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• Peer Coaching Program

  • Start
    Friday, January 01, 2021
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    (EST)
  • End
    Sunday, January 31, 2021
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    (EST)
  • Location
    Virtual

  Adults over the age of 18 are invited to register for an upcoming information session to learn how you can play a vital part in helping yourself and your neighbors navigate the uncertainty of COVID-19, work toward greater health equity, and become healthier one conversation at a time.

  There are no special qualifications or training required to participate in the program. You will be trained in the coaching skills needed to facilitate community discussions during the Behavior Change Agent class that will be delivered (via teleconference) in January 2021.

  Session link (and dial in information) will be sent to your email address no later than 48 hours prior to your selected session.

  Contact SE-NE Friends of the Capitol View Library at (202) 350-1297 or CapitolViewFriends@gmail.com with additional questions.

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• WELF Book Series: Boccaccio’s "Decameron"

  • When
    Wednesday, January 27, 2021
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    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (EST)
  • Location
    WebEx

  Given the stress we have all felt as the world deals with the Covid-19 virus, it seems appropriate to interweave two ideas: work written during the time of plague or that includes the idea of plague as part of its content, with that most enduring aspect of human experience: love. Relax, pour yourself a glass of wine, read, think, and turn on your computer for a stimulating series of discussions!

  All sessions will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Copies of the books have been reserved for those participating in the discussions, and can be picked up at the front dest of West End Library without first reserving the book in the normal way. The sessions will be held over WebEx, and access will be provided for those who are not members of West End Library Friends by My T. Nguyen at the library. Email: my.nguyen@dc.gov

  During the time of the Black Plague of 1347-51, ten noble young men and ladies take refuge up in the hills outside of Florence, in Fiesole. To pass the time over the ten days that they are there, they entertain each other with stories—ten of them each day. We will read a handful of these, framed by Boccaccio’s description of the plague itself.

  During the time of the Black Plague of 1347-51, ten noble young men and ladies take refuge up in the hills outside of Florence, in Fiesole. To pass the time over the ten days that they are there, they entertain each other with stories—ten of them each day. We will read a handful of these, framed by Boccaccio’s description of the plague itself.
  

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• WELF Book Series: Shakespeare's "Winter’s Tale"

  • When
    Wednesday, February 24, 2021
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    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (EST)
  • Location
    WebEx

  Given the stress we have all felt as the world deals with the Covid-19 virus, it seems appropriate to interweave two ideas: work written during the time of plague or that includes the idea of plague as part of its content, with that most enduring aspect of human experience: love. Relax, pour yourself a glass of wine, read, think, and turn on your computer for a stimulating series of discussions!

  All sessions will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Copies of the books have been reserved for those participating in the discussions, and can be picked up at the front dest of West End Library without first reserving the book in the normal way. The sessions will be held over WebEx, and access will be provided for those who are not members of West End Library Friends by My T. Nguyen at the library. Email: my.nguyen@dc.gov

  Many of Shakespeare’s most powerful dramas were fashioned during the difficult period when plague overran England—although he had the fortunate option, like Boccaccio’s noble people, of repairing from the crowded city of London to his birth village of Stratford-on-Avon, to write. Among the works from this period, Winter’s Tale’s very title suggests its intention to entertain us during a dark and difficult period, and offers a complex interweave of love stories, encompassing two generations, two distant countries, and serious, almost tragic details that, yet, ends up with a comedically happy ending.
  

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• WELF Book Series: Alessandro Manzoni's "The Betrothed"

  • When
    Wednesday, March 24, 2021
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    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    WebEx

  Given the stress we have all felt as the world deals with the Covid-19 virus, it seems appropriate to interweave two ideas: work written during the time of plague or that includes the idea of plague as part of its content, with that most enduring aspect of human experience: love. Relax, pour yourself a glass of wine, read, think, and turn on your computer for a stimulating series of discussions!

  All sessions will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Copies of the books have been reserved for those participating in the discussions, and can be picked up at the front dest of West End Library without first reserving the book in the normal way. The sessions will be held over WebEx, and access will be provided for those who are not members of West End Library Friends by My T. Nguyen at the library. Email: my.nguyen@dc.gov

  In what is considered the definitive Italian novel of the nineteenth century, set during the time of the 1628-30 plague, a pair of young lovers—Renzo and Lucia—lose each other to circumstances, but finally end up together, in spite of all of the natural and man-made odds pushing against their happiness. The novel was and is particularly renowned for its description of the plague in chapters 31-33!
  

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• WELF Book Series: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera"

  • When
    Wednesday, April 21, 2021
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    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    WebEx

  Given the stress we have all felt as the world deals with the Covid-19 virus, it seems appropriate to interweave two ideas: work written during the time of plague or that includes the idea of plague as part of its content, with that most enduring aspect of human experience: love. Relax, pour yourself a glass of wine, read, think, and turn on your computer for a stimulating series of discussions!

  All sessions will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Copies of the books have been reserved for those participating in the discussions, and can be picked up at the front dest of West End Library without first reserving the book in the normal way. The sessions will be held over WebEx, and access will be provided for those who are not members of West End Library Friends by My T. Nguyen at the library. Email: my.nguyen@dc.gov

  Set in Colombia in 1875, this is the story of an unusual love-triangle. Childhood lovers Fermina and Florentino are driven apart by Fermina’s realization that their youthful mutual infatuation had never filled out into something substantive. Her subsequent marriage to Urbino—a physician devoted to the eradication of Cholera—ends with the death of her husband in a fall from a ladder. Florentino appears at the funeral, declaring his still-constant love for her after fifty years of separation. Where does the narrative end up?
  

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• WELF Book Series: Geraldine Brooks' "Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague"

  • When
    Wednesday, May 19, 2021
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    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    WebEx

  Given the stress we have all felt as the world deals with the COVID-19 virus, it seems appropriate to interweave two ideas: work written during the time of plague or that includes the idea of plague as part of its content, with that most enduring aspect of human experience: love. Relax, pour yourself a glass of wine, read, think, and turn on your computer for a stimulating series of discussions!

  All sessions will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Copies of the books have been reserved for those participating in the discussions, and can be picked up at the front dest of West End Library without first reserving the book in the normal way. The sessions will be held over WebEx, and access will be provided for those who are not members of West End Library Friends by My T. Nguyen at the library. Email: my.nguyen@dc.gov

  Set in England in the fateful plague-ridden year, 1666, Brooks’ novel tells the story of the housemaid, Anna Frith, an unexpected heroine and healer in an isolated village, where the spread of disease is accompanied by the spread of murderous witch-hunting inclinations. It is her strength that turns a year of horror into an annus mirabilis: a year of wonders.
  

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