Library News
Meet Your Service Providers @ the Redford Branch
This is Charmayne Suttles a CA at the Redford Branch. She is always prepared to help you with a smile.
Teacher's Choice
For grades 1-8.
Reservations required
CCS (College for Creative Studies)
Art for Middle School Students
Saturday
November 3, 10 & 17
10:30 - 1 pm
For Middle school students with a serious interest in art and strong family support. This workshop helps students prepare their personal art portfolio and encourages them to apply to Detroit's quality high school art programs.
Strategic Builders, Inc.
Wednesdays
November 7, 14 & 28
4 - 7 pm
Beautiful Careers: assessment and development program. The mentoring program for young ladies preparing for the 21st century.
Ages 14 - 18
Become a Literacy Tutor
Share the joy of reading with someone by becoming a volunteer tutor. For more information, go to
www.Detroit-Reads.org or call 313-481-1362.
Maat - African Studies for Families
Saturday
November 10
1:30 - 5 pm
An historic look at Ancient African facts reflected in current events with today's issues and concerns.
General Audience
Scrapbooking
Saturday
November 3
Noon - 5 pm
Informal group creating memorable scrapbook pages
Adults
Link to Learning
Tuesdays & Thursdays
November 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 27 & 29
4 - 6 pm
Academic tutoring and study skills for upper elementary age students.
Ages 11-14
Thanksgiving Decorations Table Craft
Thursday
November 15
4 - 5:30 pm
Make beautifully stylized table decorations to delight
family & dinner guests
Toastmasters
Wednesdays
November 17 & 21
6:30 - 8 pm
Toastmasters fosters confidence, the ability to communicate, persuade and lead.
Genesis Tutoring Services
Saturday
November 17
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Tutoring for students K - 12 in all subjects.
Knit & Crochet Club
Mondays
November 5, 19 & 26
Bring your own projects and join in the fun
Hatha Yoga
Mondays
November 5, 19 & 26
6 - 7:30 pm
Beginner yoga, bring a mat or beach towel, water, hand towel and belt/strap
Adults
Redford Book Club
Saturday
November 17
11:30 - 1 pm
Where Are the Children?
Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the windswept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children, and the terrible pain has begun to heal -- until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows that the nightmare is beginning again....
Calling All Book Clubs
We would like to support your book club. Please talk with us if you are looking for a comfortable meeting location, book swaps or special events
PARENT'S LITERACY TIP CORNER
Share numbers with your kids. It's many adults' guilty secret that they learn as much from reading children's books as their kids do. How Much Is A Million? and On Beyond A Million, both by David M. Schwartz, are good resources for conceptualizing big numbers. Another great pair of books is Family Math and Family Math For Young Children, full of math puzzles and games to do with your kids. Lastly, why tell only stories at night? Give your kids a bedtime math problem as well; read more about that here.
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The Holiday Bazaar is Coming!!!!!
noon to 5 pm. This event will surely make your holiday gift buying easy with one stop shopping.
Community News
Say No to Soda Pop for the Month of November
Did you know soda pop is the No. 1 source of added sugar and extra calories in the American diet?
According to research:
- One 20-ounce bottle has 17-19 teaspoons of sugar.
- Artificial sweeteners found in diet pop, like aspartame, increase sugar cravings that lead to ingesting other sugar-laden foods.
- Adults who drink one or more sodas or other sugar-sweetened beverages each day are 27% more likely to be overweight or obese.
Both regular and diet soda drinks are, at minimum, responsible for weight-control issues and diseases such as obesity, diabetes and cancer. The evidence is overwhelming that soda pop causes significant harm to our bodies, yet soda pop drinkers really don't understand to what extent.
- Soda pop contains phosphoric acid, which weakens bones
and rots teeth.
- The aluminum cans contain an epoxy resin called
Bisphenol A (BPA), which keeps the soda acid from reacting with the metal.
BPA has been linked to infertility, obesity, diabetes and some
reproductive cancers.
- The dyes in the soda have been linked to impaired brain
function, hyperactive behavior, difficulty focusing and lack of impulse
control.
- Potassium benzoate is a preservative that can be broken
down to benzene in your body. When exposed to the sun, for example, your
soda becomes a carcinogen.
Watch the unhappy truth about soda!
311 East Grand River | Detroit, MI | 313-965-8430
NOVEMBER 8- JANUARY 3, 2013
"True Inspiration: Works of Darold Gholston and Hubert Massey"
Opening Reception: November 12, 2012 | 5:30pm-9pm
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History is located in the heart of Detroit's Cultural Center at 315 East Warren Avenue at Brush Street. The museum is located next to the Detroit Science Center and within one block of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA).
Hours
Tuesday - Saturday: 9 am - 5 pm
Sunday: 1 pm - 5 pm
February ONLY: Monday: 9 am - 5 pm during Black History Month
PLEASE NOTE: The Museum is OPEN on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day from 9 am - 7 pm!
Admission
Adults (13 - 61) $8
Adults (62+) $5 Youth (3 -12) $5 Event
Description
The Charles H. Wright Museum's Monthly Community Cinema series is proud to present a screening and discussion of Solar Mamas.
Welcome to India’s Barefoot College, where rural, poor, and often illiterate women from around the world are offered the rare opportunity to receive an education that teaches them how to make their communities self-reliant and sustainable. Rafea, a beautiful, strong-willed 32-year-old Jordanian mother of four, is traveling outside of her village for the first time ever to attend Barefoot’s solar engineering program. Once there, she will join women from Guatemala, Kenya, Burkina Faso, and Colombia in a life-changing, six-month job training program that will transform her into a solar engineer — and change her life.
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