Library Night Live: Curtain Pants

"Curtain Pants" from Library Night Live: filmed 7/13/16

(A parody infomercial inspired by the Snake Oil game.)

A video posted by @lcplibrary on Jul 13, 2016 at 5:50pm PDT

Cast:
Milly Bays as Himself
Bobbie as The Pantless Wonder
Lottie as The Girlfriend
Tater as The Magic Hands
RedgieMcEdgy as the Introduct-inator/Camera Operator

Captions/audio description:
Setting: Infomercial set
Introduct-inator: "Snake Oil products presents a librACME product”

The Girlfriend: "I don't love you anymore. Your pants don't work."

Milly Bays: "Don't you hate it when this happens to you? Hi, Milly Bays here with another fantastic product. Introducing the Curtain Pants™ an extra pair of pants you can keep if your pants fall down while on stage. Just grab them from the curtain and apply them, they look just like your normal pants. Buuuut wait. It’s only 19.95 you said? There’s more! Order today and you can get TWO pairs of Curtain Pants™ for the price of TWO pairs of Curtain Pants™ yes that’s right, two pairs of pants for the same price as two pairs of pants. Call today! Plus shipping and handling."

NOVUS LARP group at the Library!

The NOVUS Live Action Role Play group (a Medieval Fantasy LARP in Northwest Indiana) came out and did a presentation/demo for our community today. It was most excellent.

A photo posted by @lcplibrary on Jul 9, 2016 at 1:31pm PDT

One of the combat demonstration LARPers was fighting while wearing petticoats and a floor length skirt.  👍💫⚔ 

A video posted by @lcplibrary on Jul 9, 2016 at 1:41pm PDT

Giant Games at the Library!

If you miss our Giant Games library program, don't worry, we are having another one at the end of Wednesday 7/27 at 3:45 PM. Next month we will be playing Live Action Angry Birds.

Sadly, you did miss the chance to play life size foosball. (This was a one time only kind of program, those cinder blocks were HEAVY!)

Life size foosball from today's #giantgames #libraryprogram #lifesizefoosball #librarylife

A video posted by @lcplibrary on Jun 29, 2016 at 4:54pm PDT

We also had GIANT Jenga! Check out this epic play:

This #giantjenga move was so good, I had to slow it down. #epicwin #jenga #librarylife

A video posted by @lcplibrary on Jun 29, 2016 at 5:06pm PDT

Teen Lip Sync battle video

Here is a sampling from our Lip Sync battle program:

Here are some of the performers from the Highland #library #lipsync battle last week. 🎤👍

A video posted by @lcplibrary on May 16, 2016 at 1:29pm PDT

Superfight Tournament Rules!

Hayden, (most recently seen singing to us in April's Quote of the Month post) came up with a set of Tournament Rules for the game Superfight. A debate style card game that we play at LEAST once a month at our Game On programs here at Highland:

SUPERFIGHT TOURNAMENT RULES:

1. TOURNAMENT IS PERFORMED IN TWO SINGLE ELIMINATION STYLE BRACKETS. THE WINNERS OF EACH BRACKET COMPETE IN A HEAD TO HEAD FINALE .

2. ALL STANDARD RULES OF SUPERFIGHT APPLY TO EACH MATCHUP.

3. ALL CHARACTERS MUST BE CHOSEN BEFORE ROUND ONE BEGINS.

4. ONCE ELIMINATED, ALL CONTESTANTS JOIN THE JURY THAT WILL ADVISE THE JUDGE(s).

5. THERE MUST BE AN ODD NUMBER OF UNBIASED JUDGES WHO WILL ONLY TAKE INTO ACCOUNT WHAT THE CONTESTANTS SAY.

March Cosplay Contest!

Our second annual Cosplay Contest was Saturday and we had some EXCELLENT entries this year:









They did a great job! And our two winners (Stephanie and Mariana) are going to C2E2!

A photo posted by @lcplibrary on Feb 19, 2016 at 8:39am PST

GadgetJax doesn't like dog books.

Not a fan of the genre. Check us out on Vine!

Speed Dating with a Book: Nope

We did a Speed Dating with a Book program and Jack had strong feelings about this non fiction title:

 
Check us out on Vine!

Quote of the Month: Hayden

"An emu ... it's like an ostrich but less...ostrich like." 

Hayden G. 2015.

(from the teen book discussion of The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate)

Ostrich and Emu images from the British Library's flickr 

(this one is my favorite) 

Cosmic Cafe at the Highland Library

Dr. Stiffler came to talk to us about atomic structure and he was a phenomenal presenter! He brought a variety of hands on equipment to illustrate his points the video below is two of the teens getting to play with sound waves!

Thank you Dr. Stiffler!