events @ the Library

Come celebrate the last day of school with an afternoon of Wii with your friends! Just drop in.
Note: this is a new date!

Invite a grandparent, parent, older sibling, or friend to learn basic knitting skills. Bring a pair of knitting needles and we will supply the yarn. Registration is required for beginning knitters and is limited to 8. Advanced knitters can just drop in!
Contact Jaina Lewis at 291-4809 or email jlewis@westportlibrary.org

Join the Westport Library and the Westport Arts Center for a screening and discussion of Juno, the award-winning film for Best Original Screenplay. Health educator Bob Selverstone will facilitate this event as we discuss teen pregnancy, as well as other adolescent issues. (film 96 min.)
Pizza and refreshments will be served. Registration is required.
Contact Jaina Lewis at 291-4809 or jlewis@westportlibrary.org
Movie Review.
Juno movie site.

An afternoon of musical performances, art displays and poetry recitations with the Staples High School Art Club. There will also be an open-mike for those who become inspired! Refreshments will be served.

Song writing and an opportunity to share music with your peers. Come prepared with a song you are working on or one to share.
To register: jlewis@westportlibrary.org

Bring a snack and spend an afternoon playing video games with friends. Middle school students.

Bring a snack and spend an afternoon playing video games with friends. Middle school students.

2:00 to 4:00 pm
Higgins Room
Middle school age and up

Invite a grandparent, parent, older sibling, or friend to learn basic knitting skills. Bring a pair of knitting needles and we will supply the yarn.

This workshop is limited to 16.

Registration required.
Contact Jaina Lewis at 291-4809 or email jlewis@westportlibrary.org

Bring a snack and spend an afternoon playing video games with friends. Middle school students.

Bring a snack and spend an afternoon playing video games with friends. Middle school students.

Bring a snack and spend an afternoon playing video games with friends. Middle school students.

Bring a snack and spend an afternoon playing video games with friends. Middle school students.

Bring a snack and spend an afternoon playing video games with friends. Middle school students.

Bring a snack and spend an afternoon playing video games with friends. Middle school students.

Bring a snack and spend an afternoon playing video games with friends. Middle school students.

Bring a snack and spend an afternoon playing video games with friends. Middle school students.

Enjoy a late afternoon of gaming and snacks. Middle school students.

In this session, Robert Steven Williams will talk about how to write a song, a chorus or a verse on any subject. No songwriting experience necessary; some music background helpful, but not necessary. Registration required. Email jlewis@westportlibrary.org. Limit 12.

In this classic comedy, when ghosts go on a rampage, only three men can save the world. Soon every spook in the city is loose and our heroes face the supreme challenge. If you want your spirits raised, who you gonna call? Ghostbusters! (c1984, PG, 107 mins.)

Robert Steven Williams, a former music-biz executive and Vice President of Business Development at HMV Records, will lead a songwriting workshop for teens. His company "Against the Grain" has recently established a joint venture with 615 Music in Nashville to create a song library targeted at the film and TV industry. Some music background helpful, but no songwriting experience or music background necessary. Registration required. Email jlewis@westportlibrary.org. Limit 12.

Enjoy a late afternoon of gaming and snacks. Ages 12 and up.

Based on the popular book by Ann Brashares, this film tells the story about a special summer in the lives of four lifelong friends who are separated for the first time. The young women find a pair of jeans that fits each of them perfectly and they decide to use the pants as a way of keeping in touch. (c2005, PG, 119 minutes)

Enjoy a late afternoon of gaming and snacks. Ages 12 and up.

Often referred to as the worst movie of all time, this Ed Wood sci-fi film tells the story of aliens attempting to take over the Earth (for the 9th time) with an army of zombies. (c1959, not rated, 198 minutes)

More about the film

Monday, October 29
4:00 to 6:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy an afternoon of gaming and snacks. Ages 12 and up.

Click here to learn more about the Wii

Monday, October 22
4:00 to 6:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy an afternoon of gaming and snacks. Ages 12 and up.

Click here to learn more about the Wii

Monday, October 15
4:00 to 6:00 pm
McManus Room

CANCELLED

Enjoy an afternoon of gaming and snacks. Ages 12 and up.

Click here to learn more about the Wii

Monday, October 1
4:00 to 6:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy an afternoon of gaming and snacks. Ages 12 and up.

Click here to learn more about the Wii

Monday, September 24
4:00 to 6:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy an afternoon of gaming and snacks. Ages 12 and up.

Click here to learn more about the Wii

Thursday, September 20
4:00 pm
McManus Room

See the film John Tucker Must Die, the story of three ex-girlfriends of a serial cheater who set up their former lover to fall for the new girl in town so they can watch him get his heart broken.
89 min.

More about the film

Monday, September 17
4:00 to 6:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy an afternoon of gaming and snacks. Ages 12 and up.

Click here to learn more about the Wii

Monday, September 10
4:00 to 6:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy an afternoon of gaming and snacks. Ages 12 and up.

Click here to learn more about the Wii

Wednesday, August 29
1:00 to 5:00 pm
McManus Room

Join Teen Services Librarian Jaina Lewis and discuss Fast Food Nation,a Summer Read book and see the film of the same name. (116 min.)

Take this last-minute opportunity to review Summer Read books before going back to school.

Movie Review

Tuesday, August 28
1:00 to 5:00 pm
McManus Room

Join Teen Services Librarian Jaina Lewis and discuss Touching the Void, a Summer Read book and see the film of the same name. (106 min.)

Take this last-minute opportunity to review Summer Read books before going back to school.

Movie Review

Monday, August 27
4:00 to 6:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy a late summer afternoon of gaming and snacks on Mondays in August.
For ages 12 and up.

Monday, August 27
6:00 to 9:00 pm
McManus Room

Join Teen Services Librarian Jaina Lewis and discuss A River Runs Through It, a Summer Read book and see the film of the same name. (123 min.)

Take this last-minute opportunity to review Summer Read books before going back to school.

Movie Review

Saturday, August 25
1:00 to 5:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy this red carpet affair, and view this summer's submissions for the Library's Summer YouTube contest and vote on your favorites. Prizes!

Friday, August 24
3:00 to 6:00 pm
McManus Room

Join Teen Services Librarian Jaina Lewis in a discussion about the book Kite Runner and the film The Beauty Academy of Kabul. (74 min.)

Movie Review

Monday, August 20
4:00 to 6:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy a late summer afternoon of gaming and snacks Mondays August.
For ages 12 and up.

Friday, August 17
3:00 to 6:00 pmMcManus Room

Join Teen Services Librarian Jaina Lewis in a discussion about Something Wicked This Way Comes and see the film of the same name. (95 min.)

Movie Review

Wednesday, August 15
1:00 to 3:00 pm
McManus Room

Spend an afternoon hanging out with friends and making an unique creation.

Friday, August 10
3:00 to 6:00 pm
McManus Room

Join Teen Services Librarian Jaina Lewis in a discussion about the summer read book Franny and Zooey and see the film The Royal Tenenbaums. 110 min.

Movie Review

Monday, August 6
4:00 to 6:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy a late summer afternoon of gaming and snacks on Monday afternoons in August.
For ages 12 and up.

Friday, August 3
3:00 to 6:00 pm
McManus Room

Join Teen Services Librarian Jaina Lewis in a discussion about a summer read book and see the film V for Vendetta (132 min.)

Books:
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Young

Movie Review

Fri., July 27
3 - 6:00 pm
Join Teen Services Librarian Jaina Lewis in a discussion about Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice and see the Keira Knightley film.

McManus Room

Mon., July 9
4 - 6:00 pm

Enjoy a late summer afternoon of gaming and snacks Mondays in June, July and August. Ages 12 and up.

McManus Room

Fri., July 6
3 - 6:00 pm

Join Teen Services Librarian Jaina Lewis in a discussion about The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and see the film Mommie Dearest.

McManus Room

Mon., July 2
4 - 6:00 pm

Enjoy a late summer afternoon of gaming and snacks Mondays in June, July and August. Ages 12 and up.

McManus Room