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CANCELLED – Pre-register: Mindful Gardening

Tilton Library 71 North Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, United States

PLEASE CALL 665-4683 TO PRE-REGISTER. LIMITED TO 12 STUDENTS. Part of the Libraries in the Woods (a Franklin County library collaboration) 2020 Community Read of Braiding Sweetgrass: Celebrate the start of spring with a workshop focused on reconnecting to the earth through gardening and garden planning. Learn the essentials about starting and maintaining a home vegetable, flower, and herb garden. Spend some time dreaming up your garden and mapping out the specifics of what it will look like and the action steps you will take to get it growing. Get your hands dirty by starting some spring seeds to take home. Woven throughout the workshop will be mindfulness practices to ground our time together in the healing properties of the natural world. Connecting to the earth through gardening can be a way to come home to ourselves and the sacred. As Robin Wall Kimmerer writes in Braiding Sweetgrass; “The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness.”

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Imagine All the People Literary & Art Journal

ATTENTION! Exciting new opportunity for Tilton patrons and community...   Imagine All the People: A Literary & Art Journal Published by Tilton Library, Deerfield, MA As part of the 2020 Summer Reading Program: "Imagine Your Story," we want to share our own stories for others to read. This a community writing and reading project. In the midst of this challenging time, when most of us would love to be back in our wonderful library, browsing the stacks, and connecting with neighbors about our new favorite books and movies, we are instead pushed to find new ways to build literary and creative community.   A Call for Entries: This summer, in service of building community, Tilton will publish a literary and creative arts journal called Imagine All the People. We will accept all submissions for publication, though we reserve the right to edit submissions. If we need to edit your piece for length or content, we will work with you. Fiction / memoir / personal essays / poetry - on a variety of topics* - should be a maximum of 3,000 words. If your full work is longer, we will publish an excerpt with a link to the full story online. We will also accept photography, drawings, prints, and photographs of paintings or other artwork. Comics! Graphic short stories! Parodies! This is a chance to be creative and share your creativity with our wonderful community. Submitted work can be newly created for this project, or previously written / made / published / exhibited. Imagine All the People will come out in print and online versions. We will provide order forms on our website once the journal is ready to print. Each person who will be mailed a FREE copy! Donations are accepted to cover printing costs.   Submission details: Age group: Adults and teens (though we will consider work from older children) Submit all work to: tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org. Submit high resolution art in pdf or jpeg format. Submit writing in Word format. All work is due by June 23. Please email tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org with any questions. Please include with submission a short bio and a picture of yourself. Looking forward to working together! Erika and Sadie Ross, Editors Candace Bradbury-Carlin, Creative Director Tilton Library staff   *PLEASE NOTE: This journal - Imagine All the People - will be a general collection of writings and art from our community. We are also running a project which collects our community stories of life during the pandemic, called "A People's History of COVID-19 Pandemic," and those stories can be submitted to this link on our website.

Tilton Book-to-Art Facebook Group: Braiding Sweetgrass

Direct Link to Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/763504304192279/ This wonderful book, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer, was chosen and planned for the Community Read, as part of the regional Libraries in the Woods program. Due to COVID-19 shutdowns of libraries and just about every other thing in life, we were unable to run the programs planned by the 24 local libraries involved. However, a lot of people have read the book and love it and want to talk about it. So, we are doing this here in the Tilton Book to Art Group. FREE online audiobook available without any waitlist on Overdrive, through the library: https://cwmars.overdrive.com/cwmars-tilton/content/media/2854558 This event will involved a day long, come-when-you-can open Facebook discussion on June 25...and of course we highly encourage everyone to make art to accompany and express the feelings you have from the book. Any art is welcome, from doodles to paintings, photography to cake! Just take a photo of your creation and share it on the Tilton Book to Art Group page as part of our discussion. This book evokes so many wonderful images, we doubt you will leave it feeling uninspired. Talk to you and see you...and your art...then!

Autumn Wish List Tree Fundraiser

A FRIENDS OF THE TILTON LIBRARY BENEFIT: Autumn Wish List Tree Participate in this self-serve donation activity to help the library fund the things you want! • Pick a “wish list leaf” • Put your donation inside • Leave it inside the library’s secure drop box! Outside the library for the month of October.

Pop-up Outdoor Library (weather permitting)

NOTE: WE WILL STILL HAVE CURBSIDE PICKUP ALONGSIDE THIS OPTION.   Want to browse in the fresh air? A small selection from our newer collection - a little something for everyone - will be brought out in a few carts right outside our front door for you to browse and borrow. There will be strict safety requirements in place - masks required, social distance to be observed, hand sanitizer must be used (provided). We look forward to seeing you!

VIRTUAL WEEKLY CLASS: Qigong for Adults

TILTON IS CO-HOSTING THIS FREE WEEKLY CLASS, SPONSORED BY SUNDERLAND LIBRARY. Dvora Eisenstein leads this free weekly Qigong class on Zoom. Qigong is an ancient Chinese health care system integrating slow movements, breathing techniques, and focused intention. Qigong calms your mind, improves your balance, and enhances health. This practice is suitable for all levels of ability and ages. Anyone may join this free class at any time. TO JOIN, CLICK THIS ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/117278043

VIRTUAL WEEKLY CLASS: Qigong for Adults

TILTON IS CO-HOSTING THIS FREE WEEKLY CLASS, SPONSORED BY SUNDERLAND LIBRARY. Dvora Eisenstein leads this free weekly Qigong class on Zoom. Qigong is an ancient Chinese health care system integrating slow movements, breathing techniques, and focused intention. Qigong calms your mind, improves your balance, and enhances health. This practice is suitable for all levels of ability and ages. Anyone may join this free class at any time. TO JOIN, CLICK THIS ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/117278043

VIRTUAL WEEKLY CLASS: Qigong for Adults

TILTON IS CO-HOSTING THIS FREE WEEKLY CLASS, SPONSORED BY SUNDERLAND LIBRARY. Dvora Eisenstein leads this free weekly Qigong class on Zoom. Qigong is an ancient Chinese health care system integrating slow movements, breathing techniques, and focused intention. Qigong calms your mind, improves your balance, and enhances health. This practice is suitable for all levels of ability and ages. Anyone may join this free class at any time. TO JOIN, CLICK THIS ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/117278043

Kids Pop-up Event: Take the Library to Your Child Day!

Libraries usually have a ‘Bring your child to the library day’ in the heart of winter. This year’s twist is ‘Bring the library home to your child.' POP ON BY for our POP UP day of easy pickup bundles. No sign up needed. Grab bag bundles will be set up on tables. Please wear a mask and stay a cows length away! Bags will be marked with type of books inside. Projects will be included: Board/picture books will have activities appropriate for under Age 3. Picture books only- above Age 3. Easy Reader and easier chapter books will be more challenging. Chapter books and YA selections will be age appropriate. Julie will be on hand to check you out! Bring your library card to make it most efficient.

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Tilton Library
71 North Main Street
South Deerfield, MA 01373
Tel: 413-665-4683
Fax: 413-665-9118
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