This Week at the Wilton Library (August 22-27, 2011)

All events take place at the

Monday, Aug. 22 Good Reads, Great Kids, 4 – 6:30 p.m.  Kids in grades 2 and 3 are invited to join this new book club! Children and their parents will have the opportunity to meet and discuss books as a group.  For this session children are invited to bring a book that they have read recently to talk about in this group setting.  In addition to personal selections, we will all discuss the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.  Pizza will be provided and we will watch the movie after our discussion.  Note the time change for this one session.  Please note grade change to Grades 2 and 3.  Parents and guardians must be present.  Sponsored by the Sherman Family Fund. Registration required.  

Monday, Aug. 22 Weir Farm Artist-in-Residence Exhibition/Reception: Josh Dorman, 6 – 7:30 p.m.  August brings Josh Dorman to the Weir Farm artist in residency program. Dorman says he paints in order to see things that would not exist if he did not paint them. He collects outdated and antique works on paper, such as topographic maps. In the same vein, he also looks to the artists of the past for inspiration, artists like Klee, Redon, Turner, Breughel as well as Romanesque and Sienese art and inked Chinese landscapes - none of which he feels seem distant or ancient, but eternally present. He writes that he ''cannot fathom why any contemporary artist would be content to be of this moment only.''  The forms that he uses in his art are from the ''same family of forms in images of the solar system, botany, airplane engineering, cattle disease, microbiology… To create a place on the canvas where these images can live together seems natural.''  Co-sponsored by Weir Farm Art Center and Weir Farm National Historic Site and presented by Wilton Library. No charge. Registration suggested.

Wednesday, Aug. 24 Ed Mack’s Student Artists Come Home Exhibition Reception, 6 – 7:30 p.m.  Wilton students from the Ed Mack era will be honor their former Wilton teacher and mentor with an art exhibition which will run from 8/23/11 – 8/27/11.  Exhibition and the reception are open to the public.

Saturday, Aug. 27 Tales to Tails, 11 – noon. ROAR's (Ridgefield Operation Animal Rescue) Therapy Dog Program will be bringing therapy dogs to the library for children to read to them.  The use of trained therapy dogs in reading programs can result in children who feel comfortable reading out loud, read more often, attempt more difficult books, and actually look forward to reading. As they improve their literacy skills, they’re not just learning how to read, they’re learning to love to read!  Children must read independently to participate in this program.  No program charge, registration is required.