Adult Programs
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2019 AT 7 P. M.
Indrani Das: “My Life at Harvard and How I Got There”
We invite back to the Library Oradell resident Indrani Das, a rising junior at Harvard University and first-place winner of the Westinghouse Regeneron Science Talent Search in 2017, for her lecture “My Life at Harvard and How I Got There”.
This special program should appeal to all students who are interested in the sciences and want to be future scientists.
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Indrani Das: “My Life at Harvard and How I Got There”
We invite back to the Library Oradell resident Indrani Das, a rising junior at Harvard University and first-place winner of the Westinghouse Regeneron Science Talent Search in 2017, for her lecture “My Life at Harvard and How I Got There”.
This special program should appeal to all students who are interested in the sciences and want to be future scientists.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 2019 AT 2 P. M.
Ellsworth Kelly Stamp Ceremony
On Saturday, August 24, 2019 at 11 a. m., the last of the summer Saturday openings, the Library hosted a reception and open house for the secondary cancellation ceremony of the new Ellsworth Kelly stamps, co-sponsored by the United States Postal Service (USPS) of Oradell and the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation in Spencertown, New York, the original first-day cancellation having been held there on Friday, May 31, 2019.
The stamps and first day envelopes will be available for purchase and hand cancellation with an Oradell postmark.
The Borough and the Library pay tribute to the internationally renowned artist, who grew up in Oradell and created his first art works in town.
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Ellsworth Kelly Stamp Ceremony
On Saturday, August 24, 2019 at 11 a. m., the last of the summer Saturday openings, the Library hosted a reception and open house for the secondary cancellation ceremony of the new Ellsworth Kelly stamps, co-sponsored by the United States Postal Service (USPS) of Oradell and the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation in Spencertown, New York, the original first-day cancellation having been held there on Friday, May 31, 2019.
The stamps and first day envelopes will be available for purchase and hand cancellation with an Oradell postmark.
The Borough and the Library pay tribute to the internationally renowned artist, who grew up in Oradell and created his first art works in town.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2019 AT 7 P. M.
IFC Film Club
Oradell Public Library hosts a film discussion group, modeled on our two successful book discussion groups, the Morning Book Club and the Evening Book Club. The IFC (Independent * Foreign * Classic) Film Club meets on fourth Mondays of the month.
The film chosen for the next session on Monday, August 26, 2019 is Identity (2003), an American psychological thriller, directed by James Mangold from a screenplay written by Michael Cooney and following in plot an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s whodunit novel And Then There Were None (1939), which had been made into feature films in 1945, 1965, 1974, 1987, 1989.
If you are interested in attending and participating, please watch the film on before the session.
There is also an opportunity to help decide with your fellow cineastes (film buffs) what independent, foreign, or classic films you would like to choose to discuss.
The program is free and open to anyone interested, so come to the North Reading Room for the next meeting.
If you wish to receive the IFC Film Club email newsletter, please contact Library Director and IFC Film Club Co-Moderator John J. Trause at trause@oradell.bccls.org.
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IFC Film Club
Oradell Public Library hosts a film discussion group, modeled on our two successful book discussion groups, the Morning Book Club and the Evening Book Club. The IFC (Independent * Foreign * Classic) Film Club meets on fourth Mondays of the month.
The film chosen for the next session on Monday, August 26, 2019 is Identity (2003), an American psychological thriller, directed by James Mangold from a screenplay written by Michael Cooney and following in plot an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s whodunit novel And Then There Were None (1939), which had been made into feature films in 1945, 1965, 1974, 1987, 1989.
If you are interested in attending and participating, please watch the film on before the session.
There is also an opportunity to help decide with your fellow cineastes (film buffs) what independent, foreign, or classic films you would like to choose to discuss.
The program is free and open to anyone interested, so come to the North Reading Room for the next meeting.
If you wish to receive the IFC Film Club email newsletter, please contact Library Director and IFC Film Club Co-Moderator John J. Trause at trause@oradell.bccls.org.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 AT 7 P. M.
Prudence Jones, a professor at Montclair University, is presenting the lecture, “Bruce Springsteen and His Layered Lyrics”, co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH) in the NJCH’s Public Scholars Project for which Oradell Public Library won a grant.
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Prudence Jones, a professor at Montclair University, is presenting the lecture, “Bruce Springsteen and His Layered Lyrics”, co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH) in the NJCH’s Public Scholars Project for which Oradell Public Library won a grant.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019, 2019 AT 7 P. M.
The impresario Daniel P. Quinn of Newark, New Jersey, who has produced some of Director John J. Trause's literary work for the stage, is presenting with a number of performers a staged reading from Paterson Book 1 by William Carlos Williams in observance of William Carlos Williams’s 136th anniversary on September 17, 2019.
Dr. Williams, the famous physician poet of Rutherford, New Jersey, celebrates in a poem of many voices and layers the city of Paterson and its history.
This program is planned in conjunction with the exhibition in the display cases of Poems in Folio (1957), a collection of contemporary poetry published on broadsides by Gerd Stern of New York City and formerly of Creskill, New Jersey, during the month of September 2019. Poems in Folio includes a translation of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho by William Carlos Williams.
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The impresario Daniel P. Quinn of Newark, New Jersey, who has produced some of Director John J. Trause's literary work for the stage, is presenting with a number of performers a staged reading from Paterson Book 1 by William Carlos Williams in observance of William Carlos Williams’s 136th anniversary on September 17, 2019.
Dr. Williams, the famous physician poet of Rutherford, New Jersey, celebrates in a poem of many voices and layers the city of Paterson and its history.
This program is planned in conjunction with the exhibition in the display cases of Poems in Folio (1957), a collection of contemporary poetry published on broadsides by Gerd Stern of New York City and formerly of Creskill, New Jersey, during the month of September 2019. Poems in Folio includes a translation of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho by William Carlos Williams.
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WEDNESDAYS AT 11 A. M.
Free Spanish Classes
George Materon of the Friends of the Library continues to offer free Spanish classes at the advanced level to Oradell residents in the meeting room of the Library.
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Free Spanish Classes
George Materon of the Friends of the Library continues to offer free Spanish classes at the advanced level to Oradell residents in the meeting room of the Library.
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THURSDAYS FROM 10:30 A. M. TO 12 NOON
Adult Coloring Club Meets Every Thursday
Every Thursday, the newest addition to our various clubs for adults, the Adult Coloring Club, meets to engage in this relaxing and meditative artistic endeavor in the Library's Junior Room Craft Area. Supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring your own. This new club is sponsored by the Friends of the Oradell Public Library.
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Adult Coloring Club Meets Every Thursday
Every Thursday, the newest addition to our various clubs for adults, the Adult Coloring Club, meets to engage in this relaxing and meditative artistic endeavor in the Library's Junior Room Craft Area. Supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring your own. This new club is sponsored by the Friends of the Oradell Public Library.
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