Qigong Class @ the Library
Donna Bunte of Donna Bunte Whole Health will teach a qigong class at Perrot Library on Monday, March 9th, from 9:15 to 10:15 am in the Program Room, Radcliffe Building.
Qigong is a form of meditation in motion that is at least 2,000 years old. It is a very calming routine used to increase mindfulness, and it is also used for building strength, balance, flexibility, and resiliency. The practice of qigong can be done standing or sitting and can be practiced by almost anyone young or old.
Donna has been practicing Chinese medicine since 1996 when she graduated from Chinese medical school in New York City and became a licensed acupuncturist in New York and Connecticut. Qigong and tai chi were her first introduction to Chinese medicine and energy exercises in 1980 in New York City, years before she studied Chinese medicine. Donna has studied with a variety of teachers, including Robert Peng and Daisy Lee, and began teaching qigong in Greenwich in 2017. She has taught classes locally since then, as well as online during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Registration is required. To register, click here.
For more information, contact Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15 or judys@perrotlibrary.org.
Zoom Book Discussion: “Brave the Wild River,” with Author Melissa Sevigny
We are thrilled to welcome Author Melissa Sevigny via Zoom on Wednesday, March 4, at 7 pm, for a discussion of her book, Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon. This program is being held in celebration of Women’s History Month.
The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran river runners boldly proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive. But for Clover and Jotter, the expedition held a tantalizing appeal: No one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon, and they were determined to be the first. Through the vibrant letters and diaries of the two women, science journalist Melissa L. Sevigny traces their daring 43-day journey down the river, during which they meticulously cataloged the thorny plants that thrived in the Grand Canyon’s secret nooks and crannies. Along the way, they chased a runaway boat, ran the river’s most fearsome rapids, and turned the harshest critic of female river runners into an ally. Clover and Jotter’s plant list, including four new cactus species, would one day become vital for efforts to protect and restore the river ecosystem. Brave the Wild River is a spellbinding adventure of two women who risked their lives to make an unprecedented botanical survey of a defining landscape in the American West, at a time when human influences had begun to change it forever.
Registration is required. To register, click here.
Reserve a copy of the book through our catalog or purchase a copy from Athena Books.
For more information on this program, call us at 203-637-1066 or email adultprogramming@perrotlibrary.org.
Book Discussion: The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Perrot Memorial Library and the Greenwich Conservation Commission invite you to a two-part book discussion of The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson, led by Author and Greenwich Pen Woman Heidi Matonis. Part one of the discussion will take place on Monday, March 2, at 7 pm in the Program Room, Youth Services Department, Radcliffe Children’s Library, Perrot Memorial Library. Part two will take place on Monday, April 20, at 7 pm, also in the Program Room.
From legendary science fiction Author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction’s most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world–rather, he imagines a more hopeful future, one where humanity has managed to overcome our challenges and thrive. It is a novel both immediate and impactful.
This is a drop-in program. Registration is not required.
Place a hold on a copy through our catalog or order a copy from Athena Books.
For more information, call us at 203-637-1066 or email us at adultprogramming@perrotlibrary.com.