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Friday, December 16th Events

Movie at the Library

Time: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Place: Keene Public Library
Price: Free
Ages: The movie is PG

Beetle Juice.
Come learn about different styles of film! In this film, a couple of likable ghosts contact the afterlife's bio-exorcist to rid their home of a trendy New York family that moves in.
 Rated:PG

A Magical Ride Upon the Polar Express

Time: 6:00 PM
Place: Keene Recreation Center
Price: Free
Ages: All


A night of magic will happen at the Keene Recreation Center on December 16th. Starting at 6
PM, the multi-purpose room will become home to a holiday classic movie: “The Polar Express”, based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg. Everyone will have a chance to make his or her own silver bell to enjoy for the holiday season. Also, Santa will make his appearance for all kids to enjoy. The movie will start at 6:45 PM. This will become a family tradition for years to come!

Flight

Time: 10:00 AM
Place: Claremont Opera House, Claremont, NH (about 40 miles from Keene)
Price: $5
Ages: All


Slapstick Science presents FLIGHT
Open to the public, subject to seating availability.
Appropriate for all grades "Flight" is a very popular show for all ages. Although it's not strictly curriculum-driven, it is a wonderfully educational romp though the history of physics showing how the Wright Bros. used the science of predecessors centuries before to finally achieve "heavier than air" flight. 
The Opera Houses' children's shows are booked for the area schools and home schoolers but are open to the public, $5 for adults and children, subject to seating availability. Please call 603-542-4433 for seating availability.

Boys Book Club

Time: 3:15 PM
Place: Ingalls Memorial Library, Rindge, NH (about 2o miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: About 9-11 (called 4th and 5th Grade Boys Book Club)


Third Friday of the month at 3:15 September-May. Public school and home schoolers welcome. A book is read and discussed the following month. Board games, too.

Recorder Concert

Time: 9:00 AM
Place: Antioch University, Main lobby, Keene, NH
Price: Free
Ages: All


Waldorf Teacher Education students, along with one faculty member and one staff member, will present a short holiday recorder concert. Free. All welcome.

A Piano in Every Room
 
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Hancock Library, Hancock, NH (About 22 miles from Keene)

Price: Free
Ages: Older crowd


Rosamond van der Linde co-founded a music school unlike any other, blending love of music, love of people and a passionate commitment to education, and community service. “A Piano In Every Room” tells the astonishing tale of a family living in 42-room house with 34 pianos. The story includes Rosamond’s victory over childhood polio, while her husband, Rein van der Linde, survived the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam. Their sheer courage created their destiny. Later, raising a remarkable musical family of seven pianists the parents shaped their own children’s lives, embraced their community, and grew into a cultural treasure for America, and friends around the world.

For close to forty years the entire family has been involved in teaching piano, building the music school, summer and adult camps all of which have been written up in books, magazines, The New York Times, Forbes Magazine, and profiled on PBS, New England Channel News, and CNN News. This has generated hundreds of questions as to how it all came about and how the van der Lindes did it. This book provides the answers by the founder herself. The story is about a dynamic family that created a music enterprise and thrived within it. The tale reveals a passion for piano, a delightful family story, and a unique learning experience.

Rosamond will make available for those who attend her readings to have an opportunity to participate in a free drawing for one of her new books “A Piano In Every Room”.

What's special about today?
Ludwig Van Beethoven's birthday, 1770
Boston Tea Party
National chocolate covered anything day
Margaret Mead's birthday, 1901

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