Young Adult Programs
National Library Week
April 13 – 19, 2014
Attend any program during National Library Week and receive a raffle ticket for a prize basket!
Also receive 2 tickets for every book you check out and 1 for every CD, Video Game, or DVD!
See the Children’s Department Desk for details!
Family Mario Kart Tournament
Sunday, April 13, Noon – 1 p.m.
Think you are great at Mario Kart?
Challenge your peers and other families
for a chance to win a prize as we kick off
National Library Week in the Teen Room!
Trivia Challenge and Puzzle
Races
Teen Crafternoon: Book Crafts
Tuesday, April 15, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
Come to Teen Crafternoon this week
to create a unique craft using a recycled
book! You will be shocked when you
see all the cool ways you can recycle old
books!
Ping Pong for Prizes
Wednesday, April 16, 3 – 5 p.m.
Come to Ping Pong Challenge, play a
game, and receive a PRIZE just for coming!
All prizes are wrapped and a mystery so
you never know what you might get!
Teen Poetry Slam
Thursday, April 17, 3 – 5 p.m.
Share your own poetry or create some
fun poetry using new techniques such as
Black Out Poetry or Book Spine Poetry!
Monday, April 14, 3 – 5 p.m.
Join us for special Trivia and Puzzle
Challenges! Prizes will be awarded to
winners!
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Adult Programs
For all free programs, please register at the library’s circulation desk, call 724-941-9430,
online at the library’s website (www.ptlibrary.org) through EventKeeper or by email at
[email protected] (please include name of program, name of participant, and
phone number). For those programs with fees, registration must be completed in person
at the circulation desk; registration is not complete until payment has been received.
Robert Qualters:
Autobiographical Mythologies
Monday, April 14, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Presented by: Robert Qualters
Join us as Pittsburgh artist legend
Robert Qualters talks about his life as
an artist. Qualters’
style, familiar to many Pittsburghers,
features the artist’s commentary,
appearing as cursive text, in the borders
of his work. In four decades he has had
more than 30 solo shows in galleries and
museums in the region, including the
Carnegie Museum of Art, and has created
24 Peters Township
more than two dozen public murals
and site-specific installations, including
commissions from Mercy Hospital,
Western Pennsylvania School for Blind
Children, Three Rivers Arts Festival, and
Oxford Development. He has also created
more than a dozen murals with Pittsburgh
high school students.
Qualters holds a BFA from the
California College of Arts
and Crafts, and an MFA from
Syracuse University. He has
taught painting at the State
University of New York, Oswego;
University of Pittsburgh; Carlow
College; Slippery Rock State
University; Indiana University of
PA; West Virginia University; and
Carnegie Mellon University. He has
also been artist-in-residence at
CAPA (Pittsburgh’s High School for
Creative and Performing Arts). Visit
www.qualtersart.com to learn more about
the artist.
A retrospective of his work is currently
on display at the Pittsburgh Center for the
Arts, running through April 20, 2014. The
exhibit was curated by Vicky A. Clark, who
is the author of the recently published
Robert Qualters: Autobiographical
Mythologies. Copies of the book will be
available for signing and purchase after
the program.
Introduction to Stamp Collecting
Thursday, April 17, 7 – 8 p.m.
Presented by: Richard Landa
Stamp collecting is a hobby that lets
you re-live history, travel to the lands of
your ancestors, learn more about our
country, and capture wild animals! Where
else can you meet kings and queens,
world leaders, athletes and entertainers
without leaving the comfort of your
home? Come and learn the basics of
stamp collecting. Beginning with the
February, 2014 issue, copies of the
American Philatelist are available for study
in the 2nd floor periodical area. A new
Stamp Club has started meeting at the
library on the 3rd Tuesday of the month,
6:30 – 8 p.m.