(above) Performance artist Lian Amaris will present a monologue, Daddy is Black and Jewish (and Gone), on Wednesday, August 12 at 7 p.m.
Summit Public Library Launches Goes Digital
The Summit Free Public Library has gone digital, utilizing Zoom and other online programming in the age of COVID-19 and restrictions on in-house programs.
The library was able to pivot within a month of the library’s closing to an online delivery of live programs including children’s storytimes, STEAM, and other programs for kids and teens. Take home crafts for preschool, elementary-school age, and teens, often tied to the Summer Reading Program ‘Imagine Your Story’ theme, can also be picked up at the library.
Adults interested in art, history, woodworking, or trivia have a myriad of programs to select from including:
Tuesday, August 4: History of the Jersey Shore
Thursday, August 6: Sewing Workshop-Learn how to sew a journal cover
Tuesday, August 11: New Jersey’s Submarine Inventors
Thursday, August 13: Woodworking with Patrick Bock-Learn to make a birdhouse
Monday, August 17: Learn to paint or draw Georgia O’Keefe inspired flowers
Tuesday, August 18: NASA’s Next Mars Mission: Perseverance
Friday, August 21: Trivia Night for adults
All programs will be delivered via Zoom and begin at 7 p.m. Registrants will receive a Zoom link via email 1-2 days before the program starts.
Performance artist Lian Amaris presents a monologue: Daddy is Black and Jewish (and Gone)
On Wednesday, August 12 at 7 p.m., performance artist Lian Amaris takes on drag, soul food, and Jewish moral and spiritual traditions in a monologue touching on sexual, racial, and religious ‘passing’. Raised in a Kosher, Jewish household by a black father and a feminist mother, Amaris brings to life a world of hybrid identities reflecting on the impact her parents racial and religious identities had on her upbringing. Daddy’s Black and Jewish (and Gone) builds from the text of her original 2011 show and is updated for 2020 to include the 2018 passing of the adoptive father who raised her, Julius Lester, an author, storyteller, and Professor in the African-American Studies and Jewish Studies Departments at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. This program will be delivered via Zoom.
To register for any of the library’s programs, visit the library’s website: summitlibrary.org and click on the Events tab at the top of the page. You can also call the library at 908-273-0350, option 3. The library is open Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. The library is closed on Sunday’s until after Labor Day.
