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Music As Meditation: free online ukulele/guitar class for beginners (SPACE LIMITED)Please email oakbluffslibrary@gmail.com to sign up.In this 5-week course we will cover the basics of playing the ukulele or guitar and explore how music can serve as a mindfulness practice. We will learn how playing an instrument can aid us in time management, stress relief, … Read More

Join us in the New Year to discuss Jennifer Egan's Manhattan Beach.With the atmosphere of a noir thriller, Egan’s first historical novel is a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men. Manhattan Beach is a deft, dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, … Read More

Every Saturday night Carolina demonstrates how to make a new recipe from her home kitchen on Facebook Live. Join in at facebook.com/illuminateob

Poetry Drop-in classes: where we read and discuss two or more poems, and then use those poems as models for in-class writing exercises (which are then read out loud but that is optional). Artists have their life drawing classes—why can’t writers have a similar kind of thing? Poetry Drop In is geared for everyone, beginners … Read More

Music As Meditation: free online ukulele/guitar class for beginners (SPACE LIMITED)Please email oakbluffslibrary@gmail.com to sign up.In this 5-week course we will cover the basics of playing the ukulele or guitar and explore how music can serve as a mindfulness practice. We will learn how playing an instrument can aid us in time management, stress relief, … Read More

Join us via zoom or call in to chat about our Video of the Month: Guns, Germs & Steel - Season 1Part of the National Geographic series. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book and national best seller. Professor Jared Diamond spent over 30 years trying to answer the biggest question of world history "Why is the world so unequal?" … Read More

Salsa Suelta Cubana goes virtual! Salsa Suelta Cubana is a form of Salsa dancing from Cuba that is danced without a partner. Often danced in small or larger groups, Salsa Suelta Cubana commonly incorporates various forms and styles of Cuban dance, including Afro-Cuban traditions and more recently elements of African American Urban Dance styles. In … Read More

Every Saturday night Carolina demonstrates how to make a new recipe from her home kitchen on Facebook Live. Join in at facebook.com/illuminateob