Nicole Eiden, Valentine Pierce, Karisma Price and Andy Young will join Ferrara for this event.
The Jefferson Parish Library has a new creative learning resource called Craft & Hobby that features thousands of classes taught by recognized experts who walk patrons through each technique with step-by-step demonstrations, providing tips along the way.
With Craft & Hobby, patrons can explore in-depth online instructional videos and classes that span 22 creative categories, allowing them to learn a new hobby or improve their skills in an existing area.
Craft videos focus on painting and drawing, sewing, crocheting, knitting, and quilting. For example, the following examples can be found under painting videos:
How to hold a pencil like an artist.Tips for using tracing paper.Simplified portrait structure.Cleaning and storing brushes.Composing a floral still life.
Hobby videos focus on four categories: Cake design, photography, woodworking and fitness. Titles include:
Intro to modeling chocolate.Time-lapse photography.Advanced table saw techniques.Yoga for holistic health
To find this new resource, visit the JPL website, then click on the Online Databases tab in the top right-hand corner. Scroll down the left-hand side of the page for the heading Craft & Hobby.
SALUTE TO DAVID LYNCH: Mike Miley, author of a new book titled "David Lynch's American Dreamscape," will discuss the director's films, answer questions, and sign copies of his latest work from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 23, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie.
The book uses literary and musical works as a lens to explore and interpret the director's filmography, broadening a traditional visual approach to film analysis. Incorporating children's literature, teen tragedy ballads, and even Lana Del Rey, Miley's book elucidates the way works interact with each other in an age of mass media and popular culture.
Miley teaches literature at Metairie Park Country Day School and film studies at Loyola University New Orleans. He is the author of "Truth and Consequences: Game Shows in Fiction and Film" (2019), and the co-editor of "Conversations with Steve Erickson" (2021).
LOUISIANA FILM NIGHT: Al Heavener, a longtime library employee, will host the movie "Blue Bayou" at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, at the East Bank Regional Library.
The film centers on Antonio LeBlanc, a Korean adoptee raised in a small Louisiana bayou town. He's married to the love of his life, Kathy, and raising his stepdaughter, Jessie. Struggling to make a better life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past after learning that he could be deported from the only country he's ever called home.
"Blue Bayou" is a 2021 American drama written and directed by Justin Chon. The film stars Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O'Brien, Linh Dan Pham, Sydney Kowalske, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Emory Cohen.
Heavener will discuss the movie before it is screened. The film lasts nearly 2 hours. It debuted at Cannes in 2021.
3D PRINTING: A one-hour seminar on the library's 3D Printing Program will take place at 10 a.m., Tuesday, March 11, at the East Bank Regional Library.
This free event explores how library patrons can use 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, a process that creates a physical object from a digital model.
MAYBE BOOK CLUB: Members have moved their meetings to 1:30 p.m. on the third Friday of each month at the Gretna Library, 102 Willow Drive, Gretna. The following books will be discussed:
Feb. 21: "Mala's Cat" by Mala KacenbergMarch 21: "The Last Flight" by Julie ClarkApril 11: "The Only One Left" by Riley SagerMay 16: "The Wife Upstairs" by Rachel Hawkins
COMPUTER SKILLS: Those interested in computer classes should go to the JPL website, and then to the classes, to register.
The following classes will take place at the East Bank Regional Library:
Computer Basics: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20Internet Basics: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24Microsoft Excel 3: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25Microsoft PowerPoint 1: 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, Feb. 27Microsoft PowerPoint 2: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27
The following classes will be held at the Jane O'Brien Chatelain West Bank Regional Library, 2751 Manhattan, Harvey:
Microsoft Word 1:10 a.m. to noon Friday, Feb. 21Microsoft Word 2: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21Using Email: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26Microsoft PowerPoint 1: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28.