Category Archives: Friends of the Library
Nowruz Celebration in Pictures
On March 18 Union City Library celebrated the Nowruz, the festival of the New Year, Which marks the first day of spring and the vernal Equinox . Shahrzad Academy performed dances from the different regions of Iran. In the first … Continue reading
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Haft Sin @ the Library
Sunday March 18 –2;30 to 4 p.m. Please join us to celebrate Nowruz with dance. Shahrzad Dance Academy. This event is free. No reservations are required. Haft Sīn (هفت سین) or the seven ‘S’s is a major tradition of Norooz. … Continue reading
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Student Dancers Perform for Art Is Education Month
Students of the Natanjali Dance Academy under the direction of Kalpana Kamalanathan performed Bharatanatyam style dance at Union City Library on Saturday March 3rd for Art Is Education Month. Bharatanatyam is an ancient Indian classical dance form from South India … Continue reading
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Community Quilt Project for Art Is Education Month
Last Saturday artist Marion Coleman demonstrated the art of quilting and encouraged kids, teens, and parents to draw self portraits for our community quilting project. The drawings were colored with special fabric crayons and the artists selected background papers to compliment their self portraits. … Continue reading
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Celebrate the Power of Arts
Last Saturday the Art is Education month was started at Union City Library with performance by the Bharatanatyam Classical Indian Dance. Other programs are : Friday, March 9, 3:30 – 5 PM Paper Quilt Collage Workshop School-age kids and … Continue reading
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WRITE YOUR STORY
Join our senior library member, Suzanne Ortt, a regular contributor Of the Tri Cities Voice Newspaper, and begin to write your memoir! This is an informal meeting to support each other and organize your thoughts for writing. Sharing is optional. … Continue reading
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Seasons by the Bay
Oscar Peñaranda was born in Barugo, Leyte, Philippines. Childhood in Manila. Adolescence in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, the rest in San Francisco and Bay Area. Speaks at least three languages, the language of his birth (Waray Visaya), of his youth … Continue reading
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Write Your Story
Join our senior library member, Suzanne Ortt, a regular contributor of the Tri Cities Voice Newspaper , and begin to write your memoir! This is an informal meeting to support each other and organize your thoughts for writing. Sharing … Continue reading
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In Her Mother’s Image
In Her Mother’s Image is the story of a mother and daughter, Consuelo and Chiquita, who are entangled in a web of longing and antipathy set amidst the chaos of World War II in the Philippines and thirty years later … Continue reading
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Rizal on Angel Island
One act play entitled Rizal on Angel Island byIgnacio Zulueta is a part of the Filipino American Showcase @ the Union City Library, Check it out… “Rizal on Angel Island”, a feverish imagining of the Philippine national hero’s detainment by … Continue reading
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