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Upcoming Exhibits

Song & Rhyme Time

December 3, 2024 10:00 am - 10:45 am MPL Children's Room

This program features songs, nursery rhymes, and a simple picture book for infants and young children. A fun way to enrich your child's literacy! Recommended for ages 6 months to 4 years.

Knitting 101: Knitting for Beginners

December 3, 2024 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Program Room

REGISTER HERE: <a href="https://maldenpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/knitting-for-beginners/">https://maldenpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/knitting-for-beginners/</a> (Registration required) This class is for absolute beginners! We will cover casting on, the knit stitch, and the purl stitch. You can bring your own materials (details provided upon registration) or use library materials.

50+ Job Seekers Networking Group -- Interview Practice

December 4, 2024 9:30 am - 11:30 am

The Massachusetts Library Collaborative's 50+ Job Seekers Group meets via Zoom on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month, from 9:30am to 11:30am. Informal networking takes place from 9am to 9:30am and 11:30am to noon. If you are unemployed and actively looking, underemployed, seeking a new career direction, re-entering the job market after a long employment gap, or recently retired and looking for your "Encore Career," this networking group program is perfect for you! Remember, 85% of jobs are found through networking!Join us in a professional forum for networking with peers in a safe and comfortable environment conducive to developing new relationships and developing skills and strategies to help in your career transition. Each meeting features a new topic. Meetings include a presentation and interactive workshop on topics relevant to career transition, guest speakers, access to hiring managers, small group breakout rooms to network, and 1-on-1 coaching guidance. Participating on a regular basis will give job seekers the many tools and strategies needed for a successful job search.Each biweekly meeting is facilitated by Deborah Hope, MBA, PCIC, an experienced executive career coach. Deborah is a former Fortune 500 executive, investment banker and entrepreneur. She transitioned to executive coaching over 12 years ago. Deborah has coached with Harvard Business School Executive Education programs and the Massachusetts Conference for Women. She has been trained or certified in a variety of coaching models and assessment tools. Deborah has facilitated 50+ job seekers networking groups since 2016.This week's topic (December 4) is Interview Practice. Register directly on Zoom <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpcuCrqDsjHd23xSry8crcKEej9NWnLiIv#/registration" target="_blank">HERE</a>. This group is sponsored by approximately 50 Massachusetts public libraries.RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.

English Conversation Class/ESOL

December 4, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Program Room

Join us every Wednesday from 1:00-2:00pm for our English Conversation Class/ESOL for English Language Learners. Meet us in person in the Program Room (2nd Floor) of the Malden Public Library. You must now register for the class. Limited to 35 students. Classes are for 8 weeks. If the class is full, you will be placed on the waiting list for the next 8-week session.

Converse Galleries - Open Gallery Hours

December 4, 2024 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Call for reservation, limit 10 per tour

Local History Hours

December 4, 2024 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Local History hours are held in the Converse Building and staffed by our local history librarian, Phillip. You can access our local history collection during these hours, and ask Phillip questions you may have about Malden history or research.

Chess for Kids

December 4, 2024 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Program Room, Malden Public Library

Children in grades K-5 who would like to learn how to play chess or improve their beginner game are invited to the Program Room at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesdays for this weekly Chess for Kids instruction program.

Preschool Storytime

December 5, 2024 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Picture books, songs, rhymes, and a simple craft in the Children's Room. Recommended for ages 3-5, no registration required.

Tech Help Drop-In

December 5, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Malden Public Library, 36 Salem St, Malden, MA 02148, USA

Assistance will be on a first come, first served basis. Please bring your device, logins, and passwords.

Book Bunch

December 5, 2024 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm MPL, Program Room

A monthly book club for kids in grades 2 and 3. An informal book discussion, with snacks and an activity. Sign up online. <a href="https://maldenpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/book-bunch/">https://maldenpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/book-bunch/</a> Regular attendance is encouraged. Pick up the book from the children's room desk two weeks before the club meeting.

Malden Writer's Collaborative

December 5, 2024 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Love to write? Join Malden’s own creative writing group, The Malden Writers’ Collaborative, to meet and exchange feedback with other writers.

Arabic Stories & Songs

December 6, 2024 11:00 am - 11:30 am MPL Children's Room

Iqraa Program - Arabic Stories & Songs for young children and their caregivers. No registration necessary.

Let's Talk About a Poem with Lloyd Schwartz

December 7, 2024 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Our monthly online poetry discussion group is led by Somerville's Poet Laureate Lloyd Schwartz. Robert Frost's "To Earthward" is the featured poem. PLEASE NOTE THE EARLIER MEETING TIME. This program usually meets at 11am but will be meeting at 10am on Dec 7th.Registration is required and the link to join is sent out the day before the event. To Register: <a href="https://maldenpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/lets-talk-about-a-poem-with-lloyd-schwartz-14/" target="_blank">Let's Talk About A Poem with Lloyd Schwartz - December</a>This program is made possible by the Malden Public Library and the Academy of American Poets and funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Please email Marita if you have questions. <a href="mailto:mcoombs@maldenpubliclibrary.org" target="_blank">mcoombs@maldenpubliclibrary.org</a>

Craft Time with Panda

December 7, 2024 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Join Panda for craft time. Recommended for 3-5+

Friends' Holiday Book Sale

December 7, 2024 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

The Friends of the Malden Public Library will be hosting a holiday book sale on Saturday, December 7th, from 10am-3pm. Cash or check only. There will be a free gift wrapping service provided courtesy of Consumer Reports.

YA Book Club (Grades 6+)

December 9, 2024 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Local History Hours

December 9, 2024 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Debra Bruno & Eleanor C. Mire: "A Hudson Valley Reckoning"

December 9, 2024 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

We are pleased to welcome A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family author Debra Bruno, in conversation Eleanor C. Mire. This event will be held in the Maccario Room. From <a href="https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776564/a-hudson-valley-reckoning/" target="_blank">Cornell University Press</a>: "A Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery's history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno's absorbing chronicle that uncovers her Dutch ancestors' slave-holding past and leads to a deep connection with the descendants of the enslaved people her family owned. Bruno, who grew up in New York's Hudson Valley knowing little about her Dutch heritage, was shaken when a historian told her that her Dutch ancestors were almost certainly slaveholders. Driven by this knowledge, Bruno began to unearth her family's past. In the last will and testament of her ancestor, she found the first evidence: human beings bequeathed to his family along with animals and furniture. The more she expanded her family tree, the more enslavers she found. She reached out to Black Americans tracing their own ancestry, and by serendipitous luck became friends with Eleanor C. Mire, a descendent of a woman enslaved by Bruno's Dutch ancestors. A Hudson Valley Reckoning recounts Bruno's journey into the nearly forgotten history of Northern slavery and of the thousands of enslaved people brought in chains to Manhattan and the Hudson Valley. With the help of Mire, who provides a moving epilogue, Debra Bruno tells the story of white and Black lives impacted by the stain of slavery and its long legacy of racism, as she investigates the erasure of the uncomfortable truths about our family and national histories."

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