The Main Library & NNE Branch will be closed on Monday, January 20 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

The Community, Fletcher and Pickering Rooms are available for Public Reservation by request.

In Translation Movie Screening: Theeb

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Join us for a screening of the Jordanian film Theeb.
British-Jordanian Director, Naji Abu Nowar’s 2014 film set in the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I.  A young Bedouin boy experiences a hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.

Part of the In Translation series.

Staff setup: see Barbara Shatara.

How to Talk To Your Kids... Improving Outcomes for LGBTQ+ Youth

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Despite being the first state to legalize gay marriage & having one of the oldest LGBTQ+ youth advocacy organizations in the country, health disparities between Vermont’s LGBTQ+ youth and their heterosexual/cisgendered peers remain.

Join us for pizza, a presentation from Outright VT and a panel discussion to find out how you can support a more inclusive Burlington.

Childcare available upon request: emily@burlingtonpartnership.org

Staff setup: 40 chairs, 2 tables

In Translation Book Discussion : The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz (Author), Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator)

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Winner of the English PEN Translation Award

In a surreal, but familiar, vision of modern day Egypt, a centralized authority known as ‘the Gate’ has risen to power in the aftermath of the ‘Disgraceful Events,’ a failed popular uprising. Citizens are required to obtain permission from the Gate in order to take care of even the most basic of their daily affairs, yet the Gate never opens, and the queue in front of it grows longer.