Book lovers, join our“First Friday Book Chat with Will” on Friday, January 8, 2016 at 11 a.m. Discover new books and discuss favorites with others in a friendly group led by Library Director Will Adamcyzk. Come to the lower level of the Milton Public Library, 476 Canton Avenue in Milton. The drop in session is free and is open to all.
Throughout January 2016 enjoy Ipswich artist Miranda Updike’s exhibit of colorful paintings inspired by the “Occupy” movement. The paintings will be displayed in the Wotiz Gallery, main floor of the Milton Public Library, 476 Canton Avenue in Milton, MA.
Artist Miranda Updike said, “This series of paintings is on the subject of crowds. In our times of technology, there is little online substitute for a public gathering of bodies and souls uniting in a common cause. My paintings represent human bonding and interacting in a high-tech era that tends to foster isolation: people joining together to share ideas, physical space and sentiments. Many of my crowd paintings are viewed from the aerial perspective. I use photographic references to abstract the idea of human movement. I’m attracted to the decorative quality of clustered people or when they are haphazardly separated, like dropped gems, confetti or beads. There is loveliness to the accidental placement of people in the streets seen, say, from the fourteenth floor of a skyscraper – a littering of colored shapes and shadows, which move above asphalt and street lines, expressing a brand of contemporary splendor.”
For more information, call Jean Hlady, Adult Services Librarian, at (617) 698-5757, ext. 3 or visit the Milton Library’s website.
On Tuesday, December 15, at 6:30 p.m. “Tuesday Night at the Movies” will feature an excellent film about Sherlock Holmes, starring Ian McKellen in Mr. Holmes. The free screening will be downstairs at the Milton Public Library, 476 Canton Avenue in Milton, MA 02186. All are welcome.
This movie is rated PG for thematic elements, some disturbing images and incidental smoking, and the running time is 105 minutes. Director Bill Condon puts a spin on Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated character with this work where a now-retired Holmes, his steel-trap mind starting to fade with old age, lives out his golden years in the late 1940’s. Holmes returns to Japan to search for a plant to help slow the aging process, and while there, he witnesses first-hand the result of America’s bombing of Hiroshima. He then reopens his investigation into the case that led to his retirement. Come watch to see what happens!
This free film screening is sponsored by the Friends of the Milton Public Library and for more information, call Jean Hlady, Adult Services Librarian, at (617) 698-5757, x. 3.