Earn extra points for the adult summer reading party by attending these fun activities:
Sing-along Musical
Enjoy a great film, raise your voice in song, and get a few extra adult summer reading points. You don’t need to be an adult to attend as long as you’re ready to belt out some tunes!
International Music Videos
After you’ve sung your heart out, stick around and dance till you drop to amazing music from Africa, Asia, South America, Europe. Can’t get your feet working? It’s OK to just watch.
Sing-along Musical
Take an opportunity to let your voice soar. No snickering allowed. Fun for all ages (but adults can get some extra summer reading points)
– Or maybe Moon Party is a more appropriate term as the moon will be full and glowing obscurely those other lesser night lights. Come take a peak through a telescope at the craters and plains of our closest celestial neighbor. Thanks to the Madison Library Foundation for providing funds that allowed us to purchase this telescope!
If you have a telescope, please bring it to share. The more the merrier is decidedly the rule for any star party!
Nearly 45,000 Idahoans (roughly 2%) are unable to read standard print, due to a loss of visual acuity or the physical capabilities necessary to read or hold a book. This deprives them of a joy the rest of us take for granted—namely, the power of the written word to inspire, inform and transport us through our imagination. Many times, this disability becomes another unfortunate reason for people to disengage from what’s happening in their families and the world around them.
That’s why the Idaho Commission for Libraries (ICfL) sponsors the Talking Book Service: to help caregivers and family members to connect loved ones and friends with reading through audio materials.
The Talking Book Service helps those unable to read standard print rediscover reading by offering a huge collection of free materials including:
• Over 25,000 Braille titles
• 80,000 professionally recorded audio books
• Audio magazines—and much more
These materials include fiction genres ranging from romance to westerns to mystery novels, along with non-fiction subjects of interest to all ages—everything from astronomy to zoology. Plus, the Commission plans to add 2,000 new titles each year.
To be eligible for the Talking Book Service, Idaho residents must meet one of the following criteria:
• Be legally blind
• Have certain visual field restrictions
• Be unable to see or focus well enough to read standard print, even with corrective glasses
• Have a physical disability that keeps them from holding a book or turning its pages
Apply for the Talking Book Service through the Idaho Commission for Libraries.
If you’re a caregiver or family member of someone unable to read standard print, you understand how easily they can feel isolated. As a free benefit to those that qualify, the Talking Book Service can make words come to life again, and help them re-engage through reading.
Explore the Talking Book Service in-depth at Idaho Commission for Libraries Talking Book Service page.
From 6:00 – 8:00 pm we will host An Evening of Unquiet Creativity. Read us your first paragraph, show off your ink sketch, bring your knitting, cross-stitching, scrap-booking, book-making, whittling, or any other project to work on, share, and chat about.
Starting at 8:00 pm, we’ll segue into An Evening of Creative Desperation. Haven’t got 50,000 words in for National Novel Writing Month? It’s the last night! We’ll give you some space and time to concentrate your final efforts. This event will run until 11:00 pm to give you the best shot at completing your novel.
Both these events are open to teens and adults, ages 12 and up.
Escape the outside chaos and focus on your creative project. Write your novel, dust off your drawing pad, whatever your project, zone in on it tonight.
For teens and adults, ages 12 and up!