Purchase your tickets for our upcoming joint fundraising event to enjoy performances, dinner, and more!
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Purchase your tickets now for a fundraising event to support the Abington Community Library and Scranton Shakespeare Festival! These organizations are establishing their exciting partnership by presenting From the Bard to Broadway at Constantino’s at 1385 Lackawanna Trail, Clarks Summit, PA 18411, on Sunday, April 24, 2022 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm.
Guests can expect an evening to remember with great company, delicious food, and unforgettable performances celebrating Shakespeare’s impact on Broadway. Attendees will be taken on a journey into the Golden Age of Broadway through the eyes of Shakespeare, with a program including performances from fan favorites like West Side Story, Kiss Me Kate, and Something Rotten, and will feature notable Scranton Shakespeare Festival performers including Kelly Jean Graham, Stephen Murphy, John Roman Vachino, Victoria Ferrentino, among others! The event will not only feature a cocktail hour, dinner, desserts, and performances, but also a chance to win raffle baskets from featured community businesses!
Michael Bradshaw Flynn, the Scranton Shakespeare Festival’s Artistic Director says, “Scranton Shakes wouldn’t have made it to an eleventh season of free, professional theatre if it weren’t for the formidable partnerships in its first ten seasons. We were excited when approached by ACL to collaborate with an organization that not only shares our mission for accessibility but also helps broaden our reach to our neighbors in NEPA. It is our hope that this collaboration is the beginning of a partnership that can include lectures and deeper dives into Shakespearean texts and other programming offered,” about the foundations of the organization’s partnership and their shared goals to engage their communities in new ways as a team.
Tickets for the event can be purchased for $75 by visiting the Abington Community Library or over the phone by calling the Library at (570) 587-3440 (cash or check will need to be delivered to the Library if reserving tickets over the phone). Individuals who wish to only attend the performance, starting at 6:30 pm, may purchase a ticket for $35 which will include dessert, refreshments, and access to the cash bar. Cocktail hour will include an array of appetizers and a cash bar, guests will also enjoy a buffet dinner including meats and sides with vegetarian and gluten free options for their meals, as well as a variety of dessert choices to enjoy with coffee or tea.
Visit the Library at 1200 W. Grove St., Clarks Summit, PA, 18411 to buy your tickets today, or call us at (570) 587-3440 with questions.
Throughout the month of April, the Valley Community Library, Pennsylvania Sierra Club, and Keep NEPA Beautiful have partnered with various community organizations in our area to do litter clean-up events. These clean-ups are a great opportunity to learn more about local organizations and what they do and learn about the impacts litter has in our community. Each event will focus on picking up litter along our streets and in our parks and we’ll dive into conversations about where the litter has come from, why it’s an issue, and what we might be able to do to make a change. You’ll be able to see the litter pile on the Valley Community Library’s litter tracking display.
We are proud to announce the following community partnerships who will be helping at various clean-ups throughout the month:
NEPA Pan African Coalition, Citizen’s for a Healthy Jessup, Carbondale Public Library, Lackawanna Heritage Valley Association, Queer NEPA Youth Council, and the Archbald Neighborhood Association.
Registration is required for each of these events. Please be sure to register online at www.sierraclub.org/pennsylvania/upcoming-outings. This ensures that we have vests, gloves, and an accurate head count for how many people will be at each location. These events are open to all, however many of them are on uneven surfaces and some do have age requirements for participants. Please read the descriptions of each event at the link above. Email Fawn at fcontreras@albright.org if you have any questions.
Do you love reading, analyzing, and hearing other people’s thoughts about books and the literary industry? Do you enjoy listening to podcasts? Tune into the Abington Community Library’s podcast, Lexivore, which airs every month. You will hear hosts chat about popular titles, topics, and thoughts on books. Listen to Lexivore by clicking here.
Other podcasts with book related topics you might enjoy are listed below.
David Sedaris, whose personal essays and humorous social commentary have earned him recognition as one of America’s greatest living humor writers, will be the speaker for the Lackawanna County Library System’s 2022 American Masters Lecture, Thursday, March 31 at 7 p.m. in the Scranton Cultural Center. The lecture was rescheduled from September 2021.
Free tickets for the event are available at Lackawanna County libraries and online. Anyone who holds a ticket from the rescheduled event can exchange it for a new ticket at any library location.
Sedaris is the author of 11 collections of essays, many of which appeared first in The New Yorker and two collections from his diaries.
The titles of his books alone suggest the wit to be found within: Barrel Fever, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, and Theft By Finding: Diaries (1977-2002).
Each of these books was an immediate hit.
His most recent book, A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020), was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selection. The audiobook was a finalist for the Audie Award in Humor.
Said a reviewer for the Chicago Tribune, “Sedaris’s droll assessment of the mundane and the eccentrics who inhabit the world’s crevices make him one of the greatest humorists writing today.”
The San Francisco Chronicle added, “Sedaris belongs on any list of people writing in English at the moment who are revising our ideas about what’s funny.”
In addition to articles and books, Sedaris has gained an audience through his commentaries on CBS Sunday Morning and his voice has become known from National Public Radio.
He was born in Johnson City, New York, where his father worked as an IBM engineer before moving his family to Raleigh, North Carolina, where Sedaris grew up.
Much of his early writing was about his family and the cultural milieu he experienced as the son of an Episcopalian mother and Greek Orthodox father. He was raised in his father’s faith.
His formal education was rather scattered. He briefly attended Western Carolina University before transferring to Kent State University, where he quickly dropped out. Eventually he moved to Chicago where he graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Throughout his teens and twenties, Sedaris experimented with visual and performance art, and the failure he experienced then gave him fodder for several early essays.
His pieces regularly appear in The New Yorker and have twice been included in “The Best American Essays.” There are over ten million copies of his books in print and they have been translated into 25 languages.
Do you ever wonder why Scranton is called “The Electric City”?
On this week’s episode of Tales from the Albright, Alyssa and Jess discuss the famous nickname, electric trolleys, and electricity in the city of Scranton. They discover surprising connections to the Albright Memorial Library. We hope you enjoy!
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Looking for that unique gift? Not interested in hosting a party? Join us at The Abington Community Library on Saturday, March 26th anytime between 10 AM to 4 PM for a day of shopping for your favorite at home party items. Shop with representatives from Mary Kay, Pampered Chef and Scentsy.
The Friends of the Valley Community Library will be holding its Spring Book Sale on April 8th & 9th from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. It will be held in the library at 739 River St., Peckville, PA, 18452.
Items for sale include fiction and non-fiction books, young adult and children’s books, DVDs, CDs, puzzles, and more! Prices vary from $0.25 to $2.00.
Early Bird Sale for Members of the Friends ONLY will be on April 7th from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
On this episode of Tales from the Albright, Alyssa and Jess discuss Joseph Albright. Albright and his family lived on the property where the Albright Memorial Library now stands. It is an interesting look into the early days of Scranton, Pennsylvania. We hope you enjoy!
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