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Meet Up @ the Library hosts free and low-cost programs for grownups at public libraries throughout Middlesex County, New Jersey. Come join us for lectures, films, concerts, hands-on workshops, trivia, and more!
For more information about specific programs, you must contact each library directly. Please note that many programs require registration directly with their library, not through Meetup RSVPs!
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Meet the Author: Nina Sharma! - Woodbridge Main LibraryWoodbridge Public Library - Main Library , Woodbridge Township, NJ
Join us at the Woodbridge Main Library as we welcome local author Nina Sharma!
Nina will discuss her hilarious and moving memoir, The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown, written in a series of interconnected essays about love and allyship, told through one Asian and Black interracial relationship.
Registration is required! Please register online or by calling 732-634-4450. https://woodbridge-nj.libcal.com/event/12799900
About the Book
In The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown, Nina Sharma chronicles in a series of interconnected essays her and Quincy’s love story. In doing so, she examines how their Black and Asian interracial relationship becomes the lens through which she understands the world and what allyship truly means.
Coming of age in the 90s and early aughts, Sharma recalls her parents talking about the racism they encountered as immigrants, but as she enters adulthood, she confronts the paradox of her family’s disappointment when she starts dating a Black man.
About the Author
Nina Sharma’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Electric Literature, Longreads, and The Margins. A graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, she served as the programs director at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and currently teaches at Columbia and Barnard College. She is a proud cofounder of the all–South Asian women’s improv group Not Your Biwi. She lives in New York City.
Check out her interview with Penguin Random House where she shouts out the Woodbridge Public Library HERE!
- Library Trivia Night at Pino'sPino's Gift Basket Shoppe and Wine Cellar, Highland Park, NJ
Join the library for a spooky night of trivia - we're hosting at Trivia Tuesday at Pino’s, 13 North 4th Ave.!
Categories will be announced on the Highland Park Public Library Instagram and Pino’s Trivia Tuesday Facebook page the day of the event. Pino’s trivia rules apply (no cell phones out, 1 drink minimum per person; non-alcoholic or alcoholic).
Trivia begins at 8 p.m. sharp and goes until 10 p.m.
This event will take place at Pino’s Lounge, 13 N. 4th Ave., Highland Park, NJ 08904.
- Book Discussion: Finlay Donovan Is Killing ItHighland Park Public Library, Highland Park, NJ
Join Books & Brews for a book discussion of the mystery Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, by Elle Cosimano.
Email Sherry at adultref[at]hpplnj.org with any questions. This program will take place at Pino's, 13 N. 4th Ave., Highland Park, NJ 08904.