The library has several events scheduled for February including a Chinese New Year party.
All the following events are scheduled for the library’s community room in the Sands Library Building, 65 Witherspoon St., Princeton.
A Chinese New Year celebration for people of all ages is set for 2 p.m. Feb. 23.
The event is sponsored by Princeton High School and the Princeton Chinese Language School, and organized by PHS Mandarin teacher Shwu-Fen Lin. The event will feature students from various heritages and backgrounds who will share different aspects of the Chinese culture.
The program will also feature a lion dance, folk dance, Gu Zheng performance, Kung Fu and Chinese yo-yo demonstrations, traditional Chinese dance and activities including games, Chinese origami, painting, calligraphy and knotting.
The library is set to screen Moonrise Kingdom Feb. 15 at 7 p.m.
Moonrise Kingdom is set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965. The film tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and runaway together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down.
The movie is directed by Wes Anderson and features Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray and Frances McDormand It is one hour, 34 minutes and rated PG-13.
Self-taught ukulele player and composer Kaitlin Overton is scheduled to perform Feb. 17 at 3 p.m.
Overton has written music for Brandon Monokian’s staged reading of “The Arabian Nights” for the library’s Page to Stage series, as well as Monokian’s original play “Grimm Women,” which starred Style Network’s Briella Calafiore and played at The Kraine Theatre in New York.
A seminar about legal matters for small businesses is set for Feb. 21 at 6:45 p.m.
Attorney Benjamin Branche will lead a seminar on selecting legal form for a small business. Topics will include the most common legal forms in use today, the pros and cons of each and how to select and establish the form most suitable for your existing or intended business. A review of upcoming changes to New Jersey LLC rules will also be discussed.
Registration is required for the seminar and may be completed at scoreprinceton.org.
The library is scheduled to screen the 90-minute documentary Slavery by Another Name Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.
The documentary is based on the book by Douglas Blackmon, which challenges the belief that slavery in America ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The filmmakers explain how even as slavery ended 1865, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking force and brutality.
The a cappella ensemble Jersey Transit is set to perform Feb. 24, at 3 p.m.
The group uses vocal harmonies augmented by assorted claps, grunts and Aboriginal clicking noises to perform selections that include jazz standards, reggae, modern pop and gospel.
Author Siobhan Roberts is scheduled to discuss and sign copies of her book Wind Wizards 12 p.m. on Feb. 26.
Wind Wizards is about Alan Davenport, a wind engineer who researched how wind navigates the obstacle course of the earth’s natural and built environments and how, when not properly heeded, wind causes buildings and bridges to teeter, sway and sometimes collapse.
