Closed on Friday, March 29th

The library will be closed on Friday, March 29th in observance of Good Friday. We will reopen on Saturday at 9:30am. 

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CCALC - Morocco Sahara Odyssey

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Adults
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Education, History & Genealogy, Other, Special Event
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Casablanca, Rabat, Fez, and Marrakesh, through the High Atlas Mountains and into the Sahara, discover the beauty, traditions, and culture of this amazing country and its people. Presenter: Marian Amodeo: Long-time Meriden resident who has been ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.

CCALC - Can A.I. Write Music ?

1:00pm - 3:00pm
Adults
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Other, Special Event
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This talk explores the learning processes, inner workings, and history of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It focuses on the capabilities and limitations of AI through the lens of AI-based musical creativity and composition. Presenter: Dr. Christophe...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Nature/Wildlife, Other, Special Event
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We will explore the health benefits of gardening and why I believe the hobby may hold one of the keys to a longer, more satisfying life. I’ll explain how this belief has also been one of the primary motivating factors in the development of my own car...
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This event is in the "Tweens" group.

Poetry Writing Workshop with Author Valerie Bolling

10:30am - 11:30am
Children, School Age, Teens, Tweens
Open
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Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: Children, School Age, Teens, Tweens
Program Type: Education, Other, Special Event
Registration Required
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Grades 2-8 | Registration Required This is a hybrid event. Program participants will meet in-person and the author will be live on Zoom. This program is open to children in grades 2 through 8. Learn how to write your own autobiographical poem f...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Multi-Purpose Room 6
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, History & Genealogy, Other, Special Event
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Terry will share his memories (at age 4) of the bombing nightmares during the repeated German blitzes of his hometown in Swansea (a primary German target). He will talk about his active memories of the nighttime blitz in 1943 (explosions, sirens, sea...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 5
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Other, Special Event
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Elizabet Zott is a female chemist in the 1950s and 1960s. This book deals with her struggles as a woman in STEM at a time when women were expected to stay home and, if working, only work in female occupations. The story is filled with love, sadness, ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Multi-Purpose Room 6
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, History & Genealogy, Other, Special Event
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Join Connecticut’s Lisa Hall Brownell, whose new historical novel Gallows Road (2022, Elm Grove Press) sheds light on a little-known chapter in our region’s history. Combining fact and fiction, the book was inspired by events in colonial New London. ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Other, Special Event
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Travel with us from the shore of Lake Superior, through the far north National Wilderness area, down to Ancient Native American settlements in the southwest corner of Minnesota. Hear about the history of the “Grand Portage” of the Minnesota and Canad...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Other, Special Event
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Clem Kasinskas, a digital media creator, will share his life experience of creating content using the medium of photography and video. He will discuss the process of creating content and the impact it has on the viewer. Presenter: Clem Kasinskas M...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Other, Special Event
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Assistive technology can help people remain in their homes and stay independent as they age. This could be each of us or a parent, sibling or friend. Presenter: Pamela Fields, CEO, MidState Arc Inc. and ATECH ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 5
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club, Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Other, Special Event
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A memoir by the first woman President of Harvard University (2007-2018). In the 1950s, a privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. Dre...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Other, Special Event
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John Colaresiwill give a talk and show video clips about Lilian Harvey (1906-1968), who was one of the biggest movie stars during the 1930’s and performed in Germany, Hollywood, England, Italy and France. She could act, sing and dance, and was flu...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Education, History & Genealogy, Other, Special Event
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The talk will focus on hiking the Inca Trail to the city of Machu Picchu in Peru. The presenter will also discuss the ruins of the Incas and the other factors related to hiking in the Andes, including altitude, camping, the porters and guides and the...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 5
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Other, Special Event
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The five Smith sisters of Glastonbury CT were ahead of their time. Born in the last two decades of the 18th century, during a period when the young United States was struggling to define the term democracy, they spent their entire lives challenging n...