Chair Yoga

Connect, Move, Breathe, Focus, Relax, Be Empowered

 ~  These sessions are to be enjoyed scent-free  ~

Invigorate and Restore with the versatile and wonderful Chair as a prop to help you move better in your body. This practice will help to encourage and restore lost flexibility, stamina, balance, and ease. Guided by Susan Mendoza from The Chi Hive.

Benefits may include:

· improved lung function

· Improved circulation 

      · improved mental and emotional health

· lower stress

· expand loving awareness toward self and others

A desire to nurture a healthy mindset and healthy body can change how we experience the world we live in.

Registration is required; space is limited.

Click here to register

Spend your Friday afternoons at the library with other adults (21+) playing a game with friends, or make new friends while playing cards, Scrabble or other board games.* If you’d like to play something else, bring a game from home to play with others.
*Those interested in playing Mahjong please bring your own sets of tiles.

In the Robert D. Norris Community Room

~Maximum Capacity 15. Please social distance.~

Join local experts John Kocijanski & Irene Pease for an evening of exploration. We will watch the PBS Nova documentary on Saturn, discovering this beautiful planet with additional insight from our experts.  If you are curious about the galaxies, this program is for you!

Register by clicking here.

Friends of the Upper Delaware River (FUDR) is hosting its final in-person public meeting to review their Neversink Watershed Management Plan.

In-Person in the Robert D. Norris Community Room

Do you know a few Yiddish words or more?

Enjoy discussions on language and culture.

Hear from Sages, writers, and humorists about topics such as:

 ¨ Customs ¨ History & Folklore ¨ Traditions ¨ Ethics ¨ Language Arts ¨ Poetry

¨ Folk Sayings ¨ And More!

This meeting of the Library Board of Trustees will be held on ZOOM and in person.

The public is invited to attend in-person or remotely.

Email langclouse@rcls.org for ZOOM meeting invitation

Click here to register.

Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. At the heart of these intertwined narratives is a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches the forest from her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin where she is caught off-guard by Eddie Bondo, a young hunter who comes to invade her most private spaces and confound her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, another web of lives unfolds as Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the complexities of a world neither of them expected.

Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate overtakes a green and profligate countryside, these characters find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily share a place. Their discoveries are embedded inside countless intimate lessons of biology, the realities of small farming, and the final, urgent truth that humans are only one part of life on earth.

With the richness that characterizes Barbara Kingsolver's finest work, Prodigal Summer embraces pure thematic originality and demonstrates a balance of narrative and ideas that only an accomplished novelist could render so beautifully.

Email langclouse@rcls.org for Zoom details.

Spend your Friday afternoons at the library with other adults (21+) playing a game with friends, or make new friends while playing cards, Scrabble or other board games.* If you’d like to play something else, bring a game from home to play with others.
*Those interested in playing Mahjong please bring your own sets of tiles.

In the Robert D. Norris Community Room

~Maximum Capacity 15. Please social distance.~

Click here to register.

Do you know a few Yiddish words or more?

Enjoy discussions on language and culture.

Hear from Sages, writers, and humorists about topics such as:

 ¨ Customs ¨ History & Folklore ¨ Traditions ¨ Ethics ¨ Language Arts ¨ Poetry

¨ Folk Sayings ¨ And More!

If you are an aspiring writer seeking to work together with others to hone your craft plan on attending their bi-monthly meetings on the 2nd & 4th Monday of the month.

Email langclouse@rcls.org for more details.

Hatha Yoga - a Mat-Based Practice

Connect, Move, Breathe, Focus, Relax, Be Empowered

Immerse yourself in our hatha yoga mat class to live better in your body and mind.  Engage in gentle movement promoting circulation, lengthening, and strengthening.  Breath work will be explored and we'll include a restful Savasana to foster peacefulness.  Please dress comfortably, mats will be provided, and feel free to bring your own.

Please consider making this a scent-free practice to support the group (No perfumes or heavily scented body creams or deodorants)

A desire to nurture a healthy mindset and healthy body can change how we experience the world we live in. 

Registration is required; space is limited.

Spend your Friday afternoons at the library with other adults (21+) playing a game with friends, or make new friends while playing cards, Scrabble or other board games.* If you’d like to play something else, bring a game from home to play with others.
*Those interested in playing Mahjong please bring your own sets of tiles.

In the Robert D. Norris Community Room

~Maximum Capacity 15. Please social distance.~

You can expect to hear dual harmonies and dual instrument playing throughout… With a “less is more” whimsical vibe!

Songwriters Deborah Anne Fisher & Paul Kean began playing together in 2017. They accompany each other in harmony & varied instruments, switching off on

guitar, ukulele, bass & washboard percussion.

Registration is required and is limited to 40 registrants.

Masks and social distancing are strongly recommended.

 Click here to register

Join Leanne and Meg from Jeff Bank for a presentation on Fraud Trends, Common Fraud schemes, specific case examples, how to prevent yourself from becoming a victim and what to do if you are a victim of fraud, and where to report fraud. Their presentation will be followed by a Q&A. 

Click here to register

A Literary Examination of Power, Love, and Art with Xochitl Gonzalez
New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Wednesday, April 17th at 8:00 PM EDT
See More and Register

This program is brought to you by EBCPL in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium and supported by the Friends of EBCPL.  Click here to find more programs offered by this partnership.

Do you know a few Yiddish words or more?

Enjoy discussions on language and culture.

Hear from Sages, writers, and humorists about topics such as:

 ¨ Customs ¨ History & Folklore ¨ Traditions ¨ Ethics ¨ Language Arts ¨ Poetry

¨ Folk Sayings ¨ And More!

The Catskills Readers Theatre will be back to perform Part 3 of their ongoing Cranky Seniors series. They’ll have even more quips and stories that seniors who have “earned the right to be cranky” can relate to!

Click here to register

Bring your ongoing projects and supplies from home or learn a new hobby with guidance from experienced stitcher Ginny Schouten. There will be yarn available to start a project and also some crochet hooks and/or knitting needles for sale.  

Click here to register

Are computers another language for you?

Do you want to learn how to use a computer but don't know where to start?

Join us and learn the basics of how to navigate Windows 10/11.

In this class, we will walk you through a step by step guide so you can navigate your computers and accomplish your daily tasks easier.

Click here to register

Chair Yoga

Connect, Move, Breathe, Focus, Relax, Be Empowered

 ~  These sessions are to be enjoyed scent-free  ~

Invigorate and Restore with the versatile and wonderful Chair as a prop to help you move better in your body. This practice will help to encourage and restore lost flexibility, stamina, balance, and ease. Guided by Susan Mendoza from The Chi Hive.

Benefits may include:

· improved lung function

· Improved circulation 

      · improved mental and emotional health

· lower stress

· expand loving awareness toward self and others

A desire to nurture a healthy mindset and healthy body can change how we experience the world we live in.

Registration is required; space is limited.

Click here to register

If you would like to attend this meeting virtually, please email Mariana Sprouse for the link.

Screening of the award-winning documentary film, Blue Vinyl: The World’s First Toxic Comedy (2002), followed by discussion.

Synopsis of the film: Turned off by her parents’ decision to put vinyl siding on their small Long Island house, director Judith Helfand takes viewers on her 5-year adventure across the United States and to Europe to get the back story on vinyl.  Along the way she meets area residents who suffer from cancer and respiratory ailments–shining a spotlight on environmental justice years before the term became popular. She shows how they became empowered to test local air quality using simple buckets–soon discovering how vinyl chloride in the air often exceeded limits, limits that are arbitrary because there is no safe level of exposure to vinyl chloride.

The movie is 1 3/4 hours long and will be followed by discussion moderated by representatives from Beyond Plastics, Sullivan County.

Refreshment will be available.   Please bring your refillabe water bottle; the library has a filtered water fountain on both floors.

Click here to register

Spend your Friday afternoons at the library with other adults (21+) playing a game with friends, or make new friends while playing cards, Scrabble or other board games.* If you’d like to play something else, bring a game from home to play with others.
*Those interested in playing Mahjong please bring your own sets of tiles.

In the Robert D. Norris Community Room

~Maximum Capacity 15. Please social distance.~

We’re living in a world that is rapidly changing, some of it to our liking, and some not.  With all that is going on, how do we maintain and strengthen our sense of community?

It's time to listen and share and gain a better understanding of how we can build a vibrant community together.

JOIN US FOR A COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

Registration is Encouraged.

Refreshments will be provided.

Click here to register

Do you know a few Yiddish words or more?

Enjoy discussions on language and culture.

Hear from Sages, writers, and humorists about topics such as:

 ¨ Customs ¨ History & Folklore ¨ Traditions ¨ Ethics ¨ Language Arts ¨ Poetry

¨ Folk Sayings ¨ And More!

Come and learn the basics of Beekeeping, where to start and onward. 

Art Riegal is Professor Emeritus of SUNY Sullivan and the owner-operator of Covered Bridge Honey LLC based in Livingston Manor.
Professor Riegal is also the founder of the first Apiary in New York State to be housed on a SUNY campus and gives demonstrations and classes to the community about beekeeping and the importance of honeybees and other pollinators in agriculture.  
He and his wife Diane have lived in Livingston Manor for 40 years, raising three daughters. His wife often says that he has “replaced their three grown daughters with 300 thousand but at least they feed and clean themselves.”.

Click here to register

If you would like to attend this meeting virtually, please email Mariana Sprouse for the link.

From Murder to Atonement–Confronting My Son’s Killer with Diane Foley & Colum McCann
McCann, author of the award-winning and bestselling books Apeirogon, Let the Great World Spin and Transatlantic
Tuesday, April 9th at 2:00 PM EDT
See More and Register

This program is brought to you by EBCPL in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium and supported by the Friends of EBCPL.  Click here to find more programs offered by this partnership.