Discover Danbury

Come to a different kind of book club this summer! There's no assigned reading. Just bring a book  that you're reading and loving, and tell your friends about it. It's a fun and stress free way to get your summer reading done!

Stop by and eat a free lunch (for kids 18 years old and younger) then pop over to the Farioly Program Room and enjoy a family-friendly (G or PG rated) movie!  Light snacks provided by the FRIENDS of the Danbury Library.  Movies will start at 2:15 but the length may vary depending on each film.

Movie titles will be announced approximately 1 week in advance.  NOTE: A parent or guardian must remain with children who are 9 years old or younger.  FREE!!!  For information call 203.797.4505, x 7730.

Bring your baby  to our lapsit
program!  This program is designed for
you and your baby and will introduce rhythmic songs and nursery rhymes, bouncy
tunes, easy books and a short playtime with toys.  All help form connections in your baby’s
brain for language development.  No
Registration

You and your Tiny Tot, ages 12 – 23 months will have fun
singing, playing circle games, doing fingerplays, and learning to share in a
short playtime with toys.  This program
will tune up your toddler to get ready for the big kids storytime.  No Registration

Space Rocks! Come to the cool Farioly room to enjoy some special films from NASA! 

7/11 Our Movie will be. "The Farthest Voyager in Space."7/18. "The Planets. An HD Odyssey."7/25 "The Earth. An HD Odyssey."

Join in this interactive, fat burning, cardio class! Simple trainings for all levels. 

Wear comfortable clothes, sneakers and bring along water. Instruction generously provided by the Regional YMCA of Western CT.   Space is limited.  

FREE!  Come to one or come to all!

Parents or Caregivers with  toddlers are invited  to this traditional storytime which will
include age-appropriate stories, music and movement, short films, and a simple
craft. No Registration.

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

Free! No registration, just drop in.  

Come paint a rock and brighten someone's day! This fun craft is guaranteed to make your day brighter, too! For students entering 4th grade and up.

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. 

Latin Dance is offered to beginners from July 5th to August 9th, altogether 6 sessions .  The instructor Lazero Chavez will teach salsa, bachata and merengue.  He has won many awards in dance competitions and has taught dance classes at Arthur Murray in Danbury for years.  Latin dance has many health benefits which reduces the feeling of stress, increases energy levels, improves muscle tone and can lower risks of heart disease, decrease blood pressure and assist people in managing their weight. .  You need to register to get in and it is free.  

Join us for a 45-minute shark-themed magic show that is both
educational and entertaining.  Children
will help Magician Steve Woyce make the magic happen as they learn some amazing
shark facts in this high-energy comedy magic show.  July 19 at 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm.  Ages 3-10  Registration is required.

July 20 Topic:  Collaboration and Resistance in World War II (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.

Learn about water by having fun with it! Kids are invited to play outside on the plaza with activities that will explore how water works. Each week will have a different activity. Kids may get wet, so wear play clothes! All ages are welcome. This program may be canceled if it is raining.

Let's make some music! Come make a bunch of instruments that you can really play. Each we will make a different instrument. Then you can take them home to play with! Ages 5+. No registration.

Children ages 5-8 are welcome to join in a creative movement session to stretch their imaginations and their bodies.  Comfortable clothing/shoes are recommended.  Registration required.  The class will take place in the Junior Story Corner.

Come to a different kind of book club this summer! There's no assigned reading. Just bring a book  that you're reading and loving, and tell your friends about it. It's a fun and stress free way to get your summer reading done!

Stop by and eat a free lunch (for kids 18 years old and younger) then pop over to the Farioly Program Room and enjoy a family-friendly (G or PG rated) movie!  Light snacks provided by the FRIENDS of the Danbury Library.  Movies will start at 2:15 but the length may vary depending on each film.

Movie titles will be announced approximately 1 week in advance.  NOTE: A parent or guardian must remain with children who are 9 years old or younger.  FREE!!!  For information call 203.797.4505, x 7730.

Don’t Take the Bait! A seminar on building media literacy.Efforts 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+

Bring your baby  to our lapsit
program!  This program is designed for
you and your baby and will introduce rhythmic songs and nursery rhymes, bouncy
tunes, easy books and a short playtime with toys.  All help form connections in your baby’s
brain for language development.  No
Registration

You and your Tiny Tot, ages 12 – 23 months will have fun
singing, playing circle games, doing fingerplays, and learning to share in a
short playtime with toys.  This program
will tune up your toddler to get ready for the big kids storytime.  No Registration

Share in the fun as Puppeteer Robert Rogers gets the house
rocking with his mighty lion, a lumbering tortoise, silly monkeys and a
graceful swan to Camille Saint-Saens, Carnival of the Animals. Tuesday, July 24th
at 5:00 pm for families with children ages 3 and up.  Registration is required.

What better way to celebrate music than a discussion of Bruce Springsteen's autobiography Born To Run ? Affectionately called "The Boss," he has been a key figure in rock n roll since his meteoric rise to fame in the 1970s.  Light refreshments provided.Facilitated by Librarian John O'Donnell.  Refreshments funded by the FRIENDS of the Danbury Library.

Space Rocks! Come to the cool Farioly room to enjoy some special films from NASA! 

7/11 Our Movie will be. "The Farthest Voyager in Space."7/18. "The Planets. An HD Odyssey."7/25 "The Earth. An HD Odyssey."

Join in this interactive, fat burning, cardio class! Simple trainings for all levels. 

Wear comfortable clothes, sneakers and bring along water. Instruction generously provided by the Regional YMCA of Western CT.   Space is limited.  

FREE!  Come to one or come to all!

Parents or Caregivers with  toddlers are invited  to this traditional storytime which will
include age-appropriate stories, music and movement, short films, and a simple
craft. No Registration.

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. 

Does the thought of writing your memoir sound interesting to you?Have you always wanted to be a writer?Have you started a memoir but need to know how to polish it off?Would you like to get feedback about fiction or poetry you have written?This class will start-off by learning about the essential “writer’s toolkit." While participants will be taught how-to write a memoir, writers of fiction and/or poetry are also invited to join this class to gain essential teachings in writing and to receive feedback on their writing over the summer.Space is limited!

Latin Dance is offered to beginners from July 5th to August 9th, altogether 6 sessions .  The instructor Lazero Chavez will teach salsa, bachata and merengue.  He has won many awards in dance competitions and has taught dance classes at Arthur Murray in Danbury for years.  Latin dance has many health benefits which reduces the feeling of stress, increases energy levels, improves muscle tone and can lower risks of heart disease, decrease blood pressure and assist people in managing their weight. .  You need to register to get in and it is free.  

July 27 Topic: Final Session & Potluck Luncheon:  The Collapse of Communism and Global Challenges (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.

Learn about water by having fun with it! Kids are invited to play outside on the plaza with activities that will explore how water works. Each week will have a different activity. Kids may get wet, so wear play clothes! All ages are welcome. This program may be canceled if it is raining.

Let's make some music! Come make a bunch of instruments that you can really play. Each we will make a different instrument. Then you can take them home to play with! Ages 5+. No registration.

Join us and listen to the participants of our Summer Strings program!

Music Director, Larry Deming and Assistant Director, Alison Corigliano

http://danburymusiccentre.org/event/summer-strings-in-concert/

The Beatles' Yellow Submarine is returning to movie theaters this summer.
An icon of psychedelic pop culture, the film is a colourful musical spectacle and joyful cinematic experience for all ages!

To coincide with its 50th anniversary, the animated classic film has been digitally remastered in 4K and the soundtrack has been remixed at Abbey Road Studio.

https://thepalacedanbury.com/yellowsubmarine/

When and how you claim your Social Security retirement benefits is a complex decision which can substantially increase your income. Should you retire at 66, or wait? Do you know what retirement benefits a spouse or ex-spouse is entitled to? This free workshop, endorsed by the AAA CT Motor Club, will help participants maximize, project, and protect your  Social Security and other retirement income.

About the Presenter: The HIQS Group - Insurance, Benefits, Financial Services - has been serving the Danbury community since 1996. Visit them online at hiqsgroup.com.

Featured artists include Culture “with the lead vocals of Kenyatta Hill,” Mykal Rose “Formally of Black Uhuru,” Wayne Wonder, Half Pint, Derrick Barnett & Statement, Anthem Band, Tales Of Joy, Owen Knibbs, DJ Linkage, Mario Cheef and more!

Bring your blankets and lawn chairs for this festival full of music, food and fun for the whole family!

Doors open at 1pm.

https://www.ivesconcertpark.com/westside-reggae-festival-sat-july-28/

Come to a different kind of book club this summer! There's no assigned reading. Just bring a book  that you're reading and loving, and tell your friends about it. It's a fun and stress free way to get your summer reading done!

Stop by and eat a free lunch (for kids 18 years old and younger) then pop over to the Farioly Program Room and enjoy a family-friendly (G or PG rated) movie!  Light snacks provided by the FRIENDS of the Danbury Library.  Movies will start at 2:15 but the length may vary depending on each film.

Movie titles will be announced approximately 1 week in advance.  NOTE: A parent or guardian must remain with children who are 9 years old or younger.  FREE!!!  For information call 203.797.4505, x 7730.

Part II: The Battle against Fake News continues....In the second part of this informative seminar will focus on examining our own biases in order to better understand bias in media, an examination journalistic truth, what makes evidence reliable, and the ways in which the presentation of data is manipulated tomislead in order to build our capacities to critically consume and responsiblyshare information we encounter.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+

Bring your baby  to our lapsit
program!  This program is designed for
you and your baby and will introduce rhythmic songs and nursery rhymes, bouncy
tunes, easy books and a short playtime with toys.  All help form connections in your baby’s
brain for language development.  No
Registration

You and your Tiny Tot, ages 12 – 23 months will have fun
singing, playing circle games, doing fingerplays, and learning to share in a
short playtime with toys.  This program
will tune up your toddler to get ready for the big kids storytime.  No Registration

 Ives was one of the premier American composers of the 20th Century even though he was mostly underappreciated during his lifetime. He spent his whole life in this area and made his mark as Danbury's contribution to the world of music and Connecticut's official composer.

Presenter:  John O'Donnell, reference librarian and history buff!

Free!