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Art Lecture with Thomas Germano - The Whitney Biennial 2024

3:00pm - 4:30pm
Lecture
Registration Open
Registration
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture
Registration Required
Event Details:
The Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than The Real Thing—a showcase of what’s new in American art—returns to the Whitney for its eighty-first installment in March, 2024. Introduced in 1932 by the Museum’s founder, Gertrude Vande...

ESOL Homework Help Program 2024

4:30pm - 6:00pm
ESOL
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Hagedorn Meeting Room
Age Group: Grades 1- 6, ESOL
Program Type: ESOL
Event Details:
Is your child struggling with their Elementary or Middle school homework? The Port Washington Public Library ESOL department provides a Homework Help Program in which your child will be tutored by an academic achieving high school volunteer. Join us ...

Books for Dessert

7:00pm - 8:30pm
Book Discussion
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Hagedorn Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussion
Event Details:
Books for Dessert is a book club for adults over 21 with intellectual disabilities, who live or work in and around Port Washington. Read about Books for Dessert in American Libraries Magazine.  Books for Dessert collaborates with groups ...

Ready, Set, Story Time

9:30am - 10:00am
Story Time
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Story Time
Event Details:
Join your favorite librarians for stories, songs, and fingerplays. For children ages birth to five with an adult.  No registration required. ...

Sandwiched In with Author Kelly McMasters

12:00pm - 1:30pm
Author Event, Lecture
Registration Open
Registration
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Author Event, Lecture
Registration Required
Event Details:
Join Port Washington’s own Kelly McMasters, an accomplished essayist, bestselling author and Hofstra professor as she discusses her new book, The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays.  In these essays McMasters writes about navigating marriage and...

Weekly Scrabble Meetup

1:00pm - 5:00pm
Games
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Mezzanine Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Games
Event Details:
Drop in and play a game of Scrabble. No registration required.  ...

STEAM Afternoon

4:00pm - 5:30pm
STEAM
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: STEAM
Event Details:
Learn about how light works, with lasers, mirrors, and illusions! Stop by from 4:00-5:30 to participate in optics and illusion-filled activities with a raffle prize to continue your STEAM journey! No registration required. ...

Film: "Before, Now & Then" (2022-103 min.).

7:00pm - 9:00pm
Film
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Film
Event Details:
Nana (Happy Salma), the wife of a wealthy plantation owner, values her safety and material comforts but carries out a haunted existence, dreaming of her lost love who was murdered years ago during the Indonesian Revolution. Forced to confront her hus...

Empire Safety Council Defensive Driving Course

9:30am - 3:30pm
Community Service, Workshop
Waitlist
Registration
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Hagedorn Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Community Service, Workshop
Registration Required
Event Details:
The Empire Safety Council Defensive Driving Course will be offered on Saturday, April 20 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Seating is limited and registration is required and begins on Monday, April 1, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. Priority will be give...

Earth Day 2024 Celebration at Sunset Park

2:00pm - 4:00pm
Arts & Crafts, Civic Engagement, Music/Theater Performance
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Off Site
Age Group: Children, Teens (Grades 7-12), Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Civic Engagement, Music/Theater Performance
Event Details:
PWPL invites YOU to our fourth annual outdoor Earth Day celebration at Sunset Park. Back by popular demand, Tony Traguardo, the Library’s resident musicologist and Media Librarian, will lead a band of local musicians in a rocking concert of Beatles h...

St. Francis Bus

10:00am - 2:00pm
Health & Wellness
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Parking Lot
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Event Details:
The St. Francis Outreach Bus will be in the parking lot from 10 am -- 2 pm.  Health screenings include a brief cardiac history, blood pressure check and simple blood tests.  ...

BenAnna Band

2:30pm - 3:15pm
Music/Theater Performance
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Music/Theater Performance
Event Details:
Kids will go bananas for this high energy musical duo that will have kids and adults singing, dancing, and playing along on live instruments! Bring your dancing shoes and big smiles to make this musical performance to remember. Sponsored by the PWPL ...

Weekly Chess Meetup

3:00pm - 6:00pm
Games
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Mezzanine Meeting Room
Age Group: Teens (Grades 7-12), Adults
Program Type: Games
Event Details:
Come in and join us for a game of Chess. ...

Spring Printmaking Workshop

11:30am - 12:30pm
Arts & Crafts
Waitlist
Registration
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Children's Workshop Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Event Details:
An exploration of abstract art using the processes of monotyping and collage. The artwork will feature bright colors and repeated, organized shapes which the students will investigate through printmaking techniques. For children in 3rd to 6th gr...

GLCA 20 Year Celebration

2:30pm - 4:30pm
Other
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Other
Event Details:
Come celebrate the 20th Anniversary of our Great Library Card Adventure. We will have fun games, crafts, and a special prize (while supplies last). For children in kindergarten to 5th grade with an adult. No registration required. ...

Needlecraft BYOP (Bring Your Own Project) Night

6:00pm - 8:30pm
Arts & Crafts
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Mezzanine Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:
Bring your embroidery, crochet, quilting, or sewing project to this weekly gathering. Share ideas with fellow crafters, and get inspired from our collection of pattern and instruction books, generously provided by the Friends of the Library. ...

Adventures in Classic Readings Sponsored by the FOL's Ruth D. Bogen Memorial Fund

6:30pm - 8:30pm
Book Discussion
Registration Open
Registration
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Hagedorn Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussion
Registration Required
Event Details:
This reading group, facilitated by Dr. Laury Magnus, Professor of English, will feature great classic works -- ancient to contemporary -- as well as participatory reading out loud of selected passages.  In honor of the Bard’s birthday, this m...

'For the Record': Conversation About Paul McCartney and Wings' "Band on the Run" with Tony Traguardo

7:00pm - 9:00pm
Lecture, Music/Theater Performance
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture, Music/Theater Performance
Event Details:
As 1974 dawned, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney was watching his third album with his group Wings, titled "Band on the Run," stumble onto the UK and US album charts. Thankfully, the success of the single "Jet," released in late January, provided the impetus...

Poetry Readers Club

1:30pm - 3:00pm
Book Discussion
Registration Open
Registration
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Hagedorn Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussion
Registration Required
Event Details:
New Book Club! Join fellow readers for a new poetry discussion led by Nassau County Poet Laureate Paula Curci. Paula Curci is the 2022-2024 Nassau County Poet Laureate. As both the producer of Calliope’s Corner and What’s The Buzz, on Radio Hof...

Jester Jim

2:30pm - 3:30pm
Music/Theater Performance
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Music/Theater Performance
Event Details:
With nothing more than a trunk full of props and his fast wit, Jester Jim’s show is packed with fun and excitement. Juggling, balancing and beatboxing (vocal percussion) make this a performance you’ll never forget! For elementary school children in k...

Live Music: The 'Homebrew Music Coffeehouse' Series Continues!

7:00pm - 9:00pm
Music/Theater Performance
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Music/Theater Performance
Event Details:
Homebrew Music Coffeehouse Series: Live Music ...

Sandwiched In with Dennis Raverty - Illustrators on Expedition to the Frontier

12:00pm - 1:30pm
Lecture
Registration Open
Registration
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture
Registration Required
Event Details:
Illustrators accompanied key government and privately sponsored expeditions to the western frontier during the nineteenth century, to document the terrain as well as the native inhabitants of these remote regions. These artists depicted not...

Weekly Scrabble Meetup

1:00pm - 5:00pm
Games
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Mezzanine Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Games
Event Details:
Drop in and play a game of Scrabble. No registration required.  ...

Sensory Friendly Family Movie: Luca

3:00pm - 4:30pm
Film
Library Branch: Port Washington Public Library
Room: Lapham Meeting Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Film
Event Details:
Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar’s original feature film “Luca” is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta, and endless scooter rides. Luca share...