Don't Forget!
The Friends of the Library book sale is this week! If you have donations please bring them by Wednesday, June 8th, and be sure to stop by to browse all of the great books that will be on sale this weekend!
Sale Hours
Thursday, June 9th: 10 am – 7 pm
Friday, June 10th: 10 am – 2 pm
Saturday, June 11th: 10 am – 3 pm
Want to help out? Sign up to volunteer HERE!
Just what is Impressionism anyway?
A virtual art talk with Meg Black!
New Englanders love Impressionist art. And no wonder, when the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has one of the world's most impressive Impressionists collections. In this 60-minute lecture about Impressionism, Topsfield resident and art professor Meg Black, Ph.D., will take attendees behind the scenes by sharing the fun facts, stories, and assorted scandals about Impressionism and the artists who made this bohemian movement what it is today. The next time attendees visit the MFA, they will be well prepared to experience the art of Impressionism.
Register HERE!
This week's events:
Topsfield Library events in purple (View the Topsfield Library's calendar here)
Gender Diversity, Allyship, and Story Sharing: Tue 6/7, 7pm: The Newburyport Library invites you to talk about gender diversity and how to support your transgender and nonbinary friends and community members! Sign up here. (Zoom)
The Race To Save The World’s Endangered Languages: Wed 6/8, 7pm: Around the globe, half of the 6000 languages spoken today are projected to go extinct within the next 30 years. Unsung linguists and volunteers are working tirelessly to ensure that these languages don’t disappear and erase thousands of years of human knowledge. Discover this amazing story and what the stories these vanishing tongues can tell about the places we call home in America, or our cradles of civilization. Brought to you by the Tewksbury Public Library. Sign up here. (Zoom)
Just What is Impressionism Anyway?: Thu 6/9, 7pm: Join us for a talk with local art historian Meg Black Ph.D, for a talk on Impressionist art! Sign up here. (Zoom)
Friends of the Library Book Sale!: Thu-Sat, during library open hours: The popular library Book Sale during the Topsfield Strawberry Festival is back! Organized by the Friends of the Topsfield Town Library, the proceeds help fund activities for the community including discount museum passes and various children’s programs during the year. On sale will be books, CDs, DVDs, games, and puzzles. For more information click HERE.
Take our community Survey!
The library wants to hear from you! Please take a moment and complete our Topsfield Town Library Community Survey as we craft our five-year plan and look to the future. Completion of this survey should take five minutes, all responses are anonymous, and it will help us build a better library!
Take the survey HERE!
June is Pride Month!
Here are a few non-fiction books to get you started, but take a wander through the fiction shelves or our display in non-fiction to view more LGBTQIA+ books on display all throughout June! Or visit our Resources for Readers page and get a list of recommendations!
The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture
By Grace Perry
From The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman
¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
By John Paul Brammer
From popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer John Paul Brammer comes a hilarious, heartwarming memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey growing up as a queer, mixed-race kid in America’s heartland to becoming the “Chicano Carrie Bradshaw” of his generation.
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
By Sarah McBride
A timely and captivating memoir about gender identity set against the backdrop of the transgender equality movement, by a leading activist and the National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ civil rights organization.
