The Community Libraries of Providence offer a slew of programming every week for kids and adults at their nine locations around the city. We highlight a few of these events in our monthly community libraries segment. Here are a few picks for August from Cheryl Space, Library Director of the Community Libraries of Providence.
Print a piece of the moon
Cheryl Space: Participants are going to use original Apollo 15 mission photos of the moon. These were found by artist-in-residence Logan Tullai, stored in old-fashioned film canisters at Brown University. So he opened them up, and participants will use the sun’s ultraviolet rays to print seven-foot-tall images of the moon on silk. The final product is going to be produced by the community at this workshop, and it will be seven feet tall by 20 feet long.
While this is a joint project, every person who participates can take home their own piece of the moon. They can make their own original round cyanotype print from the Apollo film. Apollo Film Community Cyanotype Printing, Aug. 2, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Knight Memorial Library.
A bilingual theater workshop for all ages
Space: Our other artist-in-residence is Arte Latino New England. They’re bringing wardrobe items and theatrical games, and participants will be playing with scenes from
“The Birdcage.” So I hope everyone can come and join in the fun. It will be in Spanish, but there will be support for English speakers. It’s called Juegos de Locas: Theater and Wardrobe. Aug. 5, 12 & 19, 5:30-7:30 p.m., South Providence Library.
Party with a thousand of your neighbors
Space: Wednesday, Aug. 13 from 3-7 p.m. is the Smith Hill Block Party. It will be on Candace Street, right in front of the Smith Hill Library. There’s more than 50 local organizations who are going to table. There’ll be hands-on activities, health information, free food, music. You can touch a firetruck and you can bounce in a bouncy house with over a thousand of your neighbors.
Two book clubs
Space: Aug. 19 at 6:30 p.m., the Conversations Book Club will be meeting at the Mount Pleasant Library and virtually. This one features African American fiction and nonfiction. And on Aug. 23 at 11:30 a.m., the PVD Banned Books Club will meet at Rochambeau Library.
Go to clpvd.org to learn more about events at the Community Libraries of Providence.
