Adults - Dobbs Ferry Library

April is National Poetry Month!

Baby Songs & Stories in the Community Room

Monday, June 5

10:30 am - 11:00 am

For parents and caregivers of babies up to 24 months.

Join children’s librarian Gina to learn songs, fingerplays, and more that you can do with your baby. Each meeting will leave time for open discussion and connection with other parents/caregivers.

This program will be socially-distanced. Please make sure you and everyone in your family over the age of 2 wears their masks for its entirety.

Email dobchildref@wlsmail.org, call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the children’s room for information and to sign up.

Mary’s Yarns Crafting Group: in the Community Room

Monday, June 5

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Mary’s Yarns Crafting Group will be meeting in the Library Community Room.

1st Meeting of the Month: Quilting. This year the quilting group will be making the Ohio Star Pattern, with each member creating one square. When the quilt is finished, it will be raffled to benefit the Friends of the Dobbs Ferry Library.

2nd Meeting of the Month: Crocheting. We will provide you with the supplies to create a granny square or dishcloth.

Even if we’re not working on a type of crafting you’re interested in, you are welcome to come and chat and work on your own projects! Newcomers are always welcome.

Please email dflfriends@gmail.com if you have questions or would like to join!

Comedy Open Mic (ON ZOOM)

Tuesday, June 6

8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Following a traditional Comedy Open Mic format, comedians new and old — who want to work on new jokes, change old ones, or just experiment — sign up and get 5 minutes apiece to perform via our Zoom meeting room.

INTENDED FOR AUDIENCE 18+

Pre-registration REQUIRED for first timers —> Email TDeery@wlsmail.org.

Show reminder with Zoom link will be sent out the morning of each month’s mic to everyone already on the performer & audience list.

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For more info about our comedy open mics and showcases, check out our Comedy on the Hudson page.

Author Mary Calvi Book Talk & Sale: “If a Poem Could Live and Breathe”

Thursday, June 8

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Meet the Author: Mary Calvi

Mary Calvi is a 12-time New York Emmy-award winning journalist and national anchor. Her in-depth research for her debut book, “Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington’s First Love”, is the basis of a Smisthsonian Channel documentary. Calvi lives in Yonkers, NY.

Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee — many of them never before published — “If a Poem Could Live and Breathe” makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life and cemented his legacy.

This event is co-sponsored by the Dobbs Ferry Public Library and the Dobbs Ferry Historical Society.

Baby Songs & Stories in the Community Room – themed for Pride Week

Monday, June 12

10:30 am - 11:00 am

For parents and caregivers of babies up to 24 months.

Join children’s librarian Gina to learn songs, fingerplays, and more that you can do with your baby. Each meeting will leave time for open discussion and connection with other parents/caregivers.

Today’s program will be pride/rainbow themed and we’ll do a short craft.

This program will be socially-distanced. Please make sure you and everyone in your family over the age of 2 wears their masks for its entirety.

Email dobchildref@wlsmail.org, call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the children’s room for information and to sign up.

Comedy Open Mic (LIVE AT DIVINO’S)

Tuesday, June 13

8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Come get your comedy Side Hustle on at DIVINO’S SPEAKEASY IN HASTINGS-ON-HUSON – located 524 Warburton Avenue Hastings on Hudson, NY 10706 on the second Tuesday of every month at 8pm, with hosts in residency DFPL’s Tim Deery and Jessie Murphy!

SIGN UP STARTS AT 7:30PM IN PERSON

*1 DRINK MINIMUM FOR PERFORMERS

INTENDED FOR AUDIENCE 18+

Following a traditional Comedy Open Mic format, comedians new and old — who want to work on new jokes, change old ones, or just experiment — sign up and get 5 minutes apiece to perform.

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For more info about our comedy open mics and showcases, check out our Comedy on the Hudson page.

Pride Week Social Meet & Greet and Movie: "Pride"

Wednesday, June 14

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Join us in the community room for a social meet and greet, followed by a showing of “Pride” (2014, Rated R, 120 Minutes) with Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton.

An unlikely friendship is forged between a small community of striking miners in Wales and a team of London-based gay-and-lesbian activists who help fight their cause. With no end to the strike in sight, the urban activists venture into the countryside to deliver their donation in person, and find they have more in common with the people of this struggling community than anyone on either side could have expected.

Cult Classic Movie Night: The Stepfather (1987)

Thursday, June 15

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Join us for an *Early Father’s Day* screening on Thursday, June 15th at 8pm with the Cult Classic The Stepfather (1987/Rated R/89 min/Horror, Thriller)! Stay after the movie for our always lively Film Discussion where we’ll share trivia and have fun prizes!

Jerry Blake (Terry O’Quinn) is a family man, who just happens to have a series of families, that disappear. When Jerry sets his sights on a lovely widow named Susan (Shelley Hack) and her headstrong daughter, Stephanie (Jill Schoelen), it appears his familial patterns will continue, until Stephanie begins to suspect something isn’t quite right with her new, seemingly well-adjusted Father.

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To see one of our previous CCMN film discussions, check out our interview with Makeup/Special Effects Artist Dan Frye (Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Dr. Who)

Questions? Email TDeery@wlsmail.org

Baby Songs & Stories in the Community Room

Monday, June 19

10:30 am - 11:00 am

For parents and caregivers of babies up to 24 months.

Join children’s librarian Gina to learn songs, fingerplays, and more that you can do with your baby. Each meeting will leave time for open discussion and connection with other parents/caregivers.

This program will be socially-distanced. Please make sure you and everyone in your family over the age of 2 wears their masks for its entirety.

Email dobchildref@wlsmail.org, call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the children’s room for information and to sign up.

Mary’s Yarns Crafting Group: in the Community Room

Monday, June 19

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Mary’s Yarns Crafting Group will be meeting in the Library Community Room.

2nd Meeting of the Month: Crocheting. We will provide you with the supplies to create a granny square or dishcloth.

Even if we’re not working on a type of crafting you’re interested in, you are welcome to come and chat and work on your own projects! Newcomers are always welcome.

Please email dflfriends@gmail.com if you have questions or would like to join!

Grab Bag Movie Night – “12 Years a Slave” Juneteenth Special

Monday, June 19

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Action! Comedy! Thriller! Fantasy! Anything goes in our Grab Bag movie series! This month’s feature in recognition of Juneteenth:

12 Years a Slave

“In 1841, Solomon Northup, a free African American living in the north is treacherously kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. Based on true events.”

2013 / 134 min / Rated R (violence, nudity)

Baby Songs & Stories in the Community Room

Monday, June 26

10:30 am - 11:00 am

For parents and caregivers of babies up to 24 months.

Join children’s librarian Gina to learn songs, fingerplays, and more that you can do with your baby. Each meeting will leave time for open discussion and connection with other parents/caregivers.

This program will be socially-distanced. Please make sure you and everyone in your family over the age of 2 wears their masks for its entirety.

Email dobchildref@wlsmail.org, call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the children’s room for information and to sign up.