10 Woodside Lane. Reservations are suggested for this in-person program. Copies of the book are available at the Westport Library. OVERSTORY is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back…
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Interested in environmental issues, sustainability, nature or science? Join members of the Earthplace naturalist team in discussing LAB GIRL by Hope Jahren. This event is scheduled to be at Earthplace, 10 Woodside Lane. Reservations are suggested for this in-person event. Copies of the book are available at the Westport Library. Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. LAB GIRL is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility,…
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The Library will be closing at 5 pm on Wednesday and will be closed all day on Thursday and open from 1-5 pm on Friday. Enjoy the holiday!
Find out more »The Library will be closing at 5 pm on Wednesday and will be closed all day on Thursday and open from 1-5 pm on Friday. Enjoy the holiday!
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The Library will be closing at 5 pm on New Year's Eve and will be closed all day on New Year's Day. Enjoy the holiday!
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