Lambertville Free Public Library

Adult French Lessons with Local French Teacher Wendy Rosen
2023-10-02 10:15 - 11:00, 2023-09-25 10:15 - 11:00, 2023-09-18 10:15 - 11:00, 2023-09-11 10:15 - 11:00 UTC | Lambertville Library Gallery
FREE French lesson mini-sessions with local French teacher Wendy Rosen.

You MUST email Wendy to sign up: wendyfrancais@gmail.com. A bientôt !

Dates: These French classes will be on Monday mornings September 11-Oct 2 from 10:15-11
Location: Library Gallery

Kids' French Lessons with Wendy Rosen
2023-09-30 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-09-23 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-09-16 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-09-09 10:30 - 11:00 | Lambertville Library Gallery
Sing and color in French!

Come chanter et dessiner (sing and color) en français! French coloring, singing and learning for kids 5 and up. Local French teacher Wendy Rosen will teach aspiring young francophiles how to say and sing the alphabet in French, vocabulary words for each letter, simple songs and colors in French. We use coloring and singing to learn and reinforce introductory French words.

These classes will run Saturday mornings from 10:30-11 From September 9 – 30!

Storytime: Bouncy Book Time!
2023-09-26 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-09-19 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-09-12 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-09-05 10:30 - 11:00 | Lambertville Library Gallery
Bouncy Book Time continues on Tuesday mornings at 10:30am in the Library Gallery. Join us for songs, rhymes, stories!

No registration is required.

Date: Every Tuesday
Time: 10:30 AM
Location: Library Gallery

CCYC's "Get Up and Move!"
2023-09-21 10:30 - 11:30 | County Councils for Young Children
Join the County Councils for Young Children for “Get Up and Move!” a music and movement class for young children.
Date: Thursday, September 21
Time: 10:30-11:30
Place: Library Gallery

Library Literati Book Club - "An Immense World: How Animal Sense Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us" by Ed Yong
2023-09-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Lambertville Library Gallery
‘In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved.
Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery, An Immense World takes us on what Marcel Proust called “the only true voyage . . . not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes.”’
Come and discuss the view of the natural world through the eyes of animals around us in Ed Yong’s heralded work, “An Immense World”. There will be 6-8 copies on hold at the library for check out. Check at the front desk for availability.
To sign-up email staff@lambertvillelibrary.org or call 609-397-0275

Date 09/05/2023 (Tue.)

Time 7:00PM – 8:30PM EDT

Location Gallery

OAXACA FESTIVAL 2023!
2023-08-20 15:00 - 19:00 | Lambertville Library, 6 Lilly Street, Lambertville, NJ, 08530, United States
Did you know that most of Lambertville’s Hispanic population hails from Oaxaca, Mexico?
Join us for our second annual festival that celebrates Oaxaca, Mexico’s rich cultural heritage as seen through the eyes of our oaxaqueño neighbors and friends. Food, music, dancers, art installments, an Oaxaca exhibit, and arts-and-crafts activities for all ages make up this free event that welcomes all.
The event will take place on Sunday, August 20th from 3-7pm at the Lambertville Library.
Click here if you would like to donate or reach out to Fran Bardusco if you would like to volunteer at 609-273-5974.
Last year’s first-ever Oaxaca Festival brought in 500+ people. The library created a space for Hispanics and the Lambertville community at large to get together like never before, and the town is clamoring for more.
This year we partnered with the Acme Screening Room to host an event the evening before on Saturday, August 19th. Click here to learn more about James Dupree’s Valley of the Gods and Oaxacan artists’ short films.
The library’s group, Latinas en Lambertville hosts the festival. The women will prepare the food, decorate, and in full native garb, perform the pineapple dance you don’t want to miss.
Fisherman’s Mark is donating the raw ingredients and their kitchen for the Latinas to make 1000+ tamales, aguas frescas drinks, and tres leches dessert.
Our performing artists include:
Piri y las Latinas de Lambertville Dancers (locals)
Danza de Jamiltepec (has locals)
Mariachi Flores from Philadelphia
Banda Clave de Oro from New Brunswick
Our partners include Acme Screening Room, Soupçon Salon, Fisherman’s Mark, Elks Club, Kalmia Club, Lambertville Life and Bucks on Bridge.
Latinas en Lambertville
Latinas en Lambertville is attended steadily by a core group of 25-30 women, and their children also engaged in educational activities. The Oaxaca Festival is an extension of the program, so the group can apply the skills learned and grow together as a community.
The group began through a women’s empowerment workshop celebrated by The Institute of Museum and Libraries from DC, which visited us in April 2023 to learn more about our Hispanic programming. They had given us a modest grant and wanted to learn about how we accomplished so much with the Hispanic community, which is a challenge for libraries nationwide. Out of all the libraries in NJ, they chose three to visit; one was ours, a tremendous honor!
We were also presenters at the New Jersey Library Association (NJLA) Summer 2023 convention for “Latinas en Lambertville: How a small-town library created a space of belonging for its Hispanic Community.” Another huge honor and we packed the house.
Donations surpassing the event’s cost will roll over into future Hispanic programming.
Here are photos from Oaxaca 2023 and those we captured during the Latinas in Lambertville program.

Gallery Exhibit: "A Photographer Travels" by Jim Amon
2023-08-16 - 2023-09-29 | Lambertville Library Gallery
Lambertville Public Library, August 16-September 29, 2023

Photographer Jim Amon takes his camera with him when he travels and is displaying travel photographs from many parts of Europe, New York City, Iceland, Alaska, Morocco, the American West, Maine, and Oaxaca, Mexico. These are beautiful photographs that reveal the intrinsic character of places that Jim has visited.
Jim Amon, a Lambertville resident for over twenty years, has exhibited widely throughout central New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. He has had one-man shows at the D&R Greenway Land Trust in Princeton, the East Amwell Historical Society, the Hunterdon County Library, and at Gallery 14 in Hopewell. He has joined other artists in shows at Phillips Mill, Stover Mill, Trenton Museum, Perkins Gallery, and several other venues in the region. His photographs have been published widely and he has published a book of essays and photographs exploring the natural world, called SEEING THE SOURLANDS.

Free French Lesson Mini-Sessions with Local French Teacher Wendy Rosen
2023-08-14 17:00 - 17:45, 2023-08-12 11:00 - 11:45, 2023-07-31 17:00 - 17:45, 2023-07-29 11:00 - 11:45 | Lambertville Library Gallery
FREE French lesson mini-sessions with local French teacher Wendy Rosen.
Each session is 2 days – Saturday at 11 AM and Monday at 5 PM (except for July 8 @ 11:30 AM)
You will learn how to introduce yourself, how to pronounce key French words and phrases, and how to sing a song in French!
You MUST email Wendy to sign up: wendyfrancais@gmail.com. A bientôt !

STEAM Camp: Squishy Circuits
2023-08-10 10:30 - 11:30 | Lambertville Library Gallery
Sign up for STEAM Camp! Thursdays, August 3rd and August 10th @ 10:30 – 11:30 AM in the Library Gallery

Session 2: Squishy Circuits! Create electrical circuits with Play-Doh. Suitable for ages 5 -8.

Sign up here!

Grand Falloons: Science Circus!
2023-08-09 15:00 - 15:30 | Lambertville Library Gallery
Join us for Grand Falloons Summer Extravaganza, sustainability themed circus fun!
This program is funded by Hunterdon County Clean Communities. Learn more about the Grand Falloons here.

Cancelled: Bouncy Book Time
2023-08-08, 2023-08-01, 2023-07-25

STEAM Camp: mTiny Robot
2023-08-03 10:30 - 11:30 | Lambertville Library Lawn, 6 Lilly Street, Lambertville, NJ, 08530, United States
Sign up for STEAM Camp! Thursdays, August 3rd and August 10th @ 10:30 – 11:30 AM in the Library Gallery

Session 1: mTiny Robot! Come join us to learn about robots with the mTiny robot. MTiny is an educational robot suitable for learning social-emotional skills, linguistics, mathematics, and much more. Students will practice their logical thinking and problem-solving skills through interactive, screen-free experiences developed to meet the specific needs of young learners. Suitable for ages 5 -8.

Sign up here!

Library Literati Book Club - "The Last White Man" by Mohsin Hamid
2023-08-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Lambertville Library Gallery
Join your fellow Lambertvillians in reading and discussing “The Last White Man” by Mohsin Hamid. There will be some copies of the title on hold for the group. Please check at the front desk for availability.
To sign-up email staff@lambertvillelibrary.org or call 609-397-0275

Date 08/01/2023 (Tue.)

Time 7:00PM – 8:30PM EDT

Location Gallery

Saturday Morning Music with Birdhouse
2023-07-29 10:30 - 11:15, 2023-07-22 10:30 - 11:15 | Lambertville Library Lawn, 6 Lilly Street, Lambertville, NJ, 08530, United States
Join the Birdhouse Center for the Arts on the Lambertville Library Lawn for music and fun!
Dates: Saturdays, July 8, 22, 29 & SUNDAY, JULY 15
Time: 10:30 – 11:15 AM
Location: Library Lawn (or Library Gallery in inclement weather)

ALiEN8: Bucks County Playhouse Youth Company Performance
2023-07-19 17:30 | Lambertville Library, 6 Lilly Street, Lambertville, NJ, 08530, United States
Come see the Bucks County Playhouse’s Youth Company perform an excerpt from their upcoming show ALiEN8! Learn more about the show here.
Date: Wednesday, 7/19
Time: 5:30 PM
