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Art in the Library at Sequim Branch Library
On Friday, June 7, the Sequim Branch of the North Olympic Library System will be part of Sequim’s First Friday Art Walk when it features painter Dick Hahn at an after-hours reception from 6pm until 8pm. The artist’s work will be on display, light refreshments will be available, and live music will be performed. Limited library services will be available during the after-hours reception.
The Art in the Library reception will also feature String 14, a new acoustic mandolin/guitar duo made up
of Port Townsend musicians Gilbert Yslas and Mike Barrs. Together with one mandolin, one guitar and fourteen strings of possibility, they are developing their own fusion style, drawing from sources ranging from traditional Irish music to blues and jazz. Additional instrumentation often includes Dobro, slide guitar, Irish flute, and classical guitar.
Gilbert Yslas is an independent producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist with over thirty years' experience in the music industry. A prolific, award-winning composer of eclectic World music, Gilbert has performed in numerous ensembles, and has produced over 25 albums.
Mike Barrs has played guitar and other fretted instruments for the last 40 years. As a recording engineer,
he has been working for the last several years on projects for local acoustic artists in the folk, world music, and classical genres.
More information about the First Friday Sequim Art Walk can be found at www.sequimartwalk.com.
Sequim June – August Artist
Richard (Dick) Hahn is a retired engineer and US government program manager. He lives in Sequim with his wife, Loretta, and their cats, Spirit and Simba. Dick moved from Washington, DC to Soldotna, Alaska in 1997 where he began taking beginning art courses at a local University of Alaska campus to learn to draw, and to paint with oils, acrylics, and watercolors. He focused on oils and acrylics until he moved to Sequim in 2009. In 2011, he began watercolor painting instruction from Judy Priest, an accomplished watercolorist. He is indebted to Mrs. Priest for her teaching methods, patience, encouragement, and constructive criticism.
Mr. Hahn's hobbies include traveling, pet portrait painting (in acrylics), gardening, fishing, and birding. Loretta is an avid photographer, whose pictures provide most of
the subject matter for Dick's paintings.
Art in the Library is a collaborative library/community art project featuring rotating exhibits by local artists. The program has been made possible by generous contributions from the Friends of Sequim Library, and also by the efforts of volunteer art coordinator Randy Radock, who schedules the artists and designs the displays. Dick Hahn’s paintings will remain on
display at the Sequim Branch Library through the end of August.
Sequim Branch Library’s June Book Discussion: People of the Book
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks will be discussed at 3pm on Saturday, June 8, at the Sequim Branch of the North Olympic Library System.
This work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in 15th century Spain. When it falls to Hanna Heath to conserve this priceless work, the series of tiny artifacts she discovers in its ancient binding – an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, and a white hair – unexpectedly plunge Hanna into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics.
Copies of the book are available at the Sequim Branch Library, including large print, audiobook, and downloadable audio or e-book formats. They can be requested online through the Library catalog at www.nols.org or click here.
Pre-registration for this program is not required, and drop-ins are always welcome.
Art in the Library at Sequim Branch Library
Sequim March – May Artist
Olivia Bailey is a native of Port Angeles, and a graduate of St. Olaf College in Minnesota. There she received her BA in nursing, after five years of varied pursuits. Some of these pursuits included playing violin for the St. Olaf Orchestra, pursing independent work in printmaking, and studying abroad in Belgium. Now an RN at Olympic Medical Center, she continues her passion for printmaking with her very own Ettan tabletop printing press.
Bailey’s earlier prints draw upon portraiture as a meditative process; some are studies of animals or dabble in new techniques, but most are intimate explorations of friendship and family. "All of the human forms depicted in my work are people I know and love” Bailey says, “many are artists themselves. Parents, friends, whales, and birds: these are things that will always crowd my mind.”
Art in the Library is a collaborative library/community art project featuring rotating exhibits by local artists. The program has been made possible by generous contributions from the Friends of Sequim Library, and also by the efforts of volunteer art coordinator Randy Radock, who schedules the artists and designs the displays. Olivia Bailey’s prints will remain on display at the Sequim Branch Library through the end of May.
More information about the First Friday Sequim Art Walk can be found at www.sequimartwalk.com.
Sequim Branch Library Book Discussion Group: 2013 Book Selections
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June 8, 2013 |
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People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks — This work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in 15th century Spain. When it falls to Hanna Heath to conserve this priceless work, the series of tiny artifacts she discovers in its ancient binding – an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, and a white hair – unexpectedly plunge Hanna into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics. |
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July 13, 2013 |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon — Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals, and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. The story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for a captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novel. |
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August 10, 2013 |
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Longitude by Dava Sobel — Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. This is the story of an epic scientific quest and of John Harrison's forty- year obsession with building the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clock making. |
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September 14, 2013 |
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer — January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. |
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October 12, 2013 |
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro — As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at an exclusive boarding school in the English countryside. It was a place of cliques and rules where teachers constantly reminded their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. For the first time, she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special – and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. |
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November 9, 2013 |
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Border Songs by Jim Lynch — Brandon Vanderkool is six foot eight, frequently tongue-tied, severely dyslexic, and romantically inept. Passionate about bird-watching, he has a hard time mustering enthusiasm for his new job as a Border Patrol agent. But to everyone’s surprise, he excels at catching illegals. As drug runners, politicians, surveillance cameras, and a potential sweetheart flock to this scrap of land, Brandon is suddenly at the center of something much bigger than himself. |
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December 14, 2013 |
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen — In a remote Hertfordshire village, far off the good coach roads of George III's England, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet – a country squire of no great means and his scatterbrained wife – must marry off their five vivacious daughters. At the heart of this all-consuming enterprise are headstrong second daughter Elizabeth and her aristocratic suitor Fitzwilliam Darcy, two lovers in whom pride and prejudice must be overcome before love can bring the novel to its magnificent conclusion. |
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NOLS and PUD partner to help you save energy
The Library and the PUD are jointly sponsoring a program at each NOLS branch where you can learn how to use a watt detector to save on your energy bills as well as more ideas for reducing your household energy consumption. Kill-a-Watt™ Energy Detector Toolkits are available for checkout. Click here for more information about this program.
Events for Kids and Young Adults
Link to Sequim Branch Library events for Storytimes, Kids and Young Adults