Community Calendar

Before she passed away in 1974, Felicia Bornstein Lubliner wrote about her internment in ghettos and concentration camps (Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen) in Nazi-occupied Poland. Her powerful stories have been published by her son, Irving Lubliner, who also contributed the foreword and afterword to Only Hope: A Survivor’s Stories of the Holocaust. He will share excerpts, shedding light on his mother’s experiences and indomitable spirit, as well as his own experience as a child of Holocaust survivors. He will pause during and after his presentation to invite questions and discussion.

Irving Lubliner is a professor emeritus at Southern Oregon University (SOU), where his specialty was mathematics education. During his 40-year career, he taught at all levels, kindergarten through graduate school, led seminars for teachers in 39 states, and gave over 350 conference presentations, including several keynote addresses. Since retiring in 2014, he has taught math, music, and literature classes for OLLI at SOU, where he also served on the Council of Directors. In 2019, he created Felabra Press and published his mother’s writings about her experiences during the Holocaust, the book that will serve as the theme for this presentation.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked each year on January 27th.

Pegasus and the Stories of the Stars
performed by Pegasus Puppet Theatre from Portland, Oregon

Sunday, February 4, 2023

​Performance times 1:00 and 3:30 PM
Craterian Theater, Collier Center for the Performing Arts
23 South Central Avenue, Medford OR
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FREE ADMISSION
A donation of new or gently used children's books at the door is much appreciated for our Book Drive. The Storytelling Guild collects hundreds of books to distribute in our community through Pass The Book.​

Sponsored by the Storytelling Guild and Craterian Performances
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Description:
Space is full of Stars. But how did those stars get their names?
Watch Roman and Greek myths come to life and illuminate the stories behind the constellations, such as Hercules, Andromeda and Perseus, Artemis and Orion, Bellerophon and the Chimera, and many others. This production is a non-stop romp of mythic proportion and is perfect for k-5 audiences. Cheer for hero and titan alike!

All ages
Program Length 40-55 min, includes;
Performance Length: 40 min
Up to an additional 15 min of post-show demo and Q&A, if time allows.

Join a group of voracious readers each month at the Ashland Library. Share what you are reading and find your next great read.

Copies of this book are available at the reference desk of the Medford Library beginning Tuesday, January 30. You can also check this book out online.

This February, let's rethink Valentines Day. What would this day look like if we thought of love as a verb, something we actively do for ourselves and all the people we care about? Maybe it would not be a one-day task, but a series of ways we connect throughout the year. So much of what we are taught about love and Valentines Day revolves around binary, intimate relationships and an expectation that masculine presenting people take most of the responsibility on Valentines Day, while feminine presenting people take responsibility for the health of relationships for the remaining 364 days. Bell Hooks offers a different perspective on how to share love and care in our many different human connections.

Join us at the Medford Public Library in the Adams Room!

Join a group of voracious readers each month at the Ashland Library. Share what you are reading and find your next great read.

Meet new friends every month to talk about books we're all reading together. The group votes on what books to read and discuss each month. Copies of the books we pick are made available at the reference desk on the second floor of the Medford Library. If you'd like to join, come pick up the current book we're reading. We meet in a hybrid format. Join us via zoom, or in person in the Adams Community Room. Come to the Medford Reference Desk to pick up a copy! Zoom registration is available on the JCLS website at https://jcls.libcal.com/event/11604191

Our upcoming titles are:

March: Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr

April: Crying in H-Mart, by Michelle Zauner

May: The Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien

Join a group of voracious readers each month at the Ashland Library. Share what you are reading and find your next great read.

Meet new friends every month to talk about books we're all reading together. The group votes on what books to read and discuss each month. Copies of the books we pick are made available at the reference desk on the second floor of the Medford Library. If you'd like to join, come pick up the current book we're reading. We meet in a hybrid format. Join us via zoom, or in person in the Adams Community Room. Come to the Medford Reference Desk to pick up a copy! Zoom registration is available on the JCLS website at https://jcls.libcal.com/event/11604191

Our upcoming titles are:

March: Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr

April: Crying in H-Mart, by Michelle Zauner

May: The Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien

Join a group of voracious readers each month at the Ashland Library. Share what you are reading and find your next great read.

Meet new friends every month to talk about books we're all reading together. The group votes on what books to read and discuss each month. Copies of the books we pick are made available at the reference desk on the second floor of the Medford Library. If you'd like to join, come pick up the current book we're reading. We meet in a hybrid format. Join us via zoom, or in person in the Adams Community Room. Come to the Medford Reference Desk to pick up a copy! Zoom registration is available on the JCLS website at https://jcls.libcal.com/event/11604191

Our upcoming titles are:

March: Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr

April: Crying in H-Mart, by Michelle Zauner

May: The Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien