Summer Reading Program Finale with Arthur Atsma

The Summer Reading Program finale was held this eveing at the Smyrna Community Center.  It featured the incredible Arthur Atsma. He wowed the attendees with magic, comedy, stories, and stunts! 

The S Cobb Drive Chick-fil-A also brought along goodies and their cow, Molly! Thank you, Chick-fil-A and Molly.

This Summer Reading Program Event was sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library.

Summer Reading Program: Visit by Tacky the Penguin

Tacky the Penguin visited the Smyrna Public Library today! 

Tacky the Penguin is a delightful tale about being true to yourself—even when it means being a little different from everybody else.

Tacky likes to do splashy cannonballs and greet his friends with a loud, “What’s happening?” His fellow penguins find his odd behavior somewhat bothersome.

But when fearsome poachers come to the iceberg hunting for penguins, Tacky’s odd ways may be just the thing that saves the day.

Source: Amazon.com

This Summer Reading Program Event was sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library.

Summer Reading Program: Cooking Class with Chef Mark

Today was the last "Teen Tuesday" program of the summer!  Chef Mark showed us how to make crepes with fresh fruit and ice cream.  It was YUMMY!  

Summer Reading Program: Origami Workshop

 

The Japan-America Society of Georgia taught Smyrna kids how to make Origami today.

Summer Reading Program: Juggler Todd Key

We were joined joined by the fabulous Todd Key this evening and he presented his show, "The Flying Debris Extravaganza Juggle-Palooza!"  It was a great show!

This Summer Reading Program Event was sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library.

Annual Frozen Yogurt Social & Book Sale Concludes

The Frozen Yogurt Social and Book Sale was held today at the Smyrna Public Library. The annual event was a HUGE success. Over 250 attendees enjoyed music by Peter Vogl and delicious servings of Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt, which were donated by Pinkberry at Akers Mill Square.  This year’s book sale set a new sales record.

Our next book sale will be at the Fall Jonquil Festival in October.

July-August Art Gallery Exhibits Announced by Smyrna Library

Photographs by Karen Johnson on display through August.

Karen Johnson Bio

I am a Medical Techologist and amateur hotographer. The photography bug didn't really hit me until I moved from my home, just outside of Baltimore, Maryland, to Nashville, Tennessee. I explored all of the nearby parks as well as part of the Natchez Trace and took pictures to show friends and relatives the natural beauty of the area. After 5 years there, I moved to Temple, Texas and joined a Photography Club to learn more about the art. Again, I visited as many parks as I could, documenting my explorations with photographs. In 1996, I moved to Smyrna, Georgia and continued my park explorations as well the Atlanta Botanical Garden. At work, we would have craft fairs and I discovered that others liked my pictures well enough to purchase them as enlargements or as note cards. My favorite subjects are reflections in water and flowers as I enjoy the extraordinary beauty and color of nature and photography enables me to share it with others.

 

July-August Display Gallery Exhibit Announced by Smyrna Library

Handmade Books by Ruth Kramedjian on display through August.

Ruth is a graduate of the University of Georgia with degrees in drawing and painting and art history. She has worked with fabric, designing and making original quilts; she has worked in metal, designing jewelry in silver and gold; her photographic work concentrated on black and white infrared as well as large color landscape prints. In recent years she has returned to abstract painting and the art of collage or mixed media.

In the current work, she has moved to a more intimate output with the art of the handmade book. She incorporates her own art forms and collage in the books that she makes. She is exploring not only book forms, but also the art of handmade paper.

In her artist’s statement, Ruth says:

Rhythmic cycles chart the course of our days. Both mundane and magnificent, they present themselves in the powerful circle of community life, the changing of the seasons, the movement from dawn to dusk and back again to light. Ethereal, concrete, and universal, they frame our lives and they give direction to my spiritual quest to find meaning in my world through art making. The grid and its counterpart, the circle, often serve as a frame for these cycles, and my emotional response to the inherent rhythms finds expression in my mark making. The short view, the long view, the universal view – from these, I examine my world.

Ruth can be contacted at 404.210.9790 or rrpk2@yahoo.com.