Library Events

Join us for upcoming events, classes and programs at Jacob Edwards Library! All events are free and open to the public.
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The Art of Andre Jua
Monday, Oct. 2, 9 am - 8 pm
The Jacob Edwards Library is pleased to host an exhibit by Andre Juarez. The show will be on display from October 2nd to October 31st, during library opening hours.

A special addition to the show will be a reading by poet Bill Tremblay will take place on Thursday, October 5th, 2023 at 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm 
 

AJ Juarez is of the Ashiwee and Yeomen First Nations (Zuni and Yaqui). He is a poet, artist, writer, and musician. He is the founder of Noh Place Artists Cooperative and the former lead singer for The Ghost Shadows, a seminal Worcester musical experience known for its unusual blending of jazz, heavy metal, funk, Native American songs, and straight ahead rock. His Native flute musings can be heard on John Zaganiacz’s Virtual Equinox recordings.

As a student he coordinated the Poetry Center at Worcester State College and was a founding member of The Center for the Study of Human Rights. He was deeply involved in the No Nukes and Anti-Apartheid movements. He is a lifelong Jazz aficionado and a former Jazz host at WCUW (91.3 FM). His Jazz poetry and artwork can be seen on the jazzhistorydatabase.com website.

His art work has also been used on book covers and as illustrations. In the 2018 exhibition, “A Forty Year Retrospective” at the MAP Gallery in Easthampton, MA, AJ and his visual arts mentor, Michel Duncan Merle, highlighted their collaboration as artists and poets.

Sponsored by Friends of Jacob Edwards Library.
Southbridge Chess Cl
Monday, Oct. 2, 5:15 pm
The Jacob Edwards Library is pleased to host the Southbridge Chess Club with instructor Ben Marinelli on Mondays, starting at 5:15 pm. All ages and experience welcome!
Imagination Station
Monday, Oct. 2, 6:30pm
Monday Nights at 6:30pm
Join us for an hour of hands on "STEAM "fun!
Each week will be a different activity in which you can create, explore and learn. 
The Art of Andre Jua
Tuesday, Oct. 3, 9 am - 5 pm
The Jacob Edwards Library is pleased to host an exhibit by Andre Juarez. The show will be on display from October 2nd to October 31st, during library opening hours.

A special addition to the show will be a reading by poet Bill Tremblay will take place on Thursday, October 5th, 2023 at 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm 
 

AJ Juarez is of the Ashiwee and Yeomen First Nations (Zuni and Yaqui). He is a poet, artist, writer, and musician. He is the founder of Noh Place Artists Cooperative and the former lead singer for The Ghost Shadows, a seminal Worcester musical experience known for its unusual blending of jazz, heavy metal, funk, Native American songs, and straight ahead rock. His Native flute musings can be heard on John Zaganiacz’s Virtual Equinox recordings.

As a student he coordinated the Poetry Center at Worcester State College and was a founding member of The Center for the Study of Human Rights. He was deeply involved in the No Nukes and Anti-Apartheid movements. He is a lifelong Jazz aficionado and a former Jazz host at WCUW (91.3 FM). His Jazz poetry and artwork can be seen on the jazzhistorydatabase.com website.

His art work has also been used on book covers and as illustrations. In the 2018 exhibition, “A Forty Year Retrospective” at the MAP Gallery in Easthampton, MA, AJ and his visual arts mentor, Michel Duncan Merle, highlighted their collaboration as artists and poets.

Sponsored by Friends of Jacob Edwards Library.
Construction Crew
Tuesday, Oct. 3, 3:30pm
Join us on Tuesday afternoon from 3:30 to 4:30 pm for Construction Crew.
We will supply the LEGO bricks you supply your ideas!
 
Crafty Weds
Children's Room Jacob Edwards Library
Wednesday, Oct. 4, All Day 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Join us every Wednesday for a craft. Drop in anytime all day! 
The Art of Andre Jua
Wednesday, Oct. 4, 9 am - 5 pm
The Jacob Edwards Library is pleased to host an exhibit by Andre Juarez. The show will be on display from October 2nd to October 31st, during library opening hours.

A special addition to the show will be a reading by poet Bill Tremblay will take place on Thursday, October 5th, 2023 at 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm 
 

AJ Juarez is of the Ashiwee and Yeomen First Nations (Zuni and Yaqui). He is a poet, artist, writer, and musician. He is the founder of Noh Place Artists Cooperative and the former lead singer for The Ghost Shadows, a seminal Worcester musical experience known for its unusual blending of jazz, heavy metal, funk, Native American songs, and straight ahead rock. His Native flute musings can be heard on John Zaganiacz’s Virtual Equinox recordings.

As a student he coordinated the Poetry Center at Worcester State College and was a founding member of The Center for the Study of Human Rights. He was deeply involved in the No Nukes and Anti-Apartheid movements. He is a lifelong Jazz aficionado and a former Jazz host at WCUW (91.3 FM). His Jazz poetry and artwork can be seen on the jazzhistorydatabase.com website.

His art work has also been used on book covers and as illustrations. In the 2018 exhibition, “A Forty Year Retrospective” at the MAP Gallery in Easthampton, MA, AJ and his visual arts mentor, Michel Duncan Merle, highlighted their collaboration as artists and poets.

Sponsored by Friends of Jacob Edwards Library.
Tyke Tales Story Tim
Children's Room Jacob Edwards Library
Wednesday, Oct. 4, 10:30am
Join us every Weds for Story Time at 10:30 am 
Great for those 3-5 years old 
Enjoy stories and fun with Ms. Liz!
The Art of Andre Jua
Thursday, Oct. 5, 9 am - 8 pm
The Jacob Edwards Library is pleased to host an exhibit by Andre Juarez. The show will be on display from October 2nd to October 31st, during library opening hours.

A special addition to the show will be a reading by poet Bill Tremblay will take place on Thursday, October 5th, 2023 at 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm 
 

AJ Juarez is of the Ashiwee and Yeomen First Nations (Zuni and Yaqui). He is a poet, artist, writer, and musician. He is the founder of Noh Place Artists Cooperative and the former lead singer for The Ghost Shadows, a seminal Worcester musical experience known for its unusual blending of jazz, heavy metal, funk, Native American songs, and straight ahead rock. His Native flute musings can be heard on John Zaganiacz’s Virtual Equinox recordings.

As a student he coordinated the Poetry Center at Worcester State College and was a founding member of The Center for the Study of Human Rights. He was deeply involved in the No Nukes and Anti-Apartheid movements. He is a lifelong Jazz aficionado and a former Jazz host at WCUW (91.3 FM). His Jazz poetry and artwork can be seen on the jazzhistorydatabase.com website.

His art work has also been used on book covers and as illustrations. In the 2018 exhibition, “A Forty Year Retrospective” at the MAP Gallery in Easthampton, MA, AJ and his visual arts mentor, Michel Duncan Merle, highlighted their collaboration as artists and poets.

Sponsored by Friends of Jacob Edwards Library.
Reading by Poet Bill
Thursday, Oct. 5, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Thursday, October 5th, at 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Bill Tremblay will read from his most recent work The Luminous Racetrack: A Memoir in Poems (2023) as well as from his earlier work.

Bill Tremblay is an award-winning poet as well as a novelist, teacher, editor, and reviewer whose work has appeared in seven full-length volumes of poetry including Crying in the Cheap Seats [University of Massachusetts Press] The Anarchist Heart [New Rivers Press], Home Front [Lynx House Press], Second Sun: New & Selected Poems [L'Epervier Press], Duhamel: Ideas of Order in Little Canada [BOA Editions Ltd.] , Rainstorm Over the Alphabet [Lynx House Press], and most recently Shooting Script: Door of Fire [Eastern Washington University Press].

Hundreds of his poems have been published in literary magazines in the United States and Canada, as well such anthologies as the Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Jazz Poetry Anthology, Best American Poetry, 2003, The Portable Poetry Workshop, and Responding to Literature . In 1994, he published his first novel, The June Rise, which was widely and favorably reviewed, especially on NPR's "All Things Considered." In 2004, his book, Shooting Script: Door of Fire received both the ForeWard Magazine "Silver Award" and the Colorado Book Award from the Colorado Center for the Book [2004], an affiliate of the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities and the United States Library of Congress.
He has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as The Pushcart Prize Anthology and the Corporation at Yaddo. He was a visiting Lecturer at the Univerisdade Nova in Lisbon, Portugal, through the Fulbright Commission.

Mr. Tremblay edited Colorado Review for 15 years, served as a member of the Program Directors Council of the Associated Writing Programs [AWP], and is the recipient of the John F. Stern Distinguished Professor award for his thirty years teaching in and directing the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Colorado State University. Sponsored by Friends of Jacob Edwards Library.
The Art of Andre Jua
Friday, Oct. 6, 9 am - 5 pm
The Jacob Edwards Library is pleased to host an exhibit by Andre Juarez. The show will be on display from October 2nd to October 31st, during library opening hours.

A special addition to the show will be a reading by poet Bill Tremblay will take place on Thursday, October 5th, 2023 at 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm 
 

AJ Juarez is of the Ashiwee and Yeomen First Nations (Zuni and Yaqui). He is a poet, artist, writer, and musician. He is the founder of Noh Place Artists Cooperative and the former lead singer for The Ghost Shadows, a seminal Worcester musical experience known for its unusual blending of jazz, heavy metal, funk, Native American songs, and straight ahead rock. His Native flute musings can be heard on John Zaganiacz’s Virtual Equinox recordings.

As a student he coordinated the Poetry Center at Worcester State College and was a founding member of The Center for the Study of Human Rights. He was deeply involved in the No Nukes and Anti-Apartheid movements. He is a lifelong Jazz aficionado and a former Jazz host at WCUW (91.3 FM). His Jazz poetry and artwork can be seen on the jazzhistorydatabase.com website.

His art work has also been used on book covers and as illustrations. In the 2018 exhibition, “A Forty Year Retrospective” at the MAP Gallery in Easthampton, MA, AJ and his visual arts mentor, Michel Duncan Merle, highlighted their collaboration as artists and poets.

Sponsored by Friends of Jacob Edwards Library.
Tales for Twos Story
Children's Room Jacob Edwards Library
Friday, Oct. 6, 10:30am
Join us every Friday for Story Time at 10:30 am 
Great for those 3 and under
Enjoy stories and fun with Ms. Liz!
The Art of Andre Jua
Saturday, Oct. 7, 9 am - 1 pm
The Jacob Edwards Library is pleased to host an exhibit by Andre Juarez. The show will be on display from October 2nd to October 31st, during library opening hours.

A special addition to the show will be a reading by poet Bill Tremblay will take place on Thursday, October 5th, 2023 at 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm 
 

AJ Juarez is of the Ashiwee and Yeomen First Nations (Zuni and Yaqui). He is a poet, artist, writer, and musician. He is the founder of Noh Place Artists Cooperative and the former lead singer for The Ghost Shadows, a seminal Worcester musical experience known for its unusual blending of jazz, heavy metal, funk, Native American songs, and straight ahead rock. His Native flute musings can be heard on John Zaganiacz’s Virtual Equinox recordings.

As a student he coordinated the Poetry Center at Worcester State College and was a founding member of The Center for the Study of Human Rights. He was deeply involved in the No Nukes and Anti-Apartheid movements. He is a lifelong Jazz aficionado and a former Jazz host at WCUW (91.3 FM). His Jazz poetry and artwork can be seen on the jazzhistorydatabase.com website.

His art work has also been used on book covers and as illustrations. In the 2018 exhibition, “A Forty Year Retrospective” at the MAP Gallery in Easthampton, MA, AJ and his visual arts mentor, Michel Duncan Merle, highlighted their collaboration as artists and poets.

Sponsored by Friends of Jacob Edwards Library.
Construction Crew
Saturday, Oct. 7, 10:30am
Join us on Saturday morning from 10:30am to 11:30am for Construction Crew.
We will supply the LEGO bricks you supply your ideas!
 
The Ghostly Tales of
Saturday, Oct. 7, 10:30-11:30
The Jacob Edwards Library is pleased to host a presentation by author Robert Oakes in the Children's Room on Saturday, October 7th at 10:30 am - 11:30 am. Robert will be joined by the illustrator of The Ghostly Tales of the Berkshires - Katherine Oakes.A book signing will follow the program. All welcome.

Ghost stories from the Berkshires have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery! Welcome to the spooky Berkshires! Stay Alert! Ghosts lurk around every corner. Even the most unexpected places might be haunted by wandering phantoms. Did you know that at the Mount, the former home of famous author Edith Wharton, a shadowy phantom haunts the halls? Or that a ghost train still steams through the Hoosac Tunnel? Can you believe there's a top-hatted ghost who wakes guests in the night at the historic Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge? Pulled right from history, these ghostly tales will change the way you see the Berkshires forever, and have you sleeping with the lights on!  Adapted for young readers ages 8–12.

Robert Oakes is an author, teacher, storyteller, and songwriter originally from northern New Jersey but currently residing in the Quiet Corner of Northeastern Connecticut after living nearly 20 years in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. September 26, 2022, saw the release of his latest book, Ghosts of Northwestern New Jersey, the follow-up to his 2020 debut, Ghosts of the Berkshires.  Since 2010, Robert has led the ghost tours at Edith Wharton's The Mount in Lenox, MA, and has represented the museum and its ghosts on Syfy’s Ghost Hunters, Jeff Belanger’s New England Legends series on PBS, and The Apple Seed show on BYUradio. In 2021, Robert also began leading ghost tours at Ventfort Hall and the Church on the Hill, both in Lenox. Robert has written and produced media for AAA, Canyon Ranch, and a number of other organizations and performs as part of the folk music duo Oakes and Smith. Robert has also taught elementary, middle, and high school English Sponsored by Friends of Jacob Edwards Library.
The Art of Andre Jua
Monday, Oct. 9, 9 am - 8 pm
The Jacob Edwards Library is pleased to host an exhibit by Andre Juarez. The show will be on display from October 2nd to October 31st, during library opening hours.

A special addition to the show will be a reading by poet Bill Tremblay will take place on Thursday, October 5th, 2023 at 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm 
 

AJ Juarez is of the Ashiwee and Yeomen First Nations (Zuni and Yaqui). He is a poet, artist, writer, and musician. He is the founder of Noh Place Artists Cooperative and the former lead singer for The Ghost Shadows, a seminal Worcester musical experience known for its unusual blending of jazz, heavy metal, funk, Native American songs, and straight ahead rock. His Native flute musings can be heard on John Zaganiacz’s Virtual Equinox recordings.

As a student he coordinated the Poetry Center at Worcester State College and was a founding member of The Center for the Study of Human Rights. He was deeply involved in the No Nukes and Anti-Apartheid movements. He is a lifelong Jazz aficionado and a former Jazz host at WCUW (91.3 FM). His Jazz poetry and artwork can be seen on the jazzhistorydatabase.com website.

His art work has also been used on book covers and as illustrations. In the 2018 exhibition, “A Forty Year Retrospective” at the MAP Gallery in Easthampton, MA, AJ and his visual arts mentor, Michel Duncan Merle, highlighted their collaboration as artists and poets.

Sponsored by Friends of Jacob Edwards Library.
Imagination Station
Monday, Oct. 9, 6:30pm
Monday Nights at 6:30pm
Join us for an hour of hands on "STEAM "fun!
Each week will be a different activity in which you can create, explore and learn. 
The Art of Andre Jua
Tuesday, Oct. 10, 9 am - 5 pm
The Jacob Edwards Library is pleased to host an exhibit by Andre Juarez. The show will be on display from October 2nd to October 31st, during library opening hours.

A special addition to the show will be a reading by poet Bill Tremblay will take place on Thursday, October 5th, 2023 at 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm 
 

AJ Juarez is of the Ashiwee and Yeomen First Nations (Zuni and Yaqui). He is a poet, artist, writer, and musician. He is the founder of Noh Place Artists Cooperative and the former lead singer for The Ghost Shadows, a seminal Worcester musical experience known for its unusual blending of jazz, heavy metal, funk, Native American songs, and straight ahead rock. His Native flute musings can be heard on John Zaganiacz’s Virtual Equinox recordings.

As a student he coordinated the Poetry Center at Worcester State College and was a founding member of The Center for the Study of Human Rights. He was deeply involved in the No Nukes and Anti-Apartheid movements. He is a lifelong Jazz aficionado and a former Jazz host at WCUW (91.3 FM). His Jazz poetry and artwork can be seen on the jazzhistorydatabase.com website.

His art work has also been used on book covers and as illustrations. In the 2018 exhibition, “A Forty Year Retrospective” at the MAP Gallery in Easthampton, MA, AJ and his visual arts mentor, Michel Duncan Merle, highlighted their collaboration as artists and poets.

Sponsored by Friends of Jacob Edwards Library.
Construction Crew
Tuesday, Oct. 10, 3:30pm
Join us on Tuesday afternoon from 3:30 to 4:30 pm for Construction Crew.
We will supply the LEGO bricks you supply your ideas!
 
Crafty Weds
Children's Room Jacob Edwards Library
Wednesday, Oct. 11, All Day 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Join us every Wednesday for a craft. Drop in anytime all day! 
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