Local Author Christina Nealson to headline Open Mic Nite. Photo Courtesy C. Nealson

Open Mic Nite Returns!

The Absolute Bakery and Cafe and the Mancos Public Library present the popular Open Mic night.  Local author and photographer Christina Nealson will headline November’s event,  and will share select writings.  Christina has been traveling for several months in the Pacific Northwest and many places in Alaska, and we are looking forward to welcoming her home and hearing about her journey.

Everyone is encouraged to come and share poems, short stories, or songs. This event is free and the Bakery will have beer, wine, and desserts for sale.

Date: November 18th

Time: 7 pm

Christina’s essays have appeared in numerous magazines and publications including the Santa Fean, and Santa Fe Trends, Inside/Outside Magazine, Writers on the Range syndicated column, Mex-Connect, Taos Horsefly and numerous book collections that include Living in the Runaway West (Fulcrum publishers, 2000) and Writers on the Range (University Press of Colorado, 1998).  Her Mexico Travel essays were featured on Mex-Connect online. Travels have Christina nto the Mayan lands of Mexico, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, down the Baja Peninsula, throughout Canada and the United States and across the sea to France, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Denmark.

Please note that this program has been postponed.

New date and time to be announced!!

The Mancos Public Library is offering a workshop on dealing with grief called “A Grief Brief”. This class will be offered on Tuesday, October 26th, at 6:30 pm at the library located at 211 W. First St.

Many, if not all of us, have experienced the loss of a loved one. Grieving this loss can be overwhelming, scary, and lonely.

“A Grief Brief” will provide an overview of the complex experience of grief and the importance of mourning and doing grief work. We will talk about appropriate expectations you can have for your or your loved one’s grief as well as hopefully dispel the myths many hold about grief and loss. Understanding grief and the grieving process can make a difficult journey – whether yours or that of someone you know – a little bit easier and a lot less scary.

“A Grief Brief” will be facilitated by Susan Engstrom of Solace Counseling. Susan is a psychotherapist with offices in Mancos and in Durango. She is certified as a Grief Counselor and also provides support for the challenges of caregiving, aging, and living with chronic illness.
This program is free and open to everyone. For more information please call the Library at 533-7600.

The Mancos Public Library, the Tribal College Journal, and Rocky Mountain PBS have partnered up to show the film: “Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian”, a provocative and entertaining look at the Portrayal of Native Americans in Cinema from the silent era to the present time.
Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond takes an entertaining, insightful, and often humorous look at the Hollywood Indian, exploring the portrayal of North American Natives through a century of cinema and examining the ways that the myth of “the Injun” has influenced the world’s understanding—and misunderstanding—of Natives. Narrated by Diamond with infectious enthusiasm and good humor, Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian is a loving look at cinema through the eyes of the people who appeared in its very first flickering images and have survived to tell their stories their own way.
This film will play at the Mancos Public Library on Thursday, October 21st.  The doors will open at 6:30pm and the hour-long film will begin at 7:00pm.  There will be a panel-led discussion after the movie is over.  All are welcome.  Free.  For more information please call the Mancos Pubic Library at 533-7600.

The Mancos Library District cordially invites area Directors and Boards of Trustees to a Financial Workshop presented by members of the Front Range Financial Officers Group and the Colorado State Library on Friday, October 29 from 11:00am – 3:00pm.

Mike Varnet from Pikes Peak Library District and Chris Brogan from Pueblo City County Library District will present information on the following topics:

• Chart of account/general ledger issues
• Financial statement preparations
• Budget law
• Finance automated systems
• TABOR
• Investments

The Mancos Friends of the Library will provide lunch. Please RSVP by October 20 (so that we can get a head count). We look forward to giving you a tour of our new library if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet!

Donation Days!!

Sponsored by the Mancos Friends of the Library (MFOL)

Monthly on the 1^st and 3^rd Thursdays, 3:00-6:00 pm, at 211 West First Street, in the Library Foyer. (Donated materials may not be left outside the library or in the book drop.)

Typical Characteristics of Acceptable Donations:

1.         Paperback and hardcover books in good condition (must be clean with binding and covers intact);
2.         DVDs and books on CD.

Typical Characteristics of Unacceptable Donations:

1.         Books in poor condition including those with yellowed pages, highlighted text, or odors from smoke or mildew;
2.         Most magazines (including National Geographic) and newspapers;
3.         Reader’s Digest condensed books;
4.         Dated publications such as almanacs, tax guides, travel guides, technical books, and textbooks;
5.         Old reference sets (encyclopedias, etc);
6.         VHS videos and books on tape.

We appreciate your interest in donating goods as a form of support for your community library. Unfortunately, limitations of storage space and staff time make it impossible to accept all potential donations. The Mancos Public Library (MPL) reserves the right to accept or refuse any gift. The valuation of donated items is the responsibility of the donor, but the number and type of materials will be acknowledged by the Mancos Friends of the Library in writing. Accepted donations become the sole property of the Mancos Public Library, and may be transferred to the Mancos Friends of the Library for fundraising or disposal.

Local writer Jean Campion will offer a workshop titled “Writing Historical Fiction” on Saturday, October 23rd, at 10:00am at the Mancos Public Library, 211 W. First St.  Campion is the author of Minta Forever andReturn to Rocky Top.  Both books take place in a fictionalized southwest Colorado about 100 years ago.  Campion will share her writing skills as well answer questions about how she got published.  Free.  For ages 14 and up.  For more information please call the Mancos Public Library at 533-7600.

The Mancos Public Library offers three different programs for children on Wednesdays, September-April.  Lap sit is on Wednesdays from 10:00-10:20 and is for infants ages 0-18 months.  Songs, nursury rhymes, and verses will be taught in a very sweet and casual environment.  Little People storytime starts at 11:00.  Children ages 3-6 will be taught songs, verses and stories with the changing of the seasons emphasized. A craft is also offered. Older people storytime starts at 11:30.  This hour long program offers riddles, verses, and a chapter book as well as a craft.  Free!  For more information please call the Library at 533-7600.