Grab your yoga mat (and a book if you like), put on some comfortable clothing and join us at the library for four evening yoga sessions starting April 12th! Melanie Simard will be our instructor. Residing in Ipswich, MA, Melanie teaches weekly Gentle Yoga classes at the Greater Beverly YMCA, where she strives to offer the benefits of yoga in a fun and approachable way making it accessible for every body regardless of experience or flexibility. Her fun and laid back teaching style focuses on grounding, enhancing body awareness and connecting gentle movements with breath, creating balance in the mind and body. Melanie encourages her students to honor themselves exactly as they are, offering plenty of modifications and variations, making her classes suitable for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. To register, click HERE to find each of the four sessions listed on our event calendar. If you are interested in attending more than one session, you will need to sign up for each session individually. Signing up for one session does not mean you are signed up for all of them.

Welcome back to the Ipswich Public Library’s 3rd annual celebration of the Oscars! After a two-year break, this February we are celebrating this year’s 95th Academy Awards Ceremony (airing Sunday, March 12th). Check out our “Night at the Oscars!” display table on the main floor to see what is available to checkout and to learn more about the list of nominees. This year, there will be a ballot to fill out and enter into the ballot box on the display table. Feel free to take the ballot with you first and use it as a checklist to figure out which movies you might want to start watching first! Some movies will be playing at the library. See schedule below. Feeling lucky? Grab a ballot, return it completed with contact information to the box, and you might win our “Night at the Oscars!” Giveaway basket full of movie night goodies. Ballots must be submitted by Saturday, March 11th (4pm). Winner to be announced on Monday, March 13th. Nominated Films are playing in the Collins Room up until the big night! Click on the title to register online: **Please note: For all movies beginning after normal library hours, the registration will close 5pm the night prior to the showing. If no registrations have been made by that deadline, the movie will be cancelled.** Monday, February 27th: Elvis (6:30-9:15pm, PG-13, 159min, Eight Nominations) Thursday, March 2nd: The Banshees of Inisherin (6:30-8:30pm, R, 114min, Nine Nominations)** Saturday, March 4th: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (10-12pm, PG, 115min, One Nomination) Wednesday, March 8th: Empire of Light (6:30-8:30pm, R, 115min, One Nomination) Friday, March 10th: Top Gun: Maverick (6:30-8:45pm, PG-13, 130min, Six Nominations)** All listed events are free and light refreshment will be provided. To learn more about the movies and to register for an event, you can also visit: ipswichlibrary.org/events. Questions? Please contact Teen Librarian Katy Wuerker at kwuerker@ipswichlibrary.org or (978) 356-6648.