Aug 12 3:00 p.m.

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Richland Library St. Andrews

Live on the Patio: Food Edition

Jul 08 3:00 p.m.

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Richland Library St. Andrews

Live on the Patio: Food Edition

Jun 10 3:00 p.m.

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Richland Library St. Andrews

Live on the Patio: Food Edition

Anxious People
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Humor Me: The Funniest Books Around

  • Sally T.
  • Wednesday, April 08
They say laughter is the best medicine, so here's your prescription! Side effects may include: split sides and slapped knees!

Jun 13 12:00 p.m.

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Richland Library Main

Watch Freely: Unicorn Boy

Celebrate Pride with this weird and wonderful rainbow barf-filled animated film.

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Movies

Audience(s):

Adults
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Richland Library Main

Main Street Movie Memories

  • Margaret D.
  • Monday, July 21
Take a walk through the Main Street movie houses of the past with images from the Local History Digital Collections.
Seoulmates
Gorgeous Gruesome Faces
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Gift Guide: Books for Your K-Pop Obsessed Teen

  • Alex B.
  • Friday, November 10
In a same vein as the "British Invasion" cultural phenomenon of the 1960's, Korean culture has significantly influenced Gen Z's tastes and trends . From K-dramas (Korean soap operas), K-beauty (Korean beauty products), to K-pop (Korean pop music), Korean cultural influence has been all the rage with the youth. If you have a young person in your life who loves K-pop, these might be some good titles to extend that interest into reading.
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Richland Library Main

Hip-Hop Highlights from the Local History Collection

  • Leslie L.
  • Friday, August 18
Columbia, SC, has played host to some of hip-hop's most iconic figures. As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, let's take a stroll down memory lane and revisit some of the genre's defining moments in the city from Richland Library’s Local History Digital Collections.
Barbie
Barbie.
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Barbie Party!

  • Alex B.
  • Friday, July 14
It's her DreamHouse and we just live in it. Check out these nostalgic and Barbie-inspired books before the big movie.
Mr. B
Easy Beauty
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2023 Pulitzer Prizes

  • Bland L.
  • Monday, May 08
Check out the 2023 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists in the categories of fiction, history, biography, memoir/ autobiography, poetry, and general nonfiction.
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Richland Library Main

Tribute to Drink Small

  • Margaret D.
  • Wednesday, February 22
Drink Small, a local musical treasure, recently turned 90 years old. Let’s reflect on Mr. Small’s career and legacy.
Martha Graham
Savor
Staff Picks

New in Biography and Memoir

  • Bland L.
  • Monday, December 12
New and noteworthy titles include You Don’t Know What War Is, the diary of twelve-year-old Yeva Skalietska, who had to flee Ukraine with her grandmother at the outset of the current war, and Neil Baldwin's Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern.&nbsp
The Bad Sleep Well
The American Friend
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Noirvember: Film Noir Around The World

  • Thomas M.
  • Monday, November 14
Welcome to Noirvember! Can you feel the shadows growing around you? Film noir is a movie genre known for its cynical and existential characters and situations. You will often find corruption, organized crime, femme fatales, paranoia, and antiheroes, and the endings are rarely happy or just. Each entry on this list represents a take on film noir or has elements of noir, and comes from a different country. This sampling includes crime thrillers and murder mysteries alongside sci-fi and dreamlike elements.
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Richland Library Sandhills

A Filmmaker's Journey

  • Jessica Mejia
  • Saturday, January 22
“You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.” – George Lucas, Film Director.
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Richland Library Main

DIY Storytime: How Do You Wokka-Wokka?

  • Heather M.
  • Wednesday, October 27
Curated storytimes that families can share at home with an ebook (How Do You Wokka-Wokka?), songs and rhymes ( Peel Banana | Drama Warm Up, Banana Banana Meatball Song by Blazer Fresh and If All of The Raindrops by Old Town School of Folk Music) and activity (Learn 5 dance sequences choreographed by Barbara Howse-Diemer)
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AiR Presents: Happiness, A Poem.

  • Tammaka Staley
  • Wednesday, August 18
Happiness is a poem I wrote during the middle part of the pandemic last year to express the joy I did feel and the joy I wanted to create. Despite the job losses and loved ones I lost, I still had things to be grateful for, and I felt it necessary to acknowledge that.
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Richland Library Main

The Show Must Go On!

  • Kate B.
  • Saturday, June 26
Looking for some musical theater stage to film adaptations to tide you over until theaters reopen? Feeling in the mood to sing and dance? Check out this list of Broadway hits on DVD and Blu-ray.
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Richland Library Main

An Interview with Spoken Word Artist Tammaka Staley

  • Phillip W.
  • Friday, June 24
For this post, I spoke to Tammaka Staley, the library's current Artist-in-Residence, and the tenth AiR at Richland Library. She's a poet, spoken word artist and educator. We discuss her background, her approach to her work, and more.
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Richland Library Main

Augusta Baker and the Art of Storytelling

  • Rebecca T.
  • Thursday, March 24
"Storytelling at its best is mutual creation. Children listen and, out of the words they hear, create their own mental images; this opening of the mind's eye develops the imagination." - Storytelling: Art and Technique by Augusta Baker and Ellin Greene
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Richland Library North Main

Fatale: Movie Review

  • Hippie Torrales
  • Thursday, February 18
After a one-night stand, a successful married man finds himself entangled in a cunning police detective's latest investigation.
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Richland Library Main

March on Sisters!

  • Martha Brim
  • Monday, March 09
In this moment, full of potential, in March, the month that comes in like a lion and is National Women’s History Month, I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude and to shine a light on five of the lionesses who have inspired and supported me.
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