Free Stuff This Week

Since I only do one free thing a week, and there are a lot of free things in the area, I thought I'd start making a list of free events you may be interested in attending!  Please share your ideas as well!

Monday, March 19^th

-Science Series: “Where have all the (Alpine) Flowers Gone?”-Plants and Climate Change, Presented by Nancy Slack, Professor Biology and History of Science, Emeritus (ret) Sage Colleges, Schenectady County Public Library Central Branch, 12pm

-Working Knowledge PCC: Metrix Learning Orientation, Albany Public Library Main Branch, 6pm-8pm

Tuesday, March 20^th

-NYS Writers Institute Presents: Margot Livesey, Fiction Writer, and Jo Page, Fiction and Nonfiction Writer, Seminar at Assembly Hall, Campus Center, UAlbany Uptown Campus 4:15pm, and Reading at Albany Public Library Main Branch 7:30pm

Wednesday, March 21^st

-Tax Assistance Program @ APL Main Library, Call the Main Library Reference Desk for at 427-4303 for more information 

-REELS Film Series: Anonymous, Schenectady County Public Library Central Branch, 12pm (also being shown on Thursday at 7pm)

-Research in Archaeology Lecture Series: The Skull in the Wall: The Case of the Coeymans Lady, Huxley Theatre, NYS Museum, 12:10pm-1pm

-Albany Pine Bush Presents: Nuts about Nature, Albany Public Library Pine Hills Branch, 6:30pm-7:30pm

-Friends of the Library Poetry Slam Hosted by Willie Mae Spencer, Albany Public Library Arbor Hill/West Hill Branch, 6:30pm-7:30pm 

-Get a Raise in Retirement, Troy Public Library, 7pm-8:30pm

Thursday, March 22^nd

-Music Jam, NYS Museum, 12pm-2pm

-ESL: English as a Second Language, Albany Public Library Delaware Branch, 1pm-2:30pm (every Thursday)

-NNORC Nurse Clinic and Outreach Information, Albany Public Library Bach Branch, 3pm-4pm

-NYS Writers Institute Presents: John Matteson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographer, Seminar at Assembly Hall, Campus Center, UAlbany Uptown Campus 4:15pm, and Reading at Huxley Theatre, New York State Museum, 8pm 

 

Friday, March 23^rd

-Is it Spring? Five Rivers, 7pm

Saturday, March 24^th

-Tax Assistance Program @ APL Main Library, Call the Main Library Reference Desk at 427-4303 for more information

-Family Fun: Maple Sugar Open House, Five Rivers, Organized groups please call 518-475-0291 to register, 1:30-3:30pm

Sunday, March 25^th

-African Adventure in Photographs, Troy Public Library, 2pm-3pm

-Beat the Snow!: Winter Concert Series, Fairview Avenue Bluegrass Band, Schenectady County Public Library Central Branch, 2:30pm

You may also want to check out:

-An Ancient Devonian Forest: A 385-million-year-old Forest Finally Uncovered in Gilboa, New York, Through March 31^st, NYS Museum Lobby

-Shadow and Substance: African American Images from The Burns Archive, Through March 31^st, NYS Museum Photography Gallery