<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Fellow Federationists,</div><div><br></div><div>Please see below for a list of upcoming Programs and events at the MD Library for the Blind.<br><br>Chris Nusbaum<div><div><br></div><div>Sent from my iPhone</div></div></div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Mollyne Honor <<a href="mailto:mrhonor@LBPH.LIB.MD.US">mrhonor@LBPH.LIB.MD.US</a>><br><b>Date:</b> April 4, 2014 at 2:01:00 PM EDT<br><b>To:</b> <<a href="mailto:LBPH_INFO-L@LISTSRV.MSDE.STATE.MD.US">LBPH_INFO-L@LISTSRV.MSDE.STATE.MD.US</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>LBPH Upcoming Programs</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> Mollyne Honor <<a href="mailto:mrhonor@LBPH.LIB.MD.US">mrhonor@LBPH.LIB.MD.US</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt"><strong><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Upcoming Programs<o:p></o:p></span></u></strong></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#990000">April 24</span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><br></span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Museum Tour</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> – The Walters Art Museum – 10:30 am – 11:30 am</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Verbal description of special exhibition, “Designed for Flowers: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Please use the entrance on the corner of Centre and Cathedral Streets, 600 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><br>Free admission <b>limited to 20</b> <br><b>RSVP, <span style="color:black">410-230-2424, ext. 5031</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:14.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><br></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The Japanese art of flower arranging, or ikebana, has inspired the creation of extraordinary ceramic containers. This exhibition outlines the history of some of Japan’s major schools of ikebana and displays a wide variety of contemporary ceramics created in harmony with the most modern floral conventions.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#990000">May 1</span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><br></span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Group Show</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> – Oliver! – Eastern Regional Performing Arts Center (within the North Government Center) – 10:00 am <br>Presented by The Sky is the Limit Community Theatre<br>7701 Wise Avenue, Dundalk, MD 21222<br>Free admission <b>limited to 15</b><br><b>RSVP, 410-230-2424, ext. 5031</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:14.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Oliver! is a musical based upon the novel <i>Oliver Twist </i>by Charles Dickens.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Saturday Programs<br><br></span></u></b><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#990000">Second Saturday of the month</span></strong><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><br></span></u><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Technology User Group (TUG) </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">– Library –<span style="color:black"> 10:00 am </span>– 11:30 am<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">The meetings focus on emerging technologies and any product or service that benefits the blind or low vision user. For more information about the Technology User Group, please contact Jerry Price, (410) 230-2446 or email <a href="mailto:jprice@lbph.lib.md.us">jprice@lbph.lib.md.us</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Book Club Discussion</span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">– Library – Noon – 1:00 pm<u><span style="color:black"><br></span></u><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#990000">April 12</span></strong></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><br></span><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">The Good House, </span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">by Ann Leary, Facilitated by Wilhelmina Hargrave, DB076232, BR019880<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Ever since her daughters intervened and sent her to rehab, sixty-year-old divorced realtor Hildy Good has been secretly drinking in her cellar. Hildy rejoices when she finds a drinking buddy in new neighbor Rebecca—but both of their lives start unraveling. Strong language and some descriptions of sex.</span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#990000"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#990000"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#990000">May 10</span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><br><i>Good Poems, </i>edited by Garrison Keillor, Facilitated by Tyson Fogel, DB057059</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">A selection of poems that were read over National Public Radio on a daily five-minute program called "The Writer's Almanac." Includes classics by Shakespeare and Walt Whitman as well as many works by twentieth-century poets including Hayden Carruth, John Updike, Elizabeth Bishop, e.e. cummings, and Maxine Kumin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Ongoing Programs<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Adult Braille Classes</span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> – Library – 9:00 am-2:00 pm/weekdays by appointment <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><br>Classes will be one hour in length. There will be no charge for class instruction or reading materials. Braille instructors are graduates of BISM's SAIL program (Seniors Achieving Independent Living). For further information or to apply, contact Ruth Sager, 410-737-2649, <a href="mailto:rsager@bism.org">rsager@bism.org</a>.</span><strong><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></u></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></body></html>