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Sergio Villaschi takes an artistic approach to photography, using light, color, and texture to create compelling still life and landscape images. Inspired by the mosaics and frescoes of his native Rome, Sergio’s work blurs the line between traditional photography and fine art, giving each piece a distinct atmosphere and depth. His still life compositions are vibrant and layered, while his landscapes capture a quiet, serene quality.

Through techniques like “light painting” and Intentional Camera Movement, he enhances his images with unique textures and moods. He invites viewers to see familiar subjects in a new way, with each photo offering a refined and thoughtful perspective.

Once again this holiday season, kids are invited to discover the joy of giving at the Children’s Holiday Sale. With three convenient time slots available, young shoppers can browse, select, and purchase gifts for their family members in a fun and festive environment. Registration is required to attend this year’s holiday sale. There will be no drop-in shoppers this year.

Children’s Holiday Sale (5 & Under) – December 12 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Children’s Holiday Sale (All Ages) – December 12 @ 3:30 pm – 5:20 pm
Children’s Holiday Sale (All Ages) – December 13 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

• Send your child in with an envelope containing the money they can spend.
• Write the amount and your child’s name on the envelope.
• Write the name, relationship, and age of gift recipients on the envelope.

This year, instead of wrapping gifts onsite, children will receive a gift bag with wrapping materials to take home.
Children may purchase up to 10 gifts to ensure enough for all.

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Finding time to wrap gifts can be challenging as the holiday season approaches. The Gunn Memorial Library has the perfect solution: a festive and fun pre-holiday event to make this task more enjoyable.
Join us for a DIY Gift Wrap Party to create gift bags, monogrammed boxes, gift tags, and other items that will make wrapping quick and easy this year!

Bring your family and friends and enjoy a fun and festive crafting time in the library’s new Makerspace. We’ll have the Cricut cutters ready and all the paint, glitter, adhesive vinyl, and other art supplies you’ll need to transform basic paper bags and boxes into beautiful gift wraps. There will be ribbon and yarn to make gift toppers and cardstock for tags, too! All materials will be provided, but attendees are also welcome to bring additional plain paper bags or boxes to decorate.

Don’t miss this opportunity to add joy and community to your holiday preparations! Registration is encouraged.

Sign up today at www.gunnlibrary.org

Finding time to wrap gifts can be challenging as the holiday season approaches. The Gunn Memorial Library has the perfect solution: a festive and fun pre-holiday event to make this task more enjoyable.
Join us for a DIY Gift Wrap Party to create gift bags, monogrammed boxes, gift tags, and other items that will make wrapping quick and easy this year!

Bring your family and friends and enjoy a fun and festive crafting time in the library’s new Makerspace. We’ll have the Cricut cutters ready and all the paint, glitter, adhesive vinyl, and other art supplies you’ll need to transform basic paper bags and boxes into beautiful gift wraps. There will be ribbon and yarn to make gift toppers and cardstock for tags, too! All materials will be provided, but attendees are also welcome to bring additional plain paper bags or boxes to decorate. Don’t miss this opportunity to add joy and community to your holiday preparations! Registration is encouraged.

Sign up today at www.gunnlibrary.org

Back by popular demand! Personalize a cocoa mug with the Cricut machine! Learn how to cut custom vinyl decals and add your own flair to a blank mug. Grades 6+.

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Crochet Basics | December 14, 12:00-2:00pm

Intrigued by crochet? Want to make a hat, scarf, or amigurumi but not sure where to start? Just looking for a fun and relaxing new hobby? This workshop is for you! Join guest teacher Missy Stevens to learn the basics of crochet, including the fundamental stitches and tips for reading beginner-friendly patterns. You are encouraged to bring your own skein of worsted weight yarn and an H-8 or 5mm crochet hook; supplies may also be borrowed from the Makerspace.

Missy Stevens is a maker and studio artist who uses thread, fabric, and clay to create unique pieces inspired by her connection to the natural world. After learning how to sew as a child, Missy has since explored many forms of textile art including weaving, embroidery, crochet, and the punch needle embroidery technique she uses to create richly colored thread paintings with densely stitched loops of sewing thread. Her work has been shown across the country and has been featured in many books and magazines.

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Learn how to use computer coding to create your own patterns for the Makerspace embroidery machines! This user-friendly software makes it easy to create snowflakes, spirals, and other intricate designs with a few blocks of code and a little bit of math- no prior computer programming experience required! This workshop will cover the design stage of the process, and participants can test their designs on the embroidery machines during Makerspace open hours. Ages 18 .

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As the solstice approaches, create a beautiful paper luminary to light up the longest night of the year. Learn how to make a battery-operated lantern by layering vellum and intricate paper scenes cut on the Cricut machine. Ages 18+.

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Back by popular demand! Visit the Makerspace to create your very own mug and coaster set! Learn how to cut custom vinyl decals with the Cricut machine, apply them to a blank mug, and make a matching felt coaster with heat transfer vinyl. Ages 18+.

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It’s a morning of coding fun at the Makerspace! Choose your own adventure with a variety of different activity stations to choose from- make music, design art, animate Lego creations and more! Grade 3.

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Ever wondered what snowmen do when the world goes to sleep? Come and listen as Miss Linda reads “What Snowmen Do  At Night” by Caralyn Buehner. Following storytime, children will create their frosty snowman craft to take home, adding a personal touch to their holiday decorations. This festive program is ideal for preschoolers through 2nd graders. Don’t miss this holiday joy and creativity opportunity!

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Need a break from the hustle and bustle of the holiday season? Visit the Makerspace and decompress as you create art with watercolors. We’ll provide the painting supplies, calming music, and a video tutorial to follow if you wish. Stop in anytime between 10am and 12pm and stay the whole time or just a bit. Ages 18+.

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Join us for a movie matinee this winter break!

Enjoy the heartwarming adaptation of Peter Brown’s award-winning book. The Wild Robot tells the story of Roz, a shipwrecked robot who finds herself on a remote, uninhabited island. As she navigates the island’s harsh landscape, Roz befriends the local wildlife and learns to adapt with the help of her animal companions, caring especially for an orphaned baby goose. This is a beautiful story of resilience, friendship, and survival.

This film is rated PG and is suitable for children aged 8 and up.

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Explore the science of snow globes and create your own winter world in the Makerspace! Ages 5+ with a caregiver.

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Sergio Villaschi takes an artistic approach to photography, using light, color, and texture to create compelling still life and landscape images. Inspired by the mosaics and frescoes of his native Rome, Sergio’s work blurs the line between traditional photography and fine art, giving each piece a distinct atmosphere and depth. His still life compositions are vibrant and layered, while his landscapes capture a quiet, serene quality.

Through techniques like “light painting” and Intentional Camera Movement, he enhances his images with unique textures and moods. He invites viewers to see familiar subjects in a new way, with each photo offering a refined and thoughtful perspective.

Visit the Makerspace to craft an inspirational vision board collage for the new year!  Relax, reflect, and have fun as you use magazines, photo printers, Cricut cutters, markers, glue and other art supplies to create a visual reminder of your goals and dreams for 2025. All supplies are provided, but you are welcome to bring images and objects to include on your board as well.

Ages 18+
Registration Required

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Friday, January 10, 2025, 1:00 PM

The January and February picks for the Gunn Memorial Library book clubs will come from New York Time Top 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. In January, we will read Maggie O’Farrell’s page turner, Hamnet.

England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on.

A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.

Copies of the book are available at the circulation desk

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Do you have boxes of unsorted photographs? Collections of digital images scattered across assorted phones, computers, and hard drives? Want to start organizing them but not sure how to start? The Makerspace can help you achieve your goals in 2025! Join us to learn strategies for sorting, consolidating, labeling, and storing your photographs. We’ll also demonstrate how to use the photo and slide scanners in the Makerspace to digitize your collections for easy access and sharing.

Ages 18+
Registration Required

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January 23, 2025, 6:00 PM

The January and February picks for the Gunn Memorial Library book clubs will come from the New York Time Top 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. In January, the Thursday evening Book Club will read 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tobarczuk

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . .

A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?

Copies of the book are available at the circulation desk.

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