Upcoming Programs & Events
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Come enjoy free coffee & refreshments at Veterans & Friends Coffee Hour on the first Friday of the month from 10-11 AM! This event is sponsored by the Chelsea Public Library, Heath-Doyle American Legion Post #61 and Chelsea Area Senior Center. ☕ Please join us and build community while honoring our veterans and servicemembers. Stay tuned for special presenters and other opportunities. These events are free & open to all!
It's time for our monthly drop-in tech help hour! 📱 💥 💻🔨
If you're having any tech issues or have questions about anything tech-related, our local Tech Wizard, James Harvey, can help! Stop by the Chelsea Public Library between 4:30-5:30 PM on Tuesday, June 13th for answers to your most confounding questions. Bring your device, if applicable, but we'll also have computers on hand for quick demos. Now is your chance! No appointment needed.
If you're having any tech issues or have questions about anything tech-related, our local Tech Wizard, James Harvey, can help! Stop by the Chelsea Public Library between 4:30-5:30 PM on Tuesday, June 13th for answers to your most confounding questions. Bring your device, if applicable, but we'll also have computers on hand for quick demos. Now is your chance! No appointment needed.
On Tuesday, June 20th from 5-6 pm, come learn how to spot old stone walls, old roads, and cellar holes buried deep in the woods from the comfort of your home using a computer and the Vermont Interactive Map Viewer. This workshop with Carl Childs will focus on the Chelsea area, but the process can be used anywhere in Vermont. There will be about 15 minutes of instruction and then you will be free to explore on your own. The library has limited computers available so bring your own laptop, if possible and connect to the Library’s wifi.
We are so excited to announce that we're hosting a VINS live animal presentation, "Raptors: Inspiring Conservation," on Saturday, June 24th from 10-11 AM for our Summer Reading program! Join us on the North Common in Chelsea; rain location inside Town Hall.
From VINS: "For hundreds of years, humans didn’t understand the vital role that raptors play in our ecosystem. Some of our most charismatic birds, including the Bald Eagle and Peregrine Falcon, wound up on the Endangered Species List, and today we know that a majority of bird species are in decline. Join us in learning how people banded together to save these magnificent animals, and meet some live birds who will help us tell these inspiring conservation stories. Best of all, learn what you can still do to help them thrive in the wild."
From VINS: "For hundreds of years, humans didn’t understand the vital role that raptors play in our ecosystem. Some of our most charismatic birds, including the Bald Eagle and Peregrine Falcon, wound up on the Endangered Species List, and today we know that a majority of bird species are in decline. Join us in learning how people banded together to save these magnificent animals, and meet some live birds who will help us tell these inspiring conservation stories. Best of all, learn what you can still do to help them thrive in the wild."
Don't compost those plants from spring clean-up! We're hosting a Plant Swap outside of the library (on the south side) from May 28 to June 19. Drop off/pick up some new ornamentals. Please label plant type & color.
Current Art Exhibit:
Impressions of Vermont: Photographs by Michael Sacks
ARTIST STATEMENT
The infinite possibilities of photographing are fascinating to me and a continual pleasure and challenge. Switching aim, lens or adjustments settings can reveal something new and even beyond what the eye alone can capture. Hunting for the right picture becomes a time of more intense looking and playing with light, shape, color, foreground and background. Though often so very elusive, the end I aspire to is to capture something both artistically satisfying and personal. And what magic and delight it is when the image “works.” I will never forget the thrill of seeing an image emerge on floating photo paper in the dim red light of a darkroom — a process for me now replaced by the myriad new options with computer processing and printing.
In 2013 I retired from a career as a Trinity College sociology professor. A camera always provided an avocation, but now I have the opportunity to make this much more of a primary pursuit.
My work has appeared in juried exhibitions in Connecticut at Gallery on the Green, Five Points Gallery, Arts Center East, Mattatuck Museum, New Britain Museum of American Art, Slater Museum, the Farmington Valley Arts Center and the West Hartford Art League. In Vermont my work has been at Studio Place Arts (Barre) and Artistree (Pomfret). My wife, artist Deborah Sacks, and I divide our time between Connecticut and a second residence at our son’s farm in Vermont.
Mobile: 860-874-2802
michael.sacks@trincoll.edu
The infinite possibilities of photographing are fascinating to me and a continual pleasure and challenge. Switching aim, lens or adjustments settings can reveal something new and even beyond what the eye alone can capture. Hunting for the right picture becomes a time of more intense looking and playing with light, shape, color, foreground and background. Though often so very elusive, the end I aspire to is to capture something both artistically satisfying and personal. And what magic and delight it is when the image “works.” I will never forget the thrill of seeing an image emerge on floating photo paper in the dim red light of a darkroom — a process for me now replaced by the myriad new options with computer processing and printing.
In 2013 I retired from a career as a Trinity College sociology professor. A camera always provided an avocation, but now I have the opportunity to make this much more of a primary pursuit.
My work has appeared in juried exhibitions in Connecticut at Gallery on the Green, Five Points Gallery, Arts Center East, Mattatuck Museum, New Britain Museum of American Art, Slater Museum, the Farmington Valley Arts Center and the West Hartford Art League. In Vermont my work has been at Studio Place Arts (Barre) and Artistree (Pomfret). My wife, artist Deborah Sacks, and I divide our time between Connecticut and a second residence at our son’s farm in Vermont.
Mobile: 860-874-2802
michael.sacks@trincoll.edu
COVID-19 Community Archiving Project SubmissionsChelsea Public School
Dian Parker - "Silent Quarantine"
Sandy Doyle
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