Showing posts with label Festivals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Festivals. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Lunar New Year Celebration at Sharon Forks Library
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Celebrating Juneteenth: A Journey to Freedom
Juneteenth, a federal holiday celebrated on June 19, marks a pivotal moment in American history. On this day in 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that the Civil War had ended and enslaved people were now free—over two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This day symbolizes the end of slavery in the United States and is a time for reflection, education, and celebration of African American culture and achievements.
Explore Juneteenth Through Our Collection
To help our community learn more about Juneteenth we've curated a list of insightful and engaging books available at Forsyth County Public Library. Dive into these compelling reads to better understand the significance of Juneteenth and the enduring legacy of resilience and freedom.
This beautifully illustrated children's book follows young Mazie as she learns about the history of Juneteenth. Through the storytelling of her father, Mazie discovers the struggles and triumphs of her ancestors, making this book a perfect introduction for younger readers.
Monday, January 10, 2022
How-To Festival Returns to FCPL: Bigger and Better Than Ever!
Back by popular demand and better than ever, enjoy dozens of free, bite-sized sessions with local experts on health, business, hobbies, personal finance, and more!
From "How to Not Get Taken for a Ride by Your Mechanic," "How to Boost Your Metabolism," and "How to Fish for Striper," to "How to Attract Backyard Birds," there really is something for everyone!
Monday, August 27, 2018
Lambert Art Students Paint Piano for Pianos for Peace Music Festival
A beautifully and uniquely painted piano will be unveiled at the Sharon Forks Library on Saturday, September 1 as part of the Pianos for Peace Festival, an annual community arts program based in Atlanta.
The piano was provided to the library by Pianos for Peace, a non-profit organization founded by composer and pianist Malek Jandali to build peace through music, arts, and education.
Student volunteers from the National Art Honor Society at Lambert High School created and executed the painting and decoration of the piano for the Sharon Forks Library. The design theme is Flowering Voices. The beauty of music is universal, appreciated by both nature and humankind.
“We’re excited to be involved in one of Atlanta’s largest public art projects and to be able to share this experience of art and music with our patrons,” says Sharon Forks Library branch manager Mendy Gunter.
The library is one of three Pianos for Peace locations in Forsyth County and its piano will be on display and available for visitors to play in Meeting Room A of the Sharon Forks Library through the end of the Festival on September 22. The other two pianos are on display and may be played at The Collection at Forsyth and Lambert High School.
Following its public display, Gunter says the piano will be donated to a school in Forsyth County.
“Part of the Pianos for Peace mission is to make art and music accessible to the community as a whole. All of the pianos in the Festival will be donated to local schools, nursing homes, healthcare facilities, and community centers. We’re so pleased that our piano will find a home in the music program at Little Mill Middle School,” Gunter explains.
This year, the Pianos for Peace Festival will include 50 pianos that will be seen and heard by about half a million residents and visitors to venues such as Piedmont Park, Georgia Tech, Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta Airport, and the Center for Civil and Human Rights.
Several performances, guest lectures, and special presentations are scheduled in venues all around Atlanta through the duration of the Pianos for Peace Festival. Two such programs will be held at the Sharon Forks Library.
The Chamber Orchestra from Lambert High School will appear in concert at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 11. The founder of Pianos for Peace will also speak and perform during this free concert. The event is open to the public and is appropriate for all ages.
On Wednesday, September 19 at 7:00 p.m., Dr. Andrea Pérez Mukdsi, Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of North Georgia, will give a special presentation on the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a youth orchestra based in Seville, Spain consisting of musicians of from all across the Middle East with the goal of promoting a peaceful co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians. The presentation is intended for adults and teens and admission is free.
Further information about other pianos in the Festival is available at PianosForPeace.org and on the free Pianos for Peace app available for both iPhone and Android devices.
For more information on the library’s piano, stop by the Sharon Forks Library at 2820 Old Atlanta Road, Cumming.
The piano was provided to the library by Pianos for Peace, a non-profit organization founded by composer and pianist Malek Jandali to build peace through music, arts, and education.
Student volunteers from the National Art Honor Society at Lambert High School created and executed the painting and decoration of the piano for the Sharon Forks Library. The design theme is Flowering Voices. The beauty of music is universal, appreciated by both nature and humankind.
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| Image Credit: Pianos for Peace |
“We’re excited to be involved in one of Atlanta’s largest public art projects and to be able to share this experience of art and music with our patrons,” says Sharon Forks Library branch manager Mendy Gunter.
The library is one of three Pianos for Peace locations in Forsyth County and its piano will be on display and available for visitors to play in Meeting Room A of the Sharon Forks Library through the end of the Festival on September 22. The other two pianos are on display and may be played at The Collection at Forsyth and Lambert High School.
Following its public display, Gunter says the piano will be donated to a school in Forsyth County.
“Part of the Pianos for Peace mission is to make art and music accessible to the community as a whole. All of the pianos in the Festival will be donated to local schools, nursing homes, healthcare facilities, and community centers. We’re so pleased that our piano will find a home in the music program at Little Mill Middle School,” Gunter explains.
This year, the Pianos for Peace Festival will include 50 pianos that will be seen and heard by about half a million residents and visitors to venues such as Piedmont Park, Georgia Tech, Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta Airport, and the Center for Civil and Human Rights.
Several performances, guest lectures, and special presentations are scheduled in venues all around Atlanta through the duration of the Pianos for Peace Festival. Two such programs will be held at the Sharon Forks Library.
The Chamber Orchestra from Lambert High School will appear in concert at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 11. The founder of Pianos for Peace will also speak and perform during this free concert. The event is open to the public and is appropriate for all ages.
On Wednesday, September 19 at 7:00 p.m., Dr. Andrea Pérez Mukdsi, Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of North Georgia, will give a special presentation on the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a youth orchestra based in Seville, Spain consisting of musicians of from all across the Middle East with the goal of promoting a peaceful co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians. The presentation is intended for adults and teens and admission is free.
Further information about other pianos in the Festival is available at PianosForPeace.org and on the free Pianos for Peace app available for both iPhone and Android devices.
For more information on the library’s piano, stop by the Sharon Forks Library at 2820 Old Atlanta Road, Cumming.
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Scarecrow Festival and Fall Storywalk at Cumming Library
The Fourth Annual Scarecrow Festival and Fall Storywalk is now open and ready for patrons to visit in The Secret Garden, located behind the Cumming Library.
A Storywalk allows garden visitors to read a children’s book page-by-page as they stroll through the garden and look at each mounted page staggered throughout the space. Storywalks encourage literacy and outdoor family time.
The current featured book is Pick a Circle, Gather Squares: A Fall Harvest of Shapes by Felicia Sanzari Chernesky. The book depicts a harvest hayride at pumpkin farm, where a family finds circles, squares, ovals, and other shapes all around. The story promotes interactive counting and searching for the different shapes within each illustration.
The FCPL Friends and Advocates have once again contributed an adorable scarecrow scene and the Forsyth Master Gardeners participate each year by beautifully decorating The Secret Garden for fall with pumpkins, corn, and mums. The Master Gardeners also build a scarecrow to join those designed and constructed by the Youth Services team.
Stop by and visit our lovely garden with its spirit of autumn displays!
The current featured book is Pick a Circle, Gather Squares: A Fall Harvest of Shapes by Felicia Sanzari Chernesky. The book depicts a harvest hayride at pumpkin farm, where a family finds circles, squares, ovals, and other shapes all around. The story promotes interactive counting and searching for the different shapes within each illustration.
Stop by and visit our lovely garden with its spirit of autumn displays!
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Scarecrows Take Over Secret Garden at Cumming Library
Library staff, Forsyth County Master Gardeners, and Forsyth County Public Library Friends & Advocates all worked to create a series of seven silly, sweet, and sprightly scarecrows for children and families strolling through the Storywalk to enjoy.
This month’s story, The Lonely Scarecrow by Tim Preston, winds along the garden path as readers learn what happens to a lonely scarecrow whose scary face keeps him from making friends with the animals around him. Each page of book has been posted on a garden stake along an easy-to-follow, numbered path.
“Our Storywalk promotes literacy, physical activity, family togetherness and being in the outdoors,” says Holly Raus, Information Specialist for Youth Services at the Cumming Library. Raus led efforts to launch the Storywalk and increase patron awareness of The Secret Garden earlier this year.
The first scarecrow is suspended upside down, as he’s in the middle of turning a cartwheel. Designed by the Cumming Library staff, this scarecrow will surely have visitors going head over heels for the Storywalk.
Other designs for the scarecrow scenes include a prairie-style scarecrow picking flowers, a set of formally-dresses grandma and grandpa scarecrows dancing, and a farmer scarecrow bidding visitors farewell as they leave the garden.
The Storywalk is free and open to the public during regular hours at the Cumming Library. The library will also host a special Scarecrow Fall Festival Storytime on Saturday, October 18 at 11:00 a.m. Children will enjoy scarecrow-themed stories, music, and crafts and then explore The Secret Garden and Storywalk.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Decatur Book Festival
For book lovers the place to be last weekend wasn't the Georgia Dome, Atlanta Motor Speedway, or even Dragon Con.
The only place for true bibliophiles any Labor Day Weekend is the Decatur Book Festival which hosts over 600 authors and is one of the largest independent book festivals in the country.
It was a thrill to be among the 85,000 who attended the event this year. With so many great authors appearing, the logistics of seeing them all was challenging so I decided to stick to the children’s area where so many of my favorites were meeting their fans and autographing books.
Our first event was Jedi Council with Tony Diterlizzi and Tom Angleberger (pictured below), authors of two very popular series, The Spiderwick Chronicles and Origami Yoda. The audience enjoyed a folding lesson from Tom Angleberger and made origami Luke Skywalkers. Tony Diterlizzi’s excitement over his upcoming adaptation of the original Star Wars Trilogy was obvious as he revealed scenes from the book’s trailer produced by Lucasfilm. (Look for The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight to be appearing soon in the FCPL catalog.) Tony's seven-year-old daughter Sophia helped her dad out by signing books and postcards along side him.
The next panel included FCPL celebrities Jennifer L. Holm, the author of Baby Mouse, Stick Dog creator Tom Watson, Magician Mike Lane and award-winning author Jon Scieszka.
Jon Scieszka, donned a fluffy white wig to promote his newest book, Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor. Mike Lane, coauthor of the Magic Shop series entertained the crowd with magic tricks while Tom Watson taught us to draw Stick Dog.
The highlight of the event for me was meeting so many well-known authors and heading home with my backpack full of autographed books. For the younger fans it seemed that the best part of the event was meeting Pete the Cat in person.
Alicia Cavitt
Information Specialist
The only place for true bibliophiles any Labor Day Weekend is the Decatur Book Festival which hosts over 600 authors and is one of the largest independent book festivals in the country.
It was a thrill to be among the 85,000 who attended the event this year. With so many great authors appearing, the logistics of seeing them all was challenging so I decided to stick to the children’s area where so many of my favorites were meeting their fans and autographing books.
Our first event was Jedi Council with Tony Diterlizzi and Tom Angleberger (pictured below), authors of two very popular series, The Spiderwick Chronicles and Origami Yoda. The audience enjoyed a folding lesson from Tom Angleberger and made origami Luke Skywalkers. Tony Diterlizzi’s excitement over his upcoming adaptation of the original Star Wars Trilogy was obvious as he revealed scenes from the book’s trailer produced by Lucasfilm. (Look for The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight to be appearing soon in the FCPL catalog.) Tony's seven-year-old daughter Sophia helped her dad out by signing books and postcards along side him.
The next panel included FCPL celebrities Jennifer L. Holm, the author of Baby Mouse, Stick Dog creator Tom Watson, Magician Mike Lane and award-winning author Jon Scieszka.
Jon Scieszka, donned a fluffy white wig to promote his newest book, Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor. Mike Lane, coauthor of the Magic Shop series entertained the crowd with magic tricks while Tom Watson taught us to draw Stick Dog.
The highlight of the event for me was meeting so many well-known authors and heading home with my backpack full of autographed books. For the younger fans it seemed that the best part of the event was meeting Pete the Cat in person.
Alicia Cavitt
Information Specialist
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