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An Evening with The Creature Conservancy for Teens and Adults

When

Friday August 23, 2019: 7:00pm to 8:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Malletts Creek Branch: Program Room

For Whom

Grade 6 - Adult

Description

Join us for an evening of animal learning from local treasure, The Creature Conservancy. The Creature Conservancy will be bringing their Egyptian fruit bats, three-banded armadillo, Burmese Python, giant cane toad, sloth and gila monster. This event is for teenagers and adults. There is a program for families on Wednesday, August 21.

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Comments

Submitted by 21621033457308 on Mon, 06/03/2019 - 1:34pm

I appreciate that you put aside one of these events for teenagers and adults, but when young families show up anyway, it defeats the purpose. Can we please make sure they are politely turned away at the door this time?

Submitted by KMLB64 on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 6:55am

Let's take a hypothetical family with kids ages 13 and 5. Are they going to hire a sitter? Tell the younger one at the door that she can't come in and see the toad but she has to sit alone in the another part of the library? Maybe there is a rule that if a family with minor kids come, one has to be a teen. I think they might have a "younger siblings welcome" rule.

Thanks for asking! We'd encourage this hypothetical family to attend the non-hypothetical family version of this same program two days earlier, on Wednesday, 8/21, at Pittsfield at 7 PM. We don't really do rules when it comes to programs, our age ranges are guidelines; but we really appreciate it when families don't put us in the position of disappointing their children who are younger than the intended range of the program. It's a very rare opportunity to get to see an animal presentation like this that doesn't have to be oriented towards kids, so that's why we do this program twice. Once for families, and once for teens and adults so they can have that special experience. Does that help?

Submitted by lindabankauskas on Sun, 08/18/2019 - 1:01pm

I very much appreciate the library's efforts to have two events so that one can be limited to adults and older teens. It is difficult to turn away the children of parents who chose not to respect the age considerations, but PLEASE continue this practice. It makes the program much more enjoyable for everyone attending, whether it is the family night or the second night, and it eliminates disappointing patrons of all ages.