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Community Cinema – February

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:20:46 +0000

The Mancos Public Library will show the film “More Than A Month”. Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a29-year-old African-American filmmaker, sets out on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month.

Date: Thursday, February 16th

Time: 7pm

Place: MPL Community Meeting Room, 211 West First Street, Mancos

He stops in various cities, wearing a sandwich board, to solicit signatures on his petition to end the observance. He explains that relegating Black History Month to the coldest, shortest month of the year is an insult, and that black history is not separate from American history. Through this thoughtful and humorous journey, he explores what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a “post-racial” America. Free! Panel-led discussion to follow the film. For more information please call MPL at 533-7600.

Be Our Valentine – Old Fashioned Card Making Workshop

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:39:15 +0000

Make old fashioned Valentines at our annual workshop. The Library will offer supplies and limited instruction on how to make old fashioned Valentine cards. There will be colorful paper, doilies, markers, stickers, glue, etc. to make the Valentines, plus a few examples.

Date: Saturday, February 11th

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm

Place: MPL Community Meeting Room, 211 West First Street

Free! Open to all ages. All materials supplied. For more information, please call the Library at 533-7600.

Going to Denver? MPL Needs You!

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:49:29 +0000

If anyone is visiting Denver soon, and would be interested in picking up some shelving items, please let us know! The Boulder Public Library is graciously donating some shelving units to the Mancos Library so that we can expand our collection.

You will need a full-sized pickup truck, or preferably a trailer, as the shelving is rather large.

Please contact Lee Hallberg at 970.533.7600, if you are interested. MPL Thanks You!!

Book Discussion: Untie the Strong Woman

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:41:18 +0000

The Mancos Public Library, located at 211 W. First St., will host a discussion led by Midge Kirk around the newest book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes titled Untie the Strong Woman: Blessed Mother’s Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul.

Date: Saturday, January 28th

Time: 10:00am-12:00 Noon

Place: MPL Community Room, 211 West First Street

“Call her Our Lady, La Nuestra Señora, Holy Mother-or one of her thousands of other names,” says Dr. Estés. “She wears hundreds of costumes, dozens of skin tones, is patroness of deserts, mountains, stars and oceans. Thus she comes to us in billions of images, but at her center, she is the Great Immaculate Heart.” With Untie the Strong Woman, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés invites us to reconnect with “the fierce and loving Blessed Mother who is friendly, but never tame-she who flies to our aid when the road is long and our hearts are broken, ever ready to rekindle the inner fire of our creative souls.”

All are welcome. Free. For more information please call MPL at 533-7600.

Community Cinema – January

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:10:39 +0000

The Mancos Public Library will show the film Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock, as part of the ongoing Community Cinema series, on Thursday, January 19th, at 7:00pm. Daisy Bates was a complex, unconventional, and largely forgotten heroine of the civil rights movement who led the charge to desegregate the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. A panel-led discussion will follow the film. Free! For more information please call MPL at 533-7600 or visit www.mancoslibrary.org.

Watch A Feminist Before the Term Was Invented on PBS. See more from Independent Lens.

Facebook 101 Class

admin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:50:25 +0000

In this beginner class, we will cover most aspects of Facebook that you are likely to face each time you login. The goal of this class is to help participants to become familiar with the Facebook website and what you can do on this social networking site.

Date: Wednesday, December 21

Time: 5pm

Place: MPL Community Meeting Room, 211 West First Street, Mancos

Specific Topics include:

Navigation, including status updates, comments, & posting photos
Profile / Timeline
Privacy Settings
Applications
Netiquette

FREE!

We will have computers available for use in the class. If you would like, please feel free to bring your own laptop.

Facebook 101 Class Registration

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Holiday Craft Party

admin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:12:42 +0000

MPL’s Holiday Craft Party is Coming Up! All ages welcome.

Date: Saturday, December 10th

Time: 10am -12pm

Place: MPL Community Meeting Room, 211 West First Street.

Supplies (and some instruction) will be available to create snowflakes, window stars, luminarias, and pine cone bird feeders. All items make great decorations or beautiful gifts.

Free! Call MPL at 533-7600 for more information.

2nd Annual Technology Petting Zoo

admin — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:52:35 +0000

The Mancos Public Library’s 2nd Annual Technology Petting Zoo brings some of the hottest electronic devices on the market – to Mancos! On Wednesday, November 30, come explore and play with innovative technologies and find out more about their uses in the home, workplace and at school.

Technologies on display at the Zoo include:

E-Book Readers: Nook, Kindle
Netbooks,
MacBooks,
iPad,
Smart Board,
iPods,
Energy Display,
and More!

The purpose of this Tech Petting Zoo is to help individuals, families, teachers and small businesses see what kind of technologies are available today, and how to use them effectively. The Tech Petting Zoo is an open-house type of event and will have a mixture of scheduled demonstrations and one-on-one conversations.

The MPL 2nd Annual Technology Petting Zoo will be held at the Library on Wednesday, November 30, from 5pm – 7pm, in the Community Meeting Room, 211 West First Street, Mancos.

There is no charge to attend and reservations are not required. Please call the Library at 970.533.7600 for more information.

6th Annual Wreath Making Workshop

admin — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:21:48 +0000

The Mancos Public Library is sponsoring their 6th Annual Wreath Making Workshop!

Date: Monday, December 5th

Time: 6:30pm

Place: Community Meeting Room, MPL – 211 West First Street, Mancos.

Mary Vozar will lead this workshop on how to make a beautiful holiday wreath out of a wide variety of evergreens. Each participant will make one wreath to take home.

The cost of the class is $5. Participants are encouraged to bring gloves and clippers if they have them as well as any special items they may wish to glue on. Ribbons and other decorations will be provided.

Preregistration is required. To sign up, or for more information, please call the Library at 533-7600.

“Welcome to Gasland” Film Showing & Panel

admin — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:03:52 +0000

The Mancos Public Library will show the film “Gasland”, a film about fracking and the largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history that has swept across the United States.

Date: Thursday, December 1st

Time: 7:00pm

Place: Community Meeting Room, MPL – 211 West First Street, Mancos

The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudia Arabia of natural gas” just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination.

A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. The film is part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, and part showdown.

Members of the San Juan Citizens Alliance, and the BLM will be on hand to answer questions after the film.

Free! For more information call MPL at 533-7600.