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Kids Movie Nites

Generally First Saturday of the Month*

6:30pm Free

Craig Townsend and his daughter Nyad host a once a month movie for kids on the first Saturday of each month in the Herrick Room. Our 10'x 4' screen with high definition projection and sound create a real theater experience. Movies are generally G or PG and occasionally PG-13. Rating will be listed with publicity if available. If you like to sit on the floor bring blankets and pillows. BYO popcorn and drinks.

*If the Wendell Full Moon Coffee House falls on a first Saturday, Kids Movie Nite will move to the second Saturday

GREEN SEEN Mail Art

The Wendell Free Library invites you to create an original postcard size art work for our mail art exhibit, GREEN SEEN.

Click here to view the Mail Art we've received so far (375 images)!

Green – sustainability, conservation, freecycle, the color….. All techniques and media welcome. Participants’ mail art works will be displayed as soon as they are received at the library. Mail art will be documented at the library website and contributors will receive a printed documentation. Ongoing exhibit at the Library will end on March 21st. The show will then travel to Baystate Franklin Medical Center to be displayed from April 1st through May 21st. All works received will become part of a permanent art collection at the Wendell Free Library.

Deadline for receiving works is March 21, 2010. Participation is free.

Maximum postcard size, 5 ½ x 8 ½ in. / 13.97 x 21.59 cm. All are welcome, artists & non-artists.

Send original postcard size works to:

GREEN SEEN Mail Art

Wendell Free Library

P. O. Box 236

Wendell, MA 01379 USA

Sponsored by the Friends of the Wendell Free Library

Co-Curators: Christine Tarantino & Richard Baldwin, artists and Wendell residents

New to Mail Art?

Mail Art is a global network of artists………everyone is welcome to participate, all ages and skill levels. Mail Art is fun! Mail Art is inclusive! Mail Art is non-judgmental!

Here are some resources to help you get started:

GOOD MAIL DAY: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art by Jennie Hinchcliff & Carolee Gilligan Wheeler. Newly published book by librarian and mail artist, featuring work by 100 mail artists, including Christine Tarantino.

Words of Light Mail Art, an archived blog of mail art sent to and from Christine Tarantino. www.christinetarantino.blogspot.com

Ongoing Programs

There are a plethora of ongoing programs hosted by the library that you will find in Library Events. These include: pokemon club, mostly yoga, sci fi movie night, preschool play group.

Summer Reading Program

This Summer the Library had a fantastic response to our summer reading program "Spaceship Adventure". The theme was state-wide, and we participated by creating an interactive outerspace mural. Jessica Star painted the mural and had the help of several young people in the painting process. Our readers created and named their own spaceships which were placed on earth, at the bottom of a large 8 foot x 8 foot mural. They then navigated their way among the painted planets as they read. Each book read earned them an astroid, which they put up on the mural, a sting of yarn traced their flight around the solar system. The mural is now so covered with astroids we can barely see the planets! There was a lot of reading going on this summer. At the end of the program, they counted up their books read and cashed in to get some great prizes.

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