Are you a master builder? Join us at the Children’s Branch on Wednesday, September 25th at 4:00 p.m. to make boats that float, cars that go, marble mazes, and more!
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information
LEGO Challenge
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First Amendment Film Festival
Film and video productions can vividly depict the impact of censorship on individuals and society. A First Amendment film festival for Banned Books Week will be hosted in the Meeting Room of the Main Library.
Join us for film screenings based on book titles that have been censored.
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Film Screenings:
Footloose (2011)
Monday, September 23rd
at 5:30 p.m.
City teenager Ren MacCormack moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.
- Rating: PG-13
- Duration: 1 hr. 53 mins.
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
View trailer HERE
Color Purple (1985)
Tuesday, September 24th
at 5:30 p.m.
A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.
- Rating: PG-13
- Duration: 2 hrs. 34 mins.
- Genre: Drama
View trailer HERE
Bless Me Ultima (2012)
Wednesday, September 25th
at 5:30 p.m.
A drama set in New Mexico during WWII centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village.
- Rating: PG-13
- Duration: 1 hr. 46 mins.
- Genre: Biography, Drama, History
View trailer HERE
Precious (2009)
Thursday, September 26th
at 5:30 p.m.
In New York City’s Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.
- Rating: R
- Duration: 1 hr. 50 mins.
- Genre: Drama
View trailer HERE
Importance of celebrating Banned Books Week:
Each year, the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) records hundreds of attempts by individuals and groups to have books removed from libraries shelves and from classrooms. The OIF tracked 347 challenges to library, school and university materials and services. Overall, 483 books were challenged or banned in 2018.
A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials.
Banned Books Week (September 22-28, 2019) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. It brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Escape Room: The Dentist
Can you keep your cool under pressure? Join in on the fun as you try to escape from the wicked clutches of the nefarious Dentist M.D. You have 60 minutes to solve all the clues. Stop by the Main Library on Saturday, September 21st between 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
*Registration highly encouraged.*
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Secure your position by following the link below:
Escape Room: The Dentist
Can you keep your cool under pressure? Join in on the fun as you try to escape from the wicked clutches of the nefarious Dentist M.D. You have 60 minutes to solve all the clues. Stop by the Main Library on Friday, September 20th between 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
*Registration highly encouraged.*
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Secure your position by following the link below:
September Film Series – Escape Room
Wednesday, September 18th at 5:30 p.m.
Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.
Synopsis:
Six strangers find themselves in a maze of deadly mystery rooms and must use their wits to survive.
About the Film:
- Year Released: 2019
- Rating: PG-13
- Duration: 1 hr. 39 mins.
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror
Creative Coding
Interested in leaning how to do basic coding? Attend a workshop to create code based programs such as art, games, interactive environments, and more! Join us at the Main Library on Wednesday, September 11th at 4:00 p.m.
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
LEGO Challenge
Are you a master builder? Join us at the Children’s Branch on Wednesday, September 11th at 4:00 p.m. to make boats that float, cars that go, marble mazes, and more!
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information
September Film Series – Every Day
Wednesday, September 11th at 5:30 p.m.
Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.
Synopsis:
A shy teenager falls for a spirit who wakes up in the body of a different person every morning.
About the Film:
- Year Released: 2018
- Rating: PG-13
- Duration: 1 hr. 37 mins.
- Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Book Signing with Local Author
John Lewis Taylor
Join us on Tuesday, September 10th at 6:30 p.m., Main Library for a book signing of: Navajo Scouts During the Apache Wars.
John Lewis Taylor explores the question of why, so soon after the Navajo War, the Long Walk and imprisonment at Fort Sumner, young Navajos volunteered to join the United States military? The relationship between the Navajo Nation and the United States military in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries will be presented along with a book signing.
John Lewis Taylor featured in the Farmington Daily Times, online edition
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
We READ, We TALK Book Club – October/November
Welcome to the OFPL Book Club! The saga continues with our next book:
House of Broken Angels
by Luis Alberto Urrea
In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel’s half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life. Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home. Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank.
Must be able to attend one (1) of the following book club discussion meetings:
- Saturday, October 12th at 2:00 p.m.
- Saturday, October 26th at 2:00 p.m.
- Saturday, November 9th at 2:00 p.m.