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Rowayton hosts Great Decisions…

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 by:Cynthia F. Johnson

Wednesday, April 17 @ 7pm – Great Decisions – China in Africa

Great Decisions Discussion Group – Topic: China in Africa - What interests govern China’s engagement in Africa? Should China’s growing emphasis on political ties and natural resource extraction inform U.S. relations with African nations? Wednesday evening, April 17 @ 7pm at the Rowayton Library

Developed by the Foreign Policy Association, the Great Decisions Discussion Program is the oldest and largest grass-roots world affairs education program of its kind in the country. The Great Decisions Discussion Program is FPA’s public education initiative to create more informed and engaged citizens by bringing people together to discuss U.S. foreign policy and global affairs issues. The session topics include: China in Africa, and Threat Assessment. Materials are provided to participants and are available at the Rowayton Library. This program is free and open to the public. The sessions are led by Erik Rambusch, Adjunct Professor at Norwalk Community College. Discussion dates are 4/17 and 5/1. For more information and program materials, please contact the Rowayton Library.

ScrabbleTime @ the Rowayton Library

Saturday, April 13, 2013 by:Cynthia F. Johnson

Saturday, April 13 @ 1-4pm – Scrabble Time

ScrabbleTime is for everyone (the original Connecticut board game) at the Rowayton Library. Join your neighbors for a good game of Scrabble on Ssaturday, April 13 from 1-4pm. There will be 6 tables set up. All materials will be provided. Players of all ages are welcome.

Two “Mommy & Me Yoga Classes” in Rowyaton – one for infants to pre-crawling and one for Tots crawling to 3 years old… Saturday, April 13

Friday, April 12, 2013 by:Cynthia F. Johnson

Join us at the Rowayton Library for a morning experience of Yoga. The program on Saturday, April 13 @ 10:30am is for moms and their infants 6 weeks to pre-crawling. Mom and baby will practice yoga together! Moms will restore and rejuvenate through stretching and strengthening poses. Babies will enjoy yoga poses to aid in digestion & sleep. This class is a great opportunity to bond with your baby and to connect with other moms.

Following that program, at 11am, is for moms and their tots crawlers – 3 years old. Partner with your little one for animated yoga poses, games, music and breathing exercises that help to strengthen coordination and build body awareness. This fun class is a great opportunity for bonding with your child, while strengthening their growing muscles. Both programs are free and open to the public. Space is limited and please respect the age groupings.

AuthorTalk with Becky Aikman @ the Rowayton Library – Friday, April 12 @ 7pm

Thursday, April 11, 2013 by:Cynthia F. Johnson

Friday evening, April 12 @ 7pm at the Rowayton Library

When Becky Aikman had to remake her life, she gathered five other young widows like herself and took a forthright approach to finding happiness again. Armed with up-to-date research, they rejected the now discredited five stages of grief and substituted laughter, adventure, friendship and a healthy interest in, yes, love. An unsentimental, witty, and totally involving chronicle of moving on, SATURDAY NIGHT WIDOWS reads like a novel yet demonstrates important, little known principles about resilience in the face of tragedy. It also reminds us of the good things that await us if we are strong enough to find them, and the lasting happiness that friends—even new friends—can bring into our lives.

Join us in welcoming author Becky Aikman and two of her Rowayton friends who shared this adventure for an evening of talk and books, good food, good friends… Friday evening, April 12 @ 7pm at the Rowayton Library.

Friends in Rowayton… Award-winning Poet Vinni Marie D’Ambrosio to read at the Atria Darien

Thursday, March 28, 2013 by:Cynthia F. Johnson

Award-winning poet Vinni Marie D’Ambrosio will be giving a poetry reading at the Atria Darien on Friday, March 29 @ 1pm.

A graduate of Smith College and New York University, Vinni Marie D’Ambrosio, Ph. D., is a poet and scholar whose work is found in anthologies, journals, newspapers, as well as in her collection of poems, An Italian Morning (Waterside Press Inc., New York) and Life of Touching Mouths (New York University Press), in her long narrative poem, Mexican Gothic (about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, woodcuts by Karen Kunc, Blue Heron Press), and in her cultural study of T.S. Eliot’s youth, Eliot Possessed (New York University Press). Her poem “Copper Beech” appears on a public memorial monument commissioned by New York City. D’Ambrosio currently leads an ongoing seminar in the poetry classics at the New York Public Library, Jefferson Market Branch and is the annual Haiku Contest judge for the Rowayton Library.

The Atria, 50 Ledge Road, Darien, CT – 203-662-1090. This program is free and open to the public.

Social Networking: Your Kids are on it… You should Be Too, Rowayton

Monday, March 25, 2013 by:Cynthia F. Johnson

Social Networking: Your Kids are On it – You Should Be Too

Today’s kids have access to so many ways to communicate that it can be boggling. Join Tom Duffy, Chair of the Computer Science Department at Norwalk Community College, for a lunchtime workshop to help de-mystify social networking.

Tom will discuss the predominant tools your kids are using and how you can help them avoid a disastrous mistake. Everything from Internet filtering to Facebook to Instagram to text messaging will be on the table. Nothing is off-limits!

Wednesday, March 27 at 12 noon at the Rowayton Library.

Professor Tom Duffy is the Chair of the Computer Science Department and the Program Coordinator for the Computer Science degree. He teaches courses in Web Development, XML, Java, and Mobile Devices. Tom holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Master of Arts degree in Mathematics/Computer Science from Western Connecticut State University. He is the owner of Bright Moments Software – a software company specializing in Web Technologies. Tom has recently published Programming With Mobile Applications, his second book.

Brown-bag lunch. Dessert and refreshments will be served. Please RSVP at 203-838-5038 or email rsvp@rowayton.org.

Pets of Rowayton READ Poster Program… they’re IN

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 by:Cynthia F. Johnson

Pets of Rowayton READ posters are IN at the Rowayton Library. If you submitted your pet’s picture last month to this READ poster program, your poster is ready to be picked up at the Rowayton Library.

If you wish to view all of the posters, visit pets.rowayton.org courtesy of the Rowayton Library

or play the slide show

Great Decisions – Intervention… Great Talk @ the Rowayton Library

Tuesday, March 19, 2013 by:Cynthia F. Johnson

The next meeting of the Foreign Policy Association’s Great Decisions Group is Wednesday, March 20 @ 7pm @ the Rowayton Library.

Topic: Intervention: The “responsibility to protect” doctrine has become central to modern humanitarian intervention. When should the international community intervene? Why did the West rush to intervene in Libya but not Syria?

The Rowayton Library’s Great Decisions Discussion Group meets on alternating Wednesday evenings. Developed by the Foreign Policy Association, the Great Decisions Discussion Program is the oldest and largest grass-roots world affairs education program of its kind in the country. The Great Decisions Discussion Program is FPA’s public education initiative to create more informed and engaged citizens by bringing people together to discuss U.S. foreign policy and global affairs issues. The session topics include: Iran, China in Africa, and Threat Assessment. Materials are provided to participants and are available at the Rowayton Library. This program is free and open to the public. The sessions are led by Erik Rambusch, Adjunct Professor at Norwalk Community College. Discussion dates are 4/3, 4/17, and 5/1. For more information and program materials, please contact the Library.

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