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Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Empower Hour
May 19 @ 11:30 am
YWCA of Asheville

Join us for Empower Hour, a one-hour program and facility tour where you will experience firsthand the YWCA’s work to bridge gaps in earning power, education, health & wellness and access to childcare.

Empower Hours take place twice a month on the first and third Tuesday at 11:30 am.
Lunch is served as part of our Empower Hour, so reservations are required.

To make a reservation: contact Elizabeth Alvandi, Advancement Assistant, at (828) 254-7206 ext. 103 or [email protected].

Greenville Scavenger Hunt
May 19 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
220 N Main St, Greenville, SC 29601, United States

Forget tourist-filled museums, make your own memories with a photo scavenger hunt tour in Greenville! On a Let’s Roam scavenger hunt, you and your team will work together to wander throughout Greenville, racking up points and laughs along the way. Greenville Adventure is the perfect small group activity for anyone looking to spend an enjoyable afternoon in Greenville.

Some of the more memorable landmarks you’ll see are: NOMA Square, Swamp Rabbit Trail, Greenville Drive Baseball Stadium, Baseball Library..

Let’s Roam scavenger hunts work great for outdoor team building games in Greenville too! Whether you work in Greenville or are just visiting, you are sure to learn some new facts about the city as well as your teammates on this creative corporate event! This is one of the happiest hours your team will spend together!

Fear not, maids of honor, these hunts are sure fire ideas for Greenville bachelorette parties! Bachelors and bachelorettes will both enjoy roaming around on their wedding-themed Greenville scavenger hunts. Why just bar hop when you and your team can jump for joy as you complete hilarious photo challenges and see the best that Greenville has to offer!

Looking to check out a different part of the city? Check out Downtown Asheville Scavenger Hunt, Classic City Culture & History, and Lap Around Charlotte as well!

Here is some more info about this hunt:

Follow the Blue Ridge Mountains and you’ll find one of South Carolina’s most picturesque cities. On this fun-filled Greenville scavenger hunt, explore the storied buildings, great green spaces and cultural institutions.Is there a waterfall in NOMA Square? Who left their sox in the baseball stadium? Find out on this scavenger hunt of Greenville!

Greenville Zoo Keeper Check-In
May 19 @ 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm
via Facebook

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Join us daily, at 2:30pm, for a Keeper Check-In. We’ll visit with a different keeper every day for an exciting encounter with one of our amazing animals!

Quarantine Crafts and Activities w/ PRTM Clemson Students
May 19 @ 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm
Online FB

Join us every Tuesday, Thursday (beginning 2:30pm) for a Quarantine Craft from the Clemson University PRTM students! If you are running out of ideas at home this is a great resource to try out new activities and crafts! Thank you PRTM students and staff for making this possible!

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Live Stream Mary Alice Monroe presents On Ocean Boulevard
May 19 @ 3:00 pm
online

We’re pleased to be part of the Reader Meet Writer series of online events hosted by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance.

The event is free but registration is required. Please CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.

If you elect to attend, we will email you on the day of the event with the link & password required to attend on Zoom.

ON OCEAN BOULEVARD

The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Guests returns at long last to her beloved Beach House series in this breathtaking novel about one family’s summer of forging new beginnings against the enduring beauty and resilience of the natural world.

Mary Alice Monroe is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the Beach House series: The Beach House, Beach House Memories, Swimming Lessons, Beach House for Rent, and  Beach House Reunion. She is a 2018 Inductee into the South Carolina Academy of Authors’ Hall of Fame, and her books have received numerous awards, including the 2008 South Carolina Center for the Book Award for Writing, the 2014 South Carolina Award for Literary Excellence, the 2015 SW Florida Author of Distinction Award, the RT Lifetime Achievement Award, the International Book Award for Green Fiction, and the 2017 Southern Book Prize for Fiction.


Like most of our events, this event is free. If you decide to attend and to purchase the author’s book(s), we ask that you purchase from Malalprop’s. When you do this you are supporting our work and keeping more dollars in our community. Thank you!

On Ocean Boulevard (The Beach House) Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9781982146948
Availability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Gallery Books – May 19th, 2020
Forest Plan Info Session: Management Areas
May 19 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
webinar

Join us to hear Josh Kelly, MountainTrue’s Western Field Biologist, examine the various types of management areas proposed within the draft management plan and environmental impact statement for the Nantahala-Pisgah National Forests. Allocation of these areas determines what types of activities can happen in various parts of the forest. Register to receive access to the webinar.

Fiction Addiction’s Virtual Author Event Series Isla Morley
May 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Fiction Addiction
Tue, May 19, 2020 6:00 PM EST
VIRTUAL Event with Isla Morley
Award-winning author Isla Morley will discuss her new novel, The Last Blue (pub date 5/5/20). We love this book and believe you will, too, so we are guaranteeing this read — if you don’t love it, you can return it, and we’ll give you a gift card for the cover price of the book plus sales tax!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-event-with-isla-morley-tickets-101988935652?aff=odeieiconstantcontact&ctct_id=097cdb95-870b-46af-907b-0f9305989e05_p2&ctct_c=npIjokK_Y0gGNIf4sFUlBj0Yl2wscb41ZRZ1x98JRW0-Q-habb-l8w==

Spanish Conversation Club
May 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm
Upstate International
Join our friendly Spanish language facilitators for our Spanish Conversation Club each Tuesday evening. This is a great way to practice your Spanish in a warm and welcoming environment and to share ideas and cultures through conversation.
SCC is free to members and no RSVP is necessary.  Just show up…and we’ll talk.
Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont Stay Connected Virtually
May 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
online
Writing Your Life: 4-week Zoom Series
May 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
zoom

Now more than ever, you want to do something creative with the story you’re living, but you’re not sure how to start. For beginning to intermediate writers, this introduction to the art of creative nonfiction will give you the inspiration and confidence to tell your own story.

CATS
May 19 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Peace Center

Part of the 2019 – 2020 Broadway Season. Learn more about subscribing: http://bit.ly/2J6KMcs.

CATS, the record-breaking musical spectacular by Andrew Lloyd Webber that has captivated audiences in over 30 countries and 15 languages, is now on tour across North America!

Audiences and critics alike are rediscovering this beloved musical with breathtaking music, including one of the most treasured songs in musical theater—”Memory.” Winner of seven Tony Awards® including Best Musical, CATS tells the story of one magical night when an extraordinary tribe of cats gathers for its annual ball to rejoice and decide which cat will be reborn. The original score by Andrew Lloyd Webber (The Phantom of the Opera, School of Rock, Sunset Boulevard), original scenic and costume design by John Napier (Les Misérables), all-new lighting design by Natasha Katz (Aladdin), all-new sound design by Mick Potter, new choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler (Hamilton) based on the original choreography by Gillian Lynne (Phantom), and direction by Trevor Nunn (Les Misérables) make this production a new CATS for a new generation!

https://www.facebook.com/events/273199736913436/?event_time_id=273199753580101

Summer: The Donna Summer Musical
May 19 @ 7:30 pm
Peace Center

“The party Broadway’s been looking for!” –TheaterMania

She was a girl from Boston with a voice from heaven, who shot through the stars from gospel choir to dance floor diva. But what the world didn’t know was how Donna Summer risked it all to break through barriers, becoming the icon of an era and the inspiration for every music diva who followed.

With a score featuring more than 20 of Summer’s classic hits including “Love to Love You Baby,” “Bad Girls,” and “Hot Stuff,” this electric experience is a moving tribute to the voice of a generation.

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Summer: The Donna Summer Musical
May 19 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Peace Center

Part of the 2019 – 2020 Broadway Season. Learn more about subscribing: http://bit.ly/2J6KMcs.

“The party Broadway’s been looking for!” -TheaterMania

She was a girl from Boston with a voice from heaven, who shot through the stars from gospel choir to dance floor diva. But what the world didn’t know was how Donna Summer risked it all to break through barriers, becoming the icon of an era and the inspiration for every music diva who followed.

With a score featuring more than 20 of Summer’s classic hits including “Love to Love You Baby,” “Bad Girls,” and “Hot Stuff,” this electric experience is a moving tribute to the voice of a generation.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2264958693748287/

Summer: The Donna Summer Musical
May 19 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Peace Center

Part of the 2019 – 2020 Broadway Season. Learn more about subscribing: http://bit.ly/2J6KMcs.

“The party Broadway’s been looking for!” -TheaterMania

She was a girl from Boston with a voice from heaven, who shot through the stars from gospel choir to dance floor diva. But what the world didn’t know was how Donna Summer risked it all to break through barriers, becoming the icon of an era and the inspiration for every music diva who followed.

With a score featuring more than 20 of Summer’s classic hits including “Love to Love You Baby,” “Bad Girls,” and “Hot Stuff,” this electric experience is a moving tribute to the voice of a generation.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2264958693748287/?event_time_id=2264958697081620

Avl and WNC Go Outside and Howl at 8 Support essential front-line workers
May 19 @ 8:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Online

“Go Outside and Howl at 8” is a national call for communities to recognize all essential front-line workers! Let’s join this call, Asheville! Show people in this community who are putting their lives at risk that we see them, and we love them! Let’s hear y’all howl at 8pm every night!!

Feel free to add pictures and/or videos to the Discussion in this event!

Much love, y’all!

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Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Greenville Library Online for Kids
May 20 all-day
Greenville Library Online

Learn with Kids at Home

With schools closed and many students learning from home, we have resources for homework help for all ages, including fun learning activities for caregivers with preschoolers:

  • BookFlix – Video storybooks paired with related nonfiction ebooks
  • BrainPop, Jr – Video and fun learning activities for students in grades K-3
  • Muzzy Online – Language learning for kids
  • TumbleBooks – Animated and talking story and chapter books
  • TumbleMath – Math picture books for students in grades K-6
    • Note: This resource has been made available temporarily through August 31, 2020.

All these and more can be found under the Kids & Teens menu at Kids Homework & Learning and Teens Homework & Learning. Our Kindergarten Readiness resources and Little Learners Club have hundreds of ideas for activities with young children. The State Library has also provided temporary access to Tutor.com, a great homework help resource including access to live tutoring for students in grades K-12.

You can also find beginning reader and picture books on OverDrive, as well as books for older children, by browsing by subject under Juvenile Fiction and Juvenile Nonfiction.

Greenville Library Online Stay Entertained
May 20 all-day
Greenville Library Online

Read an ebook, a comic, or a magazine. Listen to music or an audiobook. Watch a TV show or a movie.

In addition to our existing platforms (OverDriveRBdigitalFreegal, and Hoopla), the following resources have been made available through the end of August:

Freegal is now offering unlimited music streaming through the end of September (normally limited to 3 hours per day), and Hoopla has created a Bonus Borrows collection of items that won’t count against your monthly checkout limit.

If you need some ideas, here are a few lists of titles that can be found on one or more of our download/streaming platforms. More to come!

Learn a Skill or Find a New Hobby

Research Your Family Tree

Do you finally have extra time to devote to genealogy research? While we’re closed, you can access Ancestry from home with your library card (usually only available in library buildings). Other online genealogy resources include FamilySearchFold3, and HeritageQuest. Check under the Learning & Research menu for more!


Keep Up with the News

Stay informed with free access to the Greenville News, the New York Times Digital EditionNewsBank, and US Southeast Newsstream.

Research Your Family Tree

Do you finally have extra time to devote to genealogy research? While we’re closed, you can access Ancestry from home with your library card (usually only available in library buildings). Other online genealogy resources include FamilySearchFold3, and HeritageQuest. Check under the Learning & Research menu for more!

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Original Broadway Cast Recordings
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Science Fiction
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Light-Hearted Romances
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Women in History (Nonfiction)
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Women in History (Fiction)

Learn a Skill or Find a New Hobby

Check out CreativeBug for all kinds of arts and crafts tutorials, learn how to code with fun projects in Vidcode, brush up on your language skills with Mango, or even learn how to service your car with Chilton Library. Browse the Hobbies & DIY Resources page for more ideas!


Keep Up with the News

Stay informed with free access to the Greenville News, the New York Times Digital EditionNewsBank, and US Southeast Newsstream.


Research Your Family Tree

Do you finally have extra time to devote to genealogy research? While we’re closed, you can access Ancestry from home with your library card (usually only available in library buildings). Other online genealogy resources include FamilySearchFold3, and HeritageQuest. Check under the Learning & Research menu for more!

English Conversation Club
May 20 @ 9:45 am – 11:15 am
Upstate International
Join our friendly English language facilitators for our English Conversation Club each Wednesday morning. This is a great way to practice your English in a warm and welcoming environment and to share ideas and cultures through conversation.
ECC is free to members and no RSVP is necessary.  Just show up…and we’ll talk.
Asheville Salt Cave FREE ONLINE : Live Mediation Webinar with Bernie Kozlowski
May 20 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
webinar

Learn how to reverse the very real and devastating impact of stress through the SIMPLE practice of instinctive meditation that will profoundly shift your life.

Instinctive meditation means it’s natural and our bodies are wired to do it easily and efficiently. All we need to do is to set up the right conditions and our bodies will eagerly cooperate. Learn the skill set needed to meditate on your own even if you have a racing mind and little spare time.

Dropping into deep relaxation on a regular basis helps you to be calm in the face of overwhelm and urgency, can improve your health, and help you be more responsive and less reactive to challenges.

This will be a live webinar on Zoom. You can attend from anywhere that is comfortable to you. Once you register, you will get instructions on how to log in to the event. You will have the option of having your video on or off. You can also call in using a phone number. Link to zoom class:
https://mailchi.mp/9e1057b0227e/meditation-asheville-salt-cave

We’ll start with the basic principles of this approach. Then you will learn and practice some basic skills. This will be followed by a longer guided meditation where you can incorporate the basic skills. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions during the class.

A weekly Zoom drop-in class in instinctive meditation will run on Wednesdays from 10:00-11:00 am EST starting April 29 and running for 12 weeks.
Drop in as you can. Each class will cover a different technique.

Miss Malaprop’s Storytime LIVE STREAM
May 20 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Malaprop's LIVE STREAM

Due to Covid-19, we are live streaming Storytime in lieu of an in-store event. Join us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/malapropsbookstore/ to tune into Miss Malaprop’s Storytime from your home.

Join us with your wee ones every week on Wednesdays at 10 am for classic and contemporary stories sure to enchant and entertain. Together, we’ll introduce children to the wonderful world of books! Recommended for ages 3-9.

https://www.instagram.com/malapropsbookstore/

Event date:
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 – 10:00am
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 – 10:00am
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 – 10:00am
Wednesday, May 6, 2020 – 10:00am