SilverKite Community Arts: Sip and Paint Watercolor (online)

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For adults. Create a watercolor painting inspired by spring! Explore a variety of techniques to understand the basics of watercolor, including color mixing and washes. Grab a beverage of your choice and spend an hour painting and making art together! SilverKite Community Arts offers online inter-generational workshops, talks, social hours and performances FREE for KCLSMore

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SilverKite Community Arts: Writing Poetry about Art (online)

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Many wonderful poems have been inspired by paintings and sculpture, and there are plenty of those to come around and inspire your writing. Look at some different approaches poets have taken, then look at inspirations for us to write about. SilverKite Community Arts offers online inter-generational workshops, talks, social hours and performances FREE for KCLSMore

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SilverKite Community Arts: Painting, Drawing and Writing Affirmations (online)

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For adults. Create a positive affirmation painting blending affirming statements and and art. SilverKite Community Arts offers online inter-generational workshops, talks, social hours and performances FREE for KCLS patrons. We hope that by offering these opportunities, we are providing stimulating creative engagement opportunities and social connection. These workshops last approximately one hour. Register at silverkite.us/kcls.

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Improve Your Digital Security (online)

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For adults. Learn tips to improve your safety against digital scams. Presented by Bridget of Gentle Tech Help. Please register at kcls.org.

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Meet the Author: Darrin Bell (online)

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For adults and teens, grades 8 and older. Meet Darrin Bell, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and author of The Talk. In this powerful graphic memoir, Bell shares personal experiences that vividly show some of the ways racism has impacted his life. Please register at kcls.org.

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Author Voices: Thulani Davis (online)

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Author Voices: Thulani Davis (online) Saturday, February 24, 1pm For adults. Join Author Thulani Davis for a talk with the Seattle Opera. Thulani Davis wrote the libretto for the Opera X: The Life and Times and Malcolm X along with The Emancipation Circuit, My Confederate Kinfolk and Malcolm X: the Great Photographs. In Partnership withMore

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SilverKite Community Arts: Mountainscape in Colored Pencils (online)

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For adults. Draw Washington state's beloved Mt. Rainier using colored pencils SilverKite Community Arts offers online inter-generational workshops, talks, social hours and performances FREE for KCLS patrons. We hope that by offering these opportunities, we are providing stimulating creative engagement opportunities and social connection. These workshops last approximately one hour. Register at silverkite.us/kcls.

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Romance Reading Series: Publishers (online)

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For adults. Talk about various romance publishers and the genres, authors and tropes they support. Love to read romance or want to try it out? Join other readers and a librarian in exploring new and diverse romance books. Please register at kcls.org.

Were All the Cowboys White? Finding Mexican and African American Cowboys (online)

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For adults. In old movies and TV programs, all the cowboys seemed to be white. In reality, about 1 in 4 were men of color. This presentation reviews the growth of horse and cattle handlers from early Mexico through the early 1900s in the U.S. What records can we find? Presenter Janice Lovelace, Ph.D., hasMore

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SilverKite Community Arts: Journey with Acrylics (online)

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For adults. Join a journey of the imagination with acrylic paints! Class facilitated by Tammy Leaver. SilverKite Community Arts offers online inter-generational workshops, talks, social hours and performances FREE for KCLS patrons. We hope that by offering these opportunities, we are providing stimulating creative engagement opportunities and social connection. These workshops last approximately one hour.More

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