This month’s Teen Open Game Night is Friday March 27 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Hewlett Room at GPL. Teens ages 13-18 are welcome. Play Nintendo Wii and PS2.   We have 2 projectors for bigger than life action and two tv’s.  Show off your moves with DDR and Guitar Hero.  We now have Guitar Hero: World Tour so form a band and rock on. Or bring your own stuff.   And don’t forget your friends. We’ll have drinks and munchies on hand.  Teen Open Game Night is sponsored by the TAB (Teen Advisory Board) at GPL.

Calling all Shinigami, Kira followers, and L devotees. Join us for a showing of the live action version of Death Note II: The Last Name (NR). Based on the manga/anime Death Note. This film is not rated by the MPAA. Please be aware that the manga is rated T for teens. Shown on a big screen. Popcorn, Pocky and soda provided. Teens ages 13-18. 2-4:30 pm in the Hewlett Room. For more information call Bethni King at 931-7716 or http://blogs.georgetown.org/teenspace/

Hey all you shutterbugs and photography nuts.  Do you take great photos?  Now’s your chance to actually win some money and fame for your talent.  Enter your work in the Georgetown Public Library Photo Contest sponsored by the Friends of the Georgetown Public Library for your chance to win the $100 prize in one of two adult/teen categories.

Categories
Architectural and Landscape Pictures
$100 First Place Prize
Photos of the library inside or outside. Must include identifiable portions of the library building.

People Reading
$100 First Place Prize
Photos of people inside the library reading.

Kids Group (12 and under)
$50 First Place Prize
Photos of the library, inside or outside, by anyone 12 and under.

Rules
All photographs must be submitted as 8 x 10 color or b&w mounted print and on CD as a JPG at a minimum resolution of 600 dpi. By entering the contest you are allowing the library to use the images in promotional materials and galleries both online and in print. Maximum two entries per person. Judges will be library staff and volunteers.

Timeline
Submission Deadline- 6PM on May 15th
Judging- May 16th through 25th
Winners Announced- May 26th
Photos on Display in Library- May 26th through June 30

For more information contact Richard Groves at rgroves@georgetowntx.org

Psst….I have a secret.  Blank spaces bother me.  I want to fill them up with something. Get rid of the bareness, the boringness.  So I have a problem.  GPL has three new display panels and they need something quick.

Solution- the PostSecret Art  Project.  The rules are simple.

• Anyone in grades 6-12 can participate.
• Anonymously contribute a secret on a postcard.  Make sure your name is nowhere to be seen.  It’s a secret after all.
• Reveal anything- as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.
• Be brief.  Be legible.  Be Creative.
• Secrets should be postcard sized.
• Drop them off at any Georgetown Public Library “mailbox” beginning March 1, 2009. Mailboxes are bright red and will be scattered throughout the library.
• Postcards will be displayed in the library and online.

The secrets can be serious or funny.  Make the postcards on your own or stop by the Teen Space and create one.  Make sure to keep checking as new secrets will be posted throughout the month.

This project was inspired by the PostSecret books.  Check them out here.  My Secret: A PostSecret Book, A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book, PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions From Ordinary Lives, The Secret Lives of Men and Women: a PostSecret Book

For questionsor more information contact Ms. Bethni at 930.3 551 or at bking@georgetowntx.org

The PostSecret online photo gallery is here!  Click here to see secrets already on display at GPL.  Check back because more will be added throughout the month.  Don’t worry, there’s still time to make and submit your secret.

The rules are simple:

• Anyone in grades 6-12 can participate.
• Anonymously contribute a secret on a postcard.  Make sure your name is nowhere to be seen.  It’s a secret after all.
• Reveal anything- as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.
• Be brief.  Be legible.  Be Creative.
• Secrets should be postcard sized.
• Drop them off at any Georgetown Public Library “mailbox” beginning March 1, 2009. Mailboxes are bright red and will be scattered throughout the library.
• Postcards will be displayed in the library and online.

The secrets can be serious or funny.  Make the postcards on your own or stop by the Teen Space and create one.  Make sure to keep checking as new secrets will be posted throughout the month.

This project was inspired by the PostSecret books.  Check them out here.  My secret: a PostSecret Book, A lifetime of Secrets: a PostSecret Book,  PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions From Ordinary Lives, The Secret lives of Men and Women: a PostSecret Book

For questions or more information contact Ms. Bethni at 930.3 551 or at bking@georgetowntx.org