Practice your English

Practice speaking English in a supportive environment! This conversation circle led by Maureen begins on Monday, September 13th and runs through November 15th. The group will not meet on October 11th for Indigenous People's Day.  Please send any questions to Lauren at......More

Practice speaking English in a supportive environment! This conversation circle led by Maureen begins on Monday, September 13th and runs through November 15th. The group will not meet on October 11th for Indigenous People's Day.  Please send any questions to Lauren at lpfendner@minlib.net. https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/practice-your-english-72/

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Practice your English

Practice speaking English in a supportive environment! This conversation circle led by Moira begins on Monday, September 13th and runs through November 15th. The group will not meet on October 11th for Indigenous People's Day.  Please send any questions to Lauren at ......More

Practice speaking English in a supportive environment! This conversation circle led by Moira begins on Monday, September 13th and runs through November 15th. The group will not meet on October 11th for Indigenous People's Day.  Please send any questions to Lauren at lpfendner@minlib.net. https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/practice-your-english-82/

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Outdoor Storytime

Fall into a new season of storytime! Join us by the Underwood Playground for an outdoor all ages storytime complete with songs, puppets, and all kinds of fun.  Inclement weather may cause switch to a virtual storytime. No registration required for the outdoor event ......More

Fall into a new season of storytime! Join us by the Underwood Playground for an outdoor all ages storytime complete with songs, puppets, and all kinds of fun.  Inclement weather may cause switch to a virtual storytime. No registration required for the outdoor event and all ages are welcome. This program was created in partnership with the Belmont Recreation Department.  https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/outdoor-storytime-10/

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Craft Crate for Teens: Pumpkin Painting

This month, we paint pumpkins! You can pick up your pumpkin in advance or drop by on the 19th to paint it outside the library with stencils and spray paint. Our rain date for the 19th will be the 21st. Have questions? Email Hannah Lee, YA Services Librarian, at askbe......More

This month, we paint pumpkins! You can pick up your pumpkin in advance or drop by on the 19th to paint it outside the library with stencils and spray paint. Our rain date for the 19th will be the 21st. Have questions? Email Hannah Lee, YA Services Librarian, at askbelmontya@minlib.net. https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/craft-crate-for-teens-6/

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Introduction to Programming using Python (7 Week Series)

Join us for this online introductory course series for those new to programming with instructor Charles (Ray) Smith. Learn what computer programming is all about from the programmer's point of view and learn how to write and run programs you build using the programmin......More

Join us for this online introductory course series for those new to programming with instructor Charles (Ray) Smith. Learn what computer programming is all about from the programmer's point of view and learn how to write and run programs you build using the programming language Python. Minimal computer experience is useful, but no previous computer programming experience is necessary - this series is designed to help you decide if programming is for you! For this interactive, seven-week course series geared towards adults, a personal laptop will be required, as well as the ability to install Python on said laptop. As an alumnus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ray has a background in programming that has spanned the professional world from MIT and GenRad to IBM and eDial/Alcatel-Lucent and is interested in expanding individual understanding of how coding informs the world in which we live. Questions? Email Lauren at lpfendner@minlib.net https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/introduction-to-programming-using-python-7-week-series-6/

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Outdoor Storytime

Fall into a new season of storytime! Join us by the Underwood Playground for an outdoor all ages storytime complete with songs, puppets, and all kinds of fun.  Inclement weather may cause switch to a virtual storytime. No registration required for the outdoor event ......More

Fall into a new season of storytime! Join us by the Underwood Playground for an outdoor all ages storytime complete with songs, puppets, and all kinds of fun.  Inclement weather may cause switch to a virtual storytime. No registration required for the outdoor event and all ages are welcome. This program was created in partnership with the Belmont Recreation Department.  https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/outdoor-storytime-14/

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Virtual Storytime for Ages 0 to 5

Short stories and songs will be performed for young library patrons. Have some fun singing along and interacting from home. Sign up to get the Zoom link! https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/virtual-storytime-for-ages-0-to-5-40/

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Tween Game Space

The library will open a temporary space on Wednesdays beginning September 15 where tweens will be redirected for gaming. The early release day schedule is for 12:00-2:30PM. Open to tweens in grades 4-7 on a first-come, first-serve basis. The Tween Game Space will be ......More

The library will open a temporary space on Wednesdays beginning September 15 where tweens will be redirected for gaming. The early release day schedule is for 12:00-2:30PM. Open to tweens in grades 4-7 on a first-come, first-serve basis. The Tween Game Space will be socially distanced with masks required. An occupancy limit will be maintained and the space will be actively managed by the YA Services Librarian.  https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/tween-game-space-6/

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Virtual Trivia Night!

Join us for another evening of Virtual Trivia for solo players and teams! Registrants (soloists and team captains only) will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting. On the afternoon of the event there will be a follow-up email that will include the rules and an a......More

Join us for another evening of Virtual Trivia for solo players and teams! Registrants (soloists and team captains only) will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting. On the afternoon of the event there will be a follow-up email that will include the rules and an answer sheet. Team captains should share this information with their team members. Our questions are geared towards adults in challenge rating, but for families who want to play together, please know that there are no "embarrassing" questions or content. Participants' videos will not need video participation, so no need to worry about having a working webcam to play. The ability to access Zoom and view slides on a screen is all you need for this fantastic trivia fun! Since this event is using Zoom, teams who don't live together will need to communicate by some non-Zoom means - for example, texting, Facetime, Google Hangouts, etc. Let us know if you have any questions by sending an email to askbelmont@minlib.net. https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/virtual-trivia-night-14/

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Friends Virtual Author Series: NYTimes Best-Selling Author Joyce Maynard

The Friends of the Belmont Public Library are delighted to bring New York Times best-selling author Joyce Maynard to the Belmont Public Library virtually to discuss her latest novel, Count The Ways. Joyce Maynard is the author of nine previous novels and five books o......More

The Friends of the Belmont Public Library are delighted to bring New York Times best-selling author Joyce Maynard to the Belmont Public Library virtually to discuss her latest novel, Count The Ways. Joyce Maynard is the author of nine previous novels and five books of nonfiction. Her syndicated column Domestic Affairs ran from 1984 to 1990. Her bestselling memoir, At Home in the World, has been translated into sixteen languages. Maynard is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. She is the founder of Write by the Lake, a week-long workshop on the art and craft of memoir, held every year since 2001 at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. Her novels To Die For and Labor Day were both adapted for film. Maynard currently makes her home in New Haven, Connecticut. You can learn more about Joyce at her website here. COUNT THE WAYS is Maynard’s most ambitious novel to date and tells the story of a family―from the hopeful early days of young marriage and falling in love, to parenthood, divorce, and its costly aftermath― illuminating how the mistakes of parents are passed down through generations to fester, or to be healed. “Count the Ways is the book you will want to curl up in a chair and read from beginning to end. It’s rich and complex, beautiful and heartbreaking, just like life. Reading about this flawed and lovely family will make you want to hug your own flawed and lovely family tight. Joyce Maynard celebrates the messy, wonderful thing that is love."  — Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle and The Book That Matters Most “Joyce Maynard is the queen of the family saga, and Count the Ways is the best! Instantly addicting, the story of Eleanor, Cam, and their children pulls you in and wraps itself around you like an heirloom quilt made of familiarity, intimacy, and the orchestral complexity of loving the people closest to us. This is the novel you’ll be longing to return to at the end of every day and one you will re-read for years to come.”  — Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family Registration is required; Zoom information will be sent in your registration confirmation.  Thanks to the Friends of the Belmont Public Library for making this author series possible. https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/friends-virtual-author-series-nytimes-best-selling-author-joyce-maynard/

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Outdoor Storytime

Fall into a new season of storytime! Join us by the Underwood Playground for an outdoor all ages storytime complete with songs, puppets, and all kinds of fun.  Inclement weather may cause switch to a virtual storytime. No registration required for the outdoor event ......More

Fall into a new season of storytime! Join us by the Underwood Playground for an outdoor all ages storytime complete with songs, puppets, and all kinds of fun.  Inclement weather may cause switch to a virtual storytime. No registration required for the outdoor event and all ages are welcome. This program was created in partnership with the Belmont Recreation Department.  https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/outdoor-storytime-18/

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Beyond the Cover: YA Book Club

We will be reading The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline in recognition of Indigenous Peoples Day for the month of October. Read on for the description of the book... In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the drea......More

We will be reading The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline in recognition of Indigenous Peoples Day for the month of October. Read on for the description of the book... In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow, and dreams, means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a fifteen-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite with loved ones and take refuge from the "recruiters" who seek them out to bring them to the marrow-stealing "factories." Feel free to reach out to the YA Services Librarian, Hannah Lee, at askbelmontya@minlib.net if you have any questions about this event. https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/beyond-the-cover-ya-book-club-3/

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Board of Library Trustees meeting

Board of Library Trustees meeting will be held via Zoom. Please register to be sent the Zoom information. https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/board-of-library-trustees-meeting-17/

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Outdoor Music and Movement with Rubi

If you are looking for an active program with fundamentals of music and reading that still keeps your child moving and loving every minute, look no further! Join Belmont resident Rubi Lichauco at the Underwood Playground for an outdoor version of her popular Music and......More

If you are looking for an active program with fundamentals of music and reading that still keeps your child moving and loving every minute, look no further! Join Belmont resident Rubi Lichauco at the Underwood Playground for an outdoor version of her popular Music and Movement program. https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/outdoor-music-and-movement-with-rubi/

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BTS Book Club

What has Kim Namjoon been reading lately? Follow along with some of the top picks of the famous K-Pop star RM from BTS. This month, we read The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. A novel about a man who finds himself transformed into a huge insect, and the effects of this......More

What has Kim Namjoon been reading lately? Follow along with some of the top picks of the famous K-Pop star RM from BTS. This month, we read The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. A novel about a man who finds himself transformed into a huge insect, and the effects of this change upon his life. This is a fantastic horror story about a hapless man who is turned into an insect. When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. Read the Hardcover | eAudio | eBook Join Our Reading Challenge on Goodreads. https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/bts-book-club/

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Tai Chi - Online!

Tai Chi practitioner and coach, Aisling O'Shea, will guide you through this beautiful and low impact form of martial art and meditation. No equipment necessary; just wear comfortable clothing! This class will provide an overview of the basic concepts of Tai Chi and Qi......More

Tai Chi practitioner and coach, Aisling O'Shea, will guide you through this beautiful and low impact form of martial art and meditation. No equipment necessary; just wear comfortable clothing! This class will provide an overview of the basic concepts of Tai Chi and Qi Gong. These movements may be adapted for standing, walking, or sitting. For this class, the structure will be as follows: 10:00 - 10:20 am: Tai Chi Easy - 5 movement 10:20 - 11:10 am: Tai Chi Chuan - long form Yang style Parts 1 & 2 11:10 - 11:30 am: Eight Organ Harmony & Review This program will be held online through Zoom; please register for each class individually to receive the link to join. Questions? Email Lauren at lpfendner@minlib.net. For an overview of what these classes will cover, or for practice between sessions, watch these Tai Chi recordings on the library's YouTube channel. https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/tai-chi-online-22/

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A Taste of Haiti with Blonde Beauchamp and Belmont Farmers Market

Join us for an online cooking class with Blonde Beauchamp, a Haitian-American Boston native, who delights in sharing the tasty recipes of her ancestral home. Blonde will walk you through the steps in preparing legume beregene melange - a delicious stewed vegetable dis......More

Join us for an online cooking class with Blonde Beauchamp, a Haitian-American Boston native, who delights in sharing the tasty recipes of her ancestral home. Blonde will walk you through the steps in preparing legume beregene melange - a delicious stewed vegetable dish made with eggplant, cabbage, spinach, string beans, and carrots, featuring local produce from vendors at Belmont Farmers Market, along with white rice and twice fried plantain. About Blonde Blonde Beauchamp, born and raised in Boston, has the pleasure and honor of sharing her birthday with the day Haiti celebrates its independence - January 1st. This very special chance of fate immediately provided context for Blonde’s innate love for the country from which her parents emigrated. Since a young child she followed women around in her family’s kitchen, surveying their cooking process and tasting everything she could as they labored for hours on end. She loves her Haitian culture, and derives much pleasure in sharing it with others. She is the founder of thisHAITI, a natural and organic specialty food business focused on taking customers on a culinary journey through Haiti. Blonde is passionate about all things culture, cooking, fashion, traveling, faith, entrepreneurship, and podcast binging!! https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/a-taste-of-haiti-with-blonde-beauchamp-and-belmont-farmers-market/

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Practice your English

Practice speaking English in a supportive environment! This conversation circle led by Maureen begins on Monday, September 13th and runs through November 15th. The group will not meet on October 11th for Indigenous People's Day.  Please send any questions to Lauren at......More

Practice speaking English in a supportive environment! This conversation circle led by Maureen begins on Monday, September 13th and runs through November 15th. The group will not meet on October 11th for Indigenous People's Day.  Please send any questions to Lauren at lpfendner@minlib.net. https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/practice-your-english-73/

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Outdoor Music and Movement with Rubi

If you are looking for an active program with fundamentals of music and reading that still keeps your child moving and loving every minute, look no further! Join Belmont resident Rubi Lichauco at the Underwood Playground for an outdoor version of her popular Music and......More

If you are looking for an active program with fundamentals of music and reading that still keeps your child moving and loving every minute, look no further! Join Belmont resident Rubi Lichauco at the Underwood Playground for an outdoor version of her popular Music and Movement program. https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/outdoor-music-and-movement-with-rubi-2/

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Practice your English

Practice speaking English in a supportive environment! This conversation circle led by Moira begins on Monday, September 13th and runs through November 15th. The group will not meet on October 11th for Indigenous People's Day.  Please send any questions to Lauren at ......More

Practice speaking English in a supportive environment! This conversation circle led by Moira begins on Monday, September 13th and runs through November 15th. The group will not meet on October 11th for Indigenous People's Day.  Please send any questions to Lauren at lpfendner@minlib.net. https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/practice-your-english-83/

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Craftalong: Fabric Scrap Pumpkins

Get crafty with us! Assemble cute and cozy pumpkins for all your fall decorating needs.  Supplies will be provided; register to be contacted when the craft supplies kits are ready for pickup at the library and to get the invitation to join us on Zoom to create this m......More

Get crafty with us! Assemble cute and cozy pumpkins for all your fall decorating needs.  Supplies will be provided; register to be contacted when the craft supplies kits are ready for pickup at the library and to get the invitation to join us on Zoom to create this month's project together. For adults and teens entering grades 9-12. To allow time for kit pickup, registration closes at 5 pm on the Thursday before the program. Questions? Email Allison at asmith@minlib.net. https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/craftalong-fabric-scrap-pumpkins/

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Outdoor Storytime

Fall into a new season of storytime! Join us by the Underwood Playground for an outdoor all ages storytime complete with songs, puppets, and all kinds of fun.  Inclement weather may cause switch to a virtual storytime. No registration required for the outdoor event ......More

Fall into a new season of storytime! Join us by the Underwood Playground for an outdoor all ages storytime complete with songs, puppets, and all kinds of fun.  Inclement weather may cause switch to a virtual storytime. No registration required for the outdoor event and all ages are welcome. This program was created in partnership with the Belmont Recreation Department.  https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/outdoor-storytime-11/

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Introduction to Programming using Python (7 Week Series)

Join us for this online introductory course series for those new to programming with instructor Charles (Ray) Smith. Learn what computer programming is all about from the programmer's point of view and learn how to write and run programs you build using the programmin......More

Join us for this online introductory course series for those new to programming with instructor Charles (Ray) Smith. Learn what computer programming is all about from the programmer's point of view and learn how to write and run programs you build using the programming language Python. Minimal computer experience is useful, but no previous computer programming experience is necessary - this series is designed to help you decide if programming is for you! For this interactive, seven-week course series geared towards adults, a personal laptop will be required, as well as the ability to install Python on said laptop. As an alumnus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ray has a background in programming that has spanned the professional world from MIT and GenRad to IBM and eDial/Alcatel-Lucent and is interested in expanding individual understanding of how coding informs the world in which we live. Questions? Email Lauren at lpfendner@minlib.net https://belmontpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/introduction-to-programming-using-python-7-week-series-7/

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