OFPL’s Book Club is reading Canyon Dreams: A basketball season on the Navajo Nation by Michael Powell.
The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations.
Join us LIVE on Facebook, @galluplibrary on Thursday, May 27th at 5:00 p.m. for a creative workshop featuring the artists of 7000 BC who explore the difference between plot and theme as we create book-like objects designed to appropriately contain your story.
7000 BC is a New Mexico-based organization providing opportunities for comic writers and artists to develop their personal styles and storytelling voices. They promote an understanding of the cultural significance of comic art through seminars and workshops. Sol Arts DBA 7000 BC is a 501(c)3 non-profit visual arts learning collaborative.
You know that little voice that says “you’ll never have another good idea as great as your last one”. We’ve all struggled with how to find inspiration and create work that is a reflection of who we are as designers.
How do you connect the gaping chasm between inspiration and your own style? Brandi Sea is here to share a few secrets about how design strategy IS the bridge to connect your inspiration to your creative voice and never be at a loss for ideas again.
Join us LIVE on Facebook, @galluplibrary on Saturday, May 22nd at 3:00 p.m. for a book talk featuring Daniel Vandever, the Communications Director at Navajo Technical University in Crownpoint, NM.
In this role he is seeking to affect change on the Navajo Nation through education. His books are a key element in the process of creating sustainable change from within.
Fall in Line, Holden is a story about boarding school era education, a period when Navajo (Diné) identity and language were suppressed. It is a story rich in imagination, which carries over to Herizon, a book dedicated to his nieces with the hope for a more inclusive, empowering future.
The story details the journey of a young Diné girl as she helps her grandmother retrieve a flock of sheep aided by a magical scarf. In an age that has seen the election of the first female Vice President in U.S. history, Herizon speaks to the power of the moment and honors progress and persistence to reach audiences from any background.
Email aprice@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Chronicling his personal life at the Mariano Lake Trading Post, Zimmerman discusses his experiences and what he learned about the cultures and life of those living in and around Gallup. This represents the first two chapters from his memoir.
Roger Zimmerman spent much of his life working for Sandia National Labs. Upon his retirement, he decided to take up history and wrote his first book, Kitchen’s Opera House, Gallup NM. He soon became active in the Albuquerque Historical Society and began speaking on various historical topics about NM and the Gallup Area.
Email mdchavez@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information
Join us on Facebook, @galluplibrary, and YouTube on Tuesday, May 18th at 2:00 p.m. for a discussion featuring local author John Lewis Taylor.
A longtime educator in New Mexico, having served as a teacher and principal for the BIA and an instructor at the University of New Mexico-Gallup, Taylor is enthralled with the history of the American Southwest. He is the author of Looking for Dan: The Puzzling Life of a Frontier Character Daniel Dubois and Navajo Scouts During The Apache Wars and will be discussing his research methods.
Join us on Facebook, @galluplibrary, and YouTube on Monday, May 17th at 6:00 p.m. for a presentation featuring New Mexico band Sunburnt Stone from Albuquerque, NM.
From the winds of the reservation to the pavement of Burque they bring to you their experience in life through music. Their presentation on From Voice to Vision will discuss their experience in bringing their music through Visual Storytelling by releasing their first album during the pandemic.
Join us LIVE on Facebook, @galluplibrary on Monday, May 10th at 1:00 p.m. for a book talk featuring Judy Prescott Marshall who writes women’s contemporary fiction.
Her stories are about real women facing life’s many struggles and their journey through it. Marshall will discuss her latest book, Still Crazy, about a strong, loving, and passionate wife who discovers a handwritten note that has the power to either destroy her or make her stronger.
It is the story of one woman’s journey through pain, betrayal, and forgiveness as she learns to hold onto her faith and, for the first time in her life, trust herself.
