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Library Book Sale This Weekend

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Friends of the Richmond Public Library will be holding a book sale this weekend at the Main branch, also coinciding with First Friday celebrations.
From the announcement:

Give in to your book buying addiction and attend the Friends’ Fall Book Sale. The sale will offer thousands of great hardbacks at $2, paperbacks, large print and children’s books at 50 cents, DVDs and CDs at $1, and cassettes at 25 cents. There are collectible books at a fraction of the going internet prices available in the Special Collections Room on Friday and Saturday.

The sale is open to the public:
Friday, November 5 from 12 noon – 5 p.m. and 7 – 9 p.m.
Saturday, November 6 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Monday, November 8 from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

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YAVA Author Celebration Wednesday At Main Library

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The Richmond Public Library is hosting 14 Virginia authors of books for children and young adults at its YAVA Book & Author Party from 6:00 to 8:30 pm on Wednesday, October 21, at the Richmond Main Library (101 E. Franklin Street).
The event is FREE to the public and will feature book sales and signings, raffles, and music by the Hanover High School jazz band. The authors are Gigi Amateau, Tom Angleberger, Cece Bell, Anne Blankman, Bill Blume, Martina Boone, Lana Krumwiede, Sarah McGuire, Jodi Meadows, Sara Raasch, Madelyn Rosenberg, Wendy Shang, Kat Spears and Steve Watkins.

Richmond Folk Festival/Richmond Zine Festival/Richmond Record Fair

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Of course, for anyone who does not already know, this is the weekend of the Richmond Folk Festival. I am always surprised by how many locals still do not understand that this is not folk rock as in Bob Dylan, but folk musics and traditions of all types from all over the world. It’s an incredible chance to grow your musical tastes and it happens right next to Oregon Hill. Yes, there are community concerns about how Venture Richmond is using the Folk Festival to push inappropriate riverfront development, but that should not stop people from enjoying what the festival itself has to offer.

And that’s not all that’s happening this weekend…Whurk Magazine, ‘Virginia Cultural Review’, has a nice article on the Richmond Zine Festival, which takes place this Saturday at the Main Public Library, Oregon Hill’s City public library branch. (One footnote- although the festival is billed as the ninth annual one, Throttle Magazine started and sponsored a few earlier renditions of the Richmond Zine Festival years earlier)
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If that is not enough, Oregon Hill’s Vinyl Conflict record store is co-sponsoring the Richmond Record Fair at Hardywood Brewery on Sunday. The description has “20+ tables spanning all genre, tones, culture, subgenre, sub-sub-genre, feedback, texture, vibrations and libations”. It includes a concert by local band The Milkstains.
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Here’s hoping that everyone has a great weekend.

Banner for Race At Main Street Library

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From Main Street librarian Patty Parks:

We are creating a “Welcome the World” banner pop-up event at the Main Library on [FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18 ] from 9-4 at 101 E. Franklin Street and 2nd Street.
Although the Main Library will be closed during the Richmond Bike2015, our spirit is with the race, the city and the world that will be watching our spectacular event.
To be proactive and to show our solidarity with the city and race, we would like to accessorize our 2nd Street wall (stretching almost the whole block from Main to Franklin) with banners from organizations that are not on the race course. The bicyclists will be taking this 2nd Street route from Main to Broad, and this will give everyone an opportunity to welcome our visitors and show off our community support.
If you would like to put a banner up on our wall, we will be attaching them on Friday, September 19th. Join us! We will attach your banner with double-sided tape; you can remove it on Monday, Sept. 28.
Let’s make this a Welcome Wall to mark this epic event.

Join up and find out more on the FaceBook event page.

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Neighborhood Businesses During The UCI Bike Race

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Cary Street restaurant Dinamo is working with local Ardent Craft Ales and international bicycle company Rapha to throw what is essentially a party during the upcoming UCI Bicycle Race.

Mamma Zu’s will be closed for its annual vacation during the UCI Bicycle Race.

Music store Vinyl Conflict will also close during the race.

The City’s Main Street library will be closed, as their facility will be used by race organizers.

What are other neighborhood businesses doing while the race is happening?

Have You Joined the Challenge?

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From Richmond Public Library:
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It’s new, exciting and gets you exploring the world around you – plus you might win one of the weekly prizes or the grand prize- a BIKE! Sign up online or at your neighborhood library.

http://richmondpubliclibrarysr.evanced.info/homepage.asp

eBooks for kids! An easy way for kids to get points towards RPL’s Summer Reading Challenge! ‪#‎rplsummer‬

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