The Library Spotlight

Important Events and Programs

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Super Bowl Sunday - Family Dance with Peter, Paul, and George

Date: Sunday, February 5
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: H. Dutcher Community Room

Whether you are 2 or 102 you are invited to enjoy some old-time, toe-tapping tunes consisting of reels, jigs, polkas, hornpipes, and waltzes with Peter Davis, Paul Rosenberg, and George Wilson. This program is appropriate for all ages, free, and registration is not necessary.

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Tax Program

Dates/Times: Saturdays and Sundays, February 4 - April 15, Noon - 3:00 p.m.
Location: Susman Room

The library will be holding it's annual Saratoga County Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program led by certified IRS volunteer, Drake Nilsson. The VITA program is sponsored by the IRS and the NYS Department of Tax and Finance. This is a free service for taxpayers whose incomes are $50,000 or lower offered throughout the tax season. This program is geared towards helping the homebound, seniors, those who have difficulty with tax preparation, or may not be able to afford professional help.

To participate in the VITA program at Saratoga Springs Public Library, individuals will need to pick-up a numbered ticket from the library's Information Desk on the day they plan on getting assistance. Tickets are limited to 25 a day. Sessions will be held Saturdays and Sundays, beginning February 4 through April 15 from Noon - 3:00 p.m. Please bring your social security cards and all appropriate official documentation necessary such as picture IDs, receipts, statements, etc.

To learn more about the VITA program go to www.irs.gov and search VITA.
For more information call the library's information desk at 584-7860.

Community Cinema Series: More Than a Month

Dates: Wednesday, February 8
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: H. Dutcher Community Room

Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African-American filmmaker, sets out on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. He stops in various cities, wearing a sandwich board, to solicit signatures on his petition to end the observance. He explains that relegating Black History Month to the coldest, shortest month of the year is an insult, and that black history is not separate from American history. Through this thoughtful and humorous journey, he explores what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a "post-racial" America.

More on the film: http://www.itvs.org/films/more-than-a-month

Community Cinema is a groundbreaking public education and civic engagement initiative featuring free monthly screenings of films from the Emmy Award-winning series Independent Lens. Community Cinema is on location in more than 90 cities nationally, bringing together leading organizations, community members and public television stations to learn, discuss, and get involved in key social issues of our time. Saratoga Springs Public Library will be showing free screenings to the public on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. in the H. Dutcher Community Room.