This Thursday Evening: Back-To-School Computer Basics at Brighton Branch Library

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Back-To-School Celebration Make Your Own Ice Cream

Thursday, September 12, 2024, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm 

Using (mostly) common household ingredients, kids ages 5-17 can join Ms. Allie to learn how to make homemade ice cream in a bag! Choose your flavor, your mix-ins, and your toppings at this sweet back-to-school celebration. Participants must register ahead of time.

This program takes place outdoors. In case of rain, it will be rescheduled to Thursday, September 19.

Generously sponsored by the Friends of the Brighton Branch Library!

Suitable for: Children (Ages 6-12), Teens (Ages 13-18), Tweens (Ages 9-12) 

Type: Featured Events, Workshops & Classes

Language: English

Presented by the Brighton Branch Library, 40 Academy Hill Rd, Brighton

Telephone: (617) 782-6032

Email Contact: Allison Hahn ah...@bpl.org

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Nonfiction Night: All the Beauty in the World

Thursday, September 19, 2024, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm 

Description

Nonfiction Night is a book club focusing on nonfiction titles of all kinds. In September, we'll discuss All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley. Bringley worked for ten years as a guard in the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Prior to that, he worked in the editorial events office at The New Yorker. 

For a print copy, visit the Brighton Branch's front desk. While supplies last.

About the book:

Only a few select people enjoy unrestricted access to every nook and cranny of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and among them are the guards who keep a watchful eye on the two-million-square-foot treasure house. For Bringley, the Museum was a temporary refuge that became his home away from home for a decade. Here he explores his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the subculture of museum guards. Though Bringley gradually returned to the larger world, here he explores the Museum's hidden wonders--and the people who make it tick.

Suitable for: All Adults, College Students, Older Adults, Young Adults (Ages 20-34) 

Type: Book Group, Featured Events

Language: English

Presented by the Brighton Branch Library, 40 Academy Hill Rd, Brighton

Telephone: (617) 782-6032

Email Contact: kl...@bpl.org

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Movie Night: Treasure Planet (2002)

Thursday, September 26, 2024, 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm 

Description

Join us at the Brighton Branch for an evening movie screening of Treasure Planet (2002).

The legendary "loot of a thousand worlds" inspires an intergalactic treasure hunt when 15-year-old Jim Hawkins stumbles upon a map to the greatest pirate trove in the universe in Walt Disney Pictures' thrilling animated space adventure.

Run time: 1 hour 36 minutes. English subtitles. Rated PG.

Suitable for: All Adults, College Students, Families, Older Adults, Young Adults (Ages 20-34) 

Type: Film

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Unreal Reads: Whalefall

Thursday, October 3, 2024, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm 

Description

In October, the Unreal Reads fiction book club will dive deep with Daniel Kraus's Whalefall, an exploration of family and grief from inside the belly of a whale. (Literally.)

Print copies available at the Brighton Branch front desk while supplies last.

About the book:

Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand—to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it’s a long shot, but Jay feels it’s the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad’s death by suicide the previous year.

The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. Suddenly, Jay is caught in the squid’s tentacles and drawn into the whale’s mouth where he is pulled into the first of its four stomachs. He quickly realizes he has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out—one hour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale.

Suitable for: All Adults, College Students, Older Adults, Young Adults (Ages 20-34) 

Type: Book Group

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Celia Cruz: A National Hispanic Heritage Month Event with Rosalba Solis from La Piñata

Friday, October 4, 2024, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm 

Description

Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month and learn about Celia Cruz, a Cuban singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century.

This interactive workshop is lead by Rosalba Solis, professional teacher, dancer, musician, and founder of La Piñata, a Latin American cultural, performing arts, and community organization.

Recommended for children ages 8-11 years old.

Come and learn a fun song and join us in Salsa dancing!

Suitable for: Children (Ages 6-12) 

Type: Featured Events, Holiday Celebration

Language: English

Presented by the Brighton Branch Library, 40 Academy Hill Rd, Brighton

Telephone: (617) 782-6032

Email Contact: Allie Hahn brig...@bpl.org

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Saturday Screening: Hocus Pocus (1993)

Saturday, October 5, 2024, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

Description

Join the Brighton Branch for a Saturday morning screening of the Halloween classic, Hocus Pocus!

Run time: 1 hour 36 minutes. English subtitles. Rated PG.

About the film:

A teenage boy named Max and his little sister move to Salem, where he struggles to fit in before accidentally awakening a trio of diabolical witches that were executed in the 17th century.

Suitable for: All Adults, College Students, Families, Older Adults, Young Adults (Ages 20-34) 

Type: Film

Language: English

Presented by the Brighton Branch Library, 40 Academy Hill Rd, Brighton

Telephone: (617) 782-6032

Email Contact: brig...@bpl.org

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Movie Mondays: A Haunting in Venice (2023)

Monday, October 7, 2024, 3:00 pm – 4:45 pm 

Description

Start your week off with a movie! 

Because we are closed on the second Monday of the month for Indigenous People's Day, October will feature TWO films! October's first Monday movie showing is A Haunting in Venice (2023), starring Kenneth Branagh, and loosely based on the 1969 Agatha Christie novel Hallowe'en Party.

Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a sǎnce at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

Run time: 1 hours 43 minutes. Rated: PG-13. English subtitles.

No registration required. Walk-ins are welcome!

Suitable for: All Adults, College Students, Older Adults, Young Adults (Ages 20-34) 

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Horror Authors Panel: Paul Tremblay, Gretchen Felker-Martin, Emmett Nahil, Emily C. Hughes, and Corey Farrenkopf

Thursday, October 17, 2024, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm 

Description

Join some of the horror's most revered and highly lauded luminaries for an evening of thrills and chills where we discuss the history, social impact, and future of the horror genre. Just in time for Halloween!

Featured panelists include award-nominated authors such as Paul Tremblay (author of Horror Movie), Gretchen Felker-Martin (author of Cuckoo), Emmett Nahil (author of From the Belly), Emily C. Hughes (author of Horror for Weenies), and Corey Farrenkopf (author of Living in Cemeteries).

ETA: Eric LaRocca and Hillary Monahan were previously scheduled to speak, but are unable to make it. You can still check out Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, and Other Misfortunes and Mary: The Summoning.

This event is generously sponsored by the Horror Writers of Association (HWA). HWA is a nonprofit organization of writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature, the interests of those who write it, and an appreciation of good horror and dark fantasy literature in readers.

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About the authors:

Emily C. Hughes (she/her) wants to scare you. Formerly the editor of Unbound Worlds and TorNightfire.com, she writes about horror and curates a list of the year’s new scary books. Her first book, Horror For Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You’re Too Scared to Watch, hits shelves in September 2024 from Quirk Books. You can find her writing elsewhere in the New York Times, Vulture, Tor.com, Electric Literature, Thrillist, and more. Emily lives in crunchy western Massachusetts with her husband and four idiot cats.

Hailing from a haunted seaside town in Northeastern Massachusetts, Emmett Nahil is the author of debut novel From the Belly (Tenebrous Press) and Let Me Out (Oni Press). His writing has been featured in Nightmare Magazine, The Book of Queer Saints, Volume II, Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria anthology, and elsewhere. Favoring the historic, the strange, and the gory, in his other life Emmett makes video games as Narrative Director and co-founder of Perfect Garbage Studios. He can be found most places online as @_emnays.

Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book Awards and is the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie, The Beast You Are, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Growing Things and Other Stories, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the Universal Pictures film Knock at the Cabin. He has been teaching high school math for a long, long, time, and he lives outside Boston with his family.

Gretchen Felker-Martin is a Massachusetts-based bestselling horror author and film critic. Her debut novel, Manhunt, was named the #1 Best Book of 2022 by Vulture, and was one of the Best Horror Novels of 2022 by Esquire, Library Journal, and Paste. Her sophomore novel, Cuckoo, debuted on the USA Today bestseller list. You can read her fiction and film criticism on Patreon and in TIME, The Outline, Nylon, and more.

Corey Farrenkopf lives on Cape Cod and works as a librarian. His work has been published in Nightmare, The Deadlands, Electric Literature, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Bourbon Penn, and elsewhere. His debut novel, Living in Cemeteries, was released from JournalStone in April of 2024 and his first collection, Haunted Ecologies, will be released by them in February of 2025. He is the Fiction Editor for The Cape Cod Poetry Review. To learn more, follow him on twitter @CoreyFarrenkopf or on the web at CoreyFarrenkopf.com.

Suitable for: All Adults, College Students, Older Adults, Young Adults (Ages 20-34) 

Type: Author Talk, Featured Events

Language: English

Presented by the Brighton Branch Library, 40 Academy Hill Rd, Brighton

Telephone: (617) 782-6032

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Email Contact: kl...@bpl.org

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Movie Night: Beetlejuice

Thursday, October 31, 2024, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm 

Description

Join us for a Halloween screening of 1998's Beetlejuice. What's a couple of stay-at-home ghosts to do when their beloved home is taken over by trendy yuppies? They call on the afterlife's freelance bio-exorcist. (We're going to avoid typing his name for a third time...)

Run time: 1 hour 33 minutes. Rated: PG. English subtitles.

No registration required. Seating is first come, first served.

Suitable for: All Adults, College Students, Older Adults, Teens (Ages 13-18), Tweens (Ages 9-12) Young Adults (Ages 20-34) 

Type: Film

Language: English

Presented by the Brighton Branch Library, 40 Academy Hill Rd, Brighton

Telephone: (617) 782-6032

Email Contact: kl...@bpl.org

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Movie Mondays: The King's Speech

Monday, November 4, 2024, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm 

Description

Start your week off with a movie! November's featured film is The King's Speech starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, and Helena Bonham Carter.

About the movie: Stuttering King George "Bertie" VI finds his confidence with the help of unconventional speech therapist Lionel Logue. Over time, the king and Lionel forge an unlikely bond that helps shape the United Kingdom's future when the nation is drawn into World War II.

Run time: 1 hour, 59 minutes. Rated R for some language. English subtitles.

No registration required, walk-ins welcome.

Suitable for: All Adults, College Students, Older Adults, Young Adults (Ages 20-34) 

Type: Film

Language: English

Presented by the Brighton Branch Library, 40 Academy Hill Rd, Brighton

Telephone: (617) 782-6032

Email Contact: brig...@bpl.org

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Pressed Floral Arts: Workshop with Local Artist Jan Gadson Louissaint

Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm 

Description

Come out, meet new people, socialize and learn a new craft! We will work on creating a design on plates with pressed flowers. Let your creativity out. Take home your beautiful work of art!

This fun 2-hour workshop includes meditation, hand exercises, music, a demonstration and opportunities to win a raffle gift bag.

Every participant will receive an individual art bag of supplies. The workshop will be led by local craft/floral artist, Jan Gadson Louissaint.

New and experienced crafters are all welcome! This workshop is limited to 12, so registration is required. Register by calling the Brighton Branch at 617-782-6032.

Suitable for: All Adults, College Students, Older Adults, Young Adults (Ages 20-34) 

Type: Arts & Crafts, Featured Events, Mental Health

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Brighton Nonfiction Night: Code Dependent

Thursday, November 21, 2024, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm 

Description

Join the Brighton Branch’s nonfiction book club in November to discuss Madhumita Murgia’s Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI. Print copies available at the Brighton Branch front desk, while supplies last.

About the book:

On the surface, a British poet, an UberEats courier in Pittsburgh, an Indian doctor, and a Chinese activist in exile have nothing in common. But they are in fact linked by a profound common experience ― unexpected encounters with artificial intelligence. Automated systems are reshaping our lives all over the world.

Highlighting the voices of ordinary people in places far removed from the cozy enclave of Silicon Valley, Code Dependent explores the impact of a set of powerful, flawed, and often-exploitative technologies on individuals, communities, and our wider society.

Suitable for: All Adults, College Students, Older Adults, Young Adults (Ages 20-34) 

Type: Book Group, Featured Events

Language: English

Presented by the Brighton Branch Library, 40 Academy Hill Rd, Brighton

Telephone: (617) 782-6032

Email Contact: kl...@bpl.org

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Brighton Nonfiction Night: The Skies Belong to Us

Thursday, December 19, 2024, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm 

Description

Join the Brighton Branch’s nonfiction book club in December to discuss Brendan I. Koerner’s The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking. Print copies available at the Brighton Branch front desk, while supplies last.

About the book:

In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands, where they imagined being hailed as heroes; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. Their criminal exploits mesmerized the country, never more so than when the young lovers at the heart of Brendan I. Koerner'sThe Skies Belong to Us pulled off the longest-distance hijacking in American history.

A shattered Army veteran and a mischievous party girl, Roger Holder and Cathy Kerkow commandeered Western Airlines Flight 701 as a vague protest against the war. Through a combination of savvy and dumb luck, the couple managed to flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom, a feat that made them notorious around the globe.

Koerner spent four years chronicling this madcap tale, which involves a cast of characters ranging from exiled Black Panthers to African despots to French movie stars. He combed through over 4,000 declassified documents and interviewed scores of key figures in the drama--including one of the hijackers, whom Koerner discovered living in total obscurity.

Yet The Skies Belong to Us is more than just an enthralling yarn about a spectacular heist and its bittersweet, decades-long aftermath. It is also a psychological portrait of America at its most turbulent, and a testament to the madness that can grip a nation when politics fail.

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Winter Puppet Show with Nicola McEldowney

Wednesday, February 5, 2024, 10:30 am – 11:30 am 

Description

Join Nicola the puppeteer and her puppet pal, the friendly Winter Monster — and a variety of other puppet friends besides — as they present seasonal stories and songs about wintertime! This program will take the place of our weekly Preschool Story Time.

No registration required for individuals; groups must call ahead.

Suitable for: Children (Ages 0-5) 

Type: Story Time

Language: English

Presented by the Brighton Branch Library, 40 Academy Hill Rd, Brighton

Telephone: (617) 782-6032

Email Contact: Allison Hahn (ah...@bpl.org)

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Movie Mondays: Some Like It Hot (1959)

Monday, February 10, 2025, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm 

Description

Start your week off with a movie! Our February selection is the classic comedy Some Like It Hot (1959), starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon.

Run time: 2 hours 1 minute. Not rated. English subtitles.

About the movie:

Two unemployed friends accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, after which they flee to Miami disguised as women in order to blend in with an all-female band. It's all fun, games and romance for these two friends, until they realize the mafia has followed along.

Suitable for: All Adults, College Students, Older Adults, Young Adults (Ages 20-34) 

Type: Film

Language: English

Presented by the Brighton Branch Library, 40 Academy Hill Rd, Brighton

Telephone: (617) 782-6032

Email Contact: brig...@bpl.org

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Japanese Tales & Origami with Motoko

Saturday, March 8, 2025, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm 

Description

Learn how Japanese folklore has inspired games, manga, and anime around the world with Award-winning storyteller Motoko.

Under her step-by-step guidance, participants will make exciting origami figures, and design their own original anime characters. Come ready to have fun!

For tweens and teens in grades 5 and up.

Suitable for: Teens (Ages 13-18), Tweens (Ages 9-12)  

Type: Arts & Crafts, Featured Events

Language: English

Presented by the Honan Allston Branch Library, 300 North Harvard St, Allston

Telephone: (617) 787-6313

Email Contact: C. Richardson (crich...@bpl.org)

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Magic Show with Ed Popielarczyk

Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm 

Description

Join us for balloon twisting and an interactive magic show with Ed Popielarczyk!

Ed is a professional magician, balloon sculptor, flea circus ringmaster, and storyteller who has been entertaining children and family audiences for over thirty years. 

Recommended for ages 5 & up. 

Suitable for: Children (Ages 0-5), Children (Ages 6-12), Families  

Type: Featured Events

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Laura Macias - Dia de los Niños

Monday, April 7, 2025, 10:30 am – 11:30 am 

Description

Join us for Dia de los Niños programming with Laura Macias. 

Stories and folk tales from around the world will be told in English and Spanish. This program will include puppets, songs, and movements.

Recommended for children ages 3-5 years old.

Suitable for: Children (Ages 0-5), Families  

Type: Author Talk, Performing Arts, Story Time

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Movie Mondays: Norma Rae (2001)

Monday, April 14, 2025, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm 

Description

Start your week off with a movie! Our April selection is Norma Rae, starring Sally Field.

Run time: 1 hour 54 minutes. Rated PG. English subtitles.

About the movie:

Norma Rae, the Southern millworker who revolutionizes a small town and discovers a power in herself she never knew she had. Under the guidance of a New York unionizer and with increasing courage and determination, Norma Rae organizes her fellow factory workers to fight for better conditions and wages. Based on a true story.

Suitable for: All Adults, Older Adults, Young Adults (Ages 20-34) 

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Kung Fu Demonstration from Calvin Chin's Martial Arts Academy

Saturday, April 19, 2025, 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm 

Description

You've seen kung fu in manga and anime, but have you seen it in real life? 

Join us for a half-hour kung fu performance from Calvin Chin's Martial Arts Academy. Instructors and students of Hung Gar, one of the original Shaolin systems (and the style used by Avatar's Earthbenders), will demonstrate open hand and weapons sequences, while attendees will have the opportunity to see the similarities and differences between martial arts in fiction and reality. 

For teens and tweens in grades 5 and up.

Suitable for: Teens (Ages 13-18), Tweens (Ages 9-12)  

Type: Featured Events, Health/Fitness, Performing Arts

Language: English

Presented by the Honan Allston Branch Library, 300 North Harvard St, Allston

Telephone: (617) 787-6313

Email Contact: crich...@bpl.org

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Make Way for Ducklings Story Time (with City Ballet of Boston and the Friends of the Public Garden)

Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 11:30 am – 12:00 pm 

Description

Celebrate Duckling Day at the library with this special story time!

City Ballet of Boston and the Friends of the Public Garden will be combining storytelling with engaging movement to tell the story of Robert McCloskey's classic, Make Way for Ducklings. 

Join us for this wonderful opportunity to bring a beloved tale to life and inspire creativity in our young readers.

Suitable for: Children (Ages 0-5)  

Type: Story Time

[Anthony D'Isidoro]

Movie Mondays: Finding Vivian

Monday, June 9, 2025, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm 

Description

About the film:

Who is Vivian Maier? Now considered one of the 20th century's greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during her lifetime. Since buying her work by chance at auction, amateur historian John Maloof has crusaded to put this prolific photographer in the history books. Maier's strange and riveting life are revealed through never-before-seen photographs, films, and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her.

Not rated. Run time: 1 hour 24 minutes. English subtitles.

Suitable for: All Adults, College Students, Older Adults, Young Adults (Ages 20-34)