Discover Danbury

Make your audio dreams a reality.

Get a hands-on guided introduction to Garageband with these weekly sessions in the Danbury Library’s audio recording suite, Studio 170.

An instructor (by appointment only) will be available during the session to guide you through Apple’s digital audio work station application Garageband, that allows users to create music or podcasts.

No previous experience necessary, but must have proficiency with computers and recording devices.

Get a hands-on guided introduction to Garageband with these weekly sessions in the Danbury Library’s audio recording suite, Studio 170.

An instructor will be available during the session to guide you through Apple’s digital audio work station application Garageband, that allows users to create music or podcasts.

No previous experience necessary, but must have proficiency with computers and recording devices.

Must register 7 days in advance prior to session.

Free! Registration required in advance HERE. No Walk-ins.  For more information about Studio 170, visit us online at: danburylibrary.org/recording-studio/

Join us for monthly (March-June) introductory class that will give you hands-on experience with a tiny, yet powerful microcontroller.  The Arduino microcontroller lets you build projects that sense real world properties --temperature, illumination or magnetism. You can light up a light with different colors, make sound, turn on a motor or operate another electronic device.  FREE. For ages 12 to 112.  An Arduino kit will be provided for use during the class.Registration is required.

The Teen Council is getting into gear for 2018! We'll be meeting to discuss teen programs, books, movies, music, and especially this year's Summer Reading Game. If you want to get your Community Service hours while having a great time, you really want to come to this meeting!

You need to be a Teen Volunteer to attend. Fill out an application, and don't forget 3 references and a photo release form. 

We're looking forward to seeing you!

Sahaja Yoga Mediation is a simple, time-honored technique that is easy to learn.  It helps reduce stress and increase wellness.  Start your journey towards being peaceful, balanced, and integrated by connecting with your true self.  Anyone can do it!  Free.  No registration.  For ages 10 - adultNOTE:  No class on May 28.  Continuation of classes past June 25 TBD.

Outside of City Hall

Join other job seekers to share job information and leads, job search techniques, get “LinkedIn”, learn about Internet networking sites, share interviewing tips, and hear from guest speakers. Free. No registration.

This lapsit program is for Babies ages 3 - 11 months old.  You will bond with your baby and spend some one on one time in this delightful lapsit program.  The program incorporates singing, nursery rhymes. fingerplays, and simple books followed by a 10-minute playtime. The program runs for 9 weeks from January 16 - March 13.  In case of inclement weather call 203-797-4505 option 5.  If public school is closed due to weather, the program will be cancelled.  It's a great way to meet other moms.  No registration required.

Tiny, but active tots, ages 12 - 23 months will sing, dance, learn nursery rhymes and simple books followed by a 10 minute playtime which will help prepare them to graduate to storytime.  The activities are followed by a 10 minute playtime.  Great way to meet other moms with children.  No registration

The Danbury Community Orchestra performs with the Strings of Danbury High School

Works include:
Stravinsky, Firebird Suite: Berceuse and Finale
Khachaturian, Masquerade Waltz

Holst, Jupiter-Bringer of Jollity and more!
http://danburymusiccentre.org/

Hardware: Don't be afraid of your computer! Take a look inside. Touch all the parts and learn how to upgrade your computer's memory.

Software:  Learn the "gui" graphical user interface of the desktop. Tips and tricks of the Windows operating system. 

REGISTRATION WILL OPEN TWO WEEKS PRIOR TO CLASS

Make your audio dreams a reality.

Get a hands-on guided introduction to Garageband with these weekly sessions in the Danbury Library’s audio recording suite, Studio 170.

An instructor (by appointment only) will be available during the session to guide you through Apple’s digital audio work station application Garageband, that allows users to create music or podcasts.

No previous experience necessary, but must have proficiency with computers and recording devices.

Get a hands-on guided introduction to Garageband with these weekly sessions in the Danbury Library’s audio recording suite, Studio 170.

An instructor will be available during the session to guide you through Apple’s digital audio work station application Garageband, that allows users to create music or podcasts.

No previous experience necessary, but must have proficiency with computers and recording devices.

Must register 7 days in advance prior to session.

Free! Registration required in advance HERE. No Walk-ins.  For more information about Studio 170, visit us online at: danburylibrary.org/recording-studio/

Bring along your current project or get started with something new! Enjoy a casual and friendly knitting group. 

Free! No registration, just drop in.    

This program is open to anyone 10 or older who would like to learn chess or learn more strategy. William Mattison is an experienced chess player and he will be on hand to teach basic beginner moves and strategy for the more experienced player. This program is free. Children under 10 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. 

Drop in with your preschool child age 2 and up for a Fun Activity.  Activities may include crafts, movies, stories, etc.Groups must call 2 days ahead, otherwise no registration.

April 6 Topic:  Middle Classes (Danbury Museum)Embark on a jaunt to the past through this video seminar
series created through Open Yale Courses (OYC). 
The taped seminars were conducted by John Merriman, Charles Seymour
Professor of History at Yale University.  
Brigid Guertin, City Historian and Director of the Danbury Museum, and
John O’Donnell, Librarian will introduce the sessions with a few interesting
Danbury stories.   Programs will rotate
between the Library and Museum. 

“The course offers a broad survey of modern European
history, from the end of the Thirty Years’ War to the aftermath of World War
II. Along with the consideration of major events and figures such as the French
Revolution and Napoleon, attention will be paid to the experience of ordinary
people in times of upheaval and transition. The period will thus be viewed
neither in terms of historical inevitability nor as a procession of great men,
but rather through the lens of the complex interrelations between demographic
change, political revolution, and cultural development.”  OYC website

Interspersed
among the sessions, we’ll have copies of recipes taken from older cookbooks at
the Museum that are reflective of that particular session’s time period.  We hope attendees will take a recipe and recreate
it to share at the final session on July 27th

About
Professor John Merriman
John Merriman
is Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University. Specializing in
French and modern European history, he received his Ph.D. from the University
of Michigan. His publications include The Agony of the Republic: The
Repression of the Left in Revolutionary France, 1848-1851, A History of
Modern Europe Since the Renaissance, and Police Stories: Making the French
State, 1815-1851. He is currently at work on Dynamite: Emile Henry, the
Café Terminus, and the Origins of Modern  
Terrorism in Fin-de-Siècle Paris. In 2000, Professor Merriman was the
recipient of the Yale University Byrnes-Sewall Teaching Prize.

About Open Yale Courses (OYC)

OYC provides
lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public
free of charge via the Internet.  No
course credit, degree, or certificate is available through the OYC website.

Come try out a bunch of different ways to make art! Each week we'll look at art made by different famous artists, then make an art project inspired by their works. For kids aged 6 and up.

April 6: Piet Mondrian's abstract art April 13: M.C. Escher’s tessellationsApril 20: Alexander Calder’s paper sculpturesApril 27: Pablo Picasso’s abstract portraits

Estate Sale, Saturday, April 7th, 10-4.

Last week a very generous donor gifted the Danbury Museum with their high quality collections as well as some pieces of furniture to be re-sold to support the Danbury Museum's mission. We're most grateful for this fundraising opportunity!

Among the items: pottery, glassware, furniture, collectibles, books, artwork.

NOTE: NO EARLY-BIRD SALES. The sale will open to the public on Saturday at 10am and will close at 4pm. Current and up-to-date members of the Danbury Museum will have first crack at the items at 9am on Saturday.

THIS SALE IS SATURDAY ONLY.

Community Health Fair in cooperation with City of Danbury Health Department.

Free for all ages.

Make your audio dreams a reality.

Get a hands-on guided introduction to Garageband with these weekly sessions in the Danbury Library’s audio recording suite, Studio 170.

An instructor (by appointment only) will be available during the session to guide you through Apple’s digital audio work station application Garageband, that allows users to create music or podcasts.

No previous experience necessary, but must have proficiency with computers and recording devices.

Get a hands-on guided introduction to Garageband with these weekly sessions in the Danbury Library’s audio recording suite, Studio 170.

An instructor will be available during the session to guide you through Apple’s digital audio work station application Garageband, that allows users to create music or podcasts.

No previous experience necessary, but must have proficiency with computers and recording devices.

Must register 7 days in advance prior to session.

Free! Registration required in advance HERE. No Walk-ins.  For more information about Studio 170, visit us online at: danburylibrary.org/recording-studio/

Women earn less than 20% of bachelor’s degrees in computer science, engineering, and physics, but they make up more than half of the population of the United States - and the numbers have dropped even more recently. Closing the gender gap in technology development is a key to any successful society. In order to foster and encourage an interest in computer science in young women, this program will explore the benefits of learning to code for middle school girls. The program will explore the use of HTML coding and an introductory version of Python, and how to extend the application of these skills on your own following the program. No coding experience is necessary to attend.

Girls, take hold of your future TODAY! Learn the valuable skillset of "code" aka computer programming with this special workshop directed on introducing girls to this ever-growing technology field. This will be a FUN experience facilitated by Patrice Gans, Founder and Executive Director of Random Hacks of Kindness, Jr. 

Come learn to code and meet some new friends in the process!

FREE. Ages 10 - 18.Registration is Required.

Sahaja Yoga Mediation is a simple, time-honored technique that is easy to learn.  It helps reduce stress and increase wellness.  Start your journey towards being peaceful, balanced, and integrated by connecting with your true self.  Anyone can do it!  Free.  No registration.  For ages 10 - adultNOTE:  No class on May 28.  Continuation of classes past June 25 TBD.

This lapsit program is for Babies ages 3 - 11 months old.  You will bond with your baby and spend some one on one time in this delightful lapsit program.  The program incorporates singing, nursery rhymes. fingerplays, and simple books followed by a 10-minute playtime. The program runs for 9 weeks from January 16 - March 13.  In case of inclement weather call 203-797-4505 option 5.  If public school is closed due to weather, the program will be cancelled.  It's a great way to meet other moms.  No registration required.

Tiny, but active tots, ages 12 - 23 months will sing, dance, learn nursery rhymes and simple books followed by a 10 minute playtime which will help prepare them to graduate to storytime.  The activities are followed by a 10 minute playtime.  Great way to meet other moms with children.  No registration

Take the AAA Driver Improvement Program to relearn the basics of defensive driving and learn current driving practices. Those who complete the 4-hour course will be mailed a certificate of completion.  CT drivers who complete the class and are 60 years old or older may be eligible to receive a 5% discount on their auto insurance. (Discount does not cover uninsured motorist coverage, rental reimbursements or towing or labor costs.  Be sure to check with your insurer for details.)Registration required online or call 203-797-4505, option 3 to register.  For workshop details, call Fran Mayko at AAA: 203-937-2595, ext. 4615.

Feel free to bring a bag lunch or a snack!

April is National Pet Month, every pet's favorite accessory is a toy! Come make  some great pet toys out of recycled T Shirts. Take one or two home for your own pets, and we will donate the rest to a local shelter.Registration is required. The session is limited to 20.

Do you live in Danbury? Please join us for a focus group discussion about the present and future of the Danbury Library. 

In the year ahead, we will be creating a new 5-Year Strategic Plan for the Library. We need your valuable input to be sure that we are headed in the right direction! 

"What if I don’t have anything to contribute?" We’ll bet you do! Don’t worry if you don’t have specific ideas in mind right now; we’ll be doing brainstorming activities to get those creative juices flowing.

Don’t Take the Bait! A seminar on building media literacyEfforts to control the spread of information date back to Middle Ages. Mass communication is paramount to informing ourselves and our opinions. Furthermore, fake, misleading or inaccurate information disguised as news is nothing new; it is phenomenon that also dates back centuries.Here’s what is new: Anyone with a smartphone and wifi connection can create and perpetuate content. Thus we must become media savvy which means developing the habits of fact-checkers, understanding the impact of filter bubbles, as well as learning the tools we can use in order to be productive participants in online and in-person discourse. This interactive discussion will provide instruction and practice in media literacy strategies.Presented by Jacquelyn Whiting who is a Google Certified Innovator focused on medial literacy and an educator with 25 years experience in public high schools in Connecticut. She is certified in both social studies and library media. She has presented at ISTE and AASL as well as guest appearing regularly on webinars produced by edWeb.net. News Literacy: The Keys to Combating Fake News, the book she co-authored, is due out in May 2018.FREE! Registration Required. Ages 12+

Calling all
TEENS!

Are you curious about what a Crime Scene Investigator does?

Here's your chance to see it first hand and up close!

AN INTRODUCTION TO

FORENSIC  SCIENCEPresented by Forensic Scientist, Ted Schwartz

Senior Forensic Scientist at Westchester County Forensic
Laboratory        

Adjunct Professor at Western Connecticut State University

The program will consist of a presentation followed by hands-on
exercises!

FREE for Ages 12+ 

Registration Required!

This storytime designed for children ages 2-3 will incorporate simple stories, activities, music, movies and crafts.  A great way to get children ready to learn and listen before they start school.  Perfect for active toddlers.  no registration required.  Groups must call ahead at 797-4505, extension 7737.

Make your audio dreams a reality.

Get a hands-on guided introduction to Garageband with these weekly sessions in the Danbury Library’s audio recording suite, Studio 170.

An instructor (by appointment only) will be available during the session to guide you through Apple’s digital audio work station application Garageband, that allows users to create music or podcasts.

No previous experience necessary, but must have proficiency with computers and recording devices.

Get a hands-on guided introduction to Garageband with these weekly sessions in the Danbury Library’s audio recording suite, Studio 170.

An instructor will be available during the session to guide you through Apple’s digital audio work station application Garageband, that allows users to create music or podcasts.

No previous experience necessary, but must have proficiency with computers and recording devices.

Must register 7 days in advance prior to session.

Free! Registration required in advance HERE. No Walk-ins.  For more information about Studio 170, visit us online at: danburylibrary.org/recording-studio/

Bring along your current project or get started with something new! Enjoy a casual and friendly knitting group. 

Free! No registration, just drop in.    

This program is open to anyone 10 or older who would like to learn chess or learn more strategy. William Mattison is an experienced chess player and he will be on hand to teach basic beginner moves and strategy for the more experienced player. This program is free. Children under 10 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. 

Drop in with your preschool child age 2 and up for a Fun Activity.  Activities may include crafts, movies, stories, etc.Groups must call 2 days ahead, otherwise no registration.

April 13 Topic:  Popular Protest (Danbury Library)Embark on a jaunt to the past through this video seminar
series created through Open Yale Courses (OYC). 
The taped seminars were conducted by John Merriman, Charles Seymour
Professor of History at Yale University.  
Brigid Guertin, City Historian and Director of the Danbury Museum, and
John O’Donnell, Librarian will introduce the sessions with a few interesting
Danbury stories.   Programs will rotate
between the Library and Museum. 

“The course offers a broad survey of modern European
history, from the end of the Thirty Years’ War to the aftermath of World War
II. Along with the consideration of major events and figures such as the French
Revolution and Napoleon, attention will be paid to the experience of ordinary
people in times of upheaval and transition. The period will thus be viewed
neither in terms of historical inevitability nor as a procession of great men,
but rather through the lens of the complex interrelations between demographic
change, political revolution, and cultural development.”  OYC website

Interspersed
among the sessions, we’ll have copies of recipes taken from older cookbooks at
the Museum that are reflective of that particular session’s time period.  We hope attendees will take a recipe and recreate
it to share at the final session on July 27th

About
Professor John Merriman
John Merriman
is Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University. Specializing in
French and modern European history, he received his Ph.D. from the University
of Michigan. His publications include The Agony of the Republic: The
Repression of the Left in Revolutionary France, 1848-1851, A History of
Modern Europe Since the Renaissance, and Police Stories: Making the French
State, 1815-1851. He is currently at work on Dynamite: Emile Henry, the
Café Terminus, and the Origins of Modern  
Terrorism in Fin-de-Siècle Paris. In 2000, Professor Merriman was the
recipient of the Yale University Byrnes-Sewall Teaching Prize.

About Open Yale Courses (OYC)

OYC provides
lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public
free of charge via the Internet.  No
course credit, degree, or certificate is available through the OYC website.

Come try out a bunch of different ways to make art! Each week we'll look at art made by different famous artists, then make an art project inspired by their works. For kids aged 6 and up.

April 6: Piet Mondrian's abstract art April 13: M.C. Escher’s tessellationsApril 20: Alexander Calder’s paper sculpturesApril 27: Pablo Picasso’s abstract portraits

Do you need a passport or is it coming up for renewal? Representatives from the United States Postal Service will be available to get your paperwork ready and submitted.  Need a photo?  For an additional fee they will also take the required photo for your application. Representatives will be available between 10am to 2pm.  Be sure to bring the required documents. Documents and instructions can be found online: https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/passports/apply.html

Have you ever wondered
about the practice of mindfulness? Do you wish you could have better attention,
focus and balance in your life? Learning mindfulness helps individuals increase
their patience, flexibility, focus and personal resilience. This program will
teach an approachable 8 step mindfulness program. Each week, one of eight
points will be introduced along with readings from great literary texts. Each
class ends with 20 minutes of meditation. 

The evening’s program features the Madrigal Singers under the direction of Joyce Flanagan.
Come hear the ensemble of 18 select voices sing a variety of composers: 
Thompson, Aguiar, Meader, Whelan, Clausen, Hobbs, Hayes, Schonberg and Boublil.

Reception to follow
Admission is free, donations will be accepted at the door

http://danburymusiccentre.org/

Have some fun at the library creating a miniature theater.  Made from a cardboard box, you can make it as simple or elaborate as you want.  The next step is designing and making your characters.  Bring it home, and put on a show for your family or maybe even your dog.  For ages 8 and up in the Junior storycorner.  Registration is required.

Make your audio dreams a reality.

Get a hands-on guided introduction to Garageband with these weekly sessions in the Danbury Library’s audio recording suite, Studio 170.

An instructor (by appointment only) will be available during the session to guide you through Apple’s digital audio work station application Garageband, that allows users to create music or podcasts.

No previous experience necessary, but must have proficiency with computers and recording devices.

Get a hands-on guided introduction to Garageband with these weekly sessions in the Danbury Library’s audio recording suite, Studio 170.

An instructor will be available during the session to guide you through Apple’s digital audio work station application Garageband, that allows users to create music or podcasts.

No previous experience necessary, but must have proficiency with computers and recording devices.

Must register 7 days in advance prior to session.

Free! Registration required in advance HERE. No Walk-ins.  For more information about Studio 170, visit us online at: danburylibrary.org/recording-studio/

Children ages 2 -6  are invited to an interactive musical concert by musician Joe Rosano who sings and plays the guitar.  He began his career as a DJ and eventually realized his talent was in entertaining children.  He has a CD on CD Baby.  He performs widely in Connecticut at nursery schools, libraries and other venues.  Registration is recommended

Do you live in Danbury? Please join us for a focus group discussion about the present and future of the Danbury Library. 

In the year ahead, we will be creating a new 5-Year Strategic Plan for the Library. We need your valuable input to be sure that we are headed in the right direction! 

"What if I don’t have anything to contribute?" We’ll bet you do! Don’t worry if you don’t have specific ideas in mind right now; we’ll be doing brainstorming activities to get those creative juices flowing.

MEETING NOTICE

Who:         City Council Committee

Purpose:    General Government 2-  Budget

When:       Tuesday,  April 17, 2018 at 7:15 pm

Where:      Caucus Room     , 3^rd Floor, City Hall, 155 Deer Hill Avenue

Learn how to set up free accounts and shop online, plan travel and pay bills.

REGISTRATION WILL OPEN TWO WEEKS PRIOR TO CLASS

Connecticut native Katherine Meier spent a year conducting wild primate field research in the heart of Indonesian Borneo. Following graduation from college where she majored in anthropology, Meier was hired to work as a research assistant at the Tuanan Orangutan Research Station. There she spent her days following wild orangutans, collecting behavioral and physical data, and contributing to long-term research that focuses on the nutrition and health of wild orangutans. Recently returned from the field, Meier has been eager to share her unique experiences. Her talk covers an overview of orangutan geography and biology. It describes the cutting-edge ecological research being done on wild orangutans: what data is being collected and how? Why is it important in the context of current -- and increasingly dire -- conservation issues? Through photos, videos, and stories, she shares the ups and downs of life as a field primatologist working in a tropical peat swamp. From fire ants to fatal fights, you'll leave this talk with a better understanding of one of the worlds most important ecosystems, its myriad biodiversity, and, of course, an intimate look into the wild lives of the world's only Asian great ape.FREE. All Ages. Registration required.