Play chess with other interested players on Tuesdays between 3-5pm. We are set up on the tables in the AV area on the first floor. Bring your own board or use ours. No registration, drop in only.
Aug 222024
May 132024
We are currently planning MAKE MUSIC DAY 2025 (our 4th in the Norristown Area) – Mark your calendars now!
If you want to perform please register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Fvg84dOjWBa-XX50c-KTR3C24R36otjt7krQX9Um86A/edit?pli=1 We will build a schedule based on musician interest with performances throughout the day.
If you’d like to host performers at your cafe or community space please email Jeanne at JCove@mclinc.org. If you want to volunteer please email Jeanne at JCove@mclinc.org.
What is Make Music?
Launched in 1982 in France as the Fête de la Musique, Make Music is celebrated on the same day in more than 2,000 cities in dozens of countries around the world.
Completely different from a typical music festival, Make Music is open to anyone who wants to take part. Every kind of musician — young and old, amateur and professional, of every musical persuasion — pours into community spaces to share their music with friends, neighbors, and strangers. All of it is free and open to the public. We invite musicians, rappers and instrumentalists of all kinds to collaborate on making June 21 a musical masterpiece. Singers, church choirs, jazz combos, rock bands, glee clubs, MCs, marching bands, mariachis, and every other kind of musician, of any age group or skill level, are all welcome.
Make Music Day en junio 21.
Manda un correo electrónico a Jeanne en la biblioteca a la dirección JCove@mclinc.org para inscribirte para presentarte como músico o para inscribirte como anfitrión voluntario.
Here are the 2025 facts so far: (Performances are being added so check back in early June for the final schedule.)
Date: Saturday, June 21, 2025
9:00am-4:00pm: Instrument Petting Zoo, for kids at Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library (1700 Markley Street, right side)
2pm: Turtle Music, performance for kids at Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library (1700 Markley Street, right side)
4pm: Jonathan Haggard, classical organ at All Saints Church (535 Haws Avenue)
7pm: Penn View Brass Band at The Reformed Church of the Ascension (1700 W. Main Street)
7:30pm: Folk style singalong with s’mores at The Reformed Church of the Ascension (1700 W. Main Street, front lawn)
TBA: Expressive Path Creative Arts Center
TBA: Recycle Read Repeat Used Bookstore
Check out these photos from the Norristown Area Make Music Day 2024:
MAKE MUSIC DAY! JUNE 21, 2024! Junio 21!
Our 3rd annual Make Music Day Norristown is in the books! Thank you to all the community members who participated and volunteered to make it a success.
2024 schedule:
11am: Children’s music performance with Miss Emily, geared to preschoolers – Norristown Public Library, 1001 Powell Street, upstairs
12noon: Drum Workshop with Tony Flagiello – Norristown Public Library, 1001 Powell Street, downstairs
1:45: Max on trumpet – Norristown Public Library, 1001 Powell Street, downstairs
2pm: Fricknadorable (acoustic duo) – Norristown Public Library, 1001 Powell Street, downstairs
3pm: Khadijah Graves (R&B/soul – original song) – Norristown Public Library, 1001 Powell Street, downstairs
3:10pm: Garty Bowersox (Broadway songs) – Norristown Public Library, 1001 Powell Street, downstairs
5-8pm+: Various Acoustic Acts – Recycle, Read, Repeat Bookstore, 208 Cherry Street
6-8:30pm: Student, Teacher, and Community performances. Singer songwriter, duo/trio groups, and poets – Expressive Path Creative Arts Center – 857 Cherry Street
7pm: Jonathan Haggard on organ – All Saints Church, 535 Haws Avenue
8:15pm: Campfire singalong with s’mores – Reformed Church of the Ascension, 1700 West Main Street
Feb 272024
Join us for the Mostly Lesbian Books Club on the third Monday of each month at 6:30pm at the Norristown Public Library or virtually (registration required). All are welcome to attend this book club focusing on books with lesbian themes, characters, or authors. You can borrow copies of the book through the library or get it elsewhere. Questions or to register, email Mary Ann at modete@mclinc.org or call 610-278-5100 x400.
THIS MONTH, WE ARE MEETING AT RECYCLE READ REPEAT (208 Cherry St) DUE TO THE LIBRARY’S MOVE
January 27th, 2025 (4th Monday): Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
February 24th, 2025 (4th Monday): In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
March 17th, 2025: She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen
April 21st, 2025: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
May 19th, 2025: Felicity by Mary Oliver
Summary: “If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger,” Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver’s love poems. Here, great happiness abounds.
Our most delicate chronicler of physical landscape, Oliver has described her work as loving the world. With Felicity she examines what it means to love another person. She opens our eyes again to the territory within our own hearts; to the wild and to the quiet. In these poems, she describes—with joy—the strangeness and wonder of human connection.
June 16th, 2025: Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
July 21st, 2025: Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
August 18th, 2025: My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata
September 15th, 2025: The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
October 20th, 2025: Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
November 17th, 2025: Keep Your Wives Away From Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires by Miryam Kabakov
December 15th, 2025: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
All are welcome!
Feb 272024
Most Thursdays at 2pm the library offers a space for adults of all abilities to gather for activities and socializing. No registration is necessary. Just drop in for a fun afternoon. We always have coloring available for those who need a quiet break. Please note: IN JANUARY 2025 WE ARE CHANGING TO A 10:30AM START TIME!
The general themes are listed below:
1st Thursdays – Movement (includes stretching session, dance parties, active games, drumming movement, etc.)
2nd Thursdays – Art (learn about an artist or technique and create art, sometimes we do crafts)
3rd Thursdays – Karaoke (sing along with a mic and YouTube lyrics projected on a screen)
4th Thursdays – Bingo (group bingo, modest prizes)
(5th Thursdays – no activity)
Email Jeanne at JCove@mclinc.org with questions
Jan 052024
All are welcome to participate in AAA Activities days. Our regular Thursday “AAA Activities” begin at 2pm and end at 3 or 3:30pm depending on participants’ involvement and schedules. The programs are appropriate for adults of all abilities. Drop in any week or email Jeanne ahead at JCove@mclinc.org if you have questions or concerns or plan to bring a large group. We meet in the community room which is located off the lobby on the library’s main floor. Bathrooms are nearby in the lobby. Quiet coloring is available for those who need a break. There is no cost to participate.
1st Thursdays – Movement (includes stretching session, dance parties, parachute play, etc.)
2nd Thursdays – Art (learn about an artist or technique and create art)
3rd Thursdays – Karaoke (sing along with a mic and YouTube lyrics projected on a screen, participants take turns choosing and performing songs)
4th Thursdays – Bingo (group bingo, usually no prizes)
(5th Thursdays – no activity)
2024:
July 11 – Art
July 18 – Karaoke
July 25 – Bingo
August 1 – Movement (drum exercise, floor bowling)
August 8 – Art (giant painted birds)
August 15 – (no activity/vacation)
August 22 – Bingo
August 29 – no activity/5th week
Sept. 5 – Movement
Sept. 12 – Art
Sept. 19 – Karaoke
Sept 26 – Bingo
Oct 052022
Please Join us for some friendly chess games!
Every Tuesday from 1 – 3pm.
No registration needed.
We will be playin at the tables in the magazine/dvd section in the front of the library.
Please bring a set if you have one, we are short at the moment.
Jan 162018
This easy, no-fail, tried-and-true recipe is provided by Marsha, library baker extraordinaire.
3 CUPS FLOUR
2 CUPS SUGAR
2/3 CUP COCOA
2 TSP BAKING SODA
1 CUP ORANGE JUICE OR BUTTERMILK
1 CUP VEGETABLE OIL
1 CUP HOT WATER
2 EGGS
4 TSP VANILLA
Sift all dry ingredients into mixing bowl. Make a well in the center. Add wet ingredients in order above. Beat for 2 minutes scraping occasionally to make sure all is incorporated. Spray 2- 9” round baking pans or 1- 9 x 13 sheet pan, bake for 35 minutes or cupcakes for 20 minutes. Make sure a cake tester inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool before removing from pan.