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Create your own character and plot, rehearse scenes in small groups, and perform them. Youth Stages Jean Prall Rosolino will lead this creative drama workshop for children 8 - 10 years of age. Register beginning June 28. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. » More for Children

Enjoy playing with friends and advance your game level. » More for Teens

Stories, crats, and songs for children ages two and three years of age accompanied by an adult. registration is required. » More for Children

Bring a bag lunch to the library and join us on the back lawn as we read stories and picnic together. Recommended for families with children ages three to five years. » More for Children

Sponsored by The Friends of the Library, Broken Embraces (2009) is from Academy award-winning filmmaker, Pedro Almodovar. This Spanish film stars Penelope Cruz as an actress who sacrifices everything for her true love. It is a tale of sex, secrets and the cinema. 127 minutes. Rated R.

If you liked the book, you will love this party and trivia contest. Enjoy games and refreshments. Prizes. For children in grades three through five. Registration begins June 28. » More for Children

Book Buddies read to their teens. » More for Children » More for Teens

Learn how to protect the enviroment through games and crafts. Monika Takats, Project Manager of the European Youth Environment Protection Association will lead the workshop for children 5 years and up and their families. Register beginning June 28. » More for Children

Dr. Indrani Choudhury, a biomedical research scientist for 25 years,in India and then the United States, returned to her childhood passion and in 2005 started painting in water colors fulltime. Her paintings span her whole universe and she will exhibit Dreams Deferred, Dreams Fufilled, through August 31.» More for Adults

Stories, crats, and songs for children ages two and three years of age accompanied by an adult. registration is required. » More for Children

Bring a bag lunch to the library and join us on the back lawn as we read stories and picnic together. Recommended for families with children ages three to five years. » More for Children

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library, this Michael Heneke's film, German with English subtitles, takes place before World War I in a village in Northern Germany, where a series of strange occurrences take place over several months. Nothing is completely spelled out in this 2009 film, but the events are sinister and cruel and often involve the children of the village-not merely as victims but also as perpetrators. Rated R. 144 minutes.

Ventriloquist George Terebush will bring a menagerie of pals to entertain the whole family with magic and comedy. » More for Children

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library, this japanese film with English subtitles follows musician Daigo Kobayashi after his orchestra disbans and he moves back to his hometown and takes a job preparing corpses for burial. Too embarrassed to admit his new career to his family, Daigo keeps his profession a secret, until he's faced with the death of someone close to him.

Jim Lapidus, a popular jazz pianist, composer and teacher, will give a concert with his trio. The concert is sponsored by The Friends of the Library» More for Adults

Award winning poet Alicia Ostriker, scholar and Rutgers University professor emeritis and legend will kick off the Fall Poetry Night Series. She recently published two poetry collections The Book of Seventy in 2009 and No Heaven in 2005. Her literary critical works, Stealing The Language (1986), examines the origins and meanings of contemporary women's poetry, and Nakedness of the Fathers, is a feminest treatment of the Hebrew Bible. Her poetry bites, is right on target and is always fresh. After the reading there will be an open mike and reception. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

BJ Ward is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize for poetry and two Distinguished Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His three recent volumes of poetry are Gravedigger's Birthday (2002), 17 Love Poems with No Despair (1997), and Landing in New Jersey with Soft hands (1994). Bj Ward is an educator and is an Assistant Professor of English at Warren County Community College. he has served as University Distinguished Fellow at Syracuse University.

Paul Muldoon, author of more than 30 collections of poetry, is a Pulitzer Prize winner, Poetry Editor at the New Yorker and at Princeton University, he is both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 professor in the Humanities and chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. Muldoon is an internationally recognized scholar, author and poet. He is indeed a friend to the poetry community. President of the Poetry Society, he also founded his own rock band, Rackett.