4:00 PM - Sunday -

A link to view this presentation will be available beginning April 11 at 4:00 p.m.

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Join Ben Lawson, the director of Redmond High School’s jazz band, for music, memories and the meaning of being a part of a jazz band.

Nora, the protagonist in Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans is a musician and composer. As a student, Nora was a member of her high school’s jazz band. For her, jazz band provided a creative outlet as well as a community. Like Nora, the student musicians in Ben Lawson’s jazz band are motivated not only by music, but also by each other. Being a part of the jazz band requires commitment (pre-covid, they met during 0 period … before 1st period) and the love of being a part of a musical team. During this presentation, Mr. Lawson shares some performances from the group as well as memories from some of the outstanding musicians that he has mentored over the years. *ani* *oo*

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6:00 PM - Monday -

Listen to a local expert to learn tips and techniques for discussing racism, discrimination and bulling with the children in your life.

"Front Desk" by Kelly Yang, our Youth Novel Idea 2021 relates the story of young Chinese immigrant Mia and her life in America. This novel tells Mia's story through racism, discrimination and bullying. Reading this novel together is the perfect opportunity for parents to have meaningful conversations with their children on these topics. And those conversations can be difficult.

Whether your child is facing discrimination and racism, or is witnessing it, our presenters will offer tips and tools to help guide parents through these difficult conversations.

After a presentation there will be an opportunity to ask questions. If you already have questions for our expert, please email them to chandrav@deschuteslibrary.org.

To access this program, click on the link below.

Front Desk, the award winning debut middle-grade novel by Kelly Yang tells the story of Mia Tang, who helps her parents manage a motel in Southern California as they pursue their American dream. As they navigate a system hostile to immigrants, they form a community based on trust and love.
Kelly Yang was born in China and immigrated to America with her parents when she was six years old. She went to college at the age of 13 and law school at the age of 17. After law school, she gave up law to pursue her passion of writing and teaching children writing. She is the founder of The Kelly Yang Project, a leading writing and debating program for kids in Asia.*yani* *zm* *asl*

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10:00 AM - Tuesday -

This program will be available Tuesdays via YouTube at https://bit.ly/2Yaurca

Join community librarians for songs, rhymes, stories and fun!

Experts agree that talking, singing, reading, writing and playing with your young child will prepare them for learning how to read, and will teach them the six skills needed to read. A child who enters kindergarten with a strong vocabulary, a love of books, and a familiarity with playing with words, has a definite advantage. You can help those skills develop with story time!

For more information about early literacy and how to talk, read, rhyme, play and write with your child, visit: https://www.deschuteslibrary.org/kids/literacy

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5:30 PM - Tuesday -

This is a live, interactive meeting. Click here to join the program https://zoom.us/j/96577441977?pwd=ZDg3WDdyZWRlbUwyMGhTRXdMc2hCZz09 or click "Join Program" above.

Meeting passcode: 627633

A recording will be available after the program.

High desert author and poet Ellen Waterston discusses how blurring the lines between genres can allow writers more creativity and freedom with their writing.

High desert author and poet Ellen Waterston will explore what comes first, the chicken (what wants telling) or the egg (the style, genre or form that contains it). Poetry? Prose? Fiction? Nonfiction? What genre, within the medium of writing, and what form, what style within the genre, best befits the message? To what extent does the “message” wag the form and style? With the lines between genres, forms and styles more and more blurry, writers have unlimited creative liberty. A writing prompt will allow participants to experiment with this freedom.

Ellen Waterston has published four poetry and three literary nonfiction titles, including, most recently, Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America Along the Oregon Desert Trail, University of Washington Press, 2020. Hotel Domilocos, Moonglade Press, 2017 is her most recent collection of poetry. She is founder of the Writing Ranch, which conducts retreats for writers, and of the Waterston Desert Writing Prize, recently adopted as a program of the High Desert Museum. She lives in central Oregon.

Visit www.writingranch.com and www.waterstondesertwritingprize.org

The mission of Central Oregon Writers Guild is to provide Central Oregon area writers a forum for mutual support and education through meetings, annual events and workshops. Their goal is to advance growth and success for individual writers of all genres and at all skill levels. Founded in 2002, the Guild is a non-profit organization, where volunteers coordinate the group's activities. *zm*

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6:00 PM - Wednesday -

This is a live presentation. Register here for the Zoom link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zWXgqG1USzOgtLe9-PHh3Q

Recording of program available online after April 16.

Hear past events in Casablanca put into context for today.

Driss Guerraoui and his family moved to the U.S. in the wake of Casablanca’s 1981 protests and unrest. Dr. Mahmood Ibrahim, Professor Emeritus of History at California State Polytechnic University, will be using the events in Casablanca to highlight aspects of Moroccan history, as a way of explaining the riots and putting them in a contemporary Moroccan context.

Dr. Mahmood Ibrahim is Professor Emeritus of History at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). Since 1989 he's taught courses on Islam, the Middle East and North Africa, History Methods and Historiography for undergraduate and graduate students. His special area of research is the medieval period around the Mediterranean Sea, currently researching climate conditions in medieval Damascus and a biography of Qadi Abu Bakr (1076-1148), Chief Judge of Seville for the Almoravids.

He has been a member of the Academic Senate for many three-year terms and chaired several committees, including the Academic Programs Committee and the Faculty Affairs Committee. Recently, he chaired the General Education Committee and co/chaired the Curriculum Conversion Coordinating Committee tasked with converting Cal Poly Pomona’s academic programs and courses, including GE, from Quarter to Semester system. He also served as the Chair of the History Department for two terms from 1996-2004.

He was born as a refugee in the West Bank town of Ramallah in 1948, immigrated to the United States in 1966 and lived in New York City where he received his BA from the City College of New York (CCNY) in 1973. Dr. Ibrahim moved to Los Angeles where he attended UCLA, receiving his MA in 1974 and his Doctorate in 1981.

He was awarded several Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities grants and fellowships. He participated in several NEH Summer Seminars (Islamic Science-Columbia University; Just War and Jihad-Rutgers University; St. Francis of Assisi and his Time, Siena, Italy). He has led several student Education Abroad Programs to Morocco and a U. S. Department of Education/Fulbright Hays Grant (Fulbright GPA) to lead a six-week seminar/tour for 13 educators.
Dr. Ibrahim taught as a visiting lecturer at UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Riverside before going to Bir Zeit University, the West Bank where he became chair of the Department of History, Geography and Political Science from 1985-1989 leading it through the first Palestinian Uprising (the Intifada). His contributions to Cal Poly Pomona and its students are recognized through several research awards and Sabbaticals, and the award of Outstanding Academic Senator as well as the George P. Hart Award for Outstanding Faculty Leadership.

He is the author of Merchant Capital and Islam (University of Texas Press, 1991) and many other articles and book reviews. For more information visit:
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10:00 AM - Thursday -

Interactive storytime with songs, rhymes, and movement.
This video will premiere live on Facebook at 10:00 a.m.; visit www.facebook.com/deschuteslibrary to tune in.” Early literacy skills to get your child ready to learn to read are the focus of these storytimes. You and your child will hear great stories while also becoming more familiar with letter sounds, rhyming, vocabulary, and print. Fun for everyone with opportunities to sing, join in on movement rhymes

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12:00 PM - Thursday -

Pick-up your weekly craft or activity kit for children!

Kits will vary by week and are good for preschool aged children. Some will be appropriate for younger ages with heavy parent help. These kits contain a story time rhyme sheet, thematic craft and a link to view a related video on the library's YouTube page.

Supplies are limited and will be first come, first served.

All supplies are to be taken home, no crafting will be done in the library.

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6:00 PM - Thursday -

This is a live presentation. Register for Zoom link here https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PesDUBPcQNiC7YCsnSFgog

A recording of this program will be available on April 22 at 6:00 p.m.

Tom O’Keefe of Standford’s Center for Latin American Studies, explores how U.S. policies shaped current immigration crisis.

This program is in partnership with the Latino Outreach Visioning steering group of Trinity Episcopal Church.

Discover how the long and troubled history of U.S. military and covert interventions in Central America and failed U.S. economic assistance and climate change policies are responsible for the waves of desperate people currently fleeing El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and why the United States has a legal and moral responsibility to admit them as refugees.

Thomas Andrew O’Keefe, a dual national of the United States and Chile, is the President of Mercosur Consulting Group, Ltd., a legal and economic consulting firm that assists companies with their strategic business planning for South America as well as advises Latin American firms exporting to the United States. He did his undergraduate work at Columbia University, and received his J.D. from the Villanova University School of Law. In 1986, he worked for the legal departments of the Chilean Human Rights Commission and the Vicaría de la Solidaridad (the human rights office of the Archdiocese of Santiago). He also worked as an associate for a number of years at the Wall Street law firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn and the Boston-based Gadsby & Hannah before returning to study at the University of Oxford, where he received an M.Phil. in Latin American Studies (History and Economics) in 1992. He has taught courses on Colonial Latin America, Western Hemisphere economic integration, the political economy of the Southern Cone Countries of South America, energy and climate cooperation in the Americas, and U.S.-Latin America diplomatic history at American University, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, and Stanford University. He served as Chair of the Western Hemisphere Area Studies Program at the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute between 2011 and 2016. During the spring 2015 semester, he also taught a seminar on International Human Rights Law at the Villanova University School of Law.

Trinity Episcopal Church is a community of Christians who welcome diversity in theology and worldview. The Latino Outreach Visioning steering group of Trinity Episcopal Church works to grow our understanding of and connection with the Latino community. *ani* *zm*

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12:00 PM - Saturday -

Design a Front Desk inspired key shaped bookmark. Supplies limited.

Drop in and pick up a design a key shaped bookmark kits from any library location during business hours starting Saturday, April 17th, while supplies last.

In Front Desk by Kelly Yang, keys play a significant role. Physically, Mia Tang has to manage the room keys, giving them out to guests, getting them back when they leave, and replacing them when they break or are lost. Keys give Mia a lot of troubles when learning how to use the key cutting machine. In the end, Mia bests the machine! Keys are also more than just a physical thing for Mia. She learns friendship, family, and justice are also keys to a happy life.

Decorate your bookmark with what is key in your life, your favorite quotes, your favorite things or whatever inspires you. ***
Front Desk, the award winning debut middle-grade novel by Kelly Yang tells the story of Mia Tang, who helps her parents manage a motel in Southern California as they pursue their American dream. As they navigate a system hostile to immigrants, they form a community based on trust and love.

Kelly Yang was born in China and immigrated to America with her parents when she was six years old. She went to college at the age of 13 and law school at the age of 17. After law school, she gave up law to pursue her passion of writing and teaching children writing. She is the founder of The Kelly Yang Project, a leading writing and debating program for kids in Asia.

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3:00 PM - Saturday -

This is a live workshop. Register here for the Zoom link:
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Recording of program available online after April 19th.

Gather ingredients and cook delicious meals inspired by the book.

Food offers a welcome sense of the home country to many characters in The Other Americans. This cooking class is a merging of flavors, much as the book is a merging of different cultures. We will be preparing Moroccan stuffed peppers with a sweet and savory filling of spiced ground beef, brown rice, currants, and mint. This is a common dish in Morocco usually made with lamb. We’ll also prepare a torta de carnitas - a favorite of Efrain’s. We will make our own version of this Mexican pulled pork sandwich with fresh guacamole, black beans, and fresh salsa.

Here are the recipes and optional ingredient lists if you'd like to cook along with the Chef:

- Moroccan Stuffed Peppers: https://www.deschuteslibrary.org/files/uploads/Recipe%20Moroccan%20Stuffed%20Peppers%20PDF.pdf

- Torta De Carnitas: https://www.deschuteslibrary.org/files/uploads/Torta%20De%20Carnitas%20Recipe%20PDF.pdf

- Braised Pork Carnitas: https://www.deschuteslibrary.org/files/uploads/Braised%20Pork%20Carnitas%20PDF.pdf

Rose Archer has been a chef for over 25 years. Her career has taken her into some of the best kitchens in the world including Spago's in Beverly Hills and Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy. Her passion for healthy living inspired her to launch an online cooking program called True You Food where students learn to cook whole real foods through a 10 module video series. For more information visit www.trueyoufood.com

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1:00 PM - Monday -

This is a live presentation. Register here for the Zoom link:
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Discuss the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and resources for evidence-based trauma treatment.

Recording of program available online after April 21st.

One of the prominent voices in the novel is Jeremy: a Marine veteran who served in Iraq. Both he and his unit buddy, Fierro, have PTSD that manifests in different ways in their lives. Frachescha Scott, PhD will discuss whether the portrayal of PTSD in The Other Americans is a realistic representation of patients with PTSD and talk about resources for being able to identify different types of evidence-based trauma treatment.

Franchesca Scott, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow at STRONG STAR. There she provides evidenced-based PTSD treatment to active duty soldiers, veterans, and military family. She supports veteran health research and provides consultation services to behavioral health providers for prolonged exposure therapy. Prior to this role, Scott worked as a clinical psychology resident at the Intrepid Spirit Trauma Brain Injury (TBI) clinic located at Fort Hood, Texas. There she provided specialized care such as neuropsychological and cognitive assessments, which has enabled 90% of patients to continue on active duty with many of their symptoms reduced or controlled. In addition, she had leading roles to promote military cultural competence in the community, to coordinate outreach efforts and reduce stigma associated with seeking mental healthcare. Dr. Scott earned her PhD in clinical psychology and industrial-organizational psychology from Alliant International University in San Diego, California. She served in the U.S. Army as a Captain in the Medical Service Corps.

The South Texas Research Organizational Network Guiding Studies on Trauma and Resilience, or STRONG STAR, is a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional research consortium funded by the U.S. Departments of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) to develop and evaluate the most effective early interventions possible for the detection, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related conditions in active-duty military personnel and recently discharged veterans. Under the leadership of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and based in South-Central Texas, STRONG STAR brings together the expertise of a world-class team of military, civilian and VA institutions and investigators and one of the largest populations of active-duty and recently discharged Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation New Dawn combat veterans in the nation. With the critical mass of talent required to make major scientific advances in military PTSD research, STRONG STAR investigators hope to improve countless lives by preventing the development of chronic PTSD and related problems in a new generation of veterans.

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6:00 PM - Monday -

Join Deon for an online book discussion of The Other Americans.

Visit www.sunriverbooks.com for more info.

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10:00 AM - Tuesday -

This program will be available Tuesdays via YouTube at https://bit.ly/2Yaurca

Join community librarians for songs, rhymes, stories and fun!

Experts agree that talking, singing, reading, writing and playing with your young child will prepare them for learning how to read, and will teach them the six skills needed to read. A child who enters kindergarten with a strong vocabulary, a love of books, and a familiarity with playing with words, has a definite advantage. You can help those skills develop with story time!

For more information about early literacy and how to talk, read, rhyme, play and write with your child, visit: https://www.deschuteslibrary.org/kids/literacy

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