Group Events

Each Branch Friends Group works as its own entity. The people of any given neighborhood have the best idea of their needs. We believe that this autonomy is what makes the Friends so successful. Each group forms its own rhythm, determines its own unique focus based on neighborhood assets and challenges and works for its own growth. Contact Amy Dougherty @ 215-567-4562 for more information.

Unless stated otherwise, please contact the local branch for more information about these events.

Blanche A. Nixon

Friends Meeting: Wednesday, August 27 at 1:30 p.m.

Bushrod

On Thursday, July 10, the Friends of Bushrod will host a Re-Opening Celebration at the Bushrod Library. There will be a Friends Welcome and Community Meeting at 12:30 p.m. followed by a Free Family Program featuring Face Painting and Make & Take Crafts from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Free refreshments will be available.
The Friends are hosting a daily book-related activity or game throughout July. Programs are for children ages 6 to 12 and will take place daily at 2:00 p.m.

Bustleton

Friends Meeting: Second Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. No meeting in July or August. Next meeting is September 10.
Used Book Sale and Outdoor Flea Market: Saturday, October 11, 2008 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Book Sale will feature all types of books. Books can be donated to be sold by dropping them off at the library by October 10. Flea Market vendor spaces are available for just $10. Call 215.685.0472 for more information or click here for the form.

Falls of Schuylkill

Scrabble at the Library. Falls of Schuylkill is participating in the citywide Scrabble tournament; Friday mornings from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Fox Chase

Friends Meeting: Second Monday of the Month at 7:30 p.m. Fox Chase Friends will not be meeting in July or August.
Fall Craft and Demo Show is scheduled for Saturday, September 27. Click here for the application form if you'd like to participate. And the Holiday Craft and Gift Show is scheduled for Saturday, December 13. Check back for more information.

Haverford

Friends Meeting: Monday, August 25 at 6:00 p.m.

Holmesburg

Summer Movies at Holmesburg Library: Mondays at 6:00 p.m.
- July 7: The Water Horse
- July 14: Enchanted
- July 21: The Last Mimzy
- July 28: Curious George
Craft of the Week on Thursdays at 3:00 p.m. through the summer. July 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31.
Balloon Sculpture Workshop: Kids learn how to twist balloons into fantastic shapes! Monday, July 14 at 2:00 p.m.
Crazy Rhythm, Fancy Feet: Featuring Latin dances like the tango, cha cha, salsa, and meringue, this show demonstrates partner dancing through fun, energetic dance routines, colorful costumes, and audience participation. Wednesday, July 30 at 6:30 p.m.
Bug Party! Monday, August 4 at 6:30 p.m. Learn all about different types of bugs by participating in this fun and interactive program with live insects!

Kensington

Join in role playing theater that will open your eyes and exercise your mediating muscles with the Conflict Resolution Workshop on Friday, July 11 at 2:00 p.m.
Science in the Summer - Tuesday, July 15 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Pre-Registration begins May 15. Put on your safety goggles and explore the exciting world of chemistry! Turn pennies into gold, make crystals, and watch raisins and popcorn dance.
The Eagles Book Mobile tackles reading to give children a better field position in their lives on Tuesday, August 15 at 1:00 p.m. Visit the library to hear Storybook Man and get a free, new book.

Lawncrest

The Friends of Lawncrest are sponsoring Mr. Malcolm and His Storytime Friends on Monday, July 28 at 6:30 p.m. Come to the library for some great entertainment; refreshments will be provided.
Join us for Friday Afternoon Crafts for kids ages 6 to 12 on Fridays, August 1, 8, and 15 at 2:00 p.m. Beat the heat and be creative with a craft program sponsored by the Friends of Lawncrest library.
The next Friends Meeting will be Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 1:15 p.m. Meeting are held the first Wednesday of each month (except July and August) at 1:15 p.m.
The Annual Fall Book and Media Sale Event is scheduled for Saturday, September 20 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. All donations of recent, gently used hardbacks, paperbacks, technical manuals, textbooks, children's books, videos, cassettes, CDs, DVDs, books on tapes, puzzles, and games, IN GOOD CONDITION, may be dropped off at the Lawncrest Library. No encyclopedia sets please! Be sure to mark the calendar for this not-to-be missed event.

Lillian Marrero

Friends Meeting: Tuesday, July 22 at 3:00 p.m.

PCI Library

Monday Matinee Movies at 2:00 p.m.
July 2008: Russian films

July 7: Alexander Nevsky 1938, 108 minutes, black and white, music by Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Eisenstein directs: Nikolai Cherkassov, Dimitri Orlov, Vassily Novikov; Eisenstein's masterpiece of propaganda, made with the assistance of Stalin, to arouse Soviet audiences in anticipation of a Nazi invasion was removed from theaters after the signing of the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939 and re-released in 1941, after the Nazi invasion; set in 13th-century Russia
July 14: Ivan's Childhood 1962, 95 minutes, black and white, visionary filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky directs: Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Ye Zharikov Ivan; a 12-year-old boy roams the destroyed landscapes of World War II Russia along the German front, his ecstatic dreams of his missing family contrast with his bloodthirsty hunger for revenge
July 21: Burnt by the Sun 1994, 135 minutes, Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, directed by and starring Nikita Mikhalkov: the film opens in 1936, just before Joseph Stalin's Great Purge and is "dedicated to those 'burnt by the sun' of the Revolution"
July 28: Russian Ark 2002, 96 minutes, Aleksandr Sokurov directs a cast of 867: Sergey Dreiden, Maria Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy; in this visually hypnotizing cinematic feat, an ode to St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum, shot in one floating and careening take; climaxed with a grand ball, with hundreds of participants in spectacular period costume, and a full orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev

August 2008: Family Friendly Films (children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult throughout the showing of the film; no food or drink)

August 4: Captain Blood 1935, 119 minutes, black and white, Michael Curtiz directs: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold; The swashbuckling epic that catapulted Flynn to worldwide stardom, Olivia de Havilland in the first of eight films opposite Flynn, Casablanca Director Curtiz's thrilling battle scenes, stampeding horses, hurtling, wave-tossed ships, a rousing Korngold score, based on a Rafael Sabatini novel
August 11: The Adventures of Robin Hood 1939, 102 minutes, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, directed by Michael Curtiz with William Keighley; The famous outlaw and his band of merry men who "robbed from the rich and gave to the poor," Flynn performing dashing acrobatics (he did most of his own stunts) "as if there are rocket boosters secreted in his tights," "one of the earliest films to use three-color Technicolor" added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1995.
August 18: The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex 1939, 106 minutes, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Vincent Price; Queen Elizabeth I of England and the Duke of Essex: a spectacle of costume and melodrama, an aging Queen Elizabeth is in love with the Earl, but after he sinks the Spanish Armada, squandering ships and loot needed by England, she replaces him with his rival, Sir Walter Raleigh
August 25: The Sea Hawk 1940, 127 minutes, Errol Flynn, Flora Robson, Brenda Marshall, "Moments after the opening credits, 16th century British pirate captain Geoffrey Thorpe (Errol Flynn) leads a thrilling raid on the galleon of a Spanish ambassador. When the roiling, chaotic clash is over, Thorpe's men have captured the ambassador and Thorpe has learned the Spanish are planning to wage war against England" Robson as Queen Elizabeth

Movies are shown in the lower level auditorium. We regret that there is no elevator to the lower level of the Philadelphia City Institute Library on Rittenhouse Square.

Friends Meeting: Second Saturday of each month at 10:30 a.m.

Tacony

Used Book Sale every Tuesday from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. featuring all genres of quality used books, CDs and videos.

Walnut Street West

Friends of Walnut West are underwriting Summer Reading with money for prizes and snacks.
Friends of Walnut West holds a book sale every Friday in good weather. The sales are outside of the library and run from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
The Friends are sponsoring a Chess Club for school children on Wednesdays from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the library. Adults who can play chess are encouraged to join us to help teach new players. Snacks will be served.Chess Club will not meet during the summer months