*Please note: This event is currently full, but please join our waitlist in case of cancellations or last minute openings.*
The fun and funky art of macrame is right at your fingertips! We’ll teach you how to get your first project started on November 7 at 6:00pm at Foster Public Library.
Space is limited due to materials. Please register by calling either library, visiting in person, or submitting our online form.
*NOTE: This event is now at capacity. Please join our waitlist below to be informed of openings.*
Tyler Free Library will host a kid’s craft just in time for Thanksgiving! On November 17 at 1pm, right after our regularly scheduled storytime at 12:30, we will be making pinecones into turkeys with feathers, pipe cleaners, and googly eyes.
Due to limited materials, registration is required. Visit the library, call either library, or sign up on our online form.
Cookbook Club is meeting at a new location! Join us at Foster Library on the first Thursday of every month at 6pm. November’s theme is “fall soups.” We have plenty of cookbooks available at both libraries if you need inspiration. Please bring your recipe, place settings, and utensils for everyone to share!
If you can’t make this meeting, we’ll see you at December’s meeting. Stay tuned as each month’s theme is announced on our social media and website!
Audrey recommends: Enter the Body by Joy McCullough
Genre: Novel in verse
Reading Level: Adult
Summary: All the women who die in Shakespeare tragedies meet under the stage trapdoor to discuss the parallels between their lives, and how they might choose to rewrite their stories.
Audrey says: The story focuses on Juliet, Ophelia, and Cordelia, three extremely different women who all died for the love of the men in their lives. Fiery Juliet is angry that people interpreted her hope for peace as youthful stupidity. Quiet, passive Ophelia mourns the mother that was never even mentioned in her play. Stoic Cordelia is resigned to her fate and derides anyone who believes otherwise.
I can’t resist a hybrid form, so the half-script, half-poetry format appealed to me. I immediately clocked their distinct poetic styles; for instance, Cordelia almost always writes in carefully measured iambic pentameter, afraid to deviate from the norm, while Juliet speaks in impulsive fragments.
I don’t consider this a remix or adaptation of Shakespeare’s work, but rather a commentary. It reads like a compelling essay, using the voices of the Bard’s doomed heroines to express how they have been used as plot devices and objects whose inner lives remain unknown to the reader. By staging this novel as a conversation rather than a manifesto, it’s clear that many different interpretations can exist at the same time, and all are correct.
This title is available at Tyler Free Library.
Join us on Monday, October 23 at 6:30pm at Tyler Free Library for a paranormal investigation! The RI Paranormal Research Society will use their tools and skills to see if they can detect ghostly presences in our library. You might be surprised at what you find!
Space is limited. Please register by signing up in person, calling either library, or using our online form.
Local author and paranormal investigator Thomas D’Agostino presents Foster’s closest brushes with the other side. Listen to chilling ghost stories and spectral experiences all from your own state!
The program takes place at 6:30pm on October 18 at Tyler Free Library. Space is limited. Please register by signing up in person, calling either library, or using our online form.
Join us every Wednesday at 2pm at Foster Public Library for Coffee and Conversation! This is a Bring Your Own Book club. Rather than have everyone read the same book, we ask each participant to bring any books they’ve recently finished. You get to choose whatever page count and subject matter appeals to you. And it’s a great way to get recommendations for your next read!
Refreshments will be provided. You can register for this event online with this form, calling the library, emailing info@fosterlibraries.org, or by dropping by in person to sign up!
October 1-7 is Banned Books Week! Audrey and Olivia discuss the theories behind book banning from Plato to today, the thorny issues that arise when you try to come up with a standard policy, and recommend some novels both new and old that tackle the issue.
Fiction books about book banning:
Not on Spotify? You can still listen directly on our website below!
Make a haunted diorama just in time for Halloween! On Wednesday, October 11 at 6pm, Foster Public Library hosts a cemetery-terrarium craft where you go home with your own ominous world in a plastic globe!
Materials are limited. Please register for this event online with this form, calling the library, emailing info@fosterlibraries.org, or by dropping by in person to sign up!
*NOTE: This event has been postponed. Please stay tuned to our website and social media for a new date.*
Chief Lindell from the Foster Police Station will be stopping by Foster Public Library at 6pm on October 17 for storytime! We’re so excited to host her for the first time.
You can register for this event online with this form, calling the library, emailing info@fosterlibraries.org, or by dropping by in person to sign up!
