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Ugly Festive Party and Teen Game Night at Bowman Library

We have a free holiday program for teens, Ugly Festive Party, at Bowman Library on December 13th at 5:30PM. Gamers can rotate throughout the console, tabletop, and computer games, bring a gift to share ($5 or less), and dress in their holiday worst or best! This program is intended for middle school and high school youth and is free and open to the public.

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Natsu Con Japanese Anime Conference

Natsu Con is at Bowman Library on July 29th from 1PM-7PM. The teen event is sponsored by the Teen Advisory Board at Bowman Library and is free and open to the public. Focused on anime and comic characters, attendees will hear from special speakers who will focus on developing anime characters, Nick Coleman with a talk about how super heroes have issues too, an artist alley, character panels, dance presentations, cosplay contents, Japanese snacks, and more. The day ends with a drawing workshop by cartoonist Paul Merklein of Wisconsin.

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1455 A Place for Writers

Teen Poetry Contest!

     What do poetry, free, teens, finalists, the Winchester Book Gallery, deadlines, and the numbers, 1, 2, 5, and 500 all have in common? They all have to do with 1455's 1st Summer Literary Festival!

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Camp WriMo

Welcome Middle and High School writers. Let's Camp-Out at the Library!

We celebrate July as Writing Month at Bowman Library by setting up camp, getting out the composition supplies and writing. It is a time to relax and write our best stuff yet. Short stories, novels, poems, comic strips are all welcome as we sit around camp and inspire one another.

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Teen Music Jam

A Summer of Teen Music at Bowman Library!

The Handley Regional Library System is planning a fantastic summer reading program entitled, “It’s Showtime At Your Library” and the teens are getting into the action!

Because of the performance-oriented theme, members of our Teen Advisory Board will be hosting a Teen Music Jam for any interested young musicians in the area.

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