Art in the Park

Art in the Park Art in the Park features more than fifty top artists in every genre including oil, acrylic and watercolor painting,etching, photography, wood and metal working, stained glass, ceramics and a variety of other unusual and distinctive art forms.

Art in the Park

Art in the Park Art in the Park features more than fifty top artists in every genre including oil, acrylic and watercolor painting,etching, photography, wood and metal working, stained glass, ceramics and a variety of other unusual and distinctive art forms.

Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France Author Kitty Morse will discuss her new book "Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France." This book was written after she discovered her great-grandfather's journal chronicling the advance of the Germans in Le Grand Est (Alsace Lorraine) between April and December 1940 and two notebooks filled with recipes written in her great-grandmother’s hand in a suitcase left to her by her mother. Bitter Sweet takes place in and around her mother’s birthplace, Châlons-sur-Marne (now Châlons-en-Champagne.) Blanche Lévy-Neymarck, Morse's maternal great-grandmother, died at Auschwitz in 1944 along with one of her daughters and her son-in-law. Her husband Prosper, an army surgeon in WWI, was twice the recipient of the Légion d'Honneur. This book is not just the story of a family torn apart by war, but features seventy unique recipes that shows the rich history of a family.

Author George Eisen Discusses Hungarian Jews and the Holocaust Dr. George Eisen will discuss his most recent book, A Summer of Mass Murder: 1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust. Most accounts of the Holocaust focus on camps like Auschwitz. This book provides a hitherto untold chapter of the Holocaust by exploring a prequel to the gas chambers: the face-to-face mass murder of Jews in Galicia by bullets. The summer of 1941 ushered in a chain of events that had no precedent in the rapidly unfolding history of World War II and the Holocaust. In six weeks, more than 20,000 Hungarian Jews were forcefully deported to Galicia and executed. The narrative presents an uncharted territory in Holocaust scholarship, incorporating many previously unexplored documents and testimonies. The book also serves as a personal journey of discovery. Among the 20,000 people killed was a tale of two brothers -- the author's uncles.

Mystery Book Club: "Gorky Park" by Martin Cruz Smith Coronado Public Library's Mystery Book club meets regularly on the 3rd Monday of each month. Receive reminder emails about our meeting by registering below. Registration is not required. We will be discussing Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith. Check out the book in print or ebook format from the Coronado Library Catalog.

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "Polite Society" Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival, presents FILM FORUM CORONADO, taking place the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in the library's Winn Room. Film expert Ralph DeLauro provides a brief introduction to each film and leads a discussion afterwards, often including pointers about how lighting or camera angles contribute to a scene’s mood or propel the story. October 4: Polite Society (2023, 104 min) Nida Manzoor’s debut feature is a spiky, wickedly funny, anarchic mash-up that fires on all cylinders. Ria (Priya Kansara), a martial artist-in-training kicks into action when her sister Lena (Ritu Arya) appears ready to give up her artistic ambitions and get married. Enlisting the help of her friends, Ria hatches a series of zany schemes to save Lena from this Prince Charming.

FILM FORUM CORONADO: "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival, presents FILM FORUM CORONADO, taking place the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in the library's Winn Room. Film expert Ralph DeLauro provides a brief introduction to each film and leads a discussion afterwards, often including pointers about how lighting or camera angles contribute to a scene’s mood or propel the story. October 18: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010, 113 min) Genre-smashing director Edgar Wright spins a giddy, hyperkinetic, neon-hued whirling dervish of magical realism. Meet charming slacker Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera), bass guitarist for the garage band SexBob-omb, who just met the girl of his dreams (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). The only catch to winning Ramona Flowers? His new crush has a rogue's gallery of evil exes he must vanquish. The all-star cast includes Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Brie Larson, Chris Evans, Jason Schwartzman and Alison Pill

Spoilers Book Club: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving Primary tabs The Spoilers Book Club reads books that are turned into movies. We read the book and get together to watch the film. We compare the two and discuss what we did and didn't like. Event Details Ichabod Crane, a schoolteacher, came to Tarry Town in the glen of Sleepy Hollow to ply his trade in educating young minds. He was a gullible and excitable fellow, often so terrified by locals' stories of ghosts that he would hurry through the woods on his way home, singing to keep from hysterics. Until ... late one night, he finds that maybe they're not just stories. What is that dark, menacing figure riding behind him on a horse? And what does it have in its hands? And why wasn't schoolteacher Crane ever seen in Sleepy Hollow again?

Cut and Paste: Analog Art for Teens Cut & Paste: Make analog art with discarded Library materials! Make a smash book, a scrap book, a collage, a zine! Freeform arts and crafts with supplies and SNACKS provided by the Library. For students in 6th-12th grade.

Dementia Workshop for Family and Caregivers It can be hard to talk about dementia. PAC Certified consultant Anne Bailey will discuss tools for caregivers to create moments of joy, meaning and peace.

Teens Create: Marbled Pumpkins Construct, craft, and create at our twice-monthly S.T.E.A.M. activity for teens! This in-person program takes place on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month at 3:30 pm. Today's activity: Marbled Pumpkins. Use a hydro-dip paint technique to make a uniquely marbled mini pumpkin. While supplies last.

Drop-In Monthly Chess for Adults The Library is hosting open chess play on the second Thursday of every month between 3:00 and 5:00 p.m. in the Winn Room. Enjoy playing chess with others, or learn to play or improve your game with help from facilitator and local chess coach Chuck McClung. Chess boards and pieces provided. Open to all adults age 18 and older.