Join us for this special event! Hudson Valley Film Commission founder and director, Laurent Rejto, will talk about the regional Film and TV industry, and answer questions, including:

• What kind of crew members do productions hire?
• How can I get work as an actor?
• What kind of vendors do local productions need?
• How can I rent my house as a location?
• How do I get myself or my business involved?

Since 2000, the Hudson Valley Film Commission has been a conduit for pre-production, production and post-production for film, TV, photography, and new media in the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill region. As a 501c3 non-profit, the mission of the Hudson Valley Film Commission is to create sustainable economic development and educational opportunities, by attracting, supporting and promoting local film, TV, photography, and new media work.

Happens in the East Room! Free! All ages. No need to sign up. 

Share your favourite memes.

We will set up the smart TV and the laptop and we will show your favourite memes.

We will also make our own memes with an app. Bring images with you on your smartphone or device. Don't have a device? We have three tablets to share.

For teens! Happens in the East Room.

Pizza will be served (while supplies last) thanks to Broadway Pizza in Tivoli.

Community Shred Day with a mobile shredding machine from Record Storage Solutions. Co-sponsored by the Village of Tivoli and the Tivoli Free Library.

Happens in the library parking lot. Free! Open to all.

Bring up three banker-sized boxes (Dimensions: 10″ x 12″ x 15″) of shreddable material.

Safe to shred:

• Spiral notebooks
• Papers with staples
• Papers with paper clips
• Papers with binder clips
• Check books/registers
• Sale receipt books
• Newspapers
• Photographs
• Hanging folders
• DVDs/CDs
• Tabbed dividers
• Credit cards are OK
• OK to bring in paper bags

Do NOT bring:

• Books
• Magazines
• Plastic bags
• Ringed-binders
• No top-load sheet protectors
• No painted surfaces
• No cardboard

For more info on shredding: http://www.recordstoragesolutionsinc.com/what-to-shred.php

Spring is here! Bring all your extra plants: perennials, annual seedlings, shrubs, vines, houseplants, and vegetable/herb seedlings.

Have plants divided in containers, labeled with name, and with basic planting instructions.

Bring your plants by 10:30am. Be on time... swapping starts at 11:00am sharp! Happens outside at the Tivoli Library by the gazebo. (If it rains, it will take place in the East Room, inside of the library.)

Join us for a special story hour and craft with local illustrator, Hannah Barrett. Written by Mary Meriam, Nuts in Nutland, is a delightfully illustrated and joyful poetic adventure. It offers a message that emphasizes the importance of accepting differences and versed in playful rhymed couplets - reminiscent at moments of the verses to be found in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland or of T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats in its wit and charm.

Hannah will lead a craft making nut crowns and jewelry after the story is read.

Perfect for young children ages 4-7. Happens in the East Room.

About Hannah Barrett: Hannah Barrett received her BA at Wellesley College in German and Printmaking in 1989 and her MFA in Painting at Boston University in 1998. She has exhibited her works in galleries and museums in New York, Boston MA, Washington DC, Paris, and beyond. Barrett is the recipient of many art awards. Currently she serves as the International Program Coordinator, Berlin at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. This is her first published book of her illustrations.

Join us and the Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union for a special story time. Learn about financial literacy and about the money management concept: "Save, Share, Spend, Earn". MHVFCU believes that teaching concepts of wise money management and saving at an early age yields financially responsible adults.

Meet a brother and a sister Berenstain Bear.

Afterwards, we will have a craft - make your own piggy bank!

Contact the library to register. Space and materials are limited. For ages: 5-10. Happens in the East Room.

Come celebrate Chocolate Chip Day with our First Annual “Chip Off”! We are inviting you to enter a baked goods and confections “people’s choice” contest using chocolate chips as an ingredient. (All kinds of chocolate chips are included:milk, dark, white, mint, bittersweet/semi-sweet, and, butterscotch.)

Sign up to be a contestant with the library by: Monday, May 14, 2018. (Extended deadline!)

We are seeking 15 participants. Once signed up, write down what you are making with an ingredient list to bring with you day of the event. Contest is for ages: 16+.

Arrive with your creation by 4:00pm to set-up. Bring cutting and serving utensils. Event starts at 4:30pm.

We will provide plates, napkins, and forks/spoons.

While supplies last. All ages are invited to vote!

Special prizes for the top three winners!

Confronting climate-dangers that threaten life on earth. Join local author and poet, Marcia Slatkin, as she reads from her latest book, Cheese After Fukushima: Poems for a Changing Planet.

Hear voices of earth entities - the warning of a melting glacier; a triumphant jellyfish, having filled seas now depleted of large species; and the apology of fire as it consumes vast forests, unable to quell its appetite.

"Minimalist, musical, and boldly imaginative," says one reviewer.

"Slatkin shows an impressive breadth of vision, and engages... in urgent fashion," says another.

Come listen and then join in for a discussion afterwards about our climate situation at this unique and timely program. Happens in the East Room.

About Marcia Slatkin: Living in Rhinebeck, Slatkin is a playwright and photographer as well as a poet. Her published books include, A Woman Milking: Barnyard Poems,Word Press, 2006, and NOT YET: A Healing Voyage Through Alzheimer's Care-Giving, sfapress, 2012. Cheese After Fukushima was published by sfapress in fall, 2017. She will read from all three books, which will be available for purchase (local checks/cash only).

Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.

Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother–his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.

The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.

Our PageTurners Book Club meets the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7:00pm in the library for a lively group discussion of a different book each month! Come every month, or just when the book interests you!

Contact the library to reserve a copy of each month’s book.

Calling all Gardenteers! Help us get the Tivoli Library's garden plot growing. We will have some tools on hand and some seeds/plants. But, we need YOUR help! Please bring any seeds/seedlings you have that we can plant. (Full sun). Perennials and annuals welcome.

Make sure you dress appropriately, stay hydrated, and cover up for the sun!

The goal is to have a gardening session on every other Friday (weather depending) @ 4:30pm-5:30pm during the spring-fall.

The Tivoli Free Library invites you for some casual conversation to share your views about your community with your neighbors. What makes it special? What do you love about it? What would you change? Your input will help the library shape their long-range plan of service. Bard students welcome! Refreshments will be served.

To RSVP, call the library at 845-757-3771, e-mail Michele DelPriore at tivolidirector@gmail.com, or go to our website, www.tivolilibrary.org, and click on the "Let's Talk, Tivoli!" button to sign up. Other conversations will be held at the Traghaven Whiskey Pub, the Red Hook Community Center and Provoost Park. Call the library for details.