Annual Reports to the Community

Join our programmer Noelle for a new bi-weekly online series: Art Journaling, inspired by the Creativebug workshop. An art journal is a visual diary that may include drawings, words, doodles, and imagery. Art journaling encourages reflection, stress relief and creativity. 

Attendees will receive journaling kits that include their very own journal and art supplies. During the four part series we will explore:
 
* Getting Started with Art Journaling
* Creating Backgrounds
* Collage, Composition & Lettering
* Sketching on the Go! (may meet outside, weather permitting)

Bi-weekly Series - starting February 3rd-March 17th
4-5PM - online
FREE
Ages 12 and up

Space is limited. Register in advance: tivoliprograms@gmail.com or call 845-757-3771. Registrants will be notified regarding supply pick up and the Zoom link.
 

Just in time for the New Year! Celeste Graves is back with an all new 6-week session of Qi~Flow~Yoga ONLINE, blending the energy flow of qigong with yoga stretches and meditative relaxation. Modifications are available as needed.

Six week session for Adults, 18-108.
Tuesdays, February 2nd through March 9th
10:30-11:45AM
Contact the library to register 
 
Fee: $15 for entire six week session payable in cash or check - drop off at library or send via mail. Checks should be made payable to the Tivoli Free Library. Upon receipt of payment, a Zoom link will be emailed.

Join us for a conversation with local writer, Roselee Blooston, during which she will discuss her award -winning books, Dying in Dubai and Trial by Family.
 
TRIAL BY FAMILY tells a story of need, greed, love, and money--part family saga, part legal drama. 
 
DYING IN DUBAI is a memoir of love, loss, reckoning, and renewal, set against the backdrop of the Middle East’s Rodeo Drive-on-Mars city 
 
Free. For all Ages. Happens on Zoom. Must register by calling 845-757-3771 or email tivoliprograms@gmail.com 
 
About the author:Roselee Blooston is a writer, actress, teacher, and arts administrator whose works for the stage have been widely produced, and whose fiction and essays have appeared in print and online magazines, and in anthologies.Roselee currently lives in the Hudson Valley, teaches the Write Your Story Workshop for Northern Dutchess Hospital, as well as private memoir and essay writing workshops.
 

Join our programmer Noelle for a new bi-weekly online series: Art Journaling, inspired by the Creativebug workshop. An art journal is a visual diary that may include drawings, words, doodles, and imagery. Art journaling encourages reflection, stress relief and creativity. 

Attendees will receive journaling kits that include their very own journal and art supplies. During the four part series we will explore:
 
* Getting Started with Art Journaling
* Creating Backgrounds
* Collage, Composition & Lettering
* Sketching on the Go! (may meet outside, weather permitting)

Bi-weekly Series - starting February 3rd-March 17th
4-5PM - online
FREE
Ages 12 and up

Space is limited. Register in advance: tivoliprograms@gmail.com or call 845-757-3771. Registrants will be notified regarding supply pick up and the Zoom link.
 

“Tóibín is at his lyrical best in this beautiful and daring work” (The New York Times Book Review) that portrays Mary as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity—shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.

In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son’s crucifixion. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel, who are her keepers. She does not agree that her son is the Son of God; nor that his death was “worth it”; nor that the “group of misfits he gathered around him, men who could not look a woman in the eye,” were holy disciples.

Mary judges herself ruthlessly (she did not stay at the foot of the cross until her son died—she fled, to save herself), and her judgment of others is equally harsh. This woman whom we know from centuries of paintings and scripture as the docile, loving, silent, long-suffering, obedient, worshipful mother of Christ becomes a tragic heroine with the relentless eloquence of Electra or Medea or Antigone. Tóibín’s tour de force of imagination and language is a portrait so vivid and convincing that our image of Mary will be forever transformed.

Click here to register for the zoom meeting
 
Books are available at the circulation desk and to download via Overdrive. 

Join us online for a cocktail, crafting and catching up as we paint mini Frida Kahlo flower pots and plant live succulents. As part of Women's History month, we will celebrate Frida Kahlo's work as an artist and her individualism. We will discuss Frida's journey as an artist and the tragedies that befell her along the way, eventually informing her prolific style.

Register in advance by emailing the library: tivoliprograms@gmail.com or call 845-757-3771. A Zoom link will be sent.

FREE, adults 18 and up
All supplies included - space is limited

Genealogy research often focuses on males, but 50% of the family tree is made up of women. Join us this Women's History month for an intriguing online webinar that explores the stories of your maternal ancestors. Explore how to discover where your great-great-grandmothers may be hiding in the record collections.

FREE event, open to all ages. Please register in advance by emailing tivoliprograms@gmail.com or call 845-757-3771.

This Women's History Month, we are joined by Jeff Urbin: Education Specialist at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum as he speaks about Eleanor Roosevelt's contributions to change. This enlightening online webinar will focus on some of the tools and techniques Eleanor Roosevelt used to advance the causes she supported.
 
Register with the library at tivoliprograms@gmail.com or call 845-757-3771.

FREE
Open to all Ages

Join us for a conversation with local writer, Samantha Hunt, during which she will discuss her books, her short stories, and more! There will be a Q&A a the end.
 
Free. For all Ages. Happens on Zoom. Must register by calling 845-757-3771 or email tivoliprograms@gmail.com 
 
Samantha Hunt is the author of The Dark Dark: Stories, and three novels. Mr. Splitfoot is a ghost story. The Invention of Everything Else is about the life of inventor Nikola Tesla. The Seas, Hunt’s first novel, was republished by Tin House Books in 2018. Hunt is the recipient of a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Prize, the St. Francis College Literary Prize Hunt has been published by the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly,the New York Times, the Guardian and a number of other fine publications.