Winter Break Fun at the Library!

Looking for something to do over February vacation?! Following is a list of our free events coming up this week.

Tuesday, Feb. 28:
   1-3 pm: Little Kids' XBox Kinect Gaming (Dance and Sports - Ages 6 and under)

Wednesday, Feb. 29:
   Stuffed Animal Sleepover and Drop-In Storytime - Click on this link for details: Miss Paulina's blog
   AND
   1-3 pm: Kids' XBox Kinect Gaming (Age 7-10; DANCE)

Thursday, March 1:
   1-3 pm: Kids' XBox Kinect Gaming (Age 7-10; SPORTS)

Friday, March 2:
1 pm: Kids' Movie - Puss In Boots (Rated PG, 90 minutes)
Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss in Boots becomes a hero when he sets off on an adventure with the tough and street smart Kitty Softpaws and the mastermind Humpty Dumpty to save his town. This is the true story of The Cat, The Myth, The Legend... The Boots. -- (C) Dreamworks/Paramount

DROP-IN STORY TIME and STUFFED ANIMAL SLEEPOVER

Looking for a fun (and free) activity for your youngsters this February break? Come join us for a special drop-in story time on Wednesday, February 29th at 10 a.m.

The story time is geared toward children ages 3-6, but all are welcome. Miss Paulina will share books, fingerplays, and songs, as well as our traditional ring-around-the-rosy and hokey-pokey. The session runs approximately half an hour, and no signs ups are required.

Represesentatives from the Richie McFarland Children's Center will give a brief introduction to all the services they provide for local youngsters. They will remain after the story time to answer any questions you might have regarding early child development.

Kids are encouraged to bring a 2nd-favorite stuffed animal or toy so they can leave it with us overnight. The next day the children can come to pick up their stuffed animal, as well as a photo showing what it did during its sleepover here at Lane. Did it read a book? Check out the computer? Play with puppets? You'll definitely want to see the good times it had when it stayed with us.

Even if you can't come to our story time, you can still drop off your stuffed animal until 3 p.m.

If you have any questions, please call us at 926-4729.

Travel to China : Lecture and Slideshow March 5th

Join us on Monday, March 5th at 6:00 PM to hear expert photographer and travel guide Richard Ferland present a fascinating look at the culture and people of China. Richard will cover the basics of planning a trip to China, what to bring, what to leave home, and how to mix and mingle. He will discuss what to expect when you arrive, how to shop and eat, ways of staying in touch with those back home, and talk about "the 3 deadly sins of communicating with Chinese locals". The evening will end with a 25 minute slide show and time for questions.

Richard is a lifelong photographer and graduate of Boston University's Center for Digital Imaging Arts. He has extensive experience in China, having lived and worked there for a number of years.

Ladies' Night Out - "The Philadelphia Story", Wed. 2/29

On Wednesday, Feb. 29, we'll wrap up our Academy Awards Festival with a showing of A Philadelphia Story for Ladies' Night Out. We'll have snacks out around 5:15 pm and we'll start the movie at 5:30 pm. We'd love to have you join us for this classic romantic comedy.

Re-creating the role she originated in Philip Barry's wickedly witty Broadway play, Katharine Hepburn stars as the spoiled and snobby socialite Tracy Lord in this sparkling 1940 screen adaptation of The Philadelphia Story, one of the great romantic comedies from the golden age of MGM studios. Applying her impossibly high ideals to everyone but herself, Tracy is about to marry a stuffy executive when her congenial ex-husband (Cary Grant), arrives to protect his former father-in-law from a potentially scandalous tabloid exposé. In an Oscar-winning role, James Stewart is the scandal reporter who falls for Tracy as her wedding day arrives, throwing her into a dizzying state of premarital jitters. Who will join Tracy at the altar? Snappy dialogue flows like sparkling wine under the sophisticated direction of George Cukor in this film that turned the tide of Hepburn's career from "box-office poison" to glamorous Hollywood star. --Jeff Shannon

Admission is FREE. Popcorn, water and snacks are provided courtesy of the Friends of the Lane Memorial Library. Feel free to bring additional snacks for everyone to enjoy!~Wendy

Academy Awards Film Festival - The End!

This February we are hosting our first Academy Awards© Film Festival! We've chosen one movie from each of 6 decades: the 1940s through the 1990s. We'll be showing these on 3 Saturday afternoons in February. Below are the last two selections: Rain Man and Unforgiven.

Rain Man
Rated R (133 minutes)
Saturday, Feb. 25 @ 12 pm

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman and Best Picture-1988. Dustin Hoffman is a 'triumph' (People) ..., and Tom Cruise is 'terrific' (ABC Radio) in a film that's fascinating, touching and full of smart surprises' (Newsweek)! Charlie Babbitt (Cruise) has just discovered he has an autistic brother named Raymond (Hoffman) and is now taking him on the ride of his life. Or is it the other way around? From his refusal to drive on major highways to a four minutes to Wapner meltdown at an Oklahoma farmhouse, Raymond first pushes hot-headed Charlie to the limits of his patience and then pulls him completely out of his self-centered world! But what began as an unsentimental journey for the Babbitt brothers becomes much more than the distance between two places it's a connection between two vastly different people and a poignant, profound and powerful film (Joel Siegel, ABC-TV)!

Unforgiven
Rated R (131 minutes)
Saturday, Feb. 25 @ 2:30 pm

Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor, and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. "The movie summarized everything I feel about the Western," said Eastwood at the time of the film's release. "The moral is the concern with gunplay." To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless killer-turned-gentle-widower and hog farmer. He accepts one last bounty-hunter mission--to find the men who brutalized a prostitute--to help support his two motherless children. Joined by his former partner (Morgan Freeman) and a cocky greenhorn (Jaimz Woolvett), he takes on a corrupt sheriff (Oscar winner Gene Hackman) in a showdown that makes the viewer feel the full impact of violence and its corruption of the soul. Dedicated to Eastwood's mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel and featuring a colorful role for Richard Harris, it's arguably Eastwood's crowning directorial achievement. --Jeff Shannon
 

Admission is Free. Popcorn and water are provided courtesy of the Friends of the Lane Memorial Library.

Little Kids' Movietime: "Super Pocoyo", Fri., Feb. 24

Friday, February 24 @ 10 a.m.
Lane Library Weston Theater
This show is not rated
 
Pocoyo (which means “little me” in Spanish) follows the adventures of an inquisitive three-year old boy and his animal friends. Elly (the elephant), Pato (the duck), and Loula (the dog) join Pocoyou as he laughs, dances, and plays his horn across the screen. Link to Pocoyo video on IMDB

These movies and shows are specifically for our preschool set (younger brothers/sisters are welcome). The shows typically run about 1 hour and we provide snacks and comfortable seats for everyone. The kids are welcome to bring blankets/pillows, etc. so they can stretch out on the floor and make themselves comfortable!

No signup is necessary, just drop by! If you have any questions please call the Childrens' Room at 926-4729.

Teen Gaming Afternoon

This Friday is the last Friday of the month, which means it's time for some gaming!

Teen Gaming: 3-4:30 pm If you are 10 years old or older, come join us to play with the library's new XBOX360 Kinect, and other new games! We'll have drinks and snacks and we'll try out the library's new Kinect. Games that will be available include: Kinect Sports (Seasons 1 & 2), Forza 4, Madden 12, and Dance Central 2.

*Occurs on the last Friday of every month!

Email Kirsten if you have any questions: kcorbett@hampton.lib.nh.us.

After School Movie Today - "Treasure Buddies"!

Join us this afternoon (Friday, 2/17) at 3:15 pm for "Treasure Buddies"!

Disney's irresistible talking puppies are back in an all-new movie that takes them halfway across the world to the ruins of ancient Egypt. With the help of some exotic new friends, this epic adventure is a treasure trove of pure Buddy fun.

Admission is FREE. Snacks and drinks are provided courtesy of the Friends of the Lane Memorial Library.

Academy Awards Film Festival in February!

This February we are hosting our first Academy Awards© Film Festival! We've chosen one movie from each of 6 decades: the 1940s through the 1990s. We'll be showing these on 3 Saturday afternoons in February. Below are the two middle selections: West Side Story and The Sting.
 
West Side Story
Not Rated (152 minutes)
Sat., Feb. 18 @ 11:45 am

The winner of 10 Academy Awards, this 1961 musical by choreographer Jerome Robbins and director Robert Wise (The Sound of Music) remains irresistible. Based on a smash Broadway play updating Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to the 1950s era of juvenile delinquency, the film stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the star-crossed lovers from different neighborhoods--and ethnicities. The film's real selling points, however, are the highly charged and inventive song-and-dance numbers, the passionate ballads, the moody sets, colorful support from Rita Moreno, and the sheer accomplishment of Hollywood talent and technology producing a film so stirring. Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim wrote the score. --Tom Keogh

The Sting
Rated PG (129 minutes)
Sat., Feb. 18 @ 2:30 pm

The winner of 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, The Sting has become one of America's favorite and most critically acclaimed films. Robert Redford and Paul Newman star as two con men in the 1930's out to avenge the death of a friend. They seek revenge on a crime lord (Robert Shaw) with a "sting" that is one of the greatest double-crosses in movie history, complete with an amazing surprise finish. Directed by George Ray Hill and written by David S. Ward.

Admission is Free. Popcorn and water are provided courtesy of the Friends of the Lane Memorial Library.