Upcoming Classes at the Public Library

Now is the time to hurry down to the Library to take advantage of a number of interesting learning opportunities that are coming up in April and May.

English Language Classes will be offered on Saturday afternoons at the Orcas Island Public Library beginning on Saturday, April 16, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.  Instructor Sandi McVay is an experienced teacher of the English language.  There will be no charge for the classes and no preregistration is required.  Sign up on the first day of class in the Library meeting room.  All interested students are welcome.

Philomena Robinson will be offering a one-day Artist’s Book Class on Saturday, April 23, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm in the Library meeting room.  Artist’s books can be anything from sculpture, wall-hanging, mobile, or whatever you can envision.  They can pop-up, fold out, or spiral out and can contain painting, drawing, paper-cuts, photographs, collage, feathers, bones, or bugs.  Your imagination is the only limitation.  Philomena Robinson has a Masters degree in Book Arts from Columbia College Chicago and her books are collected internationally.  The cost is $40 per person, and the class limit is 8 students.  Please visit the library to register.

Coming up in May, Kathi Ciskowski will lead a 2-session course, Introduction to Genealogy and Family History.  Classes will be on Thursdays, May 5 and 12, from 12:30 to 2:30 pm in the Library meeting room.  The course will focus on a few simple ways to get started in the search for your ancestors using free, easily available resources.  Participants are asked to bring their own laptop computer if they have one, their Orcas Island library card, and the full name of a United States relative living between 1920 and 1930 for research purposes.  A basic knowledge of how to navigate a laptop computer is preferred.  The cost is $15 for the two sessions, and the class limit is 10 students.  Please visit the library to register.

Please contact Nita Couchman at the Library, 376-4985, with your questions or for more information about any of these events.