827 SW Deschutes Ave Redmond, OR 97756
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The Redmond Library opened its doors in 1996. This 21,210 square foot library is housed in the historic Jessie Hill School building—originally built in 1929—and is located in the heart of the city of Redmond.
The Redmond Library has a varied collection of English and Spanish language materials for adults, teens, and children. English and Spanish-language programs are offered for all ages. A community meeting room serves as a gathering space for programs, lectures, and story times. Free WiFi is available throughout the building.
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10:00 AM - Tuesday -
This program will be available Tuesdays via YouTube at https://bit.ly/2YaurcaJoin community librarians for songs, rhymes, stories and fun!Experts agree that talking, singing, reading, writing and playing with your young child will prepare them for learning how to read, and will teach them the six skills needed to read. A child who enters kindergarten with a strong vocabulary, a love of books, and a familiarity with playing with words, has a definite advantage. You can help those skills develop with story time!For more information about early literacy and how to talk, read, rhyme, play and write with your child, visit: https://www.deschuteslibrary.org/kids/literacy*oo*
12:00 PM - Tuesday -
Pick up your weekly craft or activity kit for children! Kits will vary by week and are good for preschool aged children. Some will be appropriate for younger ages with heavy parent help, or older ages with independent student effort. All supplies are to be taken home, no crafting will be done in the library.All kits are created advance and not touched in the interim to ensure safety.Supplies are limited and will be first come, first served.
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5:30 PM - Tuesday -
Discover online strategies, new library resources and start talking about great books!This month, we'll be spotlighting six new titles and why they make excellent book club choices. Next we'll share an additional six of the "buzziest" reads to keep on your radar. We also have a fresh new list of upcoming literary events for you and your book clubs to watch and book club tips for leaders and members. Lastly, we'll share what our DPL Book Clubs have planned for 2021!*zm*
6:30 PM - Tuesday -
This is a live, interactive webinar. Join the program here https://zoom.us/j/99361855508?pwd=TUJzR3p5M1ZlU3kxd1NnZWNmcWJMdz09 or click "Join Program Here" above. Native Texan and author of Valentine, the bestselling debut set in the oil fields of Texas in the 1970s, discusses the influence of place in her work. Elizabeth Wetmore will read a couple of short excerpts from her debut novel, Valentine, and will talk briefly about the joys and hazards of setting her first novel in her hometown. She will use as a starting point an excerpt from an interview with Eudora Welty in the The Paris Review: When asked if place was a source of inspiration for her fiction, Welty replied, "Not only that, its my source of knowledge. It tells me the important things. It steers me and keeps me going straight, because place is a definer and a confiner of what Im doing. It helps me to identify, to recognize and explain.... It saves me." (Emphases are Wetmore's.) Before devoting herself to writing, Elizabeth variously tended bar, taught English, drove a cab, edited psychology dissertations, and painted silos and cooling towers at a petrochemical plant. For a time, she lived in a one-room cabin in the woods outside of Flagstaff, Arizona while she worked as a classical music announcer. A native of West Texas, she is most at home in the desert, near the sea, or on the side of a mountain. She lives in Chicago, but she dreams of being bicoastal (Lake Michigan and Lake Travis). A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Elizabeth has been the grateful recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council. Set in the oilfields of West Texas in 1976, Valentine is her first novel. *zm*
3:00 PM - Wednesday -
Join us for a live group discussion of The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street, by Karina Yan Glaser with other readers, and get excited for one of Oregon's Battle of the Books titles for the 2020-2021 school year.This book is available as a downloadable audiobook via OverDrive (free with your Deschutes Public Library card) or in paper format.Part three of our three part series around The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street, a 2020-2021 OBOB selection for grades 3-5. The book is recommended for grades 2-5.*zm*
10:00 AM - Thursday -
Interactive storytime with songs, rhymes, and movement. This video will premiere live on Facebook at 10:00 a.m.; visit www.facebook.com/deschuteslibrary to tune in. Early literacy skills to get your child ready to learn to read are the focus of these storytimes. You and your child will hear great stories while also becoming more familiar with letter sounds, rhyming, vocabulary, and print. Fun for everyone with opportunities to sing, join in on movement rhymes
This program will be available beginning January 21, 2021 at https://dpl.pub/KIDprogramsHave fun making and racing these easy to make paper caterpillars!Materials needed:Paper (any color)ScissorsA drinking straw or thin tubeTo view this program, click the link above or type this link into your browser (https://dpl.pub/KIDprograms). This link will take you to a playlist where you will find this program and more fun family programs.*oo*
10:30 AM - Thursday -
Music and movement to develop literacy skills. 3-5 yrs. Join live via zoom.Movement and literacy skills are closely connected. Your child will hear songs that include singing, dancing, and musical instruments to build motor skills. 30 min. Grab a scarf, sock anything to wave around and an instrument. If you don't have an instrument, two spoons or pots and pans work!*zm*
5:00 PM - Thursday -
Un evento virtual celebrando los cuentos. Toda la familia está invitada a disfrutar de las actuaciones de Rodrigo, Carly y Calypsa, un artista de Drag de Central Oregon.A virtual event celebrating stories. The whole family is invited to enjoy the presentations of Rodrigo, Carly, and Calypsa, a Central Oregon Drag Artist. Noche de cuentos es una iniciativa formada para celebrar la tradición oral de Latinoamérica para conectar nuestras comunidades Latinx. En Deschutes Public Library expandimos esta iniciativa a incluir los abundantes medios que usan artistas Latinx para compartir sus historias y talentos. Este mes disfruten de una presentación narrativa de Rodrigo, aprendan como emprender una relación con los cuentos con Carly, y escuchen a Calypsa, artista de Drag/transformista de nuestra comunidad de Central Oregon, compartir su historia y relación con el arte de Drag. ¡Invitamos a toda la familia a participar!Noche de Cuentos is an initiative that was formed to celebrate the oral storytelling traditions of Latin America as a means to connect our Latinx communities. At Deschutes Public Library, we expand this initiative to include the abundance of mediums used by Latinx Artists to tell their stories and share their talents. This month you can enjoy a storytelling presentation by Rodrigo, learn how to begin your own relationship with storytelling with Carly, and hear Calypsa, Central Oregon Drag Artists, share their history and relationship to the art of Drag. The whole family is invited! *oo* *ls*
12:00 PM - Friday -
Discuss Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones.Click the link above or join at https://zoom.us/j/93316346029 or with Meeting ID 933 1634 6029Author! Author! New York Times bestselling writer Tayari Jones is the author of four novels. Her most recent release, An American Marriage, was an Oprahs Book Club Selection and appeared on Barack Obamas summer reading list as well as his year-end roundup. The novel received the Womens Prize for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and an NAACP Image Award. Her third novel, Silver Sparrow, was added to the NEA Big Read library of classics in 2016. Elizabeth Gilbert is a journalist and author. Her 2006 memoir Eat, Pray, Love has sold more than 12 million copies. Her most recent book is the novel City of Girls.Tayari Jones in conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert: January 15 at 6:00 p.m."With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, My father, James Witherspoon is a bigamist, Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a mans deception, a familys complicity, and the teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoons families the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered. As Jones explores the backstories of her rich and flawed characters, she also reveals the joy, and the destruction, they brought to each others lives. At the heart of it all are the two girls whose lives are at stake, and like the best writers, Jones portrays the fragility of her characers with raw authenticity as they seek love, demand attention, and try to imagine themselves as women."Physical copies are available at the Downtown Bend Customer Service desk and available with no wait in Audiobook and EBook through Hoopla.*zm*
10:00 AM - Saturday -
Divertidos tiempos de cuentos virtuales con sus bibliotecarios Carly y Rodrigo.Toda la familia está invitada a este tiempo de cuentos virtual que ofrece libros para bebés, niños pequeños y preescolares. Instalaciones nuevas se estrenan en YouTube cada otro sábado a las 10am. Para ver este programa, haga clic en el enlace de abajo o introduzca esta dirección a su navegador web; https://bit.ly/2Vfrh53. Puede encontrar otros programas familiares divertidos en nuestra cuenta de YouTube. *yt* *ls*
2:00 PM - Saturday -
This is a live event. Join the webinar here https://zoom.us/j/94210710156?pwd=c3R2dFdRS1RFamRzbm4xdTU1Y012UT09 or click "Join Program Here" above. Editors Irene Cooper and Ellen Santasiero discuss PLACED composition of writings based on place and phenomena unique to Central Oregon. The only thing Ellen Santasiero likes better than making essays, memoirs, collages, plays, fictions, and safe spaces for learning is making them with others. Her work has appeared in The Stay Project,, The Sun, and High Desert Journal, among others, and is forthcoming in 7x7. She teaches literature and writing at OSU-Cascades. Check her out at ellensantasiero.comIrene Cooper writes poems, reviews, essays, and fiction. She works and teaches in community in Central Oregon, and co-edits The Stay Project. Committal, a speculative spy-fy novel about family, was published in 2020. Her debut full-length book of poetry, spare change, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in March 2021. Learn more at irenecooperwrites.com. *zm*
5:00 PM - Monday -
A link to view this program will be available beginning Monday, January 25th at 5:00 p.m.Delve into the history of African Americans in Oregon, with a special emphasis on historic places, with Kim Moreland of Oregon Black Pioneers.Kimberly Stowers Moreland, MBA, MURP, is currently owner of Moreland Resource Consulting, LLC. She has over 25 years of public sector community development, economic development, and urban planning experience. She has dedicated much of her time to volunteer service with community-based cultural and heritage nonprofit organizations. She is the vice-president of Oregon Black Pioneers (OBP) board of directors and a member of the Bosco-Milligan: Architectural Heritage Center. On behalf of the OBP, she authored Images of America: African Americans of Portland published by Arcadia Publisher.For more information on Oregon Black Pioneers visit: https://oregonblackpioneers.org/A curated list of resources to continue learning about Black History in Oregon: https://dpl.bibliocommons.com/list/share/431104870_dpl_cr_readers/1808688299_black_history_in_oregon *oo*
6:00 PM - Tuesday -
Test your literary and 2020 knowledge!Do you consider yourself a bibliophile? A bookworm? A booklover? Well, now is your chance to test your literary knowledge from the comfort of your own home. Grab a pen and paper, a quarantine buddy, and a device with internet access. We'll go through a couple rounds of questions to see how well you know books. Be prepared for the obscure, the absurd and the obvious!Join the Zoom event at https://zoom.us/j/92985958606, or by phone at +1-408-638-0968 using Webinar ID 929 8595 8606.*zm*
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