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Community Programs & Events
500 YEARS OF HISTORY Explore an untold chapter of the American story.
Commu Programs Family Programs
Ballet Folklorico Night with El Corazon de Mexico Ostrander Branch Library • 75 N Fourth St • Ostrander Tuesday, September 1 @ 6:30 PM Kids Cookbook Club: Mexican Chocolate Trifle Ostrander Branch Library • 75 N Fourth St • Ostrander Wednesday, September 9 @ 4 PM Salsa Music and Dance Night with Son Del Caribe Orange Branch Library • 7171 Gooding Blvd • Delaware Monday, September 14 @ 7:30 PM Cuéntame más: Hispanic Heritage Folktales Delaware Main Library • 84 E Winter St • Delaware Tuesday, September 15 @ 6:30 PM Create a Piñata Ostrander Branch Library • 75 N Fourth St • Ostrander Wednesday, September 23 @ 4 PM
Adult Programs
Chilean Shell Necklace Powell Branch Library • 460 S Liberty Rd • Powell Thursday, September 24 @ 6:30 PM Cookbook Club: Simply Delicioso Delaware Main Library • 84 E Winter St • Delaware Tuesday, September 29 @ 7 PM Pages & Purls Knitting Club: Andean Folk Knits Delaware Main Library • 84 E Winter St • Delaware Thursday, October 1 @ 7 PM Cookbook Club: Simply Delicioso Ostrander Branch Library • 75 N Fourth St • Ostrander Tuesday, October 13 @ 7 PM
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unity & Events Book Discussions
Book Discussion of The Book of Unknown Americans Ostrander Branch Library • 75 N Fourth St • Ostrander Tuesday, September 22 @ 7 PM Book Discussion of The Book of Unknown Americans Delaware Main Library • 84 E Winter St • Delaware Tuesday, September 22 @ 7:30 PM Tuesday, October 6 @ 1 PM Book Discussion of The Book of Unknown Americans Orange Branch Library • 7171 Gooding Blvd • Delaware Wednesday, September 23 @ 7 PM Book Discussion of The Book of Unknown Americans Powell Branch Library • 460 S Liberty Rd • Powell Friday, September 25 @ 1 PM Tuesday, September 29 @ 7 PM
Featured Programs
“Latino Americans: 500 Years of History” Screening The Strand Theatre • 28 E Winter St • Delaware Thursday, September 17 @ 7 PM Poetry Reading with Dr. Rojas and Dr. Rathbun Delaware Main Library • 84 E Winter St • Delaware Wednesday, October 7 @ 7 PM Author Visit: Cristina Henrìquez Delaware Main Library • 84 E Winter St • Delaware Friday, October 9 @ 7 PM “Latino Americans: 500 Years of History” Screening The Strand Theatre • 28 E Winter St • Delaware Thursday, October 15 @ 7 PM
events can be found online at www.DelawaREADS.org.
A Note on Our Featured Programs Author Visit: Cristina Henrìquez Hear from Cristina Henrìquez, the author of our DelawaREADS title, The Book of Unknown Americans, firsthand at this special after-hours author visit at the Delaware Main Library. Cristina will speak about her 2014 best-selling novel and also on the topic of “Dual Identity.” She will share her own experience of growing up half-American, half-Panamanian, and how her sense of her own identity formed and has been continually reshaped over her life.
“Latino Americans: 500 Years of History” Screenings Join us at the Strand Theatre in Delaware, Ohio to view two episodes of the landmark PBS miniseries and participate in a discussion led by local scholars Dr. Juan Armando Rojas and Dr. Jennifer Rathbun. “Latino Americans” chronicles the rich and varied history of Latinos, who have helped shaped our nation and have become the largest minority in the United States. This documentary vividly and candidly tells how the story of Latino Americans is the story of our country. Viewings will be held for Episode IV: 500 YEARS OF HISTORY The New Latinos (September 17) and Episode VI: Peril and Promise (October 15).
Poetry Reading
Explore an untold chapter of the American story.
The Delaware Main Library hosts an evening of Spanish and English poetry with Ohio Wesleyan University Spanish professor and poet Dr. Rojas, joined by his wife and translator Dr. Rathbun of Ashland University. They will read from their bilingual collection of poems, Santurarios Desierto Mar/Sanctuaries Desert Sea.
Salsa Music and Dance Night with Son Del Caribe Music Director and conductor of the Central Ohio Symphony, Jaime Morales-Matos, brings his salsa band Son Del Caribe to the Orange Branch Library for an exciting performance for the entire family. The band’s energetic and very danceable panCaribbean, pan-American sound includes salsa and other styles of Latin dance music. The Delaware County District Library would like to offer our thanks to the following sponsors and community partners:
www.pbs.org/latino-americans/en/
Latino Americans: 500 Years of History, created by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association, is part of an NEH initiative, The Common Good: The Humanities in the Public Square. Latino Americans: 500 Years of History builds on the PBS documentary film series produced by WETA Washington, D.C.; Bosch and Co., Inc.; and Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB); in association with Independent Television Service (ITVS).