Apr 26 Friday
Join us in the Great Hall of the Arkell Museum and Canajoharie Library for Storytime!
We have the scarves and the egg shakers. We have the songs and the stories. We just need you and the kiddos!
Storytime promotes early literacy, and helps young learners become kindergarten ready by practicing sitting, listening, reading, sharing, following directions, movement, and song with other children and adults.
All with lots of fun mixed in!This is a weekly FREE programBest for pre-k age kids. Older kids are welcome, but might not get the most out of this program
Join us on Friday, April 26 for a public reading and reception with Mason Currey, author of the Daily Rituals books. This event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are required.
In 2007, while procrastinating on a magazine article due the next morning, Mason Currey launched the Daily Routines blog, which, to his surprise, eventually attracted international press attention and thousands of visitors a day. In 2009, Currey shuttered the blog to research a book on the same theme. When it was published in 2013, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work was reviewed by the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, and the Believer and named one of NPR’s best books of the year. It has since been translated into 17 languages.
In 2019, Currey published a sequel, Daily Rituals: Women at Work, featuring profiles of the day-to-day working lives of 143 women writers, artists, and performers. Booklist said, “The spectrum of creativity is radiant, and each artist’s rituals of concentration and balancing act between art and life are revelatory and awe-inspiring.”In addition to compiling the Daily Rituals books, Currey was a design-magazine editor for ten years, working as the managing editor of Metropolis, the executive editor of Print, and a senior editor at Core77. His freelance writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, and Slate, and he has delivered talks on the creative process to art students, writers’ groups, and the partners of the design consultancy IDEO.
Apr 27 Saturday
Meet Your Neighbors, Meet Their Books!
Join us for a celebration of Springfield’s vibrant literary scene at the Local Author Book Fair! This exciting event brings together a diverse range of local authors, all eager to connect with readers and share their passion for storytelling.
Support Local Authors: Discover the wealth of talent right in your own community. Buy a book directly from the author and help them continue their creative journey.
Find Your Next Great Read: Explore a variety of genres, from captivating fiction to informative non-fiction. There’s something for everyone, whether you’re a mystery buff, a history enthusiast, or a lover of poetry.
Connect with Fellow Bookworms: Chat with authors about their work, get your books personalized with a signature, and mingle with other book lovers who share your passion for reading.
(At the same time, don't forget to visit our epic Book Sale in the community room downstairs for amazing treasures and bargains!)
The hit public radio and podcast series comes to town bringing three great actors and a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater and comedy. Public Radio International’s wildly popular series and podcast goes live in a unique evening of literature in performance.
Apr 28 Sunday
The Prosendale Series presents Trail Mix: Hudson Valley Nature Writers on Sunday, April 28 at 3:00 pm. Multimedia event featuring readings (Akiko Busch, Leslie T. Sharpe, Nina Shengold, Gail Straub), film (Derek Dellinger), original art work (Kate McGloughlin), and live music (Tim Kapeluck and Geoffrey Harden). Admission by donation; $10 suggested. Complimentary snacks and author signings. Support provided by Ulster Savings. Rosendale Theatre is located at 408 Main Street in Rosendale, NY. Tickets and more information at www.rosendaletheatre.org.
May 03 Friday
May 10 Friday
Sundog Poetry and Green Writers Press present an evening of poetry featuring Julia C. Alter, winner of the 2023 Sundog Poetry Book Award for Some Dark Familiar, and special guests Pablo Medina, Rage Hezekiah, and Ben Aleshire.
May 12 Sunday
Join us for a reading of The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come, followed by a brief hands-on examination of early 20th century Yiddish children’s illustrated books. Families are then invited to explore the Center’s new exhibition, Yiddish: A Global Culture, with a family guide featuring the Center’s mascot, Tsiggy the Goat. Kids can search for exhibit highlights and add stickers to their guides as they explore.
Programs are presented free on Sunday, May 12, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
This event is being presented as part of the 2024 Mass Kids Literature Festival.
May 14 Tuesday
In celebration of Preservation Month, The Landmark Trust USA is excited to bring noted scholar and vernacular architecture historian Thomas C. Hubka to Southern Vermont to speak on his seminal book on one of Northern New England’s most unique and distinct forms of architecture. The book, which received the Abbot Lowell Cummings Award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum, has been in continuous publication for 40 years and has become a scholarly and popular standard for New England architecture history and cultural studies. It has been widely cited as a model for regional architectural studies combining architectural and social/historical study.
This engaging talk will highlight the four essential components of the stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders that stand today as a living expression of a rural culture, offering insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life. It will feature numerous local examples as well as The Landmark Trust USA’s own Amos Brown House in Whitingham, VT.
Books will be available for purchase to be signed by the author with all proceeds supporting The Landmark Trust USA’s historic preservation work.
This program is supported in part by Vermont Humanities.