Join our genealogy group tomorrow at 2pm for a fun presentation from Dana Murch! #belfastfreelibrary #belfastmaine #mainegenealogy

Join us tomorrow at 2pm for this genealogy presentation from B.J. Jamieson of the Maine State Library! All are welcome.

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On Tuesday August 29th please join the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD) team, Sarah Kirn, Misty Mallar and librarian Brenda Harrington as they highlight their efforts of the past three years to engage the community in conversations about climate resiliency. The event will take place in the Abbott Room of the Belfast Free Library; 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM reception with light refreshments, 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM presentation followed by time for conversation.

In 2020, the Belfast Free Library won a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services for the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues, a Community Memory project. The grant was to create educational programs and facilitate conversations among a broad cross-section of the Belfast community about climate change. Part of the grant was to collect an archive of Belfast area residents’ observations, concerns and hopes about climate change impacts in our region at this critical time.

To accomplish this the ABCD project created web pages and hosted a series of educational programs on climate change. From 2020-2023, ABCD has held over 40 educational programs & community climate conversations. You can find these on our YouTube ABCD playlist, our event summaries, and highlighted in the ABCD archive. A tour of all of the archived resources on the website will be included in the presentation.

Although the funding for this IMLS grant program is ending in August 2023, the Library will continue offering educational programs on the climate crisis and serve as a resource for climate change. Please join us to reflect and celebrate, and to recognize all those ABCD has partnered with who are working on climate resiliency for our community.
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Zumba for Teens and Adults will be happening tomorrow, August 11th from 4:30 to 5:30, in the Abbott Room of the Belfast Free Library! Wear your best exercise clothes and come dance your face off with Donna Wentworth, certified Zumba instructor! It is free, it is fun, and it is healthy! #zumbafitness #libraryprogramming #teenprograms

Calling all teens and adults! Please come to the Belfast Free Library color-field painting event on Friday, August 4th, from 4:00 to 5:30! We will start in the Abbott Room and, most likely, move outside for the painting portion of this program! See you there! #teenlibraryprograms #markeothko #teenartist #teenartist #colorfieldpainting

On Tuesday August 8, 2023 at 6:30 PM the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues project (ABCD) will host former and current members of Belfast’s Climate Crisis Committee (CCC) to introduce the Climate Action Plan they wrote for Belfast. Their final plan was submitted to City Council on June 4, 2023.

Beginning in June 2022, ABCD hosted four Community Climate Conversations on topics to be considered in a climate action plan. The public had the opportunity to share their ideas and visions to create a resilient Belfast. Members of the CCC were present at each meeting and considered the community concerns in their final plan.

To learn more about these conversations, including audience input and video recordings please go to the ABCD Archived Collection of Community Climate Conversations:
https://abcdbelfast.omeka.net.

You can view the Climate Action Plan document on your the Belfast Free Library’s ABCD web page.

Copies of the Climate Action Plan are also available to pick up at the library in advance of the program.

For more information, please call Brenda Harrington at 207-338-3884 ext. 30.
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Join our genealogy group tomorrow at 2pm for a presentation from Penny West! All are welcome.

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Community Resilience for the Climate Emergency

Wednesday, July 19th, 2023 at 6:00 PM at Belfast Free Library (with Zoom option)

The Peace & Social Justice Forum/Waldo County, in coordination with ABCD and Possibility Alliance, will host Dr. Peter Kalmus, award winning author and climate scientist from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. He has said that “Global Warming is happening with a rapidity that leaves me speechless” and is dismayed that our government is not placing this existential threat at the center of the challenges that we are facing.

Moving beyond fossil fuels and how we as individuals can work toward this goal, while living fulfilled lives is the question he and his family have been grappling with. Dr. Kalmus will share his personal journey in this essential work, and will discuss how we can respond as individuals locally, and in collective ways to move us toward a fossil free future. His award winning book is titled “Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution.”

Following the presentation on July 19, Dr. Kalmus will join other climate activists for two community circles to further the conversation about practical ways to support a just transition and increase community resilience in this time of  climate crisis. Both circles are open to the public and will be held at the Possibility Alliance, 85 Edgecomb Road, Belfast on Sunday July23, and Saturday August 5, from 4-6 pm. All are invited.
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The Belfast Free Library is now a FamilySearch affiliate library!

FamilySearch affiliate libraries have privileges to limited-access FamilySearch databases. While inside the library (either connected to the library`s WiFi or using of our desktop computers), you are now are able to login using a personal free FamilySearch account and have the ability to view all the records available to an affiliate library at familysearch.org.

Happy researching!

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