What's New at PPLD!

Thursday, April 5, 6pm to 8pm
Fly Cheap, Stay Cheap, Travel Cheap

Join Ron Stern, travel photographer to learn airline tips and secrets, how to find free or discounted accommodations and how to cruise for pennies on the dollar.
Space is limited. Call 260-6882 to register.

Tuesday, April 10, 7pm
Get the Most Out of Your House

Presented by Cari Pemberton, Realtor and Accredited Staging Professional Learn the staging secrets for preparing your house for a faster and more profitable sale. Also, get tips on picking the right Realtor for you. Call 260-6882 for more information.

Wednesday, April 11, 10am

Join local author Robert Spiller as he reads from his debut novel The Witch of Agnesi. Discussion and book signing to follow. Space is limited. Call 260-6882 to register.

Azar Nafisi– Author of “Reading Lolita in Tehran” Friday, March 30, 2007, 7:30 p.m. “The Demarest Lloyd Lecture in the Humanities: Azar Nafisi”

Location: Gates Common Room , 3rd floor of Palmer Hall, 1025 N. Cascade Ave., (east of Tutt Library)

Free and open to the public.

Azar Nafisi is the author of the bestselling “Reading Lolita in Tehran.” The book is a blend of memoir and literary criticism, and a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people’s lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Nafisi invited seven female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Because the books they read were officially banned by the government, the women were forced to meet in secret, often sharing photocopied pages of the illegal novels. Threaded into the memoir are discussions of the work of Vladimir Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen and other authors who provided the women with examples of those who successfully asserted their autonomy despite great odds. The lecture is part of CC’s Visiting Writers Series.

Sponsored by the Demarest Lloyd Lecture Fund.

Members of the public may call (719) 389-6607 for disability accommodation, additional information or directions.

Spirituals Project Choir
Performing the sacred songs called “spirituals,” created and sung by enslaved African
Americans.
FREE admittance
Sat., April 21 w 8 p.m.
Shove Chapel
Colorado College
1010 N. Nevada Ave.

A Revolutionary Pathway for the Next Generation

Renowned research biologist and founder of Holistic Management International speaks at CC.

Thursday, March 29, 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Location: Gates Common Room, 3rd floor of Palmer Hall, 1025 N. Cascade (east of Tutt Library).

Free and open to the public.

You are invited! The CC students responsible for putting together the terrific multidisciplinary series, “Food Chained,” welcome you to join us for this final lecture in the series.

Allan Savory, the recipient of the International Banksia Environmental Award for “Miracles in Science,” is the founder of Holistic Management International (HMI), a nonprofit that is the originator and primary mover of dramatically effective land management and renewal practices. Savory’s innovative thinking is the basis for a dramatic paradigm shift that has influenced governments, universities, and practitioners worldwide. Savory will discuss how complex interactions among all living systems profoundly affect global health and how holistic decision-making provides a revolutionary way forward for the next generation.

Please Join us for a Celebratory reception following the lecture…..please bring your ideas for topics for next year’s Food Chained Series.

Sponsored by Food-Chained, a committee of Environmental Action (EnAct); Venture Grants at CC; the Schlessman Fund; the CC economics department.

Members of the public may call (719) 389-6607 for disability accommodation, additional information or directions.

How to Prepare Your Home for Sale – The WOW Factor!!
Learn “Staging Secrets” from Diane Lum and Nan Hawkins, Accredited Staging Professionals and Realtors. You will learn how to prepare your house for a faster and more profitable sale. This FREE class will show ways to make your house more competitive in today’s market.

Wednesday, March 28 at 7 p.m. at the Rockrimmon Branch Library
For information regarding programs at the Monument Branch Library call 593-8000 .

Saturday, April 28 at 10:30 a.m. at the Monument Branch Library
Thursday, May 10 at 7 p.m. at the Monument Branch Library
For information regarding programs at the Monument Branch Library call 488-2370.

“Social Responsibility, Radical Business Philosophy, and Free Ice Cream”

Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Location: Shove Memorial Chapel, 1010 N. Nevada Ave.

Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Innovative Minds Lecture Series at Colorado College.

Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of the innovative and successful Ben and Jerry’s, shares the inside scoop on how he and his business partner, Ben Cohen, founded this unique company and made it a profitable powerhouse while staying true to their vision of a socially responsible business model. Greenfield will discuss how the core values of the company and the consumer were brought together to form a powerful brand image. Rumor has it that Ben and Jerry’s will provide free ice cream for all of our guests to enjoy after the lecture.

Members of the public may call (719) 389-6607 for disability accommodation, additional information or directions.

Check out these fun Spring Break Programs for kids at your Library!

Check out PPLD staff in Funky Fairytales, Hunt-ta-Bunk-ta-Music, Patti Smithsonian, and more!

Just a reminder… The Reader’s Passport program ends Saturday, March 31, 2007. Game cards will not be accepted after that date.

If you haven’t completed your game card, please do so and return it to your nearest library branch.

Thank you for participating!

This years Colorado Independent Publishers Association’s program is entitled “Publishing Empowerment- Launch Your Own Success“. The event is March 22-24, 2007 at the Red Lion Inn in Denver, CO. Many experts in the publishing business will be presenting. For more information go to their website.