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CCALC - Children's Programs On Public Television

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, Special Event
Event Details:
Cathleen works on the digital frontier in children’s television. What defines a social media platform? How has this changed storytelling and communication? Learn about a career that didn’t exist a decade ago. Cathleen Cusachs, Social Media M...

CCALC - Ancient Icons

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, History & Genealogy, Special Event, Travel
Event Details:
After travelling in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Rev. Cowing decided to try his hand at replicating some of the icons that he saw in his travels. The presentation will focus on icons painted before the first iconoclasm of the eighth century...

CCALC - Travels in Japan

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, Special Event, Travel
Event Details:
Explore the culture of Japan during one week in Tokyo and four weeks in Kyoto. Learn about people who look out for each other and are always willing to share their history. Enjoy pictures of Chelsea's favorite Japanese snacks. Presenter: Che...

CCALC - Prudence Crandall Museum

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, Special Event
Event Details:
Learn with Joanie DiMartino, curator of the Prudence Crandall Museum, about how Prudence Crandall and Sarah Harris played a role in striving for educational equality. In 1833, Principal Prudence Crandall attempted to integrate her Canterbury Femal...

CCALC - The 90th Anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corps

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, History & Genealogy, Special Event
Event Details:
History of Camp Roosevelt at Chatfield Hollow In 1933, under President Roosevelt's "New Deal," the Civilian Conservation Corps was formed to relieve the poverty and unemployment of the Depression. Many of these camps were set up in Connecticut. Le...

CCALC - An Interactive Talk on Making a Painting

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Adults
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Art & Crafts, Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Special Event
Event Details:
Finding a Theme Ron Abbe will speak on his experience as an artist, specifically deciding what to paint. His work falls into the basic category of realism, and he will show examples from different series describing his motivations and discoveri...

CCALC - The Three Stooges II

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, Special Event
Event Details:
Mr. Colaresi will tell you things you never knew about the Three Stooges in their war-time satire of Hitler and the Third Reich. He will show a short clip or two of their classic moments on the screen, and give ample back-story information about t...

CCALC - Book Discussion - The Book of Lost Names - by Kristin Harmel

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Adults
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 5
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club, Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Special Event
Event Details:
The Book of Lost Names - by Kristin Harmel This is about the brave people who helped Jews, especially children, escape from Nazi controlled France to Switzerland during the Second World War. Eva forges identity papers and tries to preserve thei...

CCALC - Using the 5 Senses in Writing Historical Fiction

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, Special Event
Event Details:
Using the Five Senses in Writing Historical Fiction Michael Milardo, whose titles include “Nick Ilsanto and the Scourge of the Black Hand”, “Chica and Me”, and “Bobby Stitch” will talk about the tricks of the trade in this genre and how to make ch...

CCALC - Jackknife (Movie)

1:00pm - 3:30pm
Adults
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Film, Special Event
Event Details:
The movie, filmed in Meriden in 1989, will have a showing on screen. It’s a story about a Vietnam veteran nicknamed “Megs” (Robert DeNiro) who visits war buddy Dave (Ed Harris) at his home shared with his sister (Kathy Baker). The home on scree...

CCALC - Acoustic Blend - Crossing Musical Boundaries

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, Special Event
Event Details:
Acoustic Blend - Crossing Musical Boundaries The guitar crosses all musical boundaries and so do Judy and Mark during this wonderful program. You’ll hear their own unique arrangements of swing, Broadway, 60s-70s pop, gypsy, Celtic, Spanish, French...

CCALC - Photography as Art

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Adults
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Art & Crafts, Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Special Event
Event Details:
Paul Ott will talk about his passion for black/white photography as an art form and how his photography has evolved in subject, theme, and use of photographic tools to create desired effects. Mr. Ott will also display his digital works on screen a...

CCALC - Native American Artifact Collections and Repatriation

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, Special Event
Event Details:
Native American Artifact Collections and Repatriation In 1990, the American Congress passed the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), requiring government museums, universities and other agencies receiving federal funds and having ...

CCALC - Show and Tell - Who is it? Where is it? What is it?

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Adults
Library Branch: Off Site
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Special Event
Event Details:
Show and Tell: Who is it? Where is it? What is it? PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS MEETING AT MERIDEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY Sherwin will show a series of curiosities and products that were manufactured in Meriden in earlier years. None of the curiositie...

CCALC - Book Discussion - White Trash: The 400- Year Untold Story of Class in America

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Adults
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 5
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club, Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Special Event
Event Details:
Book Discussion III - White Trash: The 400- Year Untold Story of Class in America - By Nancy Isenberg This history of the American class system looks at politics, labor, literature and public culture to uncover the deep discrimination that has alw...