A Feed Called schlow-podcast

Schlow Library is once again hosting the Images exhibition, the juried art exhibition held by the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. To preview the exhibition, we chat with this year's juror Shannon Egan. Shannon is director of the Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College. She selected the pieces for the exhibition from more than 330 submissions.

The exhibition will be in the Schlow gallery and community room throughout July. The awards reception will be held at 6:30pm Thursday, July 11 in the community room.

Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts: https://arts-festival.com/

Schmucker Art Gallery: https://www.gettysburg.edu/offices/schmucker-art-gallery/index.dot

A chat with Dr. Greg Eghigian of Penn State's Department of History who does research on the phenomena of UFO sightings. Schlow is celebrating World UFO Day on July 2 and Dr. Eghigian will be giving a talk on July 23 on "1969 and the Flying Saucers."

Cynthia Mazzant and Elaine Meder-Wilgus, co-founders of the Central PA Theatre & Dance Festival, join us to talk about this year's festival, which runs June 21-23. This is the second year for the festival, and it features performances, workshops, intensives, and more! Several festival events will be happening at Schlow.

Central PA Theatre & Dance Festival: https://centralpatheatre.com/

Schlow is once again participating in the Free Summer Lunch Program presented by the Healthy Bodies Project at Penn State. Schlow will be holding free summer lunches for kids ages 0 to 18 in our Community Room from 11:30am to 12:30pm on Tuesdays, starting June 18 and running through August 20.

We talk with Catie Simpson, nutrition educator for the Healthy Bodies Project at Penn State, about the program and some tips on getting kids to eat healthier.

Healthy Bodies Project at Penn State: https://sites.psu.edu/healthybodies/

The June exhibition in the Schlow gallery is A Poem in Our Eyes and features works done by residents of Centre Crest nursing home's memory care unit. The program was done through Ridgelines Language Arts, which provides expert language arts instructions to those who are impacted by stigma and injustice in central Pennsylvania.

We chat with Abby Minor, who founded Ridgelines, along with Robyn Passante, a local freelance writer who taught the A Poem in Our Eyes class at Centre Crest. 

The exhibition runs June 3-27.

Ridgelines Language Arts: https://www.ridgelineslanguagearts.org/

Robyn Passante: http://robynpassante.com/

The Share Your Opioid Story Initiative will be bringing its Reducing Opioid Stigma Community Conversation event to Schlow on Thursday, May 30. We have a conversation with Dr. Glenn Sterner, who coordinated the initiative and is an expert on the opioid epidemic.

Share Your Opioid Story: http://shareyouropioidstory.com/

We look ahead to this year's Summer Reading Programs. Paula Bannon, head of children's services, Maria Burchill, head of adult services, and Karen Lambert, adult services librarian, chat about what's in store for the reading programs this summer with the theme of A Universe of Stories!

Summer Reading Registration: https://reading.schlowlibrary.org/

The Schlow Library Podcast talks about bicycling in the Centre Region with Trish Meek, who will lead the class/discussion Biking in the Centre Region 101 at Schlow on May 16. Trish is the senior transportation planner with the Centre Regional Planning Agency in State College. She has worked to emphasize the importance of incorporating walking and biking into the transportation network in Centre County. 

With Centre Gives happening May 7-8, we discuss the popular online giving event with Rachael Hartman from Centre Foundation, Amy Wilson, who is the executive director of Mid-State Literacy Council, and Schlow's own Molly Hetrick.

Centre Gives: https://centregives.org/

Centre Foundation: https://centre-foundation.org/

Mid-State Literacy Council: https://www.mid-stateliteracycouncil.org/

Students from the State College Area School District and Bald Eagle Area School District will once again be having an exhibition in Schlow's gallery. Reduce, Reuse, Remake 2019 will be in the gallery in May and features pieces students did using plastic as a way to promote environmental concerns over plastic. We talk with Julia Nelson, a sixth-grade art instructor from Mount Nittany Middle School, along with State College students Madeline Pate, Jessica Saraka, and Anastasia Shawver about the exhibition.