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• The Herb Lady, Caren White, will take you through the steps of designing and planting an herb garden that is unique to you. You will learn how to design an herb garden for optimal growth, the best place in your yard for it, how to amend your soil and fertilize your garden, and then how to choose the right herbs for your garden.
• Join at http://maplewoodgardenclub.org

• Join this panel presentation on forgotten events in Newark's history.
• Register in advance for this zoom webinar at https://njpac.tfaforms.net/121
  

• join live at  http://somawomen.org/events

• Join SOPL every Wednesday for this virtual creative writing session on Zoom. Each week we'll introduce a prompt, write for a few minutes, and then share what we've come up with! Click here to join.
• www.sopl.org/events/

• This week: Guest Speaker: John Gruesser, Author and senior research Scholar at Sam Houston State University; Visiting Fellow at Texas A&M University
• Topic: Young Readers and Edgar Allan Poe
• www.sopl.org/events/

• Latin Grammy Award nominee, Claudia Acuña is joined by Pablo Vergara on piano, Carlos Henderson on bass, Juancho Herrera on guitar, and Rodrigo Recabarren on drums in a two-part musical celebration to mark International Women’s Day.
  
• Tickets $15 at www.SOPACnow.org

• Spend the day with two of Spain's most revered singers, both divas in their own right and daughters of some of the greatest stars in the history of Grand Opera. The day begins with an Opera Gala featuring Montserrat Martí Caballé, daughter of soprano Montserrat Caballé and tenor Bernabé Martí. The evening performance features soprano Cecilia Lavilla Berganza, daughter of the grand opera diva Teresa Berganza, with baritone Luis Santana and pianist Victor Carbajo.
  
• $15, for tickets go to http://somawomen.org/events

• To celebrate International Women’s Day, women (and everyone else!) can get their cup o’ joe, spot of tea, or drink of choice for 62¢ on the dollar* at Able Baker. Order online, and use coupon code wage gap at checkout. They'll donate the savings to the National Domestic Workers Alliance (domestic workers.org), advocating for the rights of home care workers.

• Virtual Book Talk – Annabelle Gurwitch, author of “You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility” in conversation with SNL original cast member, Laraine Newman.
• To purchase book and register go to: http://somawomen.org/events

• Join us every Wednesday for this virtual creative writing session on Zoom. Each week we'll introduce a prompt, write for a few minutes, and then share what we've come up with!
• Join by going to the calendar at www.SOPL.org or click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/331398162#success

• This free event is an one hour workshop on how to use releasing and breathing to allow more love within you. Using practical simple techniques, you can learn to use love as the default in your life for 2021 and beyond.
• To register go to  http://somawomen.org/events

• The March title is “Swing Time” by Zadie Smith
• An ambitious, exuberant novel, following two brown girls who dream of being dancers, from London to West Africa and back again.Swing Time addresses race, class, and gender.
• Join through https://www.maplewoodlibrary.org/

• In Case You Get Hit By A Bus will help even the most disorganized among us take control of our on- and off-line details so our loved ones won't have to scramble later. Breaking the task down into three levels, this clear, step-by-step program not only removes the anxiety and stress from getting your life in order, it’s actually liberating.
• To purchase book and register go to: http://somawomen.org/events

• This week: Guest Speaker: John Wargacki, Professor of English at Seton Hall University
• Topic: Love Through the Ages, Part 1
• www.sopl.org/events/

• Tune in for this very special show - streaming live, in real-time, from the stunning Pearse Lyons Distillery in Dublin, Ireland.
• Tickets $20 at www.SOPACnow.org

• Composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, multi-Grammy Award winner, multi-Blues Music Award winner, Blues Hall of Fame member and Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement award recipient Taj Mahal is streaming a series of three concerts from the UC Theatre stage in Berkeley, CA.
• Tickets start at $25 at www.SOPACnow.org.

• A special Women’s History Month program. Three writers mull over the relationship humor and chutzpah have to each other, and the requisite permission we must allow ourselves to share our voice with the world—as terrifying as it may seem. Join us for a chat between writers VC (Tori) Chickering, Doreen Oliver, and Rebecca Hardiman. Witty banter and staggering insight highly likely.

• Join us every Wednesday for this virtual creative writing session on Zoom. Each week we'll introduce a prompt, write for a few minutes, and then share what we've come up with!
• Join by going to the calendar at www.SOPL.org or click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/331398162#success

• Join a St. Patrick's Day livestream concert with Gaelic Storm!
• Tickets $20 at www.SOPACnow.org

• The March title is Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye
• This harrowing and beautiful novel of the travails of West African immigrants in France, follows three women, each of whom manages an astonishing feat of self-preservation against those who have made themselves the fastest-growing and most-reviled people.
• Join through https://www.maplewoodlibrary.org/

• Get ready & get set to test your knowledge with Gamemaster Alicia!Virtual Trivia Nights are informal competitions to see who has the greatest knowledge of general, holiday and seasonal trivia. Costumes, fun hats, decorations or special, virtual Zoom backgrounds are encouraged!
• free with registration at www.SOPACnow.org

• What does a woman do when she is born to great privilege, has enormous wealth, loves to travel to faraway places and has a healthy dose of intellectual curiosity? Well, she collects art of course! And then she must envision a place to exhibit her treasures so that the world can appreciate her passion. This talk will examine the lives of three remarkable women who defied society’s expectations: Isabella Stewart Gardner, Helene Kröller-Müller and Peggy Guggenheim.
• $20 at https://www.ssreg.com/som/classes/results.asp?string=0007
  

• This week: Guest Speaker: April Grier, Professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University
• Topic: Jazz Divas
• www.sopl.org/events/

• Register in advance at https://twp-maplewood-nj-us.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0uc–rrDkpHdYcX6XZV0mPKsyrWBaOYSK4

• Step in and discover all the rituals and wonder of the mosque in this lyrical debut picture book from M. O. Yuksel, with gorgeous artwork from New York Times bestselling illustrator Hatem Aly. A great conversation starter in the home or classroom, this book is perfect for fans of All Are Welcome and The Proudest Blue.
• WHM '21 "in My Mosque' With Author Mindy Yuksel and Illustrator Hatem Aly — Maplewood Arts & Culture (maplewoodartsandculture.org)

• Join us every Wednesday for this virtual creative writing session on Zoom. Each week we'll introduce a prompt, write for a few minutes, and then share what we've come up with!
• Join by going to the calendar at www.SOPL.org or click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/331398162#success

• A dynamic performer with virtuosic vocal chops, Roberta Gambarini draws rave reviews and enthusiastic fan support wherever she performs. "Gambarini is a true successor to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Carmen McRae."
• Tickets $10, free for SOPAC members at www.SOPACnow.org

• This week: Guest Speaker: Allan Chernoff, longtime CNN senior correspondent and now CEO of Chernoff Communications
• Topic: The Fox News-CNN Connection: A rare insider’s view of the journalists who “went rogue” to help incite an insurrection against the U.S. government.
• www.sopl.org/events/

• Thinking of Retiring Soon? Do you know someone who is?This workshop offers fundamentals to help develop a financially secure retirement and answer important questions such as:
• Fee: $39.00 (payable to Caldwell Public Schools)
• Registration is required (use the link and CHOOSE COURSE NAME: Retire U) https://zurl.co/Tt86

• Join us every Wednesday for this virtual creative writing session on Zoom. Each week we'll introduce a prompt, write for a few minutes, and then share what we've come up with!
• Join by going to the calendar at www.SOPL.org or click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/331398162#success