The Ungardener: A Conversation with Dee Salomon

Friday, July 21, 5:30
SML

A monthly columnist for the Lakeville Journal, Dee Salomon writes, advocates, and consults on woodland restoration.

In this informal talk, followed by a question and answer period, Dee will speak about her personal experiences and development as an “ungardener.” Like other ungardeners around the country, she argues for the removal of destructive non-native plants.

Over a decade ago, Dee moved to Litchfield County and began clearing invasive plant species from the woodland adjacent to the property. In the process, several things happened:

 - Nature responded to Dee’s remedial actions; tree seeds germinated and grew quickly, creating a much needed understory of trees

 - Native shrubs and herbaceous plants began to grow, all in response to the eradication of the invasives

 - Dee also grew in her knowledge of, and passion for, the rehabilitation of woodlands

We hope you may join us at the Scoville Library as Dee shares what she has learned.  

Registration is Required for this after hours event. Please register HERE. We have seating for about 30 people. If we reach capacity before you sign up you will be placed on a wait list. Names on the wait list will be contacted for related events in the future.

A Poetry Workshop for Young Adults with Emma Wynn

July 22, 2023
Saturday, 2-4 p.m.
The Oak Room
Scoville Memorial Library

Are you interested in deepening your craft as a lyric poet? In this workshop, we'll read examples of inspiring poems and write and share our own work with one another. Please bring a notebook and pens or pencils .

Emma Wynn is the author of "The World is Our Anchor" (FutureCycle Press, 2023). They received their M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School and teach Philosophy, Psychology, and LGBTQ+ U.S. History at the Hotchkiss School. They have been published in multiple magazines and journals and nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice. "The World is Our Anchor" is a collection of unsparing poems on the legacies of human brutality.

This small group session is for younger writers, age 17-24. Registration is Required. Please register HERE .

If we reach capacity before you sign up you will be placed on a wait list. If you have any questions about this class, please feel free to write [email protected] with other questions.

A Poetry Workshop with Sally Van Doren

July 23, 2023
Sunday, July 23, 2023
2-4 p.m.
The Oak Room

This session should be fruitful for those new to writing poetry as well as seasoned poets.

"As poet Mark Van Doren (my husband’s grandfather) once said: 'The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.' This workshop is designed to generate new poems through discovering and nurture our poetic voices. Using in-class prompts, we will explore how voice emerges and creates the distinctive character that makes our poems unique. This session should be fruitful for those new to writing poetry as well as seasoned poets. We’ll draw upon the wonderful resource of a constructive small group to learn how others hear us and how we can best hear ourselves."

- Sally Van Doren

Van Doren, a Cornwall-based poet and artist, explores the fertile cognitive territory between image and language. Her first book of poems received the 2007 Walt Whitman Award. She has completed her fourth book of poems, "Sibilance" (Louisiana State University Press, 2023).A number of Van Doren's poems are available online. Her artworks draw upon a personal iconography of calligraphic gestures, handprints, and letters.

Registration is required. Please Register HERE

If we reach capacity before you sign up you will be placed on a wait list. Names on the wait list will be the first contacted for related events in the future.

NOTE: Registration is separate for the Saturday July 22 and SundayJuly 23 sessions

FORTHCOMING,

An Advanced Poetry Workshop with Sally Van Doren

Friday, August 4, 2023
10 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., with a break for lunch
The Oak Room
Scoville Memorial Library

This intensive, immersive five-hour workshop is designed to give writers the time we need to generate new work and to hone in on whatever it is that is begging us to bring it to the page. Guided by prompts and in-class writing assignments, we will dive deep and emerge transformed.

APPLICATION: If you'd like to apply to attend this session please send two poems to: [email protected]. For other inquiries, write: [email protected]

Bat Talk & Annual Bat Count

Our second annual Bat Program for families, teenagers, and adults

Co-Sponsored by SML and Salisbury Association Land Trust/Community Events

Thursday, July 27, 7:00- 8:30 p.m.

Rain Date: Friday, July 28, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.. (if it rains on the rain date, the talk will be held inside at the Wardell Room, without a bat count.)

Please join us in the Buttons Garden at SML to hear CT DEEP wildlife biologist Devaughn Fraser, a specialist in bats, discuss the flying mammals that roost in the attics of SML and the Academy Building —and live throughout this region. Fraser will begin her talk at SML a little after 7:00 p.m , providing instructions and clickers so that residents may observe and help count the bats leaving the Academy Building at sundown. At the end of the count period, approximately 8:30, results will be recorded.

Both SML and the Academy Building will be open if restrooms are needed. Please feel free to bring your lawn chairs, bug spray, and flash lights.

Devaughn Fraser, CT DEEP wildlife biologist, received her doctorate in biology from UCLA, where she used advanced genetic techniques to evaluate the impacts of infrastructure development and environmental toxicants on wildlife. She first started working with bats as a field technician in 2009 and has been dedicated to their conservation ever since. Her work as a bat specialist is largely focused on communication and mitigation. Dr. Fraser will join us to introduce the nine species of bat we have here in Connecticut and discuss the methods we are using to monitor and protect these valuable members of our community as they continue to suffer from disease, habitat loss, and persecution.

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED, WALK INS WELCOME

Turkish Marbling with Christina Di Marco

Sunday, July 30
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m
To be held outside the Wardell Community Room at SML, in the Pickles Garden

Rain date: to be announced.

The class is invited to learn the basics of Paper Marbling, using classic Turkish marbling techniques. Turkish Marbling is a 12th century art form which was combined with calligraphy of the words of Allah. Described as Ebru, or cloud painting, the technique involves the use of stone ground watercolors that are dropped onto a thickened water, combed into designs or left in stone patterns, and then picked up with a coated absorbent paper. These mono prints are magical and beautiful and used for bookbinding and are oftencreated and seen as artworks in themselves. Come join in the discovery!

There will be a short break during the 3-hour class.

CHRISTINA DI MARCO:

An expert in the arts of Turkish marbling, Japanese suminagashi, bookbinding, and other media, Christina Di Marco has been teaching art and making artwork in the Hudson Valley for over 30 years. She studied sociology and psychology at Trinity College, Burlington, Vermont and at SUNY New Paltz. Her work is held in private and institutional collections, including the Garrison Art Center which has also exhibited her work.

Registration is required. A registration link will be made available next week. Materials will be supplied. The class will be held outdoors; please dress appropriately.. In the event of rain, we'll post a rain date shortly before Sunday July 30.

SUMMER READING BINGO:

Play summer reading BINGO and challenge yourself to new reading experiences. Once again we have created some summer reading fun for all our avid readers. Get Bingo & turn in your sheet to be entered in a drawing at the end of August.

Need help with titles for your challenges? Here are some ideas:

Dark Academia

Essay Collections

Gilded Age

Setting Dragons

Read with Pride

Holiday

Romance

Austen Inspired

Library Mystery

Set in the 60’s

Circus Setting

Time Travel

Trees

AAIP Authors

Alternate History

Pick up some Poetry

Memoir

Unusual Voyages

Overseas Thrillers

For more information, write [email protected] or talk to staff at the SML Circulation Desk.

Ongoing Weeklies with SML
    
Meditation and Gentle Movement with Kathy Voldstad

Meditation, Sundays 9:00 a.m.

Beginning now, probably lasting through the summer months, the meditation class will be held on Sundays only.

Zoom link - password: "peace"

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