Programs & Events - Adult Programs
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Book Club Meeting
Second Tuesday of Every Month: 10:00 am to 12:00 noon
September 9,
October 14,
November 11,
December 9
Everyone discusses a favorite author/book or recent read;
meets people with similar and different interests in books;
and makes plans to fine-tune the club to meet their needs!
Summer Lecture Series 2008
Grief Seminar
Wednesday: July 9th • 10:00-11:30am
Monday: August 18th • 1:00-2:30pm
Professional Life Coach
Certified Grief Recovery Specialist
Everyone, at some point in life is affected by grief. Whether it is due to the death of a loved one, divorce or romantic breakup, loss of a pet, job loss, retirement, or relocation from our roots, loss creates change which we are not always prepared to handle. Our society has taught us how to acquire things, but not what to do when we experience loss.
This presentation discusses the basics of grief and loss and how it affects us. Attendees will learn tips on what to do when loss occurs, what to do and say when someone dear to us has loss in their life, and how to live life to its fullest while recovering from loss.
is a Registered Nurse with professional credentials that
include membership in the Arizona Bereavement Association, ADEC
(Association of Death Educators and Counselors) and certification as a
hospice bereavement volunteer. Through her private practice in Carefree,
Life Balance Coaching, LLC and Grief Services, Cheryl counsels clients
affected by grief. Additionally, she leads grief workshops, and facilitates
women’s retreats nationally and internationally. Cheryl is also the owner of
Compass Retreats—Exceptional Retreats for Exceptional Women.
Cheryl lives in Carefree with her family. Her son is in the US Air Force.
COMMUNITY EVENT
August 30, 2008 at the Desert Foothills Library from 10:00 to 12:00
Rural Metro Fire Department and Maricopa County Department of Public Health will be providing the following services to residents of Cave Creek:
Child Car Seat Safety Check
Blood Pressure Check
In addition, Rural Metro will be raffling off booster car seats, distributing Rural Metro Fire and Paramedics information and answering questions about our services.
BRAIN FUN & FITNESS
Discover what you can do to have the greatest impact on your brain fitness—without breaking a sweat! Learn the basics of how your brain works and what it needs to keep growing at any age. Phyllis Strupp, brain fitness coach, will present three, interactive Brain Fun & Fitness programs at the Desert Foothills Library. Each program offers strategies and activities for brain fitness and growth that go way beyond crossword puzzles, games, and software programs.
 Phillis Strupp Strupp uses her business experience and training to help people enrich their lives in fun, practical ways that encourage the brain to grow and stay fit. She has spoken to many groups around the Valley, including Classic Residence at Grayhawk and Silverstone, Pueblo Norte, the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy, and the Pinnacle Presbyterian Church. Currently, Strupp is enrolled in the Brain Research in Education Certificate Program of the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author of the award-winning book The Richest of Fare about the evolution and purpose of the human brain and consciousness. Strupp serves on the faculty of the CREDO Episcopal Clergy Wellness Program and the Chautauqua Institution in New York.
For more details, visit her Website
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Monday, September 29, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Brain Fun & Fitness Introduction
Learn the basics of how your brain works and what it needs to keep on growing at any age.
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Tuesday, October 21, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Supersize Your Memory
Discover why "use it or lose it" is true, and the best strategies to improve your memory.
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Monday, November 10, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Brain-ercises
Different activities exercise different areas of your brain. Experience several easy, fun brain exercises and feel the benefits of brain exercise for yourself.
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Each program is $10 for library members and $15 for non-members.
STARGAZING for EVERYONE
FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN ARE ENCOURAGED TO COME!
Wednesday, September 10th 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
6:30 – 7:15 Lecture/presentation in Conference Room
7:30 – 9:00 Telescope viewing on Library Patio
Please sign up in advance to ensure sufficient seating and equipment.
$10 for current donating members of the Desert Foothills Library Association;
$15 for Desert Foothills Library cardholders;
$20 for general public;
($5 for seniors 65 and over and children under 12)
Money will be collected at the door.
Please bring your digital camera and binoculars if you have them and you will be shown how to use them in star viewing.
Tony Conte will be providing viewing telescopes with GPS to zoom into the stars. He will be using a high powered laser to point things out in the sky. We will be looking at the moon and Jupiter, galaxies, star clusters, nebulae and colorful double stars. The lecture will highlight the Orionid Meteor shower to take place in the middle of October.
THIS IS A “RAIN OR SHINE” EVENT. If there is bad weather, the lecture will be extended : you will not be disappointed.
more about Stargazing
NEW LITERARY SALON
TO BEGIN OCTOBER 8 AT DESERT FOOTHILLS LIBRARY
Welcome to the Literary Salon, a lively conversation sponsored by the Arizona Authors' Association at the Desert Foothills Library. The Salon is a monthly conversational milieu focusing on ideas and all forms of literary and artistic endeavor, a time and place in which interesting people share stimulating ideas on a variety of topics.
Not a book club, workshop, class or support group, the Salon instead offers a fresh
alternative -- that increasingly rare commodity, good conversation respecting and inclusive of the insights of all.
The first Salon is scheduled for October 8, 2008. We will meet monthly from 10:30 a.m. to Noon, the second Wednesday of each month at the Desert Foothills Library.
The Library provides a comfortable space and coffee and Arizona Authors Association members offer refreshments. Salon hosts are Melanie Lee, a journalist and founder of
Sojourns Writing Workshops, and Louis Michalski, an anthropologist and adjunct instructor at two Arizona universities.
October's Topic for discussion is "Animals in Literature". Read a book, essay, poem, short story, or whatever strikes the fancy - and come prepared to tell us how it moved you, perhaps inspired you, disgusted you, provoked you… Was what you encountered life-changing? Strange? Endearing? Helpful to your own writing efforts? Enlightening philosophically, spiritually, socially... or what?
Some timeless examples come to mind: Jack London's "The Call of the Wild". How are animals portrayed as symbols of intuition? How did dogs come to be called man's best friend? Do elephants cry? The enduring fascination of fables featuring the
wisdom of animals (grasshopper and ant). Poetry (Pablo Neruda's Ode series: tuna, dog, etc.).Wonder if the advent of The Humane Society influenced the literature of the day, or vice versa? How about animals as metaphors for human experience and symbolic of human characteristics? Not to even mention animals in both classical and popular art and music ("Peter and the Wolf", Rousseau's jungle scenes...). Well, you get the idea. And we'll be taking it all in, discussing, commenting, enjoying each other's insights and delighting in this lively literary excursion. See you October 8!
For more information contact Melanie Lee or Louis Michalski at
480/991-1510 or izzybeam@earthlink.net.
AUTHOR'S PODIUM
Meet Your Favorite Authors!
Whether it’s mystery or history, fiction or reality... you’re in for a treat.
Our guest speakers are experts in their genre. They’re entertaining,
thought-provoking... always interesting and sometimes controversial.
There is no fee to attend and everyone is welcome.
see the complete Schedule
FOREIGN FILM FESTIVAL
click here for Showtimes
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