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SUMMARY:Dispatches from the Library with Director Audrey Chapuis [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:Join Library Director Audrey Chapuis to catch up about the Library’s recent activities and plans for progressive deconfinement. \nRSVP is required for this event\, which will be held via Zoom. \nPlease use this link to sign up.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/dispatches-from-the-library-with-director-audrey-chapuis/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200605T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200605T193000
DTSTAMP:20260527T075620
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SUMMARY:Teen Night: Writing from the Heart - The Game (ages 12-18) [VIRTUAL - RSVP REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:For ages 12-18. \nBack by popular demand… \nWriting from your ♥ : the Game – created by Jane Mobille \n  \nJoin us for a virtual Teen Night with life coach and memoir writer Jane Mobille! Throw the dice\, spin some (tall) tales\, and write your own answer key as we create our own homemade games together. Categories include: Santa Claus\, Mean Girls & Bullies\, Father Knows Best\,  Happy Birthday to You\, Secret Lies\, Geeks\, Sis & Bro\, Cat in the Hat\, I can’t stop…\, Rachel or Phoebe – Joey or Ross? \n  \nThis event will be hosted virtually via Zoom. Participants will be required to provide their own paper and pens. Dice are optional\, but encouraged. \n  \nAbout Jane Mobille: \nMemoir writer Jane Mobille is also a Professional Certified Coach with extensive experience coaching teens and young adults. Jane uses the tools of writing and coaching to inspire freedom and confidence in young writers as they learn to put their authenticity or “heart” on paper. Editor of the quarterly AAWE News magazine in Paris\, Jane also authors a “Teen Coach” column at the online magazine INSPIRELLE. She holds degrees from Duke University\, University of Maryland\, and Thunderbird. \n  \n  \n  \nAdvance registration is required for Teen Nights (sign-up HERE for this event). Send an email to Celeste\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions about events and collections for ages 0-18: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. This event is open to Library members.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/teen-night-writing-from-the-heart-the-game-ages-12-18-virtual-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200606T110000
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CREATED:20200523T100124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200523T100124Z
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SUMMARY:DIY Crafts: Costumes and Masks (ages 6-12) [VIRTUAL - REGISTRATION REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:Make a cool headpiece or mask during this DIY crafting event.\n \n \n  \nChildren and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an crafting event direct to your living room\, kitchen\, bedroom\, or wherever you connect. Caregivers are requested to join in with their children and participate in the program. \n  \nParticipants will receive a list of required materials (all readily available in most homes) and then our librarians and volunteers will lead you through fun craft projects to help you get ready for your next costume party. \n  \nThis event requires advance registration. Click HERE to register. \n  \nWe thank you for your continued support and for being a part of the Library community! While the Library facilities are currently closed\, we are thrilled to be able to bring the Library to you virtually. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have questions about our events\, collections or programs. Our staff is available remotely to help you. If you would like to support the Library\, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service. \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/diy-crafts-costumes-and-masks-ages-6-12-virtual-registration-required/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200609T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200609T210000
DTSTAMP:20260527T075620
CREATED:20200506T123904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200601T214751Z
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SUMMARY:2020 Annual General Meeting [Virtual Event for Members; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:All members of the American Library in Paris are invited to the Annual General Meeting of the American Library in Paris\, Inc.\, a membership corporation organized under the laws of Delaware and operating in France. \nThe Library Director\, Chairman of the Board\, and Board Trustees will live-streaming from the Library to report on activities from 2019. Members may participate via Zoom. Please email programs@americanlibraryinparis.org to register for the meeting. Zoom details will be sent prior to the meeting to those who have registered.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/2020-annual-general-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200611T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200611T180000
DTSTAMP:20260527T075620
CREATED:20200529T113415Z
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SUMMARY:Watercolor Workshop with Jessie Kanelos Weiner [Virtual Event\, Library members only\, RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is FREE and open to Library members. \nSpace is limited and registration is required. Please RSVP here. \nThis event will run via Zoom from 17h00-18h00 on Thursday 11 June. \nPARIS IN STRIDE: A WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP \n11 years ago\, illustrator Jessie Kanelos Weiner was a young dreamer who arrived in Paris with artistic desires\, minimal talent and no tangible ambitions. With nothing but time and a sketchbook\, it’s the moment where she developed her distinct style by documenting the intoxicating fragrance of French roast chicken\, the circuitous streets of Paris and how she found her place amongst it all. Jessie will walk participants through her creative process\, her watercolor tips and tricks and some backstory on how her time in Paris shaped her career as a professional watercolorist. \nJessie is a Franco-American watercolor illustrator (Vogue\, WSJ\, NYT) and coauthor of Paris in Stride and New York in Stride.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/watercolor-workshop-with-jessie-kanelos-weiner-virtual-event-library-members-only-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200612T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200612T193000
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SUMMARY:Young Authors Fiction Festival Celebration Events (VIRTUAL)
DESCRIPTION:YAFF 2020 Celebration Events\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis year’s celebration events will be held virtually via online platform Zoom on Friday 12 June 2020. \nFor each event 1st – 5th  winners in each grade will be announced from the 5 finalists. These live events will be hosted by the Library’s YAFF committee and will include the announcement of the winners by grade\, extracts from the winning stories and comments from the judges. Please join us to celebrate your story and the young writers in our community! \n  \nKindergarten – 5th Grade Celebration from 17h30 \nTopic: YAFF Celebration Event – K-5th Grade\nTime: Jun 12\, 2020 17h30 Paris \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89306058742 \nMeeting ID: 893 0605 8742 \n  \n6th Grade – 12th Grade Celebration from 18h30 \nTopic: YAFF Celebration Event – 6th-12th Grades\nTime: Jun 12\, 2020 18h30 Paris \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88915160384 \nMeeting ID: 889 1516 0384 \n  \n  \nYAFF Celebration Booklets \nThe Library publishes the 1st-5th place stories in a Celebration Book. One Booklet for Kindergarten-5th Grade and a separate booklet for 6th-12th Grade. These booklets are available for purchase\, and a copy of each booklet is added to the Library collection and will be available for checkout after the Celebration Events. \nThe booklets can be ordered via our website here. Each booklet costs 15€. \nThere are two options for ordering: \n\n\nPick up at the Library during open hours. Payment will be made online before pick up. \n\n\nPostal service. Payment will be made online for booklet(s) and a charge of 5€ applied for the postage.  Postage is only available within Ile-de-France and books will be posted weekly on Fridays. \n\n\nConfirmation of order\, with information on pick up times and days or postal service\, will be sent via email once payment has been received. Please allow 2 working days for confirmation to be sent. \nIf you have any questions about YAFF\, the booklets or the celebration event then please contact yaff@americanlibraryinparis.org
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/young-authors-fiction-festival-celebration-events/
CATEGORIES:Kids,Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200616T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200616T180000
DTSTAMP:20260527T075620
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Traci Brimhall [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom (please RSVP here to receive meeting details and password). We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nJoin us for an evening of reading and discussion with poet and essayist Traci Brimhall. We will hear Traci read from her new essay “The Grief Artist” about the role of creativity and grief\, as well as discuss the work she is doing now researching creativity in epidemics. She lives 20 miles from the source of the 1918 flu outbreak and is looking at both the art produced at that time\, as well as what it means to grieve long distance. An audience Q&A will follow. \nIn “The Grief Artist\,” Traci braids several narratives that explore the relationship of the creative process to the grief processes of both death and divorce. She traces lost love letters she finds in a used book and ties them to the end of her marriage; examines the year she spent making hospice blankets after her mother’s death; and interviews a woman who used flowers from her mother’s funeral to make art for 100 days. In each of these Traci asks how art can help us grieve in a culture that no longer has public bereavement rituals and how the creative process can possibly even help us with the physical aspects of grief. \nTraci Brimhall is the author of four books: Come the Slumberless from the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon); Saudade (Copper Canyon); Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton)\, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press)\, winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The Believer\, The New Republic\, Orion\, and Best American Poetry. Her essays have appeared in Georgia Review\, Southern Review\, New England Review\, Brevity\, and cited as notable in several editions of Best American Essays.  She’s received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the National Endowment for the Arts.  She’s the Director of Creative Writing at Kansas State University and lives in Manhattan\, KS. \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-traci-brimhall-virtual-public-event-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200619T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200619T193000
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SUMMARY:Teen Lit Taboo (ages 12-18) [VIRTUAL - RSVP REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:Show off your fabulous memory of all things related to teen literature by competing in an evening of this custom made guessing game!\n \n  \n \nYou will be placed in teams before the event\, and you’ll work in groups to compete in a Teen Lit Trivia game specially created by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads and Children’s and Teens’ Services Librarian Kirsty McCulloch Reid. Check out the game Taboo\, which inspired this event. \n  \nThis game will be played much like the Taboo game from Hasbro. The objective of the game is for a player to have their team members guess the word on the player’s card without using the word itself or five additional words listed on the card. All game cards will feature characters\, settings and themes from YA literature. This event will take place virtually via Zoom\, and participants will need to have microphones and video enabled. Cards will be sent via the chat box. We’ve tested this. It works. \n  \nThe object of the game is for a player to have their partners/team members guess the word on their card without using the word itself or any of the six additional words listed on the card. Players should be timed so that each person has 1 or 2 minutes to get their team members to guess the words on as many cards as possible. The team to reach a defined score first wins (i.e.: first player to reach 25 points). \n  \nPrizes will be available for pickup at the Library following the event for all participants. \n  \nAdvance registration is required for Teen Nights (sign-up HERE for Teen Lit Taboo). Send an email to Celeste\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions about events and collections for ages 0-18: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. Participation in teen events is free for Library members and 10€ for non-members.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/teen-lit-taboo-ages-12-18-virtual-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200623T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200623T180000
DTSTAMP:20260527T075620
CREATED:20200607T105240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200618T132928Z
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Visiting Fellow Mark Braude [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom (please RSVP here to receive meeting details and password). We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \nPlease join us for a discussion with author and American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow Mark Braude about his recent book\, The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Exile to Escape\,  a “coup de coeur” for the 2019 American Library in Paris Book Award and a community favorite. \nAs many of us continue to follow confinement or quarantine measures in the fight against covid-19\, themes of exile\, banishment\, and separation are at the forefront of our minds. Indeed\, Mark’s interest in Napoleon stems from this very specific experience of his off the main stage of Europe in 1814-15. In finding a novel approach to a larger than life personality\, Mark gives us something unexpected and fresh–he takes us far beyond those chapters of Napoleon’s life that have received extensive treatment and analysis. In our discussion\, Mark will tell us more about his research and findings\, and provide his reflections on how exile affected one of the most famous historical figures of all time\, reminding us that despite having lived an extraordinary life\, Napoleon was\, after all\, a human being who often found himself separated from or at the mercy of others\, as was the case during his exile on Elba. \nMark was selected as an American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow for Spring 2020. Though Mark was unable to join us at the Library in May 2020 as originally planned\, we look forward to welcoming him sometime in 2020-21\, during which time he will write\, research\, and engage further with our community by offering another lecture as well as a workshop. \nMARK BRAUDE is the author of The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba From Exile to Escape and Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle. He is currently at work on a book of narrative nonfiction about the French artist and model Kiki de Montparnasse\, focusing on her professional and romantic entanglement with the American photographer Man Ray in 1920s Paris\, to be published by W.W. Norton. 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-visiting-fellow-mark-braude-virtual-public-event-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200624T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200624T183000
DTSTAMP:20260527T075620
CREATED:20200607T131212Z
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SUMMARY:Cause of Death: COVID-19\, Police Violence\, or Racism?: A Conversation about Racial Inequalities in France and the United States with Dr. Jean Beaman and Inès Seddiki [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom (please RSVP here to receive meeting details and password). We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \n  \n \n  \nCause of Death: COVID-19\, Police Violence\, or Racism?: A Conversation about Racial Inequalities in France and the United States with Dr. Jean Beaman and Inès Seddiki. \nFor this evening of conversation\, Inès will interview Jean about her research\, including her book\, Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France. Jean will then pose some questions to Inès about her organization\, GHETT’UP. Finally\, the two will discuss racism in France more broadly re COVID-19 and police violence. They will also offer their thoughts and perspectives on the recent protests in France for Adama Traoré and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. \nThere will be limited time for questions after the conversation. \nJean Beaman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She was previously on the faculty at Purdue University and has held visiting fellowships at Duke University and the European University Institute (Florence\, Italy). Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on race/ethnicity\, racism\, international migration\, and state-sponsored violence in both France and the United States. She is an Editor of H-Net Black Europe\, an Associate Editor of the journal\, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power\, and Corresponding Editor for the journal Metropolitics/Metropolitiques. She earned her B.A.\, M.A.\, and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. \n \n  \n  \nInès Seddiki is a French-Moroccan activist and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) professional living in the banlieues of Paris. Inès graduated with a masters degree in corporate social responsibility from Grenoble Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Pierre Mendès-France University. In 2016\, she founded GHETT’UP\, an organization dealing with youth empowerment and leadership in the underprivileged areas of Paris\, the banlieues. 5000+ youth have been impacted by the organization’s programs.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/cause-of-death-covid-19-police-violence-or-racism/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200625T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200625T173000
DTSTAMP:20260527T075620
CREATED:20200612T143525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200612T144453Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Bookworms: A book club for ages 9-12 [VIRTUAL - RSVP REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:A book club for 9-12-year-olds! \n  \nThis month\, we’re trying out a new book group for kids! The aim of this group is to create a space for strong readers to share books they’ve enjoyed\, and to foster discussion among our community of young readers. Bring along your current or most recent fiction or nonfiction read in English to talk about with the group during our online meeting. \n  \nDuring the meeting\, each child will be asked to: \n\nread the first line of the book they’ve selected\nbriefly tell the rest of the group about the book (genre\, favorite characters\, setting…)\ntell the group whether they recommend the book and why\n\nThis book group is intended for children who read independently\, although parents are welcome to join. Parents and caregivers who participate alongside their children will be expected to have read the novel with their children or to bring along their own children’s book to share and discuss. \n  \n  \nThis program requires advance registration\, and is open to Library members. Click HERE to register. This program is free for Library members. Each child attending must have their own Library card\, or be covered by a family membership. Registered participants will be sent a link to join the event via Zoom. Parents and caregivers are responsible for connecting to the meeting\, and monitoring their children’s use of the internet.\n \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/virtual-bookworms-a-book-club-for-ages-9-12-virtual-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200626T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200626T193000
DTSTAMP:20260527T075620
CREATED:20200513T135315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200618T094845Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Night Poets (a workshop with National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman) (ages 12-18) [VIRTUAL EVENT - REGISTRATION REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:for ages 12-18 \n  \nJoin us for a writing workshop and Q & A with National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman. During this interactive virtual workshop\, Amanda will guide participants in a poetry exercise\, then answer questions about her work. Participants will be required to provide their own writing materials. We’ll provide the inspiration. \nCheck out Amanda’s performance on CBS here\, or her appearance on SGN with John Krasinski here. \nAbout Amanda: At 22\, Amanda Gorman is heralded as “the next great figure in American poetry.” Amanda made history in 2017 by being named the first ever National Youth Poet Laureate in the United States. Born and raised in Los Angeles\, she is a recent graduate of Harvard\, where she studied Sociology. Since publishing a poetry collection at 16\, her writing has won her invitations to the Obama White House and to perform for Lin-Manuel Miranda\, Al Gore\, Secretary Hillary Clinton\, Malala Yousafzai\, and others. Amanda has performed 4th of July and Thanksgiving poems for CBS and she has spoken at events and venues across the country\, including the Library of Congress and Lincoln Center. She has received a Genius Grant from OZY Media\, as well as recognition from Scholastic Inc.\, YoungArts\, the Glamour magazine College Women of the Year Awards\, and the Webby Awards. She currently writes for the New York Times newsletter The Edit and recently signed a two-book deal with Viking (a division of Penguin Random House) after a bidding war involving eight publishers. Most recently\, she traveled to Slovenia with Prada as a reporter on the company’s latest sustainability project\, and penned the manifesto for Nike’s 2020 Black History Month campaign. She is the youngest board member of 826 National\, the largest youth writing network in the United States. \nAmanda had been invited as the Library’s summer Writer in Residence and she has graciously offered to host this virtual event since she can no longer be in Paris this June. We look forward to welcoming her in person when that is possible. \nThis event is free and open to the public (ages 12-18). This event will be hosted virtually via Zoom. Registered participants will be sent a link to join the event. Advance registration is required for Teen Nights (register HERE).  \nSend an email to Celeste\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions about events and collections for ages 0-18: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. Participation in teen events is free for Library members. \n  \nPhoto courtesy of Kelia Anne. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/friday-night-poets-a-workshop-with-national-youth-poet-laureate-amanda-gorman-ages-12-18-virtual-event-registration-required/
CATEGORIES:Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200627T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200627T120000
DTSTAMP:20260527T075620
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200619T080205Z
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SUMMARY:Mixed-Up Fairy Tales (ages 6-12) [VIRTUAL - RSVP REQUIRED]
DESCRIPTION:Ages 6-10\n\n\n \n\n\n\nYou know the original fairy tales. Now\, tune in for a few new takes on the classic stories! This event will be hosted by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste\, who will read several new spins on classic stories\, and then lead participants in the creation of their own fairy-tale inspired character art.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis program requires advance registration\, and is open to Library members. Click HERE to register. Registered participants will be sent a link to join the event via Zoom. Parents and caregivers are responsible for connecting to the meeting\, and monitoring their children’s use of the internet.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/mixed-up-fairy-tales-ages-6-12-virtual-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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SUMMARY:[FULL] Evenings with an Author: Emilio Williams [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:This event is now full\, thank you for your understanding. A recording will be released in our Podcast series\, “Evenings with an Author.” \n*Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed\, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public\, via Zoom. We have moved the events up\, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. \n\nEmilio Williams presents\n“Empty Streets\, Busy Lives:\nA surprising historical tour of le Septième through the iconic photos of Eugène Atget (1857–1927)”\n\nA century ago\, ex-pat American photographers Man Ray and Berenice Abbott discovered a treasure trove of photos that an unknown commercial photographer\, Eugène Atget\, had taken of the empty streets of Old Paris. The surrealists became enthralled by his uncanny and eerie images\, now regarded as the foundational masterpieces of street photography. During his research on the history of 7th arrondissement\, Emilio found an album of forgotten photos of the district taken by Atget. For his lecture\, Emilio has combined those rarely seen photos with surprising discoveries of the colorful figures who lived in the neighborhood and walked the streets around the American Library in Paris.\n\nEmilio Williams divides his time between Paris and Chicago\, where he is a playwright resident and faculty member at Chicago Dramatists. This fall he will be teaching at Columbia College\, Dominican University\, and Georgia State University. He is currently working on a non-fiction book about the forgotten stories of the 7th arrondissement in the Parisian Left Bank. His award-winning theater plays have been produced and published internationally to much critical acclaim. In his previous life as a journalist\, he worked for CNN in Atlanta and Washington DC.\n\n\nPhoto: “Fontaine de Mars” Eugène Atget\, 1903.
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