⚖️Law Talks Watch Party: Foreclosures
📍Main Library
🗓Wednesday, April 10
⏰12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Come to a library watch party! The Rapides Parish Library will host the Louisiana State Bar Association's virtual presentation on Foreclosures led by Legal Aid ...and volunteer attorneys. Presentation will be held via zoom watch party at the Main Library. You can also stream the presentation on the Lawyers in Libraries Facebook page.
📞Contact 318-445-2411 for more information.
#lawtalks #virtualevent #RPL #lawyersinlibraries #MoreThanJustBooks
✨LSUA Cavanaugh Lecture Series
📍Westside Regional Library
🗓Thursday, April 11
⏰6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Join us for another great speaker at another LSUA Cavanaugh Lecture Series as we hear from Poet Jack Bedell. Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English and Coordinator ...of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. Author of five volumes of poetry, his latest release is Ghost Forests (2024). Bedell is the recipient of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Individual Achievement in the Humanities Award and the Governor’s Award for Artistic Achievement.
📞Contact 318-442-2483 for more information.
#cavanaughlectureseries #jackbedell #RPL #MoreThanJustBooks
We were delighted to see all of these reading winners enjoy their rewards and celebrate their love of literacy! #bettertogether
✨For the Love of Food✨
📍Main Library
🗓Monday, April 1
⏰5:30pm-7:30pm
Come and learn about Indian Cuisine, a symphony of flavors, some color, some spice, some heat, and an abundance of taste!
To know Indian cooking is to know the spices. Learn about ...these spices and their benefits. A cooking demonstration from “Imagine, Explore & Create” By Amy Pillarisetti Lal Mirch School of Cooking.
📋Seating is limited. Registration is required. See the RPL digital calendar to register.
https://rpl.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=67879
📞Contact 318-445-2411 for more information.
#fortheloveoffood #indiancuisine #RPL #MoreThanJustBooks
✨✒️Shelley Jinks Johnson: Greet & Sign
📍Libuse Branch
🗓Saturday, April 6
⏰11:00 am to 1:00 pm
📍Westside Regional Library
🗓Saturday, April 13
⏰11:00 am to 1:00 pm
Our April Author of the Month is poet Shelley Jinks Johnson. Her ...work grapples with themes of death, acceptance, self-discovery and how to find meaning in life after loss. Her first volume of poetry, Pretty Little Widow, explores her grief following her husband's death. Shelley has discovered that living a life of creativity is the best way of building a life rooted in joy and gratitude.
📞Contact the branch you would like to attend for more information.
#cenlaauthorofthemonth #shelleyjinksjohnson #RPL
✨🎨Cenla Artist of the Month: Gavin Bridges
📍Main Library
🗓Saturday, April 6
⏰11:00 am to 1:00 pm
📍Westside Regional Library
🗓Monday, April 8
⏰1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Join our April Artist of the Month Gavin Bridges for a painting workshop ...in acrylics for older children and teens. A graduate of LSUA, now pursuing the Master of Fine Art at Jacksonville University, Gavin views art as a powerful tool for connection and self-expression. Workshop participants will be guided in blending and landscape techniques while creating a beautiful Louisiana swamp scene on recycled
glass objects.
📋Registration is required as seats are limited. See the RPL digital calendar to register. https://rpl.events.mylibrary.digital/
📞Contact branch you plan to attend for more information.
#artistsofthemonth #gavinbridges #artclass #RPL #MoreThanJustBooks
✨For the Love of Food✨
📍Main Library
🗓Monday, April 1
⏰5:30pm-7:30pm
Come and learn about Indian Cuisine, a symphony of flavors, some color, some spice, some heat, and an abundance of taste!
To know Indian cooking is to know the spices. Learn about ...these spices and their benefits. A cooking demonstration from “Imagine, Explore & Create” By Amy Pillarisetti Lal Mirch School of Cooking.
📋Seating is limited. Registration is required. See the RPL digital calendar to register.
https://rpl.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=67879
📞Contact 318-445-2411 for more information.
#fortheloveoffood #indiancuisine #RPL #MoreThanJustBooks
✨🎨Cenla Artist of the Month: Gavin Bridges
📍Main Library
🗓Saturday, April 6
⏰11:00 am to 1:00 pm
📍Westside Regional Library
🗓Monday, April 8
⏰1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
📋Registration is required as seats are limited. See the RPL digital ...calendar to register. https://rpl.events.mylibrary.digital/
📞Contact branch you plan to attend for more information.
#artistsofthemonth #gavinbridges #artclass #RPL #MoreThanJustBooks
🖥Computer Classes🖥
Needing help with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Google Sheets, the internet, and etc.? See the list for our upcoming April computer classes.
📋Reservations are required. See the RPL digital calendar to register. https://rpl.events.mylibrary.digital/
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📞Contact the location with the class you would like to attend for more information.
#computerclasses #RPL #MoreThanJustBooks
💻Beginning Microsoft Word
📍Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch
🗓Tuesday, April 2
⏰4:30pm-5:30pm
💻 Intermediate Microsoft Excel
📍Hineston Branch
🗓Wednesday, April 3
⏰10:00am-11:00am
💻 Beginning Microsoft Excel
📍Libuse Branch
🗓Friday, April 5
⏰10:00am-11:00am
💻 Intermediate Microsoft Word
📍Martin Library
🗓Monday, April 8
⏰10:00am-11:00am
💻 Beginning Internet
📍Westside Regional Library
🗓Tuesday, April 9
⏰10:00am-11:00am
💻Scratch Coding II: Intermediate Scratch
📍Robertson Branch
🗓Tuesday, April 9
⏰10:00am-12:00pm
💻Beginning Internet
📍Alfred Boyce Wettermark Branch
🗓Thursday, April 11
⏰10:00am-11:00am
💻Intermediate Microsoft Word
📍Main Library
🗓Monday, April 15
⏰3:30pm-5:30pm
💻Intermediate Microsoft Word
📍Main Library
🗓Wednesday, April 17
⏰9:00am-11:00am
💻Google Sheets
📍J.W. McDonald Branch
🗓Wednesday, April 24
⏰10:00am-11:00am
💻Tinkercad for Young Inventors
📍Libuse Branch
🗓Wednesday, April 24
⏰11:30am-1:30pm
💻Tinkercad for Young Inventors
📍Main Library
🗓Saturday, April 27
⏰11:00am-1:00pm
💻 Microsoft PowerPoint
📍Johnson Branch
🗓Friday, April 26
⏰10:00am-11:00am
💻 Microsoft Word Online
📍Robertson Branch
🗓Monday, April 29
⏰10:00am-11:00am