Library Events

Need help with a computer or smartphone? Want to learn how to use the library's online resources? Sign up for a one on one virtual class with our library staff on Fridays from 4:30 - 6. Classes are limited to thirty-minute sessions. Register for the event and specify your time slot to receive the Zoom meeting link.

Ages: 7-12 yrs.

Join Drawing Club for Earthlings as we create Celtic-inspired art just in time for St. Patrick's Day! Bring a piece of paper and drawing materials of your choice. Register your young artist on our calendar to receive a Zoom link before the meeting. Leprechauns welcome.

Join us for a live maple syrup demonstration on our front lawn! Scott Keeley will demonstrate how to extract syrup and be on-hand for questions all day from 8 am to 6 pm on Thursday, March 11th. Stop by anytime and stay for however long you want. Come see how to tap maples like a pro and learn tips on how to protect this important species from invasive pests. This event is good for all ages! Masks and distancing will be required. Please register if you plan to attend so we know how many people to expect!

Join Samantha Free & The Millbrook Library via Zoom for all-level flow yoga classes on Thursdays from 10:30 am - 11:30 am. This class is perfect for beginners as well as people who have done yoga before.

Bring to your mat: blocks (books. cans of soup), strap (belt, tie, scarf, hand towel), and either a small blanket or bath towel.

Please email Samantha at sfree1928@gmail.com to be added to this Zoom Class Email list. There is a suggested donation of $15 for this class, but if you would prefer not to pay, you are more than welcome to participate.

Venmo donations can be sent to @millbrookyoga
Paypal donations can be sent to millbrookyoga@gmail.com
Mailed donations can be sent to PO Box 1165, Millbrook NY 12545

Please pre-register for class each week by emailing Samantha (paying for class if you would like to) and then the link will be sent to you.

Please register no later than 1/2 hour before the start time.
Any last-minute problems please text Samantha @ 917-710-2125

Miss Abbey will read “Frida” written by Jonah Winter and illustrated by Ana Juan. Virtual story time videos will be posted on our Youtube channel each Thursday morning at 11:30AM and available to view on demand. Visit our YouTube channel to see past story times.

Ages: 8-11 years old

Join Miss Abbey for a writing workshop where young writers will learn about personification (giving human traits to nonhuman objects) and practice using it in their own writing. Register your young writer on our calendar to receive a Zoom link before the meeting. 

Need help with a computer or smartphone? Want to learn how to use the library's online resources? Sign up for a one on one virtual class with our library staff on Fridays from 4:30 - 6. Classes are limited to thirty-minute sessions. Register for the event and specify your time slot to receive the Zoom meeting link.

Please join us for an online cooking lesson with KSCPP on how to prepare Japchae (Potato starch noodles with various vegetables), with step-by-step instructions via Zoom meeting. In addition to the cooking lesson, KSCPP will explain the health benefits of traditional Korean meals and watch a short documentary film on Bangjja, traditional Korean bronzeware.  

The first 20 people to sign up for this class will receive a kit with the glass noodles and mushrooms needed for this recipe, as well as a book on Korean cooking!

Upon registration, KSCPP will email you the recipe, together with information on where you can purchase the required ingredients. Visit www.kscpp.net and www.tasteofkorea.org for information on KSCPP.

Who We Are:
Korean Spirit and Culture Project (KSCPP) is a not-for-profit organization that was formed in September 2005 to promote Korean history and culture to the wider world. KSCPP is designed to introduce Korea’s long and rich artistic history, the spirit of its people, and its cultural values. In appreciation for the United States’ support for Korea during the Korean War and in the years that followed, KSCPP has held 2,000 complimentary presentations throughout the country so far.

For details of the organization, please visit, www.kscpp.net

Miss Abbey will read “St. Patrick’s Day,” written by Anne Rockwell and illustrated by Lizzy Rockwell. Virtual story time videos will be posted on our Youtube channel each Thursday morning at 11:30AM and available to view on demand. Visit our YouTube channel to see past story times.

Ages: 5-12 yrs.

Join Miss Abbey for an hour of Saint Patrick’s Day arts and crafts. Arts and Crafters will make their own leprechaun paper plate mask! Register on our calendar to pick up your craft bag with supplies in the Children’s Room at the library starting March 11th and receive the Zoom link prior to the meeting. 

Join Samantha Free & The Millbrook Library via Zoom for all-level flow yoga classes on Thursdays from 10:30 am - 11:30 am. This class is perfect for beginners as well as people who have done yoga before.

Bring to your mat: blocks (books. cans of soup), strap (belt, tie, scarf, hand towel), and either a small blanket or bath towel.

Please email Samantha at sfree1928@gmail.com to be added to this Zoom Class Email list. There is a suggested donation of $15 for this class, but if you would prefer not to pay, you are more than welcome to participate.

Venmo donations can be sent to @millbrookyoga
Paypal donations can be sent to millbrookyoga@gmail.com
Mailed donations can be sent to PO Box 1165, Millbrook NY 12545

Please pre-register for class each week by emailing Samantha (paying for class if you would like to) and then the link will be sent to you.

Please register no later than 1/2 hour before the start time.
Any last-minute problems please text Samantha @ 917-710-2125

Need help with a computer or smartphone? Want to learn how to use the library's online resources? Sign up for a one on one virtual class with our library staff on Fridays from 4:30 - 6. Classes are limited to thirty-minute sessions. Register for the event and specify your time slot to receive the Zoom meeting link.

Come join Millbrook-based art historian Dr. Megan Brandow-Faller this Women’s History Month for a talk on her recent book The Female Secession about women artist’s in the early 20th century defying the rigid strictures of the day to make innovative art.

About the Book: The artists of interwar Vienna’s ‘female Secession’ created craft-based artworks that rocked the established conventions surrounding ‘feminine’ handcraft, reclaiming women’s connections to devalued handcraft genres. Strongly represented in the well-known ‘Vienna Workshops’ (1903-1932), these ‘female Secessionists’ experimented with similar ideas and movements (expressionism, cubism, primitivism and abstraction) as male artists, overturning women’s unofficial exclusion from the ‘fine’ arts of painting and sculpture. The provocative work of artists like Vally Wieselthier, Emmy Zweybrück, or Fanny Harlfinger in ceramics, toymaking, textiles and interior design disrupted long-established boundaries by working to dislodge fixed oppositions between “art” and “craft,” “decorative” and “profound,” and “masculine” and “feminine” in art. In a very real way, their reclaiming of ‘feminine’ handcraft and matriarchal modes of transmission formed a woman-centered lineage anticipating those of the 1970s feminist art collectives and present-day craftivism. At a time when ‘DIY’ crafts are more popular than ever, The Female Secession could not be more relevant today.

Megan Brandow-Faller is Associate Professor of History at the City University of New York, Kingsborough. Her research focuses on art and design in Secessionist and interwar Vienna, including children’s art and artistic toys of the Vienna Secession; expressionist ceramics of the Wiener Werkstätte; folk art and modernism; and women’s art education. She is the editor of Childhood by Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood, 1700-present (Bloomsbury 2018), the author of The Female Secession: Art and the Decorative at the Viennese Women’s Academy (Penn State University Press, 2020), the co-editor (with Laura Morowitz) of Erasures and Eradications in Viennese Modern Art Architecture and Design (Routledge, Forthcoming) as well as various peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.
IG: profbrandowfaller
www.meganbrandowfaller.com

Ages: 5-12 yrs.

Science Worms will be hosted on Zoom by Miss Abbey. This week, young scientists will perform the Magically Moving Milk Experiment.

This experiment requires:

• One pie plate or dish that has some depth to it
• Milk
• Multiple liquid food colors
• Dish soap 
• Oil (olive, vegetable, or canola)
• Water
• 3 cups 
• Q-tips

Miss Abbey will read the group a story and explain the science that creates the reaction in the Magically Moving Milk Experiment. 

Register your young scientist on our calendar to receive a Zoom link before the meeting. If you are unable to get the necessary materials yourself, but would still like to participate, please email agallagher@millbrooklibrary.org. 

Ages: 7-12 yrs. 

For this meeting of Drawing Club for Earthlings, we will be creating "Night and Day" drawings, which depict half a scene in the daytime and the other half in the nighttime. For this meeting, you will need a piece of paper and materials to color with such as crayons, pastels, or colored pencils. Register your young artist on our calendar to receive a Zoom link before the meeting.

Genealogy research often focuses on males, but 50% of our family tree is made up of women! Learn how to uncover your maternal ancestors' stories and where she might be hiding in the record collections with genealogy expert, Sarah Gutmann. Register for this program in advance to receive the Zoom link.

Join Samantha Free & The Millbrook Library via Zoom for all-level flow yoga classes on Thursdays from 10:30 am - 11:30 am. This class is perfect for beginners as well as people who have done yoga before.

Bring to your mat: blocks (books. cans of soup), strap (belt, tie, scarf, hand towel), and either a small blanket or bath towel.

Please email Samantha at sfree1928@gmail.com to be added to this Zoom Class Email list. There is a suggested donation of $15 for this class, but if you would prefer not to pay, you are more than welcome to participate.

Venmo donations can be sent to @millbrookyoga
Paypal donations can be sent to millbrookyoga@gmail.com
Mailed donations can be sent to PO Box 1165, Millbrook NY 12545

Please pre-register for class each week by emailing Samantha (paying for class if you would like to) and then the link will be sent to you.

Please register no later than 1/2 hour before the start time.
Any last-minute problems please text Samantha @ 917-710-2125

Miss Abbey will read “I’m a Girl!” written and illustrated by Yasmeen Ismail. Virtual story time videos will be posted on our Youtube channel each Thursday morning at 11:30AM and available to view on demand. Visit our YouTube channel to see past story times.

Ages: 8-11 years old

Join Miss Abbey for a writing workshop where young writers will practice writing about different places, including their own hometown! Register your young writer on our calendar to receive a Zoom link before the meeting.