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Scholar Led Book Discussion: Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Community Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Book Club, Hybrid
Age Group:
Adults, Everyone
Event Details:

Led by Vara Neverow, Professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel f...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Book Club, Hybrid
Required
Event Details:

Led by Vara Neverow, Professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University

Disclaimer(s)

Hybrid

This program is hybrid with the option to attend in-person or online.

This event is in the "Adults" group.
This event is in the "Everyone" group.

Art & Craft Supply Swap drop-off

All Day
Gallery at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Adults, Everyone
Event Details:

THE OFFICIAL SWAP DAY IS SATURDAY, MAY 18, 12:00-4:00PM Do you have so many art and craft supplies that you don’t know what to do with? Bring them to the library and swap them f...

Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Gallery
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

THE OFFICIAL SWAP DAY IS SATURDAY, MAY 18, 12:00-4:00PM

This event is in the "Adults" group.
This event is in the "Everyone" group.

Art and Craft Supply Swap

Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Community Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Adults, Everyone
Event Details:

Do you have so many art and craft supplies that you don’t know what to do with? Bring them to the library and swap them for supplies that you would use or would like to try. Here’...

Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Do you have so many art and craft supplies that you don’t know what to do with? Bring them to the library and swap them for supplies that you would use or would like to try.
Here’s how it works: 

This event is in the "Adults" group.
This event is in the "Everyone" group.

Yarn Therapy

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at 11:30am - 1:30pm
Glass Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Adults, Everyone
Yarn Therapy:

If you like to knit or crochet, join our "therapy" sessions. Bring your yarn and tools. Come on in to knit, crochet, and socialize. Bring friends or meet new people. Yarn donations...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Glass Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Required

If you like to knit or crochet, join our "therapy" sessions. Bring your yarn and tools. Come on in to knit, crochet, and socialize. Bring friends or meet new people. Yarn donations are greatly appreciated.

This event is in the "Adults" group.

Author Talk Series: Asian American Representation in Literature: An Author Talk with Rebecca F. Kuang

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Virtual at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Author Talk, Virtual
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

We welcome you to register for a thrilling conversation with Rebecca F. Kuang (R.F. Kuang) as she chats with us about her New York Times bestselling novel, Yellowfac...

Virtual Event
Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Virtual
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Author Talk, Virtual
Event Details:

We welcome you to register for a thrilling conversation with Rebecca F. Kuang (R.F.

This event is in the "Adults" group.

The Book and Pub Club

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Off Site
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Adults
The Book and Pub Club:

The Book and Pub Club is a librarian-led book club that meets in local bars and restaurants to discuss books over food and drinks. For participants 21+.

Event Details:

Join us at Prohibition River, 82 Main St. in Nyack at 7pm to discuss Shark Heart by Emily Habeck.  For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is a...

Open
Required
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Off Site
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Required
Event Details:

The Book and Pub Club is a librarian-led book club that meets in local bars and restaurants to discuss books over food and drinks. For participants 21+.

Join us 

Disclaimer(s)

21+

Must be 21 or older to attend.

This event is in the "Adults" group.
This event is in the "Everyone" group.

More Than Mah Jongg

Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Community Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Fun & Games
Age Group:
Adults, Everyone
More Than Mah Jongg:

Gather for Mah Jongg with your own equipment or explore our expansive board game collection. No registration is required. No instruction is provided. Open to beginners and advance...

Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Fun & Games

Gather for Mah Jongg with your own equipment or explore our expansive board game collection.
No registration is required. No instruction is provided. Open to beginners and advanced. All are welcome to attend.

This event is in the "Adults" group.
This event is in the "Everyone" group.

Judy Stadt presents My Rhyme My Reason My Time My Season

Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Community Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Performance
Age Group:
Adults, Everyone
Event Details:

I have had many ups and downs during my very interesting and sometimes tumultuous lifetime and have created a series of raps or poems about how I am dealing with my life and aging,...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Performance
Required
Event Details:

I have had many ups and downs during my very interesting and sometimes tumultuous lifetime and have created a series of raps or poems about how I am dealing with my life and aging, however, these raps are relatable to everyone no matter what age.

This event is in the "Adults" group.

Adult(ish) Board Game Night

Thursday, May 23, 2024 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Community Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Fun & Games
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Come play a game from our Board Game Collection or bring a favorite game of your own. Bring friends and make more!

Open
Required
Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Fun & Games
Required
Event Details:

Come play a game from our Board Game Collection or bring a favorite game of your own. Bring friends and make more!

Memorial Day

All Day
Valley Cottage Library

The library is closed in observance of Memorial Day.

Closing
Branches:
Valley Cottage Library
Description:

The library is closed in observance of Memorial Day.

This event is in the "Adults" group.
This event is in the "Everyone" group.

Yarn Therapy

Tuesday, May 28, 2024 at 11:30am - 1:30pm
Glass Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Adults, Everyone
Yarn Therapy:

If you like to knit or crochet, join our "therapy" sessions. Bring your yarn and tools. Come on in to knit, crochet, and socialize. Bring friends or meet new people. Yarn donations...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Glass Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Required

If you like to knit or crochet, join our "therapy" sessions. Bring your yarn and tools. Come on in to knit, crochet, and socialize. Bring friends or meet new people. Yarn donations are greatly appreciated.

This event is in the "Adults" group.
This event is in the "Everyone" group.

More Than Mah Jongg

Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Community Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Fun & Games
Age Group:
Adults, Everyone
More Than Mah Jongg:

Gather for Mah Jongg with your own equipment or explore our expansive board game collection. No registration is required. No instruction is provided. Open to beginners and advance...

Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Fun & Games

Gather for Mah Jongg with your own equipment or explore our expansive board game collection.
No registration is required. No instruction is provided. Open to beginners and advanced. All are welcome to attend.

This event is in the "Adults" group.
This event is in the "Everyone" group.

Art Reception: Local Color: Rik Paul

Saturday, June 1, 2024 at 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Community Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Art Reception
Age Group:
Adults, Everyone
Event Details:

This exhibition of fine-art nature photography features inspiring landscapes, fascinating critters, and whimsical moments shot in the Rockland County area. Rik is a Rockland-base...

Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Art Reception
Event Details:

This exhibition of fine-art nature photography features inspiring landscapes,
fascinating critters, and whimsical moments shot in the Rockland County area.
Rik is a Rockland-based photographer.

This event is in the "Adults" group.
This event is in the "Everyone" group.

Trio Cabrini

Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Community Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Concert
Age Group:
Adults, Everyone
Event Details:

Taking their name from a boulevard in Washington Heights, the unique New York City-based TRIO CABRINI is really a quintet. Bassoonist Gina Cuffari doubles as a soprano and pianist....

Open
Required
Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Concert
Required
Event Details:

Taking their name from a boulevard in Washington Heights, the unique New York City-based TRIO CABRINI is really a quintet.

This event is in the "Adults" group.
This event is in the "Everyone" group.

Monday Movie Matinee: Rocketman

Monday, June 3, 2024 at 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Community Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Movie
Age Group:
Adults, Everyone
Monday Movie Matinee:

Drop in on scheduled Mondays to watch a movie on our big screen.

Event Details:

Rocketman 2019  |  R  |  2h 1m A musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John's breakthrough years.

Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Movie
Event Details:

Drop in on scheduled Mondays to watch a movie on our big screen.

Rocketman
2019  |  R  |  2h 1m

A musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John's breakthrough years.

This event is in the "Adults" group.

Author Talk Series: For the Love of Mars: A Human History of the Red Planet with Smithsonian Curator Matt Shindell

Monday, June 3, 2024 at 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Virtual at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Author Talk, Virtual
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Mars and its secrets have fascinated and mystified humans since ancient times. Due to its vivid color and visibility, geologic kinship with Earth, and potential as our best hope fo...

Virtual Event
Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Virtual
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Author Talk, Virtual
Event Details:

Mars and its secrets have fascinated and mystified humans since ancient times.

This event is in the "Adults" group.
This event is in the "Everyone" group.

Yarn Therapy

Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 11:30am - 1:30pm
Glass Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Adults, Everyone
Yarn Therapy:

If you like to knit or crochet, join our "therapy" sessions. Bring your yarn and tools. Come on in to knit, crochet, and socialize. Bring friends or meet new people. Yarn donations...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Glass Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Required

If you like to knit or crochet, join our "therapy" sessions. Bring your yarn and tools. Come on in to knit, crochet, and socialize. Bring friends or meet new people. Yarn donations are greatly appreciated.

This event is in the "Teens" group.
This event is in the "Adults" group.
This event is in the "Everyone" group.

Center for Safety and Change Outreach and Information

Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 3:00pm - 5:30pm
Gallery at Valley Cottage Library
Age Group:
Teens, Adults, Everyone
Event Details:

Center for Safety & Change provides critical services and support to women and all victims and survivors of gender-based violence and other crimes while working toward justice ...

Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Gallery
Age Group: Teens, Adults, Everyone
Event Details:

Center for Safety & Change provides critical services and support to women and all victims and survivors of gender-based violence and other crimes while working toward justice by creating social change.

This event is in the "Adults" group.
This event is in the "Everyone" group.

More Than Mah Jongg

Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Community Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Fun & Games
Age Group:
Adults, Everyone
More Than Mah Jongg:

Gather for Mah Jongg with your own equipment or explore our expansive board game collection. No registration is required. No instruction is provided. Open to beginners and advance...

Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Fun & Games

Gather for Mah Jongg with your own equipment or explore our expansive board game collection.
No registration is required. No instruction is provided. Open to beginners and advanced. All are welcome to attend.

This event is in the "Teens" group.
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Cookbook Club: Milk Street Tuesday Nights by Christopher Kimball

Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Community Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Teens, Adults
Event Details:

Back by popular demand! Join Katie and Ashley for a reprisal of the the cookbook club - part book club and part potluck.  In June we will be cooking from Milk Street Tue...

Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Event Details:

Back by popular demand!

Join Katie and Ashley for a reprisal of the the cookbook club - part book club and part potluck. 

Disclaimer(s)

Food Allergies

We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.

This event is in the "Adults" group.

VCWrites (Hybrid)

Thursday, June 6, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Community Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Workshop, Writing
Age Group:
Adults
VC Writes:

Join our librarian, Sean, for a monthly writing workshop.  Participants share their work via email two weeks before the meeting, and then receive feedback at the monthly ...

Event Details:

Submissions for this session are due: Thursday, 5/23.

Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Workshop, Writing
Event Details:

Join our librarian, Sean, for a monthly writing workshop.  Participants share their work via email two weeks before the meeting, and then receive feedback at the monthly sessions.

For submission guidelines and more information, please email Sean at s.antonucci@rcls.org

Submissions for this session are due: Thursday, 5/23.

This event is in the "Adults" group.
This event is in the "Everyone" group.

Monday Movie Matinee: Just Mercy

Monday, June 10, 2024 at 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Community Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Movie
Age Group:
Adults, Everyone
Monday Movie Matinee:

Drop in on scheduled Mondays to watch a movie on our big screen.

Event Details:

Just Mercy 2019  |  PG-13  |  2h 17m World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.

Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Movie
Event Details:

Drop in on scheduled Mondays to watch a movie on our big screen.

Just Mercy
2019  |  PG-13  |  2h 17m

This event is in the "Adults" group.
This event is in the "Everyone" group.

Yarn Therapy

Tuesday, June 11, 2024 at 11:30am - 1:30pm
Glass Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Adults, Everyone
Yarn Therapy:

If you like to knit or crochet, join our "therapy" sessions. Bring your yarn and tools. Come on in to knit, crochet, and socialize. Bring friends or meet new people. Yarn donations...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Glass Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Required

If you like to knit or crochet, join our "therapy" sessions. Bring your yarn and tools. Come on in to knit, crochet, and socialize. Bring friends or meet new people. Yarn donations are greatly appreciated.

This event is in the "Adults" group.

Shelf Indulgence Book Club: The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

Tuesday, June 11, 2024 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Community Room at Valley Cottage Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Adults
Shelf Indulgence Book Club:

New month, new genre! Join Anya and Megan in person OR via Zoom to indulge in a good book while exploring different genres of literature. Copies of the book will be available at th...

Event Details:

In June, we'll be discussing The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff.  Five years ago, Geeta lost her no-good husband. As in, she actually lost him—he walked out ...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Valley Cottage Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Required
Event Details:

New month, new genre! Join Anya and Megan in person OR via Zoom to indulge in a good book while exploring different genres of literature. Copies of the book will be available at the library to check out one month prior to the discussion. 

In June, we'll be discussing The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff.