April 7-9, 2022 Basic Embroidery Class A Three Day Class exploring the Basics for fine hand embroidery. The class will focus upon particular foundation stitches used in fine hand embroidered motifs found in home decor & embellishment for clothing. You will receive two samplers to work from + a bonus motif to practice your new...
Now in its 19th year, the Throwback Thursday Film Series screens a variety of classic movies for an adult audience. April Theme: April Fools April 7: Heaven Can Wait (1978), 2:00-3:45 p.m. Warren Beatty directs and stars in this appealing romantic comedy about angels, an accidental death, and getting a second chance at life and...
Learn to use simple software to edit your videos for social media, school, or your very own YouTube channel! Special guest Ellie Voorhis from the College of William and Mary leads an interactive workshop including techniques for sound, transitions, and more. Participants encouraged to bring their own device, but devices will also be provided. For teens...
The Ford’s Colony Dance Band, with its 17 musicians, will perform a “A Festival of Latin American Music” at the Williamsburg Library Theatre. They will be kicking off a week-long celebration leading up to Pan American Day on April 14th. That’s the day when the Organization of American States was founded in 1930. Its purpose...
The Ampersand International Arts Festival presents An Evening of Film, Dance, and Music with the W&M Middle Eastern Music Ensemble featuring Nicole LeCorgne, and the Leah Glenn Modern IV Barefoot Dancers. Preceded by Sirens, a 2022 Sundance Festival documentary film about the first all-women thrash metal band in Lebanon directed by Rita Baghdadi. https://www.sirensdocumentary.com/ The...
Meet the animals that live in your own backyard, but you might never have seen up close before. The Alliance of Wild Animal Rehabilitators and Educators will be bringing their ambassador animals to the library, and will teach us how to safely co-exist with our wild friends. All ages welcome! Bring an optional donation to...
Come paint, draw, create, and explore at the Open Art Studio at the James City County Library.
Kathy Hornsby, photographer, and Connie Desaulniers, painter, will exhibit their art at their show COLORS at the Stryker Center, 412 N. Boundary Street, Williamsburg, VA from April 9 to May 28, 2022. Opening Weekend is Saturday and Sunday, April 9-10, from Noon - 5 PM. Both artists will be selling and showing their photographs and...
Presenting COLORS, a collaborative show of art by photographer Kathy Hornsby and painter Connie Desaulniers. These two longtime friends share their love of color saturation in their art forms. Florals that are abstracted by water and light embody Hornsby’s ethereal “Flower Disarrangement” photographic series. Desaulniers’ fanciful paintings conjure stories designed to spark the viewer’s imagination....
Legendary creatures are flying in to the library! Wings of Fire Fest celebrates the dragon fantasy series by Tui T. Sutherland. Join Williamsburg Regional Library for a dragon’s hoard of crafts, games, and activities all about the magical world of Pyrrhia and Pantala. Test your trivia knowledge, try out rainforest fruits, hunt for dragon eggs,...
Join a unique community-based book group for adolescents and adults with Down syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy, and other intellectual and developmental disabilities. Each week we’ll meet to read together, talk about different worlds and interesting characters, and learn about exciting new things. To find out more, please contact Linda from Williamsburg Regional Library at lniedzwick@wrl.org.
The Colonial Italian American Organization (CIAO) presents Il Postino (1995). When exiled Cuban poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) arrives on a tiny Italian isle, there’s so much new mail that Mario (Massimo Troisi), an unemployed, uneducated layabout, is hired as a postman. His job is simply to deliver Neruda’s daily mail. Mario soon becomes a...