Teach Your Own
An unschooling seminar for beginners and elementary-school-age home-schoolers
Patrick Farenga, who has addressed audiences around the world about home-schooling and the work of his colleague, the late John Holt, will present a 4 ½ session on home-schooling. Among the topics he will explore are unschooling theory and practice, learning all the time, living with your children during school hours, working with different learning styles and multiple intelligences and how to use private schools, public and private business and more in support of home-schooling. Local home-schooling representatives will also be present.
Saturday, March 1, 10:30 a.m. Community Room

Passage Theatre Preview: Solo Flights Festival
Passage Theatre will present a performance and discussion with composer Vince di Mura, whose spoken word jazz opera For Lost Words will be presented as part of Passage's Solo Flights Festival, March 6-30 at the Mill Hill Playhouse in Trenton. Inspired by the transcendent beauty of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa's Vietnam opus Dien Cai Dau, the piece features di Mura on a multiplicity of keyboards, along with vocalist Annielee Moffett and Jasper McGruder as The Poet. Di Mura serves on the staff of the Theatre and Dance departments at Princeton University, and is a professor of jazz piano at the Lawrenceville School.
Sunday, March 2, 3 p.m. Community Room

Mystery Book Discussion
Murder on Nob Hill by Shirley Tallman
A woman attorney, a rarity in 1880s San Francisco, has a first case that seems straightforward enough (a society matron accused of stabbing her husband to death), but leads to shady legal dealings, Chinese tongs, and more murders.
Monday, March 3, 7:30 p.m.

Participants share a short piece of their own writing and/or a short selection from a book they have read in a relaxed atmosphere. Francesca Benson will lead these no-pressure sessions, where the focus will be on the pleasure of reading and writing in community.
Tuesday, March 4, 10 a.m. Quiet Room

Computers, and the sedentary working style associated with them, are very often looked at as a major contributor to becoming overweight in this country. The more time we spend sitting in front of computers, for instance, the less time we typically spend being physically active. In this presentation John LeMasney lost over 100 pounds and he will share how technology helped -- in fact, he states that I could not have possibly done it without the help of my computer, using some key web sites, applications, and devices. Come and let me share with you how technology helped me to lose the weight, and how it helps me keep it off everyday.

This documentary focuses on Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti and his decades-long struggle against the corruption of the Nigerian Government, a struggle which, since his death in 1997, has been taken up by his son, Femi. A post-screening discussion will feature director Dan Ollman.

If you love to scrapbook and are looking for space to spread out and work, these three -hour sessions are for you. Bring your own scrapbooks, photos, and other supplies; the library will supply a cropping station. A scrapbooking expert will be on hand to offer advice and will also lead a make and take session, where you can make a seasonal border or other accent for your pages. To ensure adequate supply of materials, registration is requested. Please call the library reference desk at 609-924-9529 x220 or e-mail refstaff@princetonlibrary.org.

This playful, game-like alternative to ordinary conversation is designed to enrich interpersonal relationships. Moderated by Alan Goldsmith, Noodle Talks begin with a container filled with 400 fettuccini-like paper strips being passed around. On each strip, there are one or two questions covering the full gamut of life experience. Some questions refer to the past, others to the future; some are concrete, others metaphorical; some invite us to laugh at our foibles while others bring us to tears. There are no right or wrong answers, just the truth of our own inner or outer experience.

Co-sponsored by the library and L' Association Francophone de Princeton

Staged readings of David Ives' "Sure Thing" and Christopher Durang's "The Actor's Nightmare"
Reader: Dick Swain and The Poquelin Players

This discussion group is for people who enjoy reading and talking about politics. Joan Goldstein, sociologist, author, and professor at Mercer County Community College, will provide overviews, suggest discussion questions and mention pertinent further readings. Joan dedicates this series in memory of series co-founder Eugenia Shanklin. All programs in the Quiet Room, first floor

Staged readings of David Ives' Sure Thing and Christopher Durang's The Actor's Nightmare
Reader: Dick Swain and The Poquelin Players

Doing your own taxes? Looking for tax forms? Need to find out what the new tax legislations were passed this year? Librarian Romina Gutteriez will guide you in accessing this information from the Internal Revenue Service and New Jersey Division of Taxation sites as well as others.

Achebe's masterpiece tells the story of Okonkwo, strongman of an Ibo village in Nigeria, as he witnesses the destruction of his culture and the loss of his own place within it.

Dawn Padmore, a Liberian-born soprano and classical artist, accompanied by Christopher Johnson will present a journey through Africa and America, through art songs and arias. Highlighted composers to include Akin Euba (Nigeria), Kwabena Nketia (Ghana), Joshua Uzoigwe (Nigeria) and young composers from South Africa. Dawn and Chris will also present works by American composers including Samuel Barber, and Undine Smith Moore.

Participants share a short piece of their own writing and/or a short selection from a book they have read in a relaxed atmosphere. Francesca Benson will lead these no-pressure sessions, where the focus will be on the pleasure of reading and writing in community.
Tuesday, March 4, 10 a.m. Quiet Room

Lawyers will be at the library for free private consultations on immigration and general legal issues. No appointments necessary; service on a first-come, first-served basis. Spanish translators available.

The Nigerian film industry, aka "Nollywood", has exploded in recent years and is now the third largest film industry in the world behind Hollywood and Bollywood. Nollywood is unique in that all films are shot on digital video and going direct to consumers. Welcome to Nollywood , a documentary directed by Jamie Meltzer, tells the stories of three directors and their latest productions and examines the impact of Nollywood on the culture of West Africa and Africans at home and abroad is also explored. Dr. Simon Gikandi, Professor of English at Princeton University, will moderate the program and lead a post-screening discussion.

Flatland
Film screening and book event with Thomas Banchoff

View the newly released movie and then join Banchoff, a Brown University mathematician and Flatland authority who served as an adviser to the filmmakers, for commentary and discussion. Flatland: The Movie is an exciting half-hour animated film based on Edwin Abbott's beloved mathematical adventure novel, first published in 1884. Flatland is an entirely two-dimensional world where different shapes live, work, and play--all under the rule of the evil Circles who are determined to keep the third dimension a secret, at any cost. Flatland: The Movie, stars Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell, Michael York, Tony Hale, and Joe Estevez. There is also a new companion book to the movie that is the ultimate edition of the classic book on which it is based. Both the book and the DVD version of the movie will be available for signing after the event.

Part of Thinking Allowed, a new series highlighting books, authors and other materials published by the Princeton University Press


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Doing your own taxes? Looking for tax forms? Need to find out what the new tax legislations were passed this year? Librarian Romina Gutteriez will guide you in accessing this information from the Internal Revenue Service and New Jersey Division of Taxation sites as well as others.

The author will appear in a discussion with Princeton philosophy professor Kwame Anthony Appiah in the culminating event of Princeton Reads. Free and open to the public. No reserved seating.

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Alan Kitty, Mary Greenberg, Julia Poulos, Lillian Israel and other members of Princeton Writers Block present readings of rarely performed plays and songs featuring Mark Twain, George Sand, Mae West and Sophie Tucker.