The Library will be closed on Monday, October 14 for Indigenous Peoples' Day. 

A New Museum for Princeton: A Visit with Sir David Adjaye

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Friends Annual Mary Pitcairn Keating Lecture: A New Museum for Princeton: A Visit with Sir David Adjaye

In the fall of 2018, Sir David Adjaye and his team at Adjaye Associates, in association with Cooper Robertson, was selected to design a fundamentally new art museum for the Princeton campus. Doing so in the heart of the historic campus provokes exceptionally complex considerations concerning aesthetics, functionality, relationships, and how the design of the new building will express the Art Museum’s purposes and ambitions.  

David Copperfield Book Discussion

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Join us every week for David Copperfield virtual book discussions. 

We will meet virtually using Zoom every Tuesday evening at 6:30 PM for the next 13 weeks to discuss one of Charles Dickens’ most loved novels:  David Copperfield. Join us for as many as you can. 

For meeting info: register here or email rthompson@burlingtonvt.gov

Poetry Experience Online

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Poetry Experience Online

First meeting: April 4, 1pm-3pm

Every Saturday 1-3pm

Poetry Experience is a weekly online writing circle hosted by Poet/Emcee and teaching artist, Rajnii Eddins.  Rajnii Eddins's latest work is Their Names Are Mine.   Join Poetry Experience Online through Zoom each Saturday.  Details are included below and if you have any questions feel free to contact Rajnii at theirnamesaremine@gmail.com 

Suggested Age Group: 14+

FFL Book Discussion Group: An American Sunrise Poems by Joy Harjo

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April 8, 6:30pm-8pm

Join other readers at this online discussion on Zoom of Joy Harjo's An American Sunrise: Poems Led by poet Florence McCloud.  To join the program, please email Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov by Wedesday, April 8 at 5pm.

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First Wednesdays Lecture: How to Love a Country

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April 3, 7pm-8:45pm

Richard Blanco reads from his recent poetry collection How to Love a Country, exploring immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more, unraveling the fabric of the American narrative in accessible and emotive verses.

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Suggested Age Group: 14+

First Wednesdays Lecture: The Genealogy of Happiness: From Aristotle to Positive Psychology

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April 2, 7pm-8:45pm

What is happiness? Can it be measured? And what is the relationship between happiness and virtue, money, pleasure, relationships, mindfulness, and satisfaction? This program with William Edelglass will begin with an overview of different conceptions of happiness in Western philosophy, religion, and political theory. We will then turn to the numerous claims about what makes us happy based on the results of “the new science of happiness.” We will conclude by reflecting on the findings of positive psychology in the context of the history of the idea of happiness.