It's July!
Here's what's happening at the 
Lopez Library!

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Summer Teen Interns Are Here!
 
We're delighted to welcome a new crew of Teen Interns to the library this summer! These dynamic youth will be a core part of the library doing important work like welcoming patrons, supporting programs, and developing fresh ideas on how to serve the community.
 
The Teen Intern Program offers the chance to build skills, explore public service, and discover the many ways a library connects people, ideas, and place. Over the next few weeks, you may see our interns learning the ropes, asking questions, shelving books, helping at the desk, or working on summer projects. Please say hello and give them a warm welcome.
 
We're grateful for the energy, curiosity, and creativity they bring to the library, and we're excited for the community to get to know them. Many thanks to the Friends of the Lopez Island Library for funding this wonderful opportunity for island youth.
 


Save the Date!
 

AROUND THE LIBRARY & ON DISPLAY
 Book Displays
Something for every age throughout the library!
 
Celebrate Physical Diversity 
  Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century  A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen  The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland
 
Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion by Shannon Stocker   All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything by Annette Bay Pimentel
 
 The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley  Hummingbird (Scholastic Gold) by Natalie Lloyd  All He Knew by Helen Frost
 
 
All I Want to Do Is Swim by Marilyn Singer
 
Find a Way by Diana Nyad Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way to Swim Better, Faster, and by Terry Laughlin Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui
 
  The Water You're Swimming in by Rachel Schwartz Fagan  Sakamoto's Swim Club: How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory by Julie Abery  Swim Team: A Graphic Novel by Johnnie Christmas
 

BOOK CLUBS
Wednesday, July 1st @ 4:30pm
 
"This powerful, charming immigration story follows a girl who moves from Pakistan to Georgia, and must find her footing in a new world. Swimming helps her find her place."
Wed, July 8th @ 4:30pm

Literary Salon is a no-rules book club where you bring whatever you're reading to a round of interested listeners. You are welcome to come and be a listener, too.
NOTE date change for March only.
To sign up for any of our informative Book Club newsletters, 
DID YOU KNOW?
YOUTH PROGRAMS
Pick up your Reading & Activity Tracker at the Library!
 
 


 
 

JULY PROGRAMS
Book Bingo for Adults & Teens
Pick up your bingo card at the Library
 
The Procrastination Station is a weekly co-working space for anyone who could use a dedicated time and a friendly atmosphere to focus, create, and get things done. Drop in with your laptop, paperwork, mending, writing, artwork, or that email you've been avoiding, and enjoy some shared productivity.

 (Barbie will be here every Wednesday in July EXCEPT 7/22)
 
Ann Patchett: Seattle Arts & Lectures - Thursday, July 9, 7:30pm
 
 
The acclaimed, prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling writer returns with Whistler, a moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time. 
 
Q&A with Claire Dederer.
 
REGISTER HERE by July 7.
You must have an active Lopez Library card to register.
 
This series is brought to the community through the support of
 
 
 
Let's celebrate this 250th year with a Swing Dance!
 
This American dance classic originally began during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920's and by the beginning of World War II, the Swing craze had spread globally. In many dance halls, and for the first time in our history, young people gathered together without segregation!
 
 
“At the Borderline of Time” is a multi-disciplinary art exhibition
opening with a talk/Q&A
 
An all-encompassing leap into the difference between meeting one’s soul versus meeting their physical body to start the deeper conversation of intersectionality and suicide awareness in Black and Brown trans communities.
 
At the borderline of time, suicide forced me to come face to face with the things I loved most. Importantly, what I loved most about myself - my soul (growth, maturity, decay). We have as much to learn about death as we do life. The closer we are to observing the truth of the soul, the more life we attract.
 
Art forces us to view differently, deeply, and critically. My art has always been at the root of affirming who I am, discovering and creating my personal vision and philosophy, exploring who and how I love, and how I celebrate, mourn, and look upon all of the moments that make me human.
 
My work here is to provide a space for others to celebrate themselves and explore what visibility and sense of self mean to them. The goal is to get people thinking differently, deeply, and critically.
 

 
Dive into the fascinating tale of a woman raised in a cult, whose journey of healing through teaching her parrot to read reshapes our understanding of interspecies communication.
 
Learn more on the film's website here: https://parrotkindergarten.com/
This film will be screened at the Lopez Library.
 


 
Edward Castro: Fashion as Portraiture 
 
 
Edward Rafael Castro is a fashion design artist/photographer/biographer who is combining his talents over his three week residency to create garments that contain narrative content true to the lives of the wearers they are designed for, constructed from upcycled materials combined with vintage fabric scraps, visible stitching, buttons and decorative details, embedded with literal or metaphorical content.
 
The goal of this project is to emphasize the creativity and meaning that fashion and costume have held in indigenous communities and in ancient times, and bring that love and care forward to the present. “Fashion as Portraiture” explores the idea of slow fashion, as an art form. An individual artist makes a piece of clothing from the ground up, for a specific person, with an understanding of that person’s lifestyle, history, habits and preferences; a return to long ago values that can be a way forward for future humans. Demonstrating the values of connection and creativity, care in repurposing resources that are already available, and taking the time to understand and build relationships between individuals is the process.
 
SAVE THE DATE!
The Welcome Basket: A Library Social
 
“New” to the island? Welcome! Whether you've been here for a month or a few years, part-time or full-time, we hope you’ll join us for this all-ages evening of fun and connection. The Welcome Basket Social is a chance to meet people, make connections, and discover more of what island life has to offer. We’ll have social games, refreshments, a chance to learn more about Lopez and the Library, and a welcome basket raffle. Been on the island for a while? Come share your tips and welcome fresh faces! All are welcome.

COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS
This section highlights a few events which are managed and hosted by community members and other organizations.
Word! - Thursday, July 23, 5:30-7pm
 
 

Thursday, July 16 @ 7-9pm
 
 



HAPPY SUMMER