Comics Week @ DPL

School Vacation
Comics Week @ DPL
April 21 - 26

Learn About Comics and Manga:
with Jetpack Comics (Ages 8+) Monday April 21, 3 – 4:30 PM, Lecture Hall

 

Movie: My Neighbor Totoro

Tuesday April 22, 2 – 3:30 PM, Lecture Hall

Drop-in Superhero Story Time (All Ages)

Wednesday April 23, 9:30  – 10:15 AM, Lecture Hall

Draw Your Favorite Comic Book Character
with artist Peter Simeti (Ages 10+)Thursday April 24, 3 – 4:30 PM, Lecture Hall

 

LEGO® Saturday (All Ages)

Saturday April 26, 9 AM – 5 PM, Children’s Room

Make-It, Take-It Craft: Superhero Mask (All Ages)
All Week! Children’s Room

During school vacation, April 21 – 26, the Dover Public Library will be hosting Comics Week, with FREE events and opportunities for you to learn about comics and manga, and even to draw your favorite characters!

Join us on Monday, April 21 from 3 – 4:30 PM to Learn About Comics and Manga. Jonathan Waugh, Assistant Manager of Jetpack Comics in Rochester, NH shows you where superheroes came from, how manga started, and gives you the inside scoop on all your favorite characters. Plus, he’ll be giving out free comic books and other goodies! For even more, you can visit Jetpack Comics on May 3 to take part in the Rochester Free Comic Book Day Festival! More information can be found at jetpackcomics.com/fcbd.

On Tuesday, April 22 from 2 – 3:30 PM, the library will hold a FREE showing of the film My Neighbor Totoro. In this animated film, two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, and have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby. BYOP (Bring Your Own Popcorn!) and join us for one of director Hayao Miyazaki’s classics. Rated G, 1 hr. 26 min. 

On Wednesday, April 23 at 9:30am, Miss Tina will present a special preschool Drop-in Story Time with a superhero theme!  Come dressed as your favorite character (optional)!  All ages are welcome to attend.

Thinking about becoming an artist? Join us on Thursday, April 24 from 3 – 4:30 PM for a Comic Book/Manga Character Workshop with Peter Simeti. Learn to draw your favorite comic book or manga character! Bring in picture to work from, or use a library book as a reference. All skill levels welcome! (scrap paper, finishing paper, pencils, markers, colored pencils will be supplied for you, but you are free to bring your own supplies!). Founder and creator of Alterna Comics, Peter Simeti is the writer of the flagship title Spectrum (2006) and The Chair (2008).  He has worked mostly in the independent comic field and has lettered, colored, and inked over 20 works since involved in comics. He has led over 60 drawing workshops. This workshop is appropriate for ages 10 – 18, and requires preregistration. Please call 516 6050 to register.

On Saturday, April 26, visit the Children’s Room for LEGO® Saturday!  Use our blocks or bring your own to build and create your own superhero, supercar, or imaginary city like Metropolis or Gotham City.  Legos will be available all day so drop in anytime to meet new friends, share your building tips, get new ideas, and have fun!

All week, children of all ages are invited to make a Superhero Mask at the “Make-it, Take-it” craft table in the Children’s Room. All materials will be provided!

This week is also an opportunity for parents, to be a superhero to your child!  Your child loves to spend time with you for no other reason than just being together enjoying each other’s company. What better way to spend some one-on-one time with your child than playing a board game? The Children’s Room staff has rummaged through their closets and come up with some “classic” games to share with library users during school vacation week. Bring your child in to play a game or two with you, siblings or friends!

Wellness Workshops at DPL

The Dover Public Library presents a new Wellness 101 series of workshops, focused on enhancing different dimensions of personal wellness. Join us on the second Monday of every month for these free events - learn more about your body, mind, and behavior, and how you can make changes to increase your own wellness! Presented by Certified Wellness Practitioner Joe McCue.

April 14   7:00 PM    Intro to Wellness

May 12   7:00 PM     Values: The ‘Why’ of Everything

Learn how your value system influences your behavior, and how clarifying that system helps you to make better decisions.

June 9    7:00 PM     Physical Wellness

Learn what contributes to robust physical wellness.  We will cover strength, endurance, balance, power, speed and agility.  We will also demystify the body mass index (BMI) and learn about its pros and cons!

Stay tuned for future topics!

About the Instructor: Joe McCue is the owner of American Wellness Solutions, LLC.  He has been a practicing massage therapist since 2001 and currently holds several certifications in a variety of different modalities, including CranioSacral Therapy for various health issues and Clinical Deep Tissue massage for people with chronic pain and range of motion restrictions.  He has well over 1500 hours of training, is nationally certified and has served as adjunct faculty at College of Lake County in Illinois in both the Massage Therapy and Health and Wellness Promotion Departments.  He currently teaches in the Massage Therapy Department at Great Bay Community College in Portsmouth.  Joe is also a Certified Wellness Practitioner and Wellness Coach as well as a Certified Personal Trainer.  He thoroughly enjoys helping people lead fulfilled and balanced lives.  Additionally, Joe is a Certified Worksite Wellness Program Manager and consults for organizations seeking to establish or enhance their employee worksite wellness programs. For more about Joe McCue visit AmericanWellnessSolutions.com/about-us.html.

Learn About Time Banking!

On Tuesday April 1, the Dover Public Library will host a 7pm presentation by Noel Jost-Coq, coordinator of the Great Bay Time Bank. It may be April Fool’s Day but this community program is no joke - the Great Bay Time Bank allows you to use your skills and expertise to trade with others.

TimeBanking is a medium of exchange, like money, designed in 1980 by founder Edgar Cahn to reward “decency, caring, and a passion for justice.”

The idea is simple: I earn a time credit by doing something for you. It doesn’t matter what that “something” is. You turn around and earn a time credit doing something for someone else. For example, an hour of gardening equals an hour of child-care equals an hour of dentistry equals an hour of home repair equals an hour of teaching someone to play chess.

TimeBanking builds on the magic of pay it forward: one good turn leading to another and another and another. In a community, TimeBanking connects unused resources with unmet needs.

Visit the Great Bay Time Bank website at greatbay.timebanks.org or call the Dover Library at 603-516-6050 for more information.

Lewis Carroll: Puzzles & Riddles with Alice on April 15

       The Friends of the Dover Public Library will host an intriguing presentation, “The Life and Works of Lewis Carroll: a Puzzle with Riddles” on Tuesday evening, April 15 at 7pm by Rev. Robert Stiefel, PhD.  The program is an adaptation of a popular course Dr. Stiefel taught at UNH.

       Under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote two of the most widely read and beloved classics, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There”, and the epic poem “The Hunting of the Snark”.  

        Dodgson (1832-1898) was resident Lecturer in Mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford, and an eminent portrait photographer, logician and mathematician, inventor, theologian, an Anglican deacon. His life continues to present puzzles to be solved and riddles to tease us, ones that may or may not be answerable. In this way, both his life and his works are very much alike. The question repeatedly put to Alice and to the hunters of the Snark is one Lewis Carroll repeatedly put to himself and asks each of us:  “Who are you? And which way do you want to go?”

       Dr. Stiefel recently retired after 22 years teaching Honors Seminars and Humanities Courses at the University of New Hampshire. Earlier he also taught at Harvard University and Haverford College.  A priest in the Episcopal Church since 1979, he served as Rector of Christ Church, Portsmouth from1991-2002 and currently serves as voluntary chaplain at Maple Suites Independent Living Retirement Center.

       Reading Carroll’s books is certainly not a pre-requisite for attending, but for those who’d like to reacquaint themselves with Alice’s adventures before the program, the Dover Public Library has four copies of the recommended edition of  “The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition” (Norton, 2000) available for browsing or borrowing. This program is free and open to all. For more information, call the Dover Library at 603-516-6050.

Calling All Peeps!

The Dover Public Library is looking for creative Dover residents, Dover students, or Dover Public Library cardholders to enter our sixth annual “Peeps Show” contest this April.
 
Here’s how it works: Build a diorama using peeps of any color or species in a standard size shoe box. The theme is anything literary; recreate a scene from your favorite book, play, or poem.
The first 16 entries will receive a free plush Peep bunny or chick! Anyone who participates in the Peeps Show contest can enter in a raffle to win a copy of “Peeps! Recipes and Crafts to Make With Your Favorite Marshmallow Treat” by Charity Ferreira.
 
Those 17 or older are invited to compete in the Adult Division, while peeps, er, people 11- 16 may enter the Teen Division. Children ages 2 – 6 are invited to enter the Kids Division, and ages 7 – 10 may enter in the Youth Division.
 
On the back of your shoe box, please include your name, address, phone number, and title of your “Peeps Show”. All Peeps displays may be dropped off at the Dover Public Library beginning Monday, April 7 through Saturday, April 19. The Peeps will be displayed in the library for all to enjoy.  

Attention Overdrive Users 

Just want to remind Overdrive users that logging in now requires a Library card number and PIN. The default PIN is the last 4 digits of your phone number.

New Hampshire’s Little-Known
Black Daughters

at the
Dover Public Library

New Hampshire has a long, rich, and vibrant African-American history.  On Monday evening March 31 at 7pm, the Friends of the Dover Public Library are pleased to present a program by JerriAnne Boggis and Courtney Marshall entitled “New Hampshire’s Little-Known Black Daughters”.  They will discuss the lives and contributions of two local  African-American women:  Nellie Brown Mitchell, a renowned 19^th century opera singer and concert company owner from Dover, and Harriet E. Wilson, an author from Milford who penned “Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black”  in 1859. Re-discovered in 1982 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this book has been documented as the first African-American novel published in the United States.  

               

This dynamic program will explore themes of community, history, and identity and the continuing importance of Black history in New Hampshire. Courtney Marshall is an Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of New Hampshire. Her field of research includes African-American literature, critical race feminism, queer ethnic studies, and law and popular culture. JerriAnne Boggis is the Director of the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail and the Harriet Wilson Project who works to tell the little-known stories of Black history in New Hampshire and beyond.

            

For more information on this free program, call the Dover Public Library at 603-516-6050.