The Cello Collective learns about performance technique, musicality and enjoys opportunities to perform at community concerts and events.

Cello Collective members include players who range in ability from beginner through advanced levels. Repertoire varies from classical to contemporary musical arrangements.

Several performance opportunities occur throughout the year.In the Spring there are several community outreach performances at various venues like the Topeka Shawnee County Library and reitrement facilities. In May, the annual Spring Cello Bash wraps up the school year. Read and see more here: http://topekacc.snappages.com/home.htm

This is what they will be playing:

Peter Gunn by Henry Mancini

Zooster’s Breakout from the movie “Madagascar”

Oye Como Va by Santana

Music of the Night by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Hawaii Five-O

Crazy Train

The Black Pearl from the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean”

What I’ve Done by Linkin Park

New Mario Medley

Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Hedwig’s Theme from the movie “Harry Potter”

Raider’s March by John Williams

The Medallion Calls from the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean”

Enjoy the following musical groups as they return again to entertain us throughout December.

Sat     Dec. 1      11:30 AM–12:00 PM     Acappella Unlimited
Thu    Dec. 6      11:30 AM–12:00 PM     McEachron Strings
Thu    Dec. 6      12:00 PM–12:30 PM     Wanamaker Elementary Early Morning Singers
Fri      Dec. 7      11:30 AM–12:00 PM     French Middle School Strings
Sat     Dec. 8      11:00 AM–11:30 AM     Silver Winds Flute Trio
Mon   Dec. 10    11:00 AM–11:30 AM     Melodears Women’s Chorus
Tue    Dec. 11     10:00 AM–10:30 AM     Royal Valley Middle School
Tue    Dec. 11    10:30 AM–11:00 AM      Heritage Christian School Singers
Tue    Dec. 11    11:30 AM–12:00 PM      Bootleggers Dulcimer Band
Wed   Dec. 12    10:15 AM–10:45 AM      Williams Magnet School
Wed   Dec. 12    11:30 AM–12:00 PM      Rochester Chorus
Wed   Dec. 12    12:00 PM–12:30 PM      Topeka West Singers
Wed   Dec. 12     2:00 PM–2:30 PM        Topeka West Concert Orchestra
Thu    Dec. 13    11:00 AM–11:30 AM     Logan Elementary
Thu    Dec. 13    12:00 PM–12:30 PM     Cornerstone Family Schools Jr. Choir
Thu    Dec. 13    12:30 PM 1:00 PM        Deo Gloria
Thu    Dec. 13    2:00 PM–2:30 PM         Topeka West Premier Strings
Fri      Dec. 14    11:00 AM–11:30 AM      Logan Elementary
Fri      Dec. 14    11:30 AM–12:00 PM      Avondale West Choristers
Fri      Dec. 14    12:00 PM–12:30 PM      Hayden Singers
Fri     Dec. 14     12:30 PM–1:00 PM        Topeka Collegiate Choir
Mon  Dec. 17     11:30 AM–12:00 PM      Washburn Rural MS White Orchestra
Mon  Dec. 17     12:00 PM–12:30 PM      Washburn Rural MS Blue Orchestra
Mon  Dec. 17      6:30 PM–7:30 PM         Westminster Presbyterian Handbell Choir
Tue Dec. 18       5:00 PM–5:30 PM         Topeka Children’s Show Quartet
Thu   Dec. 20      11:00 AM–11:30 AM     Eisenhower Middle School Choir
Thu   Dec. 20     11:30 AM 12:00 PM       State Street Singers

See the daily list on the front page or our site (right rail) http://tscpl.org Click on any one of those to go to the full list.

I’ve enjoyed sorting and deciding on just the right piece to create a unique brooch or pendant. I’m also a gourd artist and discovered several years ago that gourd shards (the pieces left over when I cut up a gourd) can make great bases to a piece of jewelry. Adding an interesting button as the main focus of the piece creates a very beautiful artisan fashion accessory.

Here are a few examples of what I’ve created.

If you are a true collector of buttons and find it appalling to cut off the shanks and glue them to things like I do then the library has a wonderful collection of books for you. Do you collect buttons?

Here is one example and you will find several in the new area called the Collectibles Neighborhood. Look for the colorful headers above the books and follow the easy to follow signs. If you are a Dewey decimal buff look for the 641.19s.

If you just have a stash of fun junk type buttons like me then you will want to visit the Arts and Crafts Neighborhood. My favorite Dewey – 745! There you will find many books on all kinds of crafts and many on making jewelry like the one below. Have you ever made jewelry from buttons? Send me some pictures if you have and I’ll post them.

Next spring March 19 and April 16 find me again when I give a couple programs called Junk Drawer Jewelry. They won’t be about button jewelry but something just as fun so check them out to see what we’ll be making and come create with us.

 novermyer@tscpl.org

“Fans of Nevada Barr and Sara Paretsky will relish Linda Rodriguez’s stellar debut. Her sleuth, Skeet Bannion, is a keeper. Every Last Secret is a triple crown winner; superb writing, hell for leather plotting and terrific characters.” – Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times bestselling author of One Was a Soldier

 “Rodriguez writes clearly and forcefully. … Fans of tough female detectives like V.I. Warshawski and Kinsey Millhone will be pleased.” – Publishers Weekly

  “Every Last Secret offers that rare and startling thing in the universe of thrillers: a truly fresh voice. Rodriguez’s tale spares nothing. Skeet is an all-too-human heroine, and we just want more, more, more.”–Jacquelyn Mitchard, #1 national bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Second Nature: A Love Story

 “Linda Rodriguez has created a captivating female detective with a mind for justice and a heart for those who’ve been unfairly treated.  Skeet navigates university politics and a nest of deadly secrets to find the truth, even when it means investigating people she cares about.”–Carolyn Haines, author of Bones of a Feather

 “There’s a new cop in town and she has smarts, courage, and a good heart. Mystery readers will find a new favorite in Chief Skeet Bannion.”  –Nancy Pickard, author of The Scent of Rain and Lightning

 “Murder on a college campus, plenty of bad people, and all kinds of puzzles to solve.  Linda Rodriguez has written a highly enjoyable procedural introducing a rough and tender heroine, Skeet Bannion.”–Kathleen George, author of The Odds and Hideout

 ”Rodriguez’s debut is an action-packed ride featuring an intriguing heroine you won’t quickly forget.”—Sally Goldenbaum, bestselling author of The Wedding Shawl

 Selected Reviews for Every Last Secret

“Linda Rodriguez delivers a lively look at a woman rebuilding her life in ‘Every Last Secret.’…Rodriguez’s energetic storytelling and attention to character prove she is an author who should have a bright future. Skeet is in touch with her Cherokee heritage. Her determination to make a fresh start will resonate with anyone who has started a new job or moved to a new town.”—Oline H. Cogdill, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

“Rodriguez writes clearly and forcefully….Fans of tough female detectives like V.I. Warshawski and Kinsey Millhone will be pleased.”–Publishers Weekly

“Skeet’s debut introduces a strong, intelligent woman detective with both a knack for solving crimes and a difficult personal life. The next episode can’t come too soon.”–Kirkus Reviews

“With a strong heroine struggling to find balance in her work and personal life, this intriguing debut shows great promise….Good read-alikes might be Lori Armstrong and Sara Paretsky for formidable heroines with baggage.”–Library Journal

“Every Last Secret would appear to follow any one of several tried and true conventions—a village mystery, a police procedural, a cozy replete with Skeet’s knitting and pets, or an ethnic mystery playing off its determined heroine’s half-Cherokee ancestry—but with solid writing and honest insights into human complexity, Rodriguez manages to employ all these familiar tropes with considerable élan.”–Mystery Scene Magazine

http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250005458

 http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781250005458-0

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/every-last-secret-linda-rodriguez/1106502012?ean=9781250005458&itm=5&usri=linda%2brodriguez

Linda Rodriguez Bio

Linda Rodriguez’s Every Last Secret (St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books) won the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition, was selected by Las Comadres National Book Club, and was a Barnes & Noble mystery pick. Her second novel, Every Broken Trust, will be published May 7, 2013. For her books of poetry, Skin Hunger (Scapegoat Press) and Heart’s Migration (Tia Chucha Press, finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award), Rodriguez received numerous awards, including Midwest Voices & Visions Award, Elvira Cordero Cisneros Award, KCArtsFund Inspiration Award, Thorpe Menn Award for Literary Excellence, and Ragdale and Macondo fellowships. Her poems have been broadcast on The Writers Almanac with Garrison Keillor (NPR), Arts Round-Up KCUR-FM in Kansas City, KC Connections KCUR-FM, Talking Earth KBOO-FM in Portland, and New Letters on the Air (NPR). She was a founder/co-coordinator of the Kansas City Women Writers Reading Series and founding board member of both Latino Writers Collective and The Writers Place, is president-elect of Border Crimes chapter of Sisters in Crime, and is a member of Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers, Kansas City Cherokee Community, and International Thriller Writers. She was formerly director of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Women’s Center and was a co-convener of the Women & Environment Caucus at the United Nations international conference, Women 2000: Beijing Plus Five. She has also published a cookbook, The “I Don’t Know How to Cook” Book: Mexican (Adams Media, 2008). She is currently working on a book of poetry based on teachings from her Cherokee grandmother and a novel about Kansas City’s long-established Latino community.
 

Go to http://www.washburnlaw.edu/history/ for more information

Despite the name, Death Valley is a beautiful place full of life waiting to be explored. Join Ranger Justin Sochacki, Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site to learn about the hottest, lowest, driest place in the United States and those who have explored it, including an infamous group of Jayhawkers!

Join the rangers again the 1st Thursday of every month for more history facts about National Parks.

Sept 6 – 7:00 pm Marvin Auditorium  101C
Death and Dying in National Parks 
Explore some of the most beautiful places in the world, as well as some of the most deadly – America’s National Parks. Although most visitors recognize the inherent dangers in exploring their parks, a good number are ignorant of the potential life threatening situations that can occur when you go on vacation and forget to pack your common sense.  David is a twenty year veteran of the National Park Service and he will share stories and images from some of the truly awe inspiring places he has worked. The program will highlight  Grand Canyon, Arches, Joshua Tree and Canyonlands National Parks and touch on many of the other parks in the system. Presented by National Park Service Ranger Dave Smith from Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site.

Visit our Travel Neighborhood and find more books on Death Valley. Look for the 917.9487 to find books like these.

Elisha Scott, Colored Lawyer of Topeka
This program revolves around Scott’s life as one of the state’s most noted attorneys and some of his most important cases where he fought to win fair treatment for all Kansas school children. Presented by the National Park Service rangers from Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
Marvin Auditorium 101C
Tue  Jun 26 7:00–8:00 pm

Linked by Fate and Friendship: Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson
Go back in time and eavesdrop on history making telephone conversations between these two presidents. Presented by National Park Service ranger Dave Schafer from Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site who worked at President Truman’s house in Missouri and Lyndon Johnson’s ranch in Texas.
Marvin Auditorium 101C
Mon  Jul 30 7:00–8:00 pm

The Hottest Destination in America
Despite the name, Death Valley is a beautiful place full of life waiting to be explored. Join Ranger Justin Sochacki, Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site to learn about the hottest, lowest, driest place in the United States and those who have explored it, including an infamous group of Jayhawkers!
Marvin auditorium 101CThu  Aug 2 7:00–8:00 pm

Death and Dying in National Parks
Explore some of the most beautiful places in the world, as well as some of the most deadly – America’s National Parks such as Grand Canyon, Arches, Joshua Tree and Canyonlands. Presented by National Park Ranger Dave Smith, Director of  Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
Marvin auditorium 101C   Thu  Sep 6 7:00–8:00 pm

Of all the ancient Athenian philosophical schools, the Garden of Epicurus (as one of the schools was called) was reputedly the only one that accepted women and slaves as students. Professor Gordon explores fact and fiction about the Garden, and describes why it would have attracted her over two millennia ago.

Gordon, Pamela…
Is the Chair of the Department of Classics at the University in Kansas. She has three degrees in Ancient Greek literature: a BA from Oberlin College, and the MA and PhD from Bryn Mawr College. Her scholarly and teaching interests range broadly across various genres of Greek and Latin literature, including drama, epic, lyric poetry, and philosophy. She has published on Epicurus, Homer, Lucretius, Sappho, and Virgil; as well as on the representation of Greek myth in Athenian vase-painting. Much of her published work concerns the social and cultural history of the sometimes notorious philosophical known as the Garden of Epicurus, and her forthcoming book is: The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus, currently in production at University of Michigan Press; due to appear in spring 2012.

Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives: Poetry-Drama-Dialogue is a program that has been
made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities:
great ideas brought to life. www.ancientgreeksmodernlives.org
Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do
not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities

For the library’s part we’d love to take you back in time to when ballroom dancing hit the silver screen while you enjoy two classic films with two classic dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Shall We Dance
Thursday May 3 – 7:00 pm –8:30 pm
■ Marvin Auditorium 101BC
This film features such Gershwin tunes as Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off. A rumor sparks a romance in this film starring perennial favorites Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
RKO | 1937 | B&W | 109 minutes
■ Marvin Auditorium 101BC

Top Hat
Thu May 10 – 7:00–8:30 pm
■ Marvin Auditorium 101BC
This classic musical, starring Rogers and Astaire, features Irving Berlin’s romantic Top Hat, White Tie and Tails.
RKO | 1935 | B&W | 94 minutes
Thu May 10 7:00–8:30 pm

Look for other classic films in our movie collection and come see a classic film here the 2nd Friday of every month.
On May 12, 2012, Topeka Habitat for Humanity will present its first annual gala event entitled: “Shall We Dance? A Topeka Habitat Production” which will be held at the Topeka Ramada Inn, Regency Ballroom, from 6:00-9:30pm. Call 234-4322 for tickets or go to www.topekahabitat.org 
This event will feature a Dancing with the Stars style competition, showcasing celebrity dancers:

• Tom Hagen (KSNT),
• J.B. Bauersfeld (WIBW)
• Martha Bartlett Piland (MB Piland, Fat Free Advertising)

They will be partnered with professionals from three premiere dance studios: 

• InStep Dance Studio,
• Beverly Bernardi Post Conservatory of Dance and Pom
• Christie Curtis- The Occasional Dancer. 

The evening will be a fantastic combination of competition, entertainment; food and drink.  King’s of Swing, a regionally renowned “big band” will be performing throughout the event. 

In addition, a recycled art auction will be held with pieces created by local artists from items found at the Topeka Habitat for Humanity ReStore.  All proceeds from the event and the auction go to fund THFH’s high school building programs, which provide education in construction science to over 100 Topeka teens from Seaman, Shawnee Heights and Washburn Rural while providing safe, decent and affordable homes for Topeka families.

The Green Fair starts at 2:00 so you will have time to do your drop off and attend the fair.

Asset LifeCycle will be here to haul off your electronics.

Just for today these are taken for FREE: 
Desktops, Telephones, Keyboards, Mice, Printers, Laptops, Fax Machines, Copiers, Scanners, Cameras, Toner Cartridges, Cellular Phones,

These items will NOT be free today and do have a fee associated:
Monitors, $10.00
Televisions, $20.00
Televisions (if in a wooden housing) $30.00

Asset LifeCycle is a complete Asset Disposition and Recycling Service Provider.

From a 2010 press release:

“ALC is leading the way for responsible recycling as one of the first electronics recycling companies in Kansa to achieve the ISO 14001:2004 accreditation.

 The ISO 14001:2004 Standard is an internationally accepted specification for environmental management systems created by the International Organization for Standardization to help organizations minimize how their operations affect the environment and comply with related laws, regulations and requirements.”

See you at the ”It’s so Easy Being Green! Green Fair”