The Friends’ Reading Room Concert Series is back live in 2023, and we are delighted to welcome Louise Grasmere and Linda Shoemaker to open the Series for us. With acoustic guitar, vocals and percussion they will bring songs from the … Continued
For this event we will be joined by teacher, attorney, and author Amy M. Watson whose “soul awakens when visiting libraries, museums, and historic sites”. Infants of the Brush, her debut novel, is historical fiction based on Armory v. Delamirie, a … Continued
The Friends is welcoming back the Delvena Theatre Company for this special presentation at the Robbins Library. Charles Dickens wrote some of the most powerful, imaginative, and adored novels of all time. Using lots of humor, the actors will take … Continued
The Arlington Center for the Arts and the Friends of the Robbins Library are pleased to be hosting a special poetry reading by poets from The Red Letter Project: George Kalogeris, Christopher Jane Corkery, Charles Coe, Denise Bergman, and Arlington’s … Continued
Please join us in welcoming Jessica Chloros who is the Objects Conservator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where she has worked since 2008. She will be discussing her recent technical study of the 12th century Chinese Buddhist sculpture, Guanyin, from the … Continued
Join the Delvena Theatre Company for this special presentation: a heartwarming comedy set during the WWII London Blitz. Meet Mrs. Henderson – an upper-class British woman – who bravely, hilariously, keeps one little theater alive in a very unique way. … Continued
The Friends of the Robbins Library are delighted to welcome Susan Stamps, a representative from the Arlington Tree Committee. The Tree Committee was established in 2010 by Arlington’s Select Board to promote the protection, planting and care of trees in … Continued
The Friends of the Robbins Library presents Hui Lehua o Kamawila, a collaborative hula group dedicated to preserving and sharing Hawaiian dance traditions in Somerville, MA and the New England area. The group takes its name from the Lehua flower which blooms in adverse conditions. The … Continued
The Friends of the Robbins Library will hold a Spring-for-a-Book Sale at the Robbins Library on Saturday, May 21 from 10 am – 3 pm. Friends Members can shop early beginning at 9:30 am! Come browse for books in the … Continued
The Friends of the Robbins Library will present an in-person program with Judy Foreman discussing her recent book “Exercise is Medicine” (2020). Judy was a staff writer at the Boston Globe for 23 years and a health columnist for many of those … Continued