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2015
Library closed: Friday, July 3 & Saturday, July 4
NEW HOURS:
Thursdays open 10:00 am - 8:00 pm
Summer Saturdays open 10:00 am - 3:00 pm (July 11– August 29)
2015 Adult Summer Reading Program
This summer’s challenge is to “Escape the Ordinary” by exploring heroes, superheroes, and extraordinary people, places, and activities. It offers adults the opportunity to have fun, explore new interests, and to interact with other adults.
Summer Reading Club
Participants log the number of pages read to qualify to receive prizes. Online! They also have the option to write a review that will be shared with other “club members.”
2015 Adult Summer Reading Activities
Book Discussions: 7/9 & 8/6 at 6:30p.m.
Lunch and Learn: 7/14 & 8/11 at 12 noon
Movies in the Afternoon: 7/8 & 8/12 at 1:00p.m.
Movies in the Evening: 7/13 & 8/17 at 6:30p.m.
(For more information, see Adult Programs on the Library’s web site.)
Upcoming Special Events
Monday, July 20th at 6:30 pm ~
A Salsa Lesson with Vinnie’s Jump & Jive
Monday, August 3rd at 6:30 pm ~
Life Hacking 101
Wednesday, August 12th at 6:30 pm ~
An All Ages Flash Read
YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO “ESCAPE THE ORDINARY”!
Introductory Salsa Lesson
Learn something new and have fun, too!
Monday, July 20th at 6:30 pm
Dr. Michael Clark, Instructor from Vinnie’s Jump & Jive
Try something new to Escape the Ordinary! Reservations required.
Dr. Michael Clark has been dancing salsa for twelve years and performing for eight. He currently tours nationally and internationally with Descarga Latina Ritmo Ysabor. He is New-York trained and teaches New York Club style On 2.
Registration required!


Celebrating 300 years of Connecticut’s Remarkable Women
Tuesday July 14, 2015 12:00-1:00p.m.
Join us for an interactive multi-media program by the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame and learn about some of our state’s most remarkable women! Be inspired as you learn about well-known figures like Ella Grasso, Katharine Hepburn and Marian Anderson and lesser known heroines like Maria Sanchez, Barbara McClintock and Hannah Watson. Bring a lunch if you like. Dessert and beverages will be served.
Registration appreciated!
Monthly Book Discussion
All are welcome to attend. Titles are available to borrow; no reservations are necessary.
Thursday, July 9th at 6:30 p.m.
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Isak Dinesen’s
memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi, Kenya.
Movies in the Afternoon
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.
Showing: Still Alice
Starring: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, & Kristen Stewart; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment; directed by Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland; PG-13, 2015, 101 minutes.
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested.
Movies in the Evening
Monday, July 13, 2015 at 6:30 p.m.
Showing: Selma
Starring: David Oyelowo, Jim France and Tom Wilkinson;
Paramount; directed by Ava DuVernay; PG-13, 2015, 128 minutes.
The real story of the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his brothers and sisters in the movement that prompted change that forever altered history.
No reservations necessary! The Friends of Portland Library supports the Library’s DVD collection.Friends of the Portland Library
Books for the Beach sale through July 18th! Pick something up on your way to the beach!

Art Exhibit by Paula Slym and Amanda Rasch
Paula J. Slym, Coyote Run Art: Paula specializes in acrylic painting, but she also enjoys watercolor.
Self-taught, Paula’s work is unfettered by the structure of a professional artist; she paints with emotion,
focusing on unique landscapes or majestic animals, and this is evident in each of her unique pieces. Paula’s pieces are part of many local collections. This is her second show at the Library and her first show with her daughter, Amanda Rasch. Their art is available for purchase unless otherwise noted.
On Display in July 2015
In July, the Library will have a large display of Newly Arrived materials and will also feature books from “Escape the Ordinary” Reading List.
From our special displays in July, check out DVDs
featuring inspirational movies based on true stories and
Music CDs of National Folk Music from the adult collections.

Recent Donations
In Memory of Salvatore Storo: we would like to thank Bernice Cole, Deane Hopp, William & Simone Howe, Peter & Joan LaMalfa, Tony & Patti LaMalfa, William & Susan McCann, Michael & Janet Nocek, Eugene & Shirley Sullivan, Portland Garden Club.

Children’s Department

Summer Reading Program:
Every Hero Has a Story! and Unmask! The Portland Library’s 2015 Summer Reading Program, Every Hero Has a Story (children) and Unmask! (teens), runs from June 19th –August 21st, 2015.

Minutes and books will be tallied throughout the summer via our online tracking system. Just go to www.portlandlibraryct.org and click on the Summer Reading Link. Participants of all ages may log onto the system to set up their profiles. If you need help, stop into the Portland library.

Participants must read 20 minutes or more per day for 7 days to receive 2 Book Bucks! Days do not need to be consecutive. Book Bucks can be spent in a variety of ways. You can buy a small prize or activity kit every week, or save your Bucks and purchase a bigger item! The more you read, the more Book Bucks you receive! So, whether you have read 10 books in 7 days or 2 chapters, EVERY time you hit the 140 minute mark after at least 7 days, you win!

At the end of the summer, your minutes and completed books can be printed out for your school’s Governor’s Reading Challenge. We will keep track FOR YOU!

(Paper recording sheets are available, contact the Portland Library for more information.)
Summer Reading Program Concert Series
Keith Munslow
July 8th at 6:30 p.m.
An award-winning performer who combines music, storytelling, visual art, and improvisation, Keith Munslow hosts a performance packed with tinkling piano tunes, tongue-twisting poems, and funny fast-paced rhymes.

Abdou Sarr
July 15th at 6:30 p.m.
Abdou Sarr brings lessons of rhythm, responsibility and respect to his drumming and dance program. A master teacher of the West African sabaar and djembe dances, Abdou gets everyone into the act as we all play the drums and perform our newly acquired Senegalese dance moves.

Todd Brodeur
July 22th at 6:30 p.m.
Two-time Freestyle Frisbee Champion Todd Brodeur will be here to educate, entertain, and motivate us with his captivating Frisbee show and interactive playshop.

Superhero Training Academy

July 29th at 6:30 p.m.
Our Superhero Training Academy will help your little heroes improve their strength, balance, and agility through a series of games, challenges, and obstacles. Special guests Superman and Batman will be on hand to supervise the training and pose for photo ops.
Thank you to the Friends of the Portland Library for supporting these programs!

Superhero Storytimes Mondays at 11:00 a.m., July 6, 13, 20, 27 & August 3
Superheroes aren’t only in comic books. Kids between the ages of 0-5 and their caregivers are invited to join Miss Jenn for stories, songs, fingerplays and more in this program that features all kinds of heroes, from community helpers to animal aides.
Art Attack!
(Children going into grades 3-5) Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m. July 8, 15, 22, 29 & August 5 Registration is required.
Each session must be registered for separately.

Children going into grades 3-5 will learn a new art technique each week to unleash their creative super powers! Don’t know what your creative super power is yet? Find out this summer!
July 8th: Watercolor Wonders
July 15th: Chihuly-Inspired Sculpture
July 22nd: 3-D Building — Bring small props from your favorite book for this project!
July 29th: Textiles (Comic Book Wallets)
August 5th: Mixed Media Collage
Pinterest Party!
Thursday, July 9th
from 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Entering Grades 6-up
Saw it! Pinned it! Made it! Who doesn’t love Pinterest? And who doesn’t pin crafts they’ll probably never make? Well, here’s a way to fix that! Join us for an afternoon of crafting as we use some ’pinteresting’ inspiration to make some cool projects. Pin your ideas to:
https://www.pinterest.com/admoljac/summer2015party/
Registration is required.

Screen Printing Workshop!
Thursday, July 16th from 3:00-4:00 p.m. Entering Grades 6-up

EVERYONE has a superhero in them just waiting to get out. Get in on the superhero craze with a one of a kind T-shirt! Wonder Woman, Flash, Hulk, Batman . . . you choose the hero and we will use basic screen printing techniques to make our super fabulous shirts! Registration is required.
Choose Your Own Apocalypse
Survival Hunt
Thursday, July 23rd
from 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Entering Grades 6-up

Join us for an afternoon of mayhem, confusion, and fun. Gather a team of 4 or less (or register yourself and we will put you into a team) and test your wits and knowledge against our game masters in a scavenger/clue hunt that will take you out and about the downtown area. You choose what type of apocalypse you want to attempt to survive: zombie invasion or natural disaster. We’ll send you around downtown to find and gather the items we think are necessary for you to survive your chosen apocalypse.
Know your stories, know your trivia, and you just may survive!


Due to the popularity of last year’s event, we will once again participate in the National Teen Library Lock-In! This year’s event will be held on Friday, July 31st from 7:00-10:00 p.m.

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