FLORENCE-The season has been mostly cool and rainy so far, but that will improve. And one of the great things about your public library is that most events and activities take place indoors! Check out what’s going on in April.
Ticket sales open April 10 for this luncheon event featuring bestselling author Karen White. Tickets are $45 each for general admission, $40 each for members of the Friends group. They will be sold on Eventbrite or you may buy them at the circulation desk. Box lunch for this event will be from Odette. The luncheon event will be May 9.
Program and exhibit by local artist Alexis Fulmer on Thursday, April 14 located in the Fiction Colonnade . Come see Alexis Fulmer’s artwork on display in the gallery across from the bookstore throughout the month beginning April 4. Alexis Fulmer had just started painting when she began to lose her sight. She continued her abstract painting even as her ability to see color faded. Her work will hang in the library’s gallery during the month of April. Come meet this extraordinary woman, hear her story and view her incredible works of art.
Poetry has the ability to transform and move us, stimulate our thoughts, and increase our well-being. Green will demonstrate the ways poetry is being used to improve the health of Alabamians, including healthcare workers throughout hospitals and in community caregiving settings.
Green, a certified listener poet, works with healthcare workers, conducting sessions to reduce burnout and enhance self-healing. Listener poets hold space for people to share whatever is on their mind in one-on-one listening sessions. They then write each person a custom poem and use those poems to facilitate meaningful conversations between colleagues, strengthening the social fabric within healthcare systems and contributing to a culture where people care about each other’s well-being.
This talk teaches about the powerful practice of good listening and provides an opportunity for individuals to receive custom poems.
Provided in partnership with the University of North Alabama’s Mitchell-West Center for Social Inclusion, and the Alabama Humanities Alliance.
Media Release/Florence-Lauderdale Public Library
