Literature Chat

Funky Friday Concert

Students from Charter Oak Cultural Centers Funky Music Camp and members of UCONN's Funky Dawgs Brass Band will give a free concert on the terrace of the Downtown Library.

African American Literature Book Club

September 4th - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
October 2nd - Another Country by James Baldwin
November 6th - Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston

The AAL Book Club is for anyone interested in reading and discussing African American literature, both fiction and nonfiction, as well as sharing information and learning about the African American experience.  It is an opportunity for us to get to know each other while we engage in lively and stimulating discussion of topics of interest to us all.

Please RSVP to Carolyn Korber at cjkorber@gmail.com.

GAMES! 

Tuesdays 5-8PM, Thursdays 11AM-2PM
Downtown, Main Floor

Weekly games! Activities include board games, puzzles, arts and crafts, jumbo games, marble mazes, cards, and more!

ServSafe Food Handler Program

UConn Writing Center

Room 23, Ground Floor
Noon to 4 pm
Every Saturday, Starting in September 2018

The Hartford UConn Writing Center is available to writers of any skill level working on any kind of project.  Visitors will receive an hour of one-on-one discussion about their project, their goals, and how their current material fits those plans. We are consultants who want to offer our experience as writers and readers to any who would like guidance, support, technical assistance, or anything else to do with growing as a writer. 

Please note the Center is on hiatus Summer 2018 until September.

Our Advisors:

Brianna McNish is a third-year Honors student at the University of Connecticut studying English with concentrations in Creative Writing and Teaching English. She is currently the fiction editor at Long River Review.
Jacob Horn is an Assistant Professor of English in Residence at the University of Connecticut. He has taught classes on academic writing and worked as a coordinator for creative writing groups and writers.

Poets on Poetry Series

The Connecticut Poetry Society's monthly poetry book discussion is free and open to the public.
For further information, visit www.ctpoetry.net.
To nominate a poet for discussion or volunteer to moderate, contact:
Christine Beck
christinebeck90@gmail.com
860-655-3263

Upcoming dates for 2018:

June 30, 2018: Billy Collins. Poet Maria Sassi will moderate.

DOWNTOWN 3RD FLOOR
On display July 16 - September 28, 2018
Meet the Weavers: Mon, August 13, 10:30am

This year, the Hartford Artisans Weaving Center presents BLOCK BY DESIGN. A block is a basic unit of design in weaving. The weaver is able to create beautiful patterns by using blocks of various sizes and textures. The block design is determined as the warp goes on the loom. Each different block requires a special threading. As the cloth is woven the weaver can select arrangements, combinations, and sizes of the blocks. More interest is added by the choices of color and texture of the yarns. Block weaves offer the artisans countless possibilities for dynamic designs.

OCHO MESES EN LA VIDA...
Eight Months in the Life of Puerto Rico, Post Maria

This photography exhibit is about Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria up to the present. It includes a variety of photographs taken by different photographers on the island.

(PHOTO BY MARIÁNGEL CATALINA)

A HOME AWAY FROM HOME:
Greater Hartford's West Indian Diaspora

June 7 - August 25, 2018
Hartford History Center, 3rd Floor
Downtown Library

In 2010, West Indians surpassed all other ethnic groups to become the largest population of foreign-born immigrants in Connecticut. This demographic trend was eight decades in the making, with the original kernel of this population arriving as invited guest workers in the Hartford region in the 1940s through mutual labor agreements between British West Indian colonies and the United States. This exhibit explores the rich tapestry of West Indian immigration narratives about belonging, cultural heritage, place-making, and identity-formation in Connecticut. Through oral histories and local community archives, the exhibit recounts stories that are at once personal and collective, universal and kaleidoscopic, revelatory yet still often unfamiliar to the general public.

This exhibition is curated and written by Dr. Fiona Vernal, Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, University of Connecticut. Exhibition graphic design by Stephanie Orts. Presented by the West Indian Social Club of Hartford, Inc., UConn Humanities Institute -UCHI, and the Hartford History Center at Hartford Public Library.

Historical Hartford Views

DOWNTOWN 3RD FLOOR
on display through May 2018

“Historical Hartford Views” are acrylic landscapes painted by Hartford artist TR Colletta in 1980. Paintings were purchased by Howard Fromson and hung in his Rockville, CT company Anocoil. Presstek LLC purchased Anocoil in 2016 and donated the paintings to Hartford Public Library in the fall of 2017 under the guidance of Howard and Sandy Fromson.

Painting: State Street, Hartford 1920.