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VOICES partners with Basalt Regional Library to bring monthly VOICES Story Circles hosted by local literary podcaster and facilitator Mitzi Rapkin. The 2-hour session includes story sharing, deep listening, and writing workshops. VOICES Story Circles offer a safe, welcoming, and exploratory space for all to be both storytellers and listeners. All are welcome. Registration required. VOICES, en colaboración con la Biblioteca Regional de Basalt, ofrece el programa VOICES Story Circles cada mes. Facilitada por la creadora de podcasts y presentadora Mitzi Rapkin, esta sesión de 2 horas incluye historias compartidas, atención profunda y talleres de escritura. VOICES Story Circles ofrece un espacio seguro, de bienvenida y exploración, tanto para narradores como para oyentes. Todas las personas son bienvenidas. Se requiere una inscripción previa. |
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Unlock your inner artist in this hands-on introduction to Adobe Photoshop! Whether you’re brand new to digital art or curious about what’s possible, this workshop will guide you through essential tools and techniques while encouraging playful experimentation. Learn how to blend images, add layers, and use brushes to bring your most imaginative ideas to life. Come ready to explore, create, and transform everyday photos into works of art—no experience required! Please bring a laptop with photoshop installed to follow along. ¡Libera tu artista interior en esta práctica introducción a Adobe Photoshop! Ya sea que no tengas experiencia en absoluto en materia de arte digital o que simplemente tengas curiosidad respecto a lo que es posible, este taller te guiará mediante herramientas y técnicas esenciales mientras estimula la experimentación divertida. Aprende a combinar imágenes, agregar capas y a utilizar pinceles para darle vida a tus ideas más creativas. Ven con la disposición de explorar, crear y transformar fotografías cotidianas en verdaderas obras de arte, ¡sin necesidad de experiencia previa! Por favor trae una computadora con el programa Adobe Photoshop ya instalado para poder seguir el programa. |
Designed exclusively for the daring and curious, Banned Book Club is a safe and inclusive space for readers to explore literature that has challenged norms, defied censorship, and sparked important conversations throughout history. This month we will be reading Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that the Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall. Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. How can we stand in solidarity as a movement, Kendall asks, when there is the distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others? Diseñado exclusivamente para seres audaces y curiosos, el Club de Libros Prohibidos es un espacio seguro e incluyente para que quienes participen puedan explorar la literatura que ha desafiado las normas, provocado la censura, y dado luz a conversaciones importantes a lo largo de la historia. Este mes estaremos leyendo “Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that the Movement Forgot” (Feminismo de la Capucha: Notas de las mujeres que el movimiento olvidó), escrito por Mikki Kendall. El movimiento feminista actual cuenta con un punto ciego evidente, y paradójicamente, se trata de mujeres. ¿Cómo podemos mantenernos en solidaridad como movimiento —pregunta Kendall— cuando existe la clara posibilidad de que algunas mujeres sean las opresoras de muchas otras? |
 This month's Book Talk features novel, A Complete Fiction by R.L. Maizes. With little evidence, would-be author P.J. Larkin serves a “nibble” on the trendy new social media app Crave, accusing editor George Dunn of stealing the novel she submitted to him for publication. The nibble shoots to the top of the site’s Popular Menu Items, and before you can say “unpaid literary labor,” George is embroiled in a scandal, his job and book deal in jeopardy. Join us to discuss themes, questions, and what resonated with you during a discussion facilitated by Mary Fox. La Conversación Literaria de este mes presenta la novela “A Complete Fiction” (Una ficción completa), escrita por R.L. Maizes. Con limitada evidencia, la supuesta autora P.J. Larkin sirve un “bocadillo” en la popular aplicación de redes sociales denominada “Crave”, acusando al editor George Dunn de haberse robado la novela que ella le había entregado para ser publicada. El bocadillo se dispara hasta la cima del “menú de artículos populares” de la página, y antes de que puedas decir ‘labor literaria sin pago’, George se ve envuelto en un gran escándalo, con su trabajo y la publicación de su libro en riesgo. Acompáñanos para discutir los temas, responder a las interrogantes, y compartir todo aquello que ha resonado contigo durante una discusión facilitada por Mary Fox. |
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$29/hr, 40 hours/week Oversees our Spanish Outreach work, expanding library services to our Spanish-speaking community. Key tasks include managing the Spanish-language collections developing programs; providing engaging, entertaining, and educational programs to Spanish-speaking people; and offering professional level reference services in Spanish. |
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Robert B. Parker's Showdown
by Mike Lupica
Spenser may have uncovered an explosive secret that threatens the career of a controversial figure, in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker's beloved series. Vic Hale isn't anyone's idea of a father figure. He is one of the biggest - and loudest -- podcasters in the nation and got there by spewing overheated rhetoric that's reviled by some but loved by even more. His particular brand of entertainment is so successful, he's about to sign the biggest contract in the history of online broadcasting. Vic's riding high...until he gets a visit from Spenser, who specializes in bringing guys like Hale back down to Earth. Spenser is there on behalf of Daniel Lopez, a young man who believes Hale may be his father. It's a potentially explosive revelation for a man in the podcaster's position and it might even be enough to blow up his massive new deal. That could explain the bodies that start popping up - bodies connected in one way or another with the mystery surrounding Daniel's birth. There are a lot of questions remaining, and Spenser's going to have to find the answers before someone shuts Hale or Daniel up for good.
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Best Offer Wins
by Marisa Kashino
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick * A Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick * An ELLE Best Mystery/Thriller of 2025 * A BookRiot Best Mystery/Thriller of 2025 It starts out feeling pretty light and fun, but I promise you, you have no idea where this story is going. -Taylor Jenkins Reid, recommended for her Must-Read Book of 2025 in TIME Magazine. An insanely competitive housing market. A desperate buyer on the edge. In Marisa Kashino's darkly humorous debut novel, Best Offer Wins, the white picket fence becomes the ultimate symbol of success--and obsession. How far would you go for the house of your dreams? Eighteen months and 11 lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the overheated Washington, DC suburbs, 37-year-old publicist Margo Miyake gets a tip about the perfect house, in the perfect neighborhood, slated to come up for sale in one month. Desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband Ian -- and in turn, get their marriage, plan to have a baby, and whole life back on track -- Margo becomes obsessed with buying the house before it's publicly listed and the masses descend (with unbeatable, all-cash offers in hand). A little stalking? Harmless. A bit of trespassing? Necessary. As Margo infiltrates the homeowners' lives, her tactics grow increasingly unhinged--but just when she thinks she's won them over, she hits a snag in her plan. Undeterred, Margo will prove again and again that there's no boundary she won't cross to seize the dream life she's been chasing. The most unsettling part? You'll root for her, even as you gasp in disbelief. Dark, biting, and laugh-out-loud funny, Best Offer Wins is a propulsive debut and a razor-sharp exploration of class, ambition, and the modern housing crisis.
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Chasing the Dark: A 140-Year Investigation of Paranormal Activity
by Ben Machell
A gripping narrative that uses the case files of Tony Cornell and the Society for Physical Research to examine our interactions and obsessions with all things paranormal. Tony Cornell spent his life probing the very edges of reality. A member of the UK's Society for Psychical Research (SPR), Cornell's role as an investigator of so-called spontaneous cases saw him returning time and again to the unsettling spaces that exist just on the periphery of our ordered, tidy, and rational lives, and which we all do our best to ignore: Ghosts. Spirits. Premonitions. Psychic powers. Glimpses of other worlds that throw into question everything we take for granted about life, death, and material existence itself. This page-turner draws on Cornell's casefiles, which survive as uniquely untapped repository of stories reported by ordinary people, as well as correspondence between some of the great intellectuals of the 20th century--including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and Marie Curie. By applying logical rigor to the investigation of events that could not be explained by conventional science, the SPR drew notable figures to its ranks as it gathered the most meticulous records ever compiled on hauntings, spiritual possessions, and other enduring mysteries. Award-winning journalist Ben Machell mines the extensive archives of the SPR for the first time to reveal the untold history of the secretive organization, and to understand our interactions and ceaseless fascination with the unexplained.
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Basalt Regional Library
14 Midland Ave | Basalt CO | 970-927-4311 | basaltlibrary.org
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