Join us for Make Music Day New Haven and find your voice at the library for a fun filled afternoon with music, art and a storytime for the younger crowd. Everyone should attend!
Step into the summer solstice, celebrate music on Make Music Day and find your voice! Make Music New Haven is a live festival of accessible music performances happening on June 21, the summer solstice. The Wilson Branch Library will be celebrating our 3rd year participating in this joyous occasion with local trumpeter and music teacher at Truman School, Nick Di Maria will perform with a Jazz Quartet.
Yale Center for British Art will join the celebration with a creative art experience through drawing and sculpting responses to music with color, shape, line and more!
Library staff will also do a reading of Ben’s Trumpet and other music-themed books.
AGE GROUP: | Teens (13-17) | Family and Children (6-12) | Family and Children (0-5) |
EVENT TYPE: | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Education and Lifelong Learning | Economic Development and Nonprofits |
The Courtland S. Wilson Library opened in 2006. With the largest footprint among the NHFPL branches, Wilson is a beacon of opportunity and life-long learning in the Hill neighboorhood. Wilson supports literacy with monthly bulk book delivery to school teachers. A youth Lego club, and a newly formed tween and teen computer group meet weekly; and launching in 2019, a youth Girls Who Code Club. Many community groups convene in Wilson’s seven meeting rooms. The Computer Lab hosts groups and offers computer instruction including digital literacy classes in Spanish and weekly free tax preparation during tax season.