FilmFans Expanded!

We’ve had good audiences and now we’re able to show more films!

The independent, foreign and documentary film program at Dover Public Library will expand from two to five films a month beginning. Saturday April 6 at 2pm.  Saturday afternoon films will be added In addition to screenings the first Thursday and last Friday of each month.  Beginning in April each Friday night film will repeat the next day.  After a film has been viewed it will become part of the library’s collection and will be available for borrowing.
The Dover Library FilmFans need volunteers to help with publicity, hosting films and, hopefully…POPCORN!  To learn more, or to add a name to our email list, stop by the library at 35 East Loockerman Plaza or  call the library at 736-7097 or Fred Kaltreider at 674-9028.
Following is the programming already scheduled:
  • Friday, 3/29 at 7pm – Game Change
  • Thursday, 4/6 at 5:30 p.m. – The Well Digger’s Daughter
  • Saturday, 4/6 at 2pm – Lincoln
  • Saturday 4/13 at 2pm – Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • Saturday 4/20 at 2 pm – Hyde Park on Hudson
  • Friday, 4/26 at 7pm – Searching for Sugar Man
  • Saturday 4/27 – Searching for Sugar Man

February events

Here are some of the upcoming February events for the Adult Services department:

In Harmony Concert Series

In Harmony presents…Sankofa African Dance Company.  Steeped in the Guinea tradition and the West African model of drum and dance.

The concert will be held Friday, February 1st at 7:00 pm in the downstairs meeting room.  No registration is required.  Please call 736-7030 for additional information.

Business Recent Reads

Join local business professionals to discuss recent business reads.  Participants will be asked to share what they are reading on the subject of business, leadership or entrepreneurship.  This is a great networking opportunity!

The group will meet Wednesday, February 6th at 12:00 pm.  Please bring your own brown bag lunch.  Please call 302-736-7030 for additional information.  No registration is necessary.

Foreign Film

Join film fans in viewing After the Wedding.

Screening will be Thursday, February 7th at 5:30 p.m. in the downstairs meeting room.  No registration is necessary.  Please call 736-7030 for additional information.

Friday Night Author Series

Syl Woolford will give a presentation on the Dover Eight.  Learn about Delaware’s history with the Underground Railroad.

Mr. Woolford is a graduate of Delaware State University and is a native Delawarean.  He currently resides in Newark, DE.  He is an avid historian and has traced his own family record back 200 years.

The presentation will take place on Friday, February 15th at 7:00 p.m. in the downstairs meeting room.  No registration is necessary.  Please call 302-736-7030 for additional information.

Film Fan Night

The Robot and Frank will be shown Friday, February 22nd at 7:00 pm in the downstairs meetings room.

Frank is a curmudgeonly ex-jewel thief who develops a friendship with the robot programmed to look after him in the film “Robot & Frank”, showing at the Library on Friday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m.

Frank Langella stars as Frank, who lives alone and has few friends.  His adult son is worried that Frank’s memory is failing and provides the robot as a solution.  When Frank teaches his robot buddy the tricks of cat burglary, things quickly get out of hand.

Kenneth Turan wrote about the film in the Los Angeles Times:  “Charming, playful and sly, it makes us believe that a serene automaton and a snappish human being can be best friends forever.”

“Robot & Frank” won the Alfred P. Sloan Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and the screenplay is nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.  The film also stars Susan Sarandon, Liv Tyler, James Marsden and Jeremy Sisto.  It is rated PG-13 and runs for 1  hr. 30 min.

The movie is part of a new series of independent, foreign and documentary films to be shown the last Friday of every month at the Dover Public Library.  To volunteer, or for more information please call 736-7030.

Adult Book Group

There is not a scheduled book this month.  Come and discuss some of your favorite (or not so favorite) recent reads.

Book group will meet Sunday, February 24th at 2:00 pm in the upstairs Conference room.  No registration is required.  Please call 736-7030 for additional information.

Meet Cheyenne Doe

Cheyenne Doe

Cheyenne Doe

Cheyenne Doe was born and raised in Delaware where she lives with her family and her cat Warlock “the assassin”.

She graduated from Smyrna High School in June 2012 where she took up art and creative writing. Cheyenne started writing when she
was thirteen and has been ever since. Kitty Kats is her first novel and she looks forward to writing more books and fulfill her goals to
become a successful author and get a New York Times best seller.
Come and meet Cheyenne this Friday evening, January 18th at 7:00 pm. 

It’s Awards time!

It’s that time of the year.  You know…AWARDS season!  The People’s Choice Awards kicked off what I refer to as the “Hollywood awards”, and before we know it the Oscars, Golden Globes and Emmy’s will be upon us.  The literary world has a fair share of awards as well.  RUSA, which stands for the Reference and User Services Association division of the American Library Association (ALA) has some good primers to get you excited and ready for the “Book awards”.

http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/literarytastes  -

Can you taste it??  Anticipation is in the air.  So go ahead and get caught up in the hype:-)