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Friday, June 25, 2021

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Creative Writing Club


Location:  Virtual
Contact:  Marianna Sorensen   508-485-5031   msorensen@southboroughma.com
Description:  Tweens and teens interested in meeting other writers and fostering their own writing are welcome to our creative writing club! Join our virtual meetups with Library Associate Marianna via Zoom to meet other enthusiastic writers ages 9 and up. The club will meet at 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM on Fridays in the months of June. Join anytime! New members are always welcome. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link. Please register: http://bit.ly/sblibvirt42


Tuesday, July 13, 2021

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Joel Christian Gill


Location:  Online
Contact:  Host: Shrewsbury Public Library   508-841-8609.   
Description:  Join critically acclaimed cartoonist Joel Christian Gill for this exciting talk to kick-off Shrewsbury Public Library's annual celebration of comics, cartoons, and all things pop culture. This online program is in collaboration with other local area libraries, including the Southborough Library. Joel Christian Gill is a cartoonist and historian who speaks nationally on the importance of sharing stories. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence, cited as one of the best graphic novels of 2020 by The New York Times and for which he was awarded the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize. He wrote the words and drew the pictures for Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield’s First Ride and the award-winning graphic novel series Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, as well as 3 volumes of Tales of The Talented Tenth, which tell the stories of Bass Reeves, Bessie Stringfield and Robert Smalls. Please register: http://bit.ly/JoelChristianGill