Special Events

Sci-Fi Author Catherine Asaro with Music!
Wednesday, November 4 7 pm Laurel Branch
Award-winning science fiction author Catherine Asaro will read and sing from her latest book, Diamond Star. Asaro created a Diamond Star companion CD and will be joined by pianist Donald Wolcott. The jazz-oriented duo will perform works from the Diamond Star CD and jazz and pop covers. Asaro, a two-time Nebula award-winning author, holds a PhD in chemical physics. Families welcome. Sponsored by the Friends of the Laurel Library.

Becoming a Rhyme Beast!
Saturday November 7 2 pm New Carrollton Branch
Join Poet Olu Butterfly Woods and learn to use rhyme in your poetry without sacrificing the poem’s flow or using a rhyme scheme that is too basic. Workshop participants explore different types of rhyme that can open up possibilities in a poem’s direction and is pleasing to the ear. Woods provides teens with instruction laced with rhyme games, hip hop examples and rhyme dictionaries to jumpstart the young writer’s transformation into a BEAST at rhyming. Teens.

Decorator Roslyn Ashford
Sets the Stage for Great Holidays
Tuesday, November 17 7 pm Bowie Branch
Decorator Roslyn Ashford will help you refresh your home for the holidays by redecorating using your own furniture. Then, to be sure you are ready, Ashford will walk you through table decorating for the holidays. Ashford’s company, Ra ReDoes Rooms, provides interior redesign, decorating and staging in the DC area. She studied interior design and redecorating and has an MBA.

Michael Jackson, Balladeer
Wednesday, December 2 7 pm New Carrollton Branch
Associate curator Reuben Jackson examines Michael Jackson’s evolution as a master interpreter of romantic compositions. This talk-with-music includes a review of the composers and arrangers Michael Jackson worked with after going solo. Reuben Jackson looks at Jackson’s relationship with the music coupled with his growth as a performer and artist. Then he touches on the technological changes that affected everything from instrumentation to music sales. Reuben Jackson is a poet and an associate curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History. Adults and teens.