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Library Lounge Indigenous Stories: Smoke Signals Date : Tuesday, April 2, 6:00-8:30 p.m. Location : Community Room at Derby Public Library Description : In collaboration with Big Read Wichita, this Library Lounge series will show three films created by Indigenous filmmakers that feature stories of the modern First Nations experience. For each film, we'll have crafts, refreshments, and a grand prize drawing. Feel free to also bring any personal craft projects or to-do list items to work on during the movie.
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Music as Medicine with Elexa Dawson Date : Friday, April 5, 6:00-7:15 p.m. Location : Community Room at Derby Public Library Description : Join us for an incredible evening of music and storytelling with the Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival headliner, Elexa Dawson. Elexa comes from the Citizen Potawatomi Nation based near Shawnee, Oklahoma, and her captivating red-dirt-honey vocals lay on the listener like a blanket of good feelings, giving the gift of healing through sound. Sultry soul meets rural roots at this beautiful event.
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Library Lounge Indigenous Stories: Songs My Brothers Taught Me Date : Tuesday, April 9, 6:00-8:30 p.m. Location : Community Room at Derby Public Library Description : In collaboration with Big Read Wichita, this Library Lounge series will show three films created by Indigenous filmmakers that feature stories of the modern First Nations experience. For each film, we'll have crafts, refreshments, and a grand prize drawing. Feel free to also bring any personal craft projects or to-do list items to work on during the movie.
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Indigenous Narratives Through Art: A Presentation by Taiomah Rutledge Date : Sunday, April 14, 2:00-3:30 p.m. Location : Community Room at Derby Public Library Description : Taiomah Rutledge, a First Nation artist belonging to the Ojibwe, Meskwaki and Dakota people, presents a showing and discussion of his work with ink, digital media, eco-printing and serigraphy using various substrates like old ledgers, watercolor and Bristol paper. Taiomah, co-founder of the Warclan Art Collective, will also share his journey as a First Nations artist and how he uses his work to share the often overlooked perspectives of First Nations people.
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Library Lounge Indigenous Stories: Barking Water Date : Tuesday, April 16, 6:00-8:30 p.m. Location : Community Room at Derby Public Library Description : In collaboration with Big Read Wichita, this Library Lounge series will show three films created by Indigenous filmmakers that feature stories of the modern First Nations experience. For each film, we'll have crafts, refreshments, and a grand prize drawing. Feel free to also bring any personal craft projects or to-do list items to work on during the movie.
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Beneath the Bones: Big Read Mystery Night Date : Friday, April 19, 7:00-9:30 p.m. Location : Community Room at Derby Public Library Description : You are an archaeology student attending a seminar that opens a hidden university cold case. In 1965 Northern California, a team of archaeologists excavated the lands of the Indigenous Ohlone, Mutsun, and Awaswas peoples in search of historical artifacts, but the excavation was abruptly halted when one of the team was found mysteriously dead. Now you are called to uncover the truth – what happened on those lands, who is to blame, and what stories of the past are buried beneath the bones? Dinner provided by Poblano's Catering Services, but guests with dietary restrictions are welcome to bring their own food. **Registration required and limited.***
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Yoga Intertribal: Music and Movement Date : Sunday, April 21, 2:00-3:15 p.m. Location : Community Room at Derby Public Library Description : Taking inspiration from Indigenous folktales and the Native American Medicine Wheel, this free yoga class will incorporate both locally produced and nationally renowned soundscapes and intertribal music in a power yoga class for strength, focus, and relaxation. Men, women, and children 7+ are welcome to attend.
This class is instructed by a 200-hr Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. Limited mats and yoga props available to borrow. Feel free to bring your own mat, water bottle, towel, blanket, and other yoga props you might need.
This program is in partnership with the NEA Big Read and Big Read Wichita, celebrating the selected novel, There, There by Tommy Orange.
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Family Night April 1st at 6:30 p.m. Early Literacy Area Teen Tuesday Tuesdays at 4:00 p.m. Community Room Baby Storytime Thursdays at 10:00 a.m. Frank Fanning Room Adventures @ the Library Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. Frank Fanning Room Family Gamers Guild April 6th at 10:00 a.m. Frank Fanning Room
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Preschool Storytime Tuesdays & Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m. Early Literacy Area Tween Zone Wednesdays at 4:00 p.m. Frank Fanning Room Building Blocks Read & Play Thursdays at 11:00 a.m. Frank Fanning Room Toddler Time Fridays at 10:00 & 11:00 a.m. Frank Fanning Room Slow Your Roll RPG Club April 8th at 4:00 p.m. Frank Fanning Room
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Oil pastel by Alyssa Lawrence (8th grade)
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Painting and prom dress by Trinity Bayliff
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First line: “911, what is your emergency?”
Summary: Iris has spent the last eight years searching for answers about her twin sister’s disappearance. With the police not believing that Piper was taken but rather a teen runaway, it becomes an obsession for Iris. Using her degree in criminal psychology, Iris takes an internship at the one place where she might find the answers. Shoal Island houses a psychiatric hospital and housed there is the person who may know more than he has revealed. As she begins searching she finds that maybe there is more to the hospital and its staff.
My Thoughts: This book was a wild ride from the very beginning and I was all in for every bit of it. Iris has seen her sister taken by several men, right before her eyes but the police do not believe her. She then devotes the next several years determined to learn what happened to her sister and prove that she was telling the truth.
Having just visited Seattle, I liked that the setting of the book was in one of my favorite cities. I could easily picture Iris traveling via ferry boat, the library where her Gran works and the waterfront where she eats fish and chips. And the setting of a psychiatric hospital on one of the islands surrounding the city is the perfect location for what transpires there. While the hospital seems to be a state of the art facility there are hints that something is not quite right there.
The story flashes back and forth between the past and current times. Iris slowly learns more about her sister’s fate through her research and police information. There was a point during the story when a big reveal happens that I had to literally stop the audio playback and think for a minute. It shocked me so much. But then the ending was absolutely scary. Everything comes to a head with a bang! The last chapter is a heart racing ride as Iris finally learns all she has been longing to find. This will be a book that will hold you from the beginning to the end. Definitely one of my favorite Tarryn Fisher thrillers.
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First line: The trees are mostly skinny where the hermit lives, but they’re tangled over giant boulders with deadfall everywhere like pick-up sticks. Summary: The inhabitants around North Pond in Maine were plagued by a mysterious series of thefts for over 25 years. But the thief was not taking things of extreme value, more like food, supplies and books. Then his crime spree was brought to an end with a sting operation catching him in the act of stealing from a camp around the pond. His name is Christopher Knight and he had been living in the woods for 27 years. Through letters and visits to the prison the author, Michael Finkel is able to piece together the story of this elusive hermit. My Thoughts: Having just recently listened to The Art Thief by Michael Finkel, I decided I should check out his other book. This one was just as fascinating! It blows my mind how this man was able to survive in the woods of Maine for as many years as he did. But as the author describes Knight’s time in the woods, the campsite and his choices about what to take from the area cabins, it shows that he was extremely intelligent. He never took items which would cause too much of a ruckus from the residents and he reused supplies like magazines for flooring at this campsite. However, once he is captured things seem to become much harder for him. He is back in a society he hadn’t participated in for decades. Things we take for granted were foreign to him. Illnesses ravaged his immune system during his time in prison. He wasn’t used to communicating with other people. The constant noise was oppressive. By the end I felt sorry for this man who was just trying to survive but live a simple life alone. Even though he broke the law he never harmed anyone. Finkel’s writing style is so easy to read, making the story seem more like fiction than nonfiction. This is a book that can easily be read in one sitting and one I would highly recommend.
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Get your copy of Celebrating Derby now! Celebrating Derby — 150 Years: 1869-2019 is a wonderful book that lets you see what life was like in the early years of the town we call Derby, but was originally named El Paso. Pick up your copy today at the library for $20.
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