Forsyth County Public Library - Hampton Park Library

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Everyday Use 16x9

Sunday March 21, 2021 02:00 PM EDT
Forsyth County Public Library - Hampton Park Library Cost: Free
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Categories: Guest Lecture; Culture; Celebrating Women’s History Alice Walker remains best known for her novel, The Color Purple (1982), which won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. In her short story “Everyday Use,” written a few years before, we can Walker see exploring many of the same co... [click here for more]
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Storytelling Through Quilts 16x9

Saturday March 20, 2021 01:00 PM EDT
Forsyth County Public Library - Hampton Park Library Cost: Free
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Categories: Guest Lecture; Culture; Celebrating Women’s History Storytelling through quilting has been a rich tradition in women’s history for centuries. StoryQuilter Kianga Jinaki will take us on a journey through the history of this folk art form, starting with the mother of the movement, Harriet ... [click here for more]
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Celebrating African American Heritage 2021 EricCrawford

Saturday February 20, 2021 02:00 PM EST
Forsyth County Public Library - Hampton Park Library Cost: Free
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Categories: Guest Lecture; Culture; Celebrating African American Heritage Discover more about the culture, lifestyle, and history of the Gullah Geechee in this presentation by Dr. Eric Crawford, the Director of The Charles Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies. Participants will h... [click here for more]
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Ghost Hunting 101 HP

Saturday October 24, 2020 07:00 PM EDT
Forsyth County Public Library - Hampton Park Library Cost: Free
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Our annual Ghost Hunting 101 will be hosted virtually this year! The Southeastern Institute of Paranormal Research will present educational (and maybe a little spooky) information on ghost hunting techniques, including the methods and devices used during paranormal investigations, while conducting a... [click here for more]
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Forsyth Writes Together Writing Picture Books

Saturday April 25, 2020 10:30 AM EDT
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Categories: Author Visit; Writing;

There’s no other art form quite like a picture book. Learn the craft of writing picture books for children in today’s market. Join published authors Bonnie Clark, Kim MacPherson, and Jaclyn Paris for an epic conversation!

The panel will discuss elements of pictur... [click here for more]
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Forsyth Reads Together Ben Wynne

Thursday March 5, 2020 06:30 PM EST
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Categories: Guest Lecture; Education; History Sometimes we forget that not all Southerners were pro-secession during the Civil War era. One of the most vocal pro-Unionists was Henry Foote, who served as both a U.S. Senator and a Confederate Congressman and was one of Jefferson Davis’s most outspoken... [click here for more]
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Celebrating African American History Phillis Wheatley

Sunday February 23, 2020 02:00 PM EST
Forsyth County Public Library - Hampton Park Library Cost: Free
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Categories: Guest Lecture;

elebrate African American History Month with the next event in our ongoing “Race and American Culture” series led by Dr. Ian Afflerbach.

Dr. Afflerbach will examine the life and writings of Phillis Wheatley. In 1773, Wheatley published her first book of poetry--the first o... [click here for more]
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Celebrating African American History Dr Gnimbin Ouattara

Monday February 10, 2020 07:00 PM EST
Forsyth County Public Library - Hampton Park Library Cost: Free
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In 1974, there was one boxing match that was the “Rumble in the Jungle,” making the news worldwide. Held in Kinshasa, Zaire, it featured Mohammed Ali and George Foreman.

Enjoy a screening of the documentary film Ali, mbomayé, presented by the filmmaker himself, Dr. Gnimbin... [click here for more]
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Cathy Kaemmerlen HP

Monday November 4, 2019 06:30 PM EST
Forsyth County Public Library - Hampton Park Library Cost: Free
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Categories: Library Events Ever wonder how Rough and Ready got its name? Or what Stonesthrow is a stone’s throw from? And surely the story behind Climax can’t be…that thrilling, can it? The curious Georgian can’t help pondering the seemingly endless supply of head-scratching place names that dot thi... [click here for more]
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Forsyth Writes Together October2019

Saturday October 5, 2019 10:30 AM EDT
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Learn from the experiences of a panel of seven children’s book writers and illustrators from the Trail Mix critique group. The panel will speak candidly about what makes success, what keeps them writing, how to critique a friend’s writing, and how a successful critique group comes together. Find o... [click here for more]
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