Live & Learn @ San Juan Island Library

Sunday, December 6th at 6:00pm Musical Performance & Discussion with Archana Bennur
Classical Karnatak Vocalist, Archana Bennur will visit our Library on December 6th to perform this traditional style of Indian music. Archana has performed all over the world, and is currently traveling the Northwest to educate others about Karnatak music, or Carnatic as it is some times spelled. For more information on Archana, click here.

	Sunday, December 13th at 5:30pm Author Talk with Local Author, RD Larson Hear Local Author RD Larson read aloud from her novel, Evil Angel. Evil Angel tells the story of "a woman's decent into madness" and was recently released in the US. Her books, Mama Tried to Raise a Lady and Evil Angel are available for checkout at the Library. For more information on RD, click here.



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Friday, September 11th, 6:00pm Cooking with Farm Fresh Ingredients and An Intro to CSA’s with Jessica Daniel
Wondering what a CSA stands for, or what to do with the vegetables you’ve gotten after signing up for one? Synergy Farm Intern, Jessica Daniel is here to show you! Learn about different CSA models on the Island, and learn some simple recipes made from delicious local produce. Please register for this class by calling 378-2798 or e-mail abourne@sjlib.org. Space is limited.


Meet Publisher and Founder of Outdoors NW Magazine, Carolyn Price on Saturday, September 12th at 6:30pm
Carolyn Price is the founder and publisher of Puget Sound Cyclist, Northwest Cyclist, Outdoors NW, and is the founder of Seattle based family-owned publishing company Price Media. For more information visit www.outdoorsnw.com.

Wednesday, September 16th, at 6:30pm Author Talk with Donna P. Savage
Meet Local Author, Donna P. Savage and hear about her latest book The Man and The Shark: A Modern Day Fable of Awakening and Rebirth. The Man and The Shark tells the story "of one man’s journey through disillusionment into renewal and re-discovery of his innate joyful nature." To learn more about Donna and her latest book visit her web page by clicking here.

Saturday, September 19th at 6:00pm Meet Master Storyteller Johnny Moses Don't miss this opportunity to hear Master Storyteller Johnny Moses! Johnny is a Tulalip Native American from Ohiat, along the west coast of Vancouver Island. For more information visit www.johnnymoses.com


The San Juan Stories Collection September 25th at 6:30 pm Want to find out how local islanders turned their family heirlooms and island artifacts into an online digital collection? In March and April of this year, the San Juan Historical Museum, The Town of Friday Harbor, San Juan National Historical Park, and the San Juan Island Library worked together to digitally archive, photographs , artifacts and other ephemera that tell the stories of San Juan Island’s history. Local Islanders were asked to bring in any treasures they might have had hidden in their attics, scrapbooks, nooks and crannies so that pictures could be taken, and stories could be recorded and shared for years to come. This project was made possible by a grant from the Office of the Secretary of State, Washington State Library Division, funded by the Library Services and Technology Act through the Institute of Museum and Library Services.


Screening and Discussion of the documentary A Powerful Noise Sunday, September 27th at 6:30pm
Join us at the Library for a free screening and discussion of the documentary film, A Powerful Noise, hosted by Friday Harbor Soroptimists International. A Powerful Noise “takes you inside the lives of three women—a girls’ education crusade from Mali, an HIV positive widow from Vietnam, and a peacemaking survivor of the war in Bosnia.” For more information on the film visit www.apowerfulnoise.org


Saturday, October 3rd at 6:30pm Screening of “Island on the Edge” and discussion with Director, Nick Versteeg.
“Island on the Edge” is a film that takes a close look at how dependent Vancouver Island is to the mainland for food, what could happen if the transportation of food was cut off, and how islanders can strengthen their local agricultural resources. This event is co-sponsored by the Agricultural Guild of the San Juan Islands, the Agricultural Resources Committee of San Juan County, the Lopez Community Land Trust, the Orcas Island Public Library, and the San Juan Island Library
Friday, October 16th @ 3:30 pm in the Meeting Room For girls in grades 3-5
Want to learn to Hula? Come to the Library and get a free Hula lesson from Alice Hibberd on October 16th from 3:30 to 4:30pm! Call Alice Hibberd at 378-9722 to sign up!

Alfred Hitchcock Film Festival in October! Oct. 4th, 11th and 18th with host Therese Finn at 6:30pm
Is there a better time to enjoy Hitchcock than in October? We didn’t think so! Join Hitchcock aficionado, Therese Finn as we watch classic films such as Young and Innocent and Rear Window, Sundays in October. We can promise popcorn and refreshments, but can’t promise you won’t leave feeling spooked.

Writing Workshops with Cricket Freeman, Tuesday October 20th from 12:00-4:30pm and Wednesday October 21st from 2:00-4:30pm.
The Library is offering three writing workshops with Cricket Freeman, co-founder of the August Agency, Speaker, and Instructor. Cricket has had the privilege of being involved in every part of a book’s life—from its conception—to distribution and marketing, and even “felled an oak with an ax”. You won’t want to miss this opportunity! Please register in advance by calling 378-2798. Space is limited.
• PLANNING YOUR WRITING CAREER A successful writing career doesn’t just happen.It is planned, nurtured, orchestrated, shaped and developed according to your goals and shifting circumstances.Learn what you need to consider, foster, and forget in order to build your own dynamic career.For all writers of all levels. • OUT OF THE GATE WITH A FLYING START Beginnings that tantalize, hypnotize, and mesmerize.Pump up the opening of your book to pull agents, editors, and readers into your sure grip.Hold on tight and don’t let go for 300 pages! • THE ART OF CREATIVE NONFICTION Writing fiction?Is the story you’re writing based on fact?Why linger in the rejection pile?Improve your odds – submissions of fiction to nonfiction average 200 to 1, yet nonfiction sells better.Challenge your creativity using fictional and experimental techniques to tell a broader, truer story, and tell it better.


Saturday, October 24th and Sunday, October 25th 2:00-6:00pm Writing Workshops with Susan Wingate, in the Meeting Room. Susans workshops will cover Novel Writing topics, from inception to publication. Award-winning bestselling novelist and Local Author, Susan Wingate, is also a poet, memoirist, playwright and screenwriter. Wingate has written one short story collection and four novels. Registration Required, call 378-2798 or e-mail abourne@sjlib.org to register.

Sunday, November 1st at 7:00pm Screening and discussion of “Iron Jawed Angels” at 7:00pm. Co-sponsored by The League of Women Voters. “Iron Jawed Angels tells the true story of how young women took the suffrage movement by storm” and won the right to vote in 1920. Friday, November 13th at 7:00pm Poetry Readings with Local Poet Gary Thompson. Gary Thompson is the author of “Hold Fast”, “As for Living”,“On John Muir's Trail” and “To the Archaeologist Who Finds Us” and his poetry has been published in American Poetry Review and Writers’ Forum.


An Introduction to Hula with Alice Hibberd Friday, November 6th at 6:30
This beginner's class, for children ages 10-Adults at the library will be a hands-on introduction of the hula, including a simple Hawaiian chant, basic steps and their meanings, practicing the pa'i (step rhythms) with the ipu gourd, and learning a modern (auana) hula to a mele (melody). Space is limited, so register by calling 378-2798.
Friday, November 13th at 7:00pm Poetry Readings by Local Poet Gary Thompson
Hear local poet Gary Thompson read his poetry aloud by the Fireplace. Gary Thompson’s latest book of poems, To the Archaeologist Who Finds Us, published by Turning Point in 2008, joins three previous collections: Hold Fast, As for Living, and On John Muir’s Trail. He taught in the Creative Writing Program at CSU, Chico for more than twenty-five years. He and his wife, Linda, have lived in the Northwest for ten years, and two years ago they moved to San Juan Island, bringing their old trawler named Keats home to the waters they had come to love.

Film Screening and Discussion of “Coal Country” Saturday, November 14th, at 6:00pm The Documentary “Coal Country” examines the “dramatic struggle around the use of coal, which provides over half the electricity in America”. “Coal Country” examines the ongoing debate in Appalachia between residents and miners, and examines questions related to the environmental effects of mining. For more information on the film, visit: www.coalcountrythemovie.com

Sunday, November 15th at 6:00pm-8:00pm “Building Island Families Through Adoption” a Panel Discussion
In celebration of November, National Adoption Month, local adoptive parents will share their stories and perspectives on private domestic and international adoption, and adoption through the foster system.