Imagination Academy 2015: Week 4
by Rebecca Dash Donsky, Library Manager, 67th Street Library
August 4, 2015
M.D Payne, Patricia Lakin and Matt London visited for our final installment of Imagination Academy at 67th Street.
Imagination Academy 2015: Week Three
by Rebecca Dash Donsky, Library Manager, 67th Street Library
July 30, 2015
This week we had C. Alexander London, Laurie Calkhoven, and Geoff Rodkey visit us at Imagination Academy.
Imagination Academy 2015: Week 2
by Rebecca Dash Donsky, Library Manager, 67th Street Library
July 22, 2015
Vicki Cobb started off week two with a fun-filled afternoon of science experiments, Julie Salamon brought her experience as a writer on Wednesday and Lauren Magaziner made Thursday a day filled with inspiration.
Imagination Academy Returns to 67th Street Library
by Rebecca Dash Donsky, Library Manager, 67th Street Library
July 16, 2015
We are thrilled to bring Imagination Academy back to the 67th Street Library! This year, our two wonderful high school interns/aspiring authors, Emily Imbarrato and Rosie Shewnarain, will be summarizing the events.
Imagination Academy 2014 - Week 4
by Rebecca Dash Donsky, Library Manager, 67th Street Library
August 7, 2014
Our last week of Imagination Academy 2014 focused on illustration and graphic novels.
Imagination Academy 2014 - Week 3
by Rebecca Dash Donsky, Library Manager, 67th Street Library
July 30, 2014
For Week 3 of Imagination Academy, we shifted our focus to poetry. The week kicked off with Jane LeCroy, a New York based poet, singer, teacher and performance artist. According to Jane, poetry is ”Something that takes a while to understand. Once you first read it through, you can’t at first decipher what the author is trying to say. But that’s what makes poetry so much fun. There are no rules.”
Imagination Academy 2014 - Week 2
by Rebecca Dash Donsky, Library Manager, 67th Street Library
July 23, 2014
Week 2 (Fiction II) of Imagination Academy started with a bang! pop! POW! on Tuesday, July 15.
Imagination Academy 2014 Begins
by Rebecca Dash Donsky, Library Manager, 67th Street Library
July 14, 2014
On Tuesday, July 8, the 67th Street Library kicked off its third annual Imagination Academy. This special writing workshop brings 12 different published authors to the branch over 4 weeks to work with kids ages 8-13. Children’s Librarian Jacqueline Schector, along with interns Amber and Nicole, began this summer with a week dedicated to writing fiction.
Three Reads: Bad Guys of Gilded Age New York
by Rebecca Dash Donsky, Library Manager, 67th Street Library
April 16, 2014
Here are three books about some of our fine city's bad guys, lying, cheating, and stealing their way through the 1890s.
Three Reads: Baseball
by Rebecca Dash Donsky, Library Manager, 67th Street Library
March 6, 2014
No three words were ever sweeter to my ear than "Pitchers and catchers", followed by a date—this marks the very beginning of spring training! Here are some of my favorite non-fiction baseball reads to go with my favorite time of year.
Meet Your Neighbor & Photographer Ner Beck
by Rebecca Dash Donsky, Library Manager, 67th Street Library
February 5, 2014
On view now through February 26, 2014 at the Bloomingdale Library is NER BECK: West Side Window Reflections.
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