Apr 13 10:30 a.m.

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Richland Library Main

FUSE Ensemble presents Peter and the Wolf

Apr 11 10:30 a.m.

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Richland Library Sandhills

FUSE Ensemble presents Peter and the Wolf

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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.

Apr 29 11:00 a.m.

Event
Richland Library Southeast

DIA: A Celebration of Diversity

Martha Graham
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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.  Amo
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 Blythewood

A Filmmaker's Journey

  • Jessica M.
  • 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

Anansi the Spider
Folk Tales & Fables of Asia & Australia
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Good Folk Tales and Fairy Tales for Storytelling

  • Rebecca T.
  • Friday, April 09
In their well-respected book, Storytelling: Art and Technique, Ellin Greene and Augusta Baker tell us: "A good story for telling is one that has something to say and that says it in the best possible way." Check out some of these books to learn more about the traditional art of storytelling and to find folk tales and fairy tales that have something to say and are written in the best possible way!
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Richland Library North Main

Fatale: Movie Review

  • Hipolito 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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Richland Library St. Andrews

Open Mic Night (Dec 2019)

  • Lindsey T.
  • Friday, January 24

What better way to celebrate the holidays than at Open Mic Night?

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Richland Library St. Andrews

Open Mic Night (November 2019)

  • Lindsey T.
  • Monday, November 11

Guess which DJ to the celebrities we had out to celebrate National Hip Hop Month?