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The Local Journalism Project
Open Newsroom Truro
Thursday, December 5, 6:00 p.m.The Provincetown Independent’s nonprofit Local Journalism Project invites community members to join in making local news more collaborative. The editor (and from time to time reporters and newsmakers) will be on hand to hear about issues that are important to you, and to answer your questions about the role of journalism in sharing news for and about the community.The Project’s Open Newsroom sessions are being held in each of the Outer Cape’s libraries, with Truro gatherings set for the first Thursday of each month, beginning soon! Special themes will surely emerge but this first session is open-ended. Come with your thoughts and questions. Meetings are free and open to all.
Astrology at the Library
With Martha Clarke
Thursdays, November 7 & 21, December 5 & 12, 11:00 a.m.Join us for a four-week course on astrology with local astrologer Martha Clarke. Ms. Clarke will cover the history of astrology; the four elements--Fire, Earth, Air and Water; the modes of expression--Cardinal, Fixed, Mutable; the four axis of your birth chart--Ascendant, Descendant. Mid Heaven, IC (Imum Coeli meaning home and roots) and what they mean; and the five personal planets--Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Venus--and what they mean in your chart. Martha Clarke holds an Advanced Certificate in Astrology from Blue Rose School of Astrology in Dublin, Ireland, a Certificate in Counselling from the Cork Counselling Centre, Cork, Ireland, an Advanced Certificate in Feng Shui from Creative Feng Shui School in Milan, Italy, and a BA (Hons) in Italian and French from Swansea University, Wales, United Kingdom. A full-time astrologer since 2015, she is currently based in Provincetown.
Poetry Reading: Gratitude
With the Truro Historical Society
Wednesday, November 20, 5:00 p.m.The Truro Public Library appreciates the opportunity to collaborate with the Truro Historical Society on a Poetry Reading dedicated to the theme of gratitude. As we approach Thanksgiving, our thoughts turn toward the friends, family, and experiences for which we are grateful. Join us in the Community Room to hear the work of local poets Keith Althaus, Marjorie Block, John Bonanni, Elizabeth Bradfield, Rosalind Pace, and Margaret Phillips.
November Art Exhibit
Elizabeth Bradfield
PhotographsAntarctica was the focus of Bradfield’s Approaching Ice, written before she had set foot on the continent. Toward Antarctica (May 2019) furthers her investigation with boots on the ground, using photographs, compressed prose, and short poems to examine our relationships to remoteness, discovery, expertise, awe, labor, temporary societies, tourism’s service economy, and “pure” landscapes. This show features photographs from the book. Elizabeth will also be reading at the Library with other poets on November 20!
Thanksgiving Weekend Movies
Saturday, November 30Join us for a family movie! Popcorn and apple cider will be served.Dora and the Lost City of Gold, 10:30 a.m. Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora (Isabela Moner) for her most dangerous adventure ever—High School. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego (Jeffrey Wahlberg), a mysterious jungle inhabitant (Eugenio Derbez), and a rag tag group of teens on a live-action adventure to save her parents (Eva Longoria, Michael Peña) and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost city of gold. Rated PG (for for action and some impolite humor); 1 hour 42 min. The Peanut Butter Falcon, 1:30 p.m. A modern Mark Twain style adventure tale, THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON tells the story of Zak (Zack Gottsagen), a young man with Down syndrome, who runs away from a residential nursing home to follow his dream of attending the professional wrestling school of his idol, The Salt Water Redneck (Thomas Haden Church). A strange turn of events pairs him on the road with Tyler (Shia LaBeouf), a small time outlaw on the run, who becomes Zak’s unlikely coach and ally. Together they wind through deltas, elude capture, drink whisky, find God, catch fish, and convince Eleanor (Dakota Johnson), a kind nursing home employee charged with Zak’s return, to join them on their journey. Rated PG-13 (for thematic content, language throughout, some violence and smoking); 1 hour 33 min.
Automatic Renewal Service
for Cape Libraries
Beginning November 12Let us make the renewal process easier! The Cape Libraries are now offering automatic renewals for loaned materials. This means that an eligible book, DVD, or CD you borrow will be renewed up to three times without you having to do anything! You will likely receive a notice only for materials that cannot be renewed through email or through the CLAMS Shoutbomb text messaging service. Automatic renewals will take effect Novemnber 12th. Renewals will not include: -Materials with holds; -Express or Rental books or movies -materials that have no renewal option such as equipment (this varies library to library); -Materials that have already been renewed three times. If you have any questions please ask! If this new service doesn't seem to be working correctly please let us know by phone, email or in person.
December Art Exhibit
Garrow Throop: Vignettes from the Outer Cape
Art Exhibit: December 3–31
Opening Reception: Tuesday, December 3, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
Artist Talk at 4:00 p.m.As a Graphic Designer, Garrow Throop spent his career creating imagery in the commercial world. Now Throop has applied this experience to his love of photography and painting. The unique result is a hybrid of photographic reality and painted fantasy, combined to create an essence of what we see around us. Each piece is approached differently, depending on what the image requires. Throop photographs a scene which lends itself to the process; he will then paint, separately, a watercolor, or oil, or pastel of the image and finally combine the two in a way that brings out the true feeling of the subject. The final combination often gets reworked until the reality balances with the fantasy. Throop explains, “I get excited each time I see a vista that would work and think of how I would treat it. I can’t get to work fast enough. And I am always discovering new applications, new combinations of media that I can mix in. I may go back on a painting 5 or 6 times…there are no rules since each image is treated differently.”
Happy Thanksgiving!Upcoming Events
Thu 21Storytime
November 21 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 amThu 21Astrology at the Library: Four Courses on the Basics
November 21 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pmThu 21Children’s Community Garden Group with Sustainable CAPE
November 21 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Hours
Tues and Wed: 9:30am - 8:00pm
Thursday: 9:30am - 6:00pm
Friday and Saturday: 9:30am - 4:00pm
Sunday and Monday: Closed
Contact Us
7 Standish Way (Physical Address)
PO Box 357 (Mailing Address)
North Truro, MA 02652
Phone: 508-487-1125
Fax: 508-487-3571
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