Gather online (Zoom) with a group of enthusiastic poetry lovers to talk about a monthly selection with Poet Lloyd Schwartz. Our May program will feature the poem Sleet Storm on the Merritt Parkway by Robert Bly.
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You’re invited! Join local author and illustrator, Kari Percival, Thursday May 11, 7 pm, for a slide show and reception at the Malden Public Library to her recent Ezra Jack Keats Award. Kari traveled to Mississsippi, to receive the award at the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival. She will share some highlights of her publishing journey, her insipiration for the book, and her time in Mississippi. This is a fabulous opportunity for aspiring authors and children’s book enthusiasts to hear about the process of drafting and publishing an award winning work. This is not to be missed.
The EJK Award is given annually to an outstanding new writer and new illustrator by the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation in partnership with the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM). Winners are selected by a committee of authors, illustrators and librarians. Percival won the Ezra Jack Keats Award for her debut picture book, How to Say Hello to a Worm, and introduction to gardening for toddlers, that was inspired by her experience leading the Early Birds’ Garden Club at the Malden Community Garden.
Join us for Movie Night on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 from 6:00-8:15 pm. We will be showing a movie inspired by Emily Brontë’s life.
Join the Malden Library and Malden Reads on Saturday April 29th from 2-4 pm at a talk with Margie Yamamoto. Her talk details the story of the Japanese incarceration during World War II as seen through the eyes of Yamamoto’s Japanese American family. Yamamoto was two months old when her family entered the American internment camps. It follows her family’s passage from immigration in the1890s through their imprisonment during the war years and documents how they rebuilt their lives thereafter. The 45-minute presentation is richly illustrated with more than 100 family and historic WWII photographs, many of the latter obtained from US Government archives.
Beyond describing the internment experiences of a single family, the talk focuses on the plight of the 120,000 Japanese — two thirds of them, American citizens — who were imprisoned, sometimes for years, by a presidential order deemed by many then and now to be in violation of the united states constitution.
For audiences not familiar with the details of the WWII Japanese incarceration, this story will serve as a primer on one of America’s darker historic moments as well as its efforts in later years to compensate those who suffered through it. This year’s Malden reads book selection, they called us enemy by George Takei, is a graphic memoir which tells the story of Takei’s family experience of the internment camps during WWII.
Margie is retired after more than 40 years in the marketing and communications fields. Before retirement, she was director of community program initiatives at WGBH, Boston’s public broadcasting station. She has also worked for Walt Disney productions, General Electric and a number of education and healthcare organizations in New York, California and Massachusetts.
Yamamoto still serves on the board of the New England chapter of the Japanese American citizens league. She has also served on the boards of the japan society of Boston and the Cambridge center for adult education. She has also served on advisory committees for the PBS adult learning service and the institute for Asian American studies,Umass Boston.
Light refreshments will be served following the presentation. For more information about this event and Malden reads: one city, one book, visit Maldenreads.org.
Let’s talk baseball on Monday, April 24th at 6:30 Pm. Join Dave Caiazzo as he talks about his book: “Life Tried to Throw Me a Curveball: I Overcame Diabetes to Become a Pro,” and shares baseball stories from his time a professional baseball player.
Caiazzo has been recognized throughout the years as one of the Boston area’s elite pitchers. He was the first inductee into Malden High School’s Hall of Fame, selected as All-America while at Massachusetts Bay Community College, and played at the University of New Haven under one of college’s best coaches, Frank “Porky” Vieira. Caiazzo will talk about his life and book, “Life Tried to Throw Me a Curveball: I Overcame Diabetes to Become a Pro,” which discusses his baseball career and struggle with diabetes.
Monday May 1st from 6-7pm join us for an author talk with children’s author and executive director of Handi Capable Fitness, James Norris. He is the author of the book, “Feeling Left Out”. The first book in a four part series to help children deal with the challenges they face while growing up. In the book, Norris utilizes his challenges and his journey living with Cerebral Palsy to write this personal and deeply empathetic story for children and adults alike. Come by to learn about that journey and the ways his experience can provide resources and instruction on living a healthier and more resilient lifestyle.
James is a fitness advocate and mentor, an athlete, an author, and a public speaker. He has shared his message of accessible fitness and adaptive athletic technology to a number of platforms including podcasts, social media, and public speaking engagements. His advocacy and messages of inspiration supports encourages athletes to step outside of their comfort zone and face adversity with confidence and resilience. His foundation: Handi Capable Fitness provides scholarship funding. HCF is able to provide much needed funding for fitness memberships, athletic equipment, and travel for its adaptive athletic community.
Join us on Thursday, April 6th from 7–8 pm at the Malden Public Library when we talk all things baseball with author Steve Kluger. In addition to writing books about baseball, Mr. Kluger has also been involved with the group that has lobbied to have the baseball field at the former Manzanar War Relocation Center in CA. As Mr. Kluger wrote in the Los Angeles Times “Baseball was the bond that kept many of these families together during some pretty tough moments. It got them through the disappointing Supreme Court decisions upholding the constitutionality of the internment, and—as Americans—it got them through the rage and humiliation engendered by the loyalty questionnaire.”
This Malden Reads program promises to be both entertaining and enlightening. Light refreshments will also be served.
Join us for Movie Night on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 from 6:00-8:30pm. We will be showing a movie about “The Fabelmans.” The story is loosely based on Steven Spielberg’s life.
“Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see The Greatest Show on Earth. Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother.” Rated PG-13 (151 min.) (2023)
Free snacks will be provided. This film is free and open to the public. Movie times are approximate. Please call the Malden Public Library at 781-324-0218 for more information.
The Malden Public Library will host Gregory John Maichack’s “The Rose” workshop inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe with art materials provided, for adults via zoom on Monday April 24th from 6-8pm.
Award-winning pastel artist Gregory John Maichack will present “The Rose,” a pastel painting workshop for adults 18+ hosted by the Malden Public Library on Monday April 24th, from 6-8pm. This is a zoom pastel painting workshop designed for both sheer beginners to advanced participants. Please call (781) 324-0218 for more information and to register.
Mr. Maichack has been asked over the years to offer a rose workshop, the most popular of flowers, and a symbol of love. Here it is! In this new, fun, two-hour workshop, all produce their very own personalized pastel of a rose bloom inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe. All are guided in drawing, blending, and layering.
All materials supplied (pastels, paper, blending material, etc.) and all keep their 12 X 18 painting, while entertained by anecdotes on Georgia O’Keeffe’s flower painting and her life.
Maichack, is an award-winning artist, twice Mass. Cultural Council Gold Star Award Program nominee, a seasoned pro from instructing at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston, colleges, to 100’s of libraries. Maichack lives in the Berkshires and is a portraitist and painter working primarily in pastels. Winner of the Award of Merit from the Bennington Center for the Arts: Impressions of New England Show 2003, he also was awarded the Savoir-faire Pastel Award from the Great Lakes Pastel Society. Maichack was commissioned by Westfield State College to paint the pastel portrait of the past president of Westfield State University, Doctor Frederick Woodward, which was unveiled at the dedication of the Woodward Center; and pastel painted dictionary great Charles Merriam, unveiled by Merriam-Webster Co. at Merriam-Gilbert Library. He has been in many national juried shows and was awarded numerous Massachusetts Cultural Council grants. In addition to portraiture, his still lifes and landscapes are represented by galleries from Kennebunkport, Maine to San Francisco, California. Maichack is accepting requests to do various commissions to do pastel paintings. Please e-mail Mr. Maichack at EmJay7@aol.com. Visit his new web site at www.GregoryMaichack.com.
Maichack has been a faculty member of the Museum Studio School in the Fine Arts Museum Quadrangle in Springfield, MA; and taught at Holyoke and Greenfield Community Colleges, Westfield State University, East Works, the MFA, Boston, and The Guild, Northampton. Maichack’s pastel paintings have been selected twice for the Annual National Exhibition of the Academic Artists Association and as a result Maichack was invited to be a member of this prestigious organization.
Learn the fun art of Origami by making a Lotus Flower at the Malden Public Library on Tuesday, April 18th from 6:30-8:30 pm. All supplies will be provided, although we ask that you bring along your own ruler.
This program is limited to 15; call the library at 781.324.0218 to sign-up.
This program will be for older teens and adults and is sponsored by Malden Reads.