Join in for a talk via ZOOM with cartoonist Harry Bliss about his career, humor, comics and his recent collaboration with Steve Martin in this webinar. Register on our website to receive the link for this Comic Chat on Thursday, April 13th, at 7 PM.
Harry Bliss is a cartoonist and cover artist
for The New Yorker magazine. His self-titled single panel gag cartoon ‘Bliss’
appears in newspapers nationally and internationally. Bliss has illustrated 26
books for children and most recently published his second New York Times
best-selling collaboration with entertainer, Steve Martin: "Number one is walking:
my life in the movies and other diversions". Bliss is the founder of the
CCS Cornish Fellowship for Graphic Novelists located in Cornish, New Hampshire.
Manchester-by-the-Sea Public Library will be
hosting the virtual talk and the event is sponsored by the following libraries:
Manchester-by-the- Sea, Danvers, Burlington, Newbury Town, Chelmsford and the
Kimball Library.
SILLY
STORYTIME: Come listen to silly stories and
jokes on April Fool’s Day (Saturday, April 1st at 1:00 PM). Play
silly games. Eat a silly snack. Wear your silliest outfit for a prize! This
class is NO JOKE. Bring your best jokes and best attitude for the funniest
holiday.
Please register children
ages 3-8 for a fun and funny time!
FILM ENTHUSIAST CLUB: Are you a Cineaste (an enthusiast for or devotee of movies or
filmmaking)? If so, join us for this fun
fan of films group. View award winning films, documentaries, foreign films and
modern classics. Watch the feature film and then join the group in giving a
'thumbs up' review.
On Tuesday, April 11 @ 1 PM
we are showing The Fabelmans. This
film tells the story of Young Sammy Fabelman who falls in love with movies
after his parents take him to see “The Greatest Show on Earth.” Armed with a
camera, Sammy starts to make his own films at home, much to the delight of his
supportive mother. Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 151 minutes
MORNING
& EVENING BOOK DISCUSSIONS: Each group asks for your registration in advance and are very
open and friendly to welcome newcomers. Copies of the book are available for
check-out at the main desk.
EVENING: The book for April
18th at 6 PM is The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan.
Ruth Young and her
widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before
she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which
reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known. . ..
In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition
rule, LuLing grows up in the care of her mute Precious Auntie as the family
endures a curse laid upon a relative known as the bonesetter. When headstrong
LuLing rejects the marriage proposal of the coffinmaker, a shocking series of
events are set in motion–all of which lead back to Ruth and LuLing in modern
San Francisco. The truth that Ruth learns from her mother’s past will forever
change her perception of family, love, and forgiveness.
MORNING: The book to be
discussed on April 26th at 10:15 AM is April: The Honey Bus by
Meredith May.
With a voice that is at once
as innocent as a young child’s should be and yet as preternaturally mature as
children from dysfunctional homes often have to be in order to survive,
Meredith May invites us into the inexplicable yet strangely hopeful world of
her California childhood in this moving memoir.
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