One Book One Wallingford 2023
Meet Author Kevin Wilson
Monday, Apr 24th | 7pm
Dag Hammarskjold Middle School
The goal of One Book One Wallingford is to bring the community together by reading and discussing the same book. This year we are reading Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson. Join us to meet Kevin as he discusses his New York Times-bestselling book. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
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Spring Foraging
with The 3 Foragers
Tuesday, Mar 21st
6:30-8pm
Community Room
As the warmer temperatures and longer days of spring unfold, many tender, young edible shoots, plants, flowers, and even a few fungi awaken a forager’s senses and delight. Learn how to identify, sustainably harvest, and prepare the wild foods of spring, from invasive bamboo shoots to the lemony tang of fresh wood sorrel, including some of the early edible fungi of the season. Join The 3 Foragers as they discuss the edible plants and fungi of spring, with their original photos and recipe ideas featured in an educational slideshow.
Job Interviews 101
Wednesday, Mar 22nd
7-8:30pm
Collins Room
Are you looking for a job and confused on how to prepare for an interview? Do you want to learn why employers ask certain questions? Do you want to learn what’s different when you have a Zoom or phone interview? Join Librarian and Career Specialist Sarah Eiseman to answer some common interview questions, how to plan answers for more challenging questions, and how to prepare for different types of interviewing settings. We’ll also learn how to access some free library resources that can help you land the job! Wallingford library card (or card from another subscribing library) recommended. This is a great session to attend before a one-on-one session with Sarah for those who want to create a new resume. Due to the one-on-one nature of this program, masks will be required for all participants.
Improve Your Communication with Cultural Humility: A Community Conversation on Race
Thursday, Mar 30th
7-8:30pm
Community Room
How can we learn to avoid stereotypes, decrease misunderstandings and improve communication at work, school, and in our community? While many employers provide cultural competence trainings, healthcare providers and social scientists have found that these trainings often reinforce stereotypes and create further divides between individuals. Cultural Humility was developed as a tool to help shift mindsets through active listening and lifelong learning. Join us for a facilitated conversation to discuss how practicing Cultural Humility can help us avoid these common pitfalls! Join us for this ongoing series of open and empathetic conversations about race, community, and opportunities for change and healing. All are welcome
One-on-One Career Counseling
Sign up today to schedule your virtual appointment
with our career specialist Sarah Eiseman!
Get personalized help with crafting a resume or cover letter or preparing for your big interview.
Visit to get started or contact Sarah Eiseman at seiseman@wallingfordlibrary.org. You will be contacted shortly to schedule your Zoom appointment.
Knit @ WPL
First and Third Monday of Each Month
Monday, Mar 20th
6-7:30pm
Board Room
No registration required
Knit @ WPL is a place where knitters and crocheters can practice their work in the company of others. Newcomers are welcome to join, but knitting experience is required.
WPL Play Readers
First Wednesday of Each Month
Wednesday, Apr 5th
6:30-8:30pm
Collins Room
No registration required
The Wallingford Public Library Play Readers bring and share poetry, prose, famous speeches and documents, monologues, as well as original material! Come check us out. All are welcome to read and/or listen.
Open Sew
First Tuesday of Each Month
Tuesday, Apr 4th
5:30-8:30pm
Adults & Teens in Grades 9+
Drop-in
Collaboratory
Do you like to sew? Join people who enjoy quilting and sewing at a casual “drop in” program. Bring your unfinished projects, either hand sewing or machine. There are 4 portable sewing machines (or bring your own) and lots of sewing supplies and tools provided by the library for your use. Due to the one-on-one nature of this program, masks will be required for all participants.
Saturday Mornings with Poetry
Second and Fourth Saturday of Each Month
Saturday, Mar 25th
9:45am-12noon
Collins Room
No registration required
A meeting of people who love reading and writing poetry. SMwP provides poetic opportunities for anyone to share their poetry, discuss the literary works of poets known and unknown, and expand skills in writing and editing poems in the shared camaraderie of comfortable, supportive members.
Wallingford Writers Community
Third Saturday of Each Month
Saturday, Apr 15th
2-4pm
Join the Wallingford Writers Community and discover how the fellowship of other writers can help you pursue your writing goals! All meetings include dedicated writing time, craft techniques for fiction and literary nonfiction, and the opportunity to share work in a supportive, creative forum. To participate, contact Leah Farrell at lfarrell@wallingfordlibrary.org.
Friday Night Flicks:
The Fabelmans
Rated PG-13
Friday, Apr 7th
6pm
Community Room
Inspired by true events, the narrative follows Sammy Fabelman on a journey of self-discovery. At the age of seven, Sammy lives a simple life with his parents Burt and Mitzi. After finding out an unsettling family secret, Sammy falls in love with cinema and its power to tell stories.
Friday Night Flicks:
Women Talking
Rated PG-13
Friday, Apr 28th
6pm
Community Room
A group of women lives in a secluded religious community. After experiencing a series of domestic and sexual abuse incidents, the women must confront the men who hurt them and endure the consequences of the choices they make. They face a complicated conundrum of commitment, faith, and self-preservation.
Thursday Night Book Club:
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
by Kevin Wilson
Thursday, Apr 20th
6:30-8:30pm
Collins Room & Zoom
Contact Cindy Haiken to participate:
chaiken@wallingfordlibrary.org
In the summer of 1996 in rural Tennessee, 16-year-olds Frankie and Zeke work together to create a poster with the slogan: "The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us." They make hundreds of copies on a photocopier stolen by Frankie’s triplet brothers and put them up around town. Copycats begin doing the same, and before long, local and national newspapers are reporting on the posters and their potential meaning, fashion companies are reproducing the slogan on T-shirts, and tourists start arriving in town to see the posters in person. 22 years later, a journalist discovers Frankie's involvement. A touching time capsule about being a teenager in the ’90s, Now is Not the Time to Panic was one of named one of the best books of 2022 by Barnes & Noble, Time Magazine and USA Today.
Truth Be Told Nonfiction Book Club:
The Storyteller
by Dave Grohl
Thursday, Mar 30th
7-8:30pm
Collins Room & Zoom
Contact Cindy Haiken to participate:
chaiken@wallingfordlibrary.org
“It's hard to put into words the belief I have in music," Grohl writes, but his candid memoir is filled with words of love for the power of rock, from his '70s childhood in suburban Virginia to his induction, twice, into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. In between he toured at 18 with the hardcore punk band Scream, defined '90s grunge with Kurt Cobain as Nirvana's drummer, and from heartbreak and tragedy formed the enduring alt-rock band, Foo Fighters. "A celebration of love and life," The Storyteller rocks.
Hibernation Book Club:
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
Tuesday, Mar 21st
5:30-7pm
Board Room & Zoom
Contact Cindy Haiken to participate:
chaiken@wallingfordlibrary.org
Taking place in the fictional English town of Middlemarch in the years of social unrest that led to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Middlemarch is a study of nearly every class of society, from the landed gentry and clergy to manufacturers and professional men, farmers and laborers. The novel focuses particularly on the thwarted idealism of its two principal characters, Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydgate. Originally published in eight parts in 1871-1872, Middlemarch is widely considered to be Eliot’s masterpiece and one of the finest novels ever written in English.
