Tag: East Brunswick Library

  • Reader: We need officials to advocate for our library

    Reader: We need officials to advocate for our library

    To my family and me, the library is our town center. It’s our go-to place for programs, media, movies, information, help with computer programs, museum passes, book club, maker’s space, etc. I urge the mayor and town council members to acknowledge the usefulness of our library by restoring funding as it was last year. A…

  • East Brunswick Library, NAMI will offer mental health program

    East Brunswick Library, NAMI will offer mental health program

    The East Brunswick Public Library is teaming up with NAMI New Jersey (National Alliance on Mental Health) to offer the “In Our Own Voice” program at 7 p.m. on Jan. 9 at the library,  2 Jean Walling Civic Center, East Brunswick. Developed by NAMI-NJ, this program features individuals with various mental health conditions giving presentations…

  • Brandeis University meeting to focus on diva Sophie Tucker

    Brandeis University meeting to focus on diva Sophie Tucker

    Brandeis University Middlesex Chapter will meet at 1 p.m. on Jan. 16 to discuss Sophie Tucker as the “Last of the Red Hot Mamas” at the East Brunswick Library, Civic Center Drive off Ryders Lane, East Brunswick. The business icon wowed audiences from 1906-66 as an early champion of women’s rights, a passionate philanthropist and…

  • Brandeis meeting will focus on the streets of Paris

    Brandeis meeting will focus on the streets of Paris

    Brandeis University Middlesex Chapter will meet at 1 p.m. Dec. 12 at the East Brunswick Library, Civic Center Drive off Ryders Lane, East Brunswick. Historian Paul White will present a look at Paris. This program is free and open to the public The December social justice collection will collect items for Women Aware and New…

  • Watercolor workshop part of Suburban Artist Guild December meeting

    Watercolor workshop part of Suburban Artist Guild December meeting

    The Suburban Artist Guild of Central New Jersey will hold its next meeting at 2 p.m. on Dec. 14 at the East Brunswick Library, Jean Walling Civic Center on Ryders Lane, East Brunswick. Robert Heyer will present a watercolor workshop. Bring watercolor supplies. For more information, visit [email protected].

  • Concert at East Brunswick Library to feature ‘Strings of the World’

    Concert at East Brunswick Library to feature ‘Strings of the World’

    The East Brunswick Library will sponsor “Strings of the World” at 2 p.m. on Dec. 9 at the library, Civic Center Drive off Ryders Lane, featuring several unique stringed instruments. Max Wei will play the er-hu, a bowed and two-stringed Chinese instrument. He has played it for more than 15 years, and is currently an…

  • Lost Souls Public Memorial Project to hold Day of Remembrance on Dec. 16

    Lost Souls Public Memorial Project to hold Day of Remembrance on Dec. 16

    The Lost Souls Public Memorial Project, a community-based grassroots group, is collaborating with the East Brunswick Public Library to present A Day of Remembrance from 2-4 p.m. on Dec. 16 at the library, Civic Center Drive off Ryders Lane, East Brunswick. The event will include music, dramatic performance, and discussion on the history behind the…

  • Brandeis meeting to include discussion of 1950s’ movies

    Brandeis meeting to include discussion of 1950s’ movies

    Brandeis University Middlesex Chapter will meet at 1 p.m. on Nov. 16 at the East Brunswick Library, Civic Center Drive off Ryders Lane, East Brunswick. Movie clips from the 1950s will be shown, followed by conversation. The program is free and open to the public. The November social justice collection will collect toys for Jewish…

  • Artist to demonstrate how to paint koi fish on yupo paper

    Artist to demonstrate how to paint koi fish on yupo paper

    The Suburban Artist Guild will hold its next monthly meeting at 2 p.m. on Nov. 9 at the East Brunswick Library, Jean Walling Civic Center off Ryders Lane, East Brunswick. Lisa Budd will present a workshop demonstrating how to use watercolors on yupo paper. Yupo is a synthetic paper made from polystyrene. Yupo will be provided. Bring your own…