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:
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
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.
Book Talk
Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NODAPL Movement
Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon will be at the Octavia Fellin Public Library on Saturday, September 7 at 4:00 p.m. for a discussion of their new edited book, Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement, with two of the contributors, Will Parrish and Lewis Grassrope.
Amid the Standing Rock movement to protect the land and the water that millions depend on for life, the Oceti Sakowin (the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota people) reunited. Through poetry and prose, essays, photography, interviews, and polemical interventions, the contributors reflect on Indigenous history and politics and on the movement’s significance. Their work challenges our understanding of colonial history not simply as “lessons learned” but as essential guideposts for activism.
“As our songs and prayers echo across the prairie, we need the public to see that in standing up for our rights, we do so on behalf of the millions of Americans who will be affected by this pipeline.” —David Archambault II, from the interior
“There is no alternative to water. There is no alternative to this Earth. This fight has become my life, and it’s not over. I think this is only the beginning for me, for all of us. Do you want a future for your children and grandchildren? If you want them to have a future then stand with Standing Rock because this is just the beginning of a revolution.” —Zaysha Grinnell, from the interior
“We will put our best warriors in the front. We are the vanguard. We are the Hunkpapa Lakota. That means the horn of the buffalo. That’s who we are. We are protectors of our nation of Oceti Sakowin, the Seven Council Fires. Know who we are.” —Phyllis Young, from the interior
Read more about the book here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/standing-with-standing-rock.
Virtual Reality Film Screening
Ways of Knowing
OFPL, El Morro Theatre, and Bombshelltoe proudly presents on Friday, September 6th at El Morro Events Center from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. A Navajo Nuclear Histories Project with Sunny Dooley, Tina Garnanez, Tommy Rock, Janene Yazzie, Bobby Leonard Mason, and Arnold Clifford. Ways of Knowing is a multimedia project about Navajo Nation’s health and tradition through its enduring and traumatic encounter with uranium mining.
This history began in the 1940s, as the U.S. government’s need to sustain its nascent nuclear weapons program became a top national security priority. After perfecting nuclear weapons technology under the Manhattan Project, the United States could no longer depend on the Belgian Congo and Canada for uranium; the supply had to be closer to home.
Uranium mining for weapons production started in the western region of Navajo Country – in the stunning crimson sandstones of the Colorado Plateau – under the auspices of the Vanadium Corporation of America as “sale of carnotite and other related materials” to preserve secrecy.
Produced by: Lovely Umayam, Adriel Luis & Sunny Dooley
Directed, shot, and edited by: Kayla Briët
Still photography by: Carmille Garcia
Navajo Nation, USA
Year Release: 2019
Duration: 17 min 03 sec
Format: 360 film, color