Eye Thrive will offer free eye exams and glasses in their mobile vision clinic beginning at 9 a.m. Thursday, July 13. All services are free of charge, though exams are scheduled on a first-come, first-serve basis until spots are filled.
All children aged 4-18 are eligible for the free exams and glasses, though a parental consent form must be completed prior to the eye exam. Masks are required on-board the mobile vision clinic (they will be provided, if needed) and capacity on-board is limited, so parents and guardians cannot accompany their children on the vehicle.
For more information, please visit www.eyethrive.org or call 314-736-1400.
UCPL will be closed all day Sunday, Dec. 24 for Christmas.
UCPL will be closed all day Monday, Dec. 25 for Christmas.
UCPL will be closed all day Monday, Sept. 4 for Labor Day.
UCPL will be closed all day Thursday, July 4 for Independence Day.
UCPL will be closed all day Tuesday, July 4 for Independence Day.
Join us at 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 25 for an online event with award-winning writer Erika L. Sánchez about her utterly original, moving, and disarmingly funny memoir-in-essays Crying in the Bathroom.
Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment—a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy, often laughing so hard with her friends that she had to leave her school classroom. Twenty-five years later, she’s now an award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, but she’s still got an irrepressible laugh, an acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her.
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Join us Thursday, July 20 at noon for an online visit from author and researcher Ethan Kross, as he discusses his new book, Chatter. In Chatter, Kross uses a blend of cutting-edge science (from his own lab) and real-world case studies to help us harness the power of our inner voice. This talk is a lively exploration of how we can use those tools to make our inner voice work in our favor, and it answers some valuable questions along the way.
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Join us at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 15 for an online author visit with New York Times bestselling author Charles Soule. The mega-star comic book author talks about his newest novel, The Endless Vessel, which explores the way we’re all connected — and what can happen when we lose our capacity for joy.
The Endless Vessel transports us to a few years from now, in a world similar to ours, where there exists a sort of “depression plague” that people refer to simply as “The Grey.” No one can predict whom it will afflict or how, but once infected, there’s no coming back. A young Hong Kong-based scientist, Lily Barnes, is trying to maintain her inner light in an increasingly dark world when she comes across something that seems to be addressing her directly, calling to her, asking her to follow a path to whatever lies at its end. She leaves her life behind and sets out through time and space to discover what it is.
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UCPL will be closed to the public June 20-25 so that our staff and a team of movers can finish moving the Library back to our permanent home at 6701 Delmar Blvd. We plan on reopening there on Monday, June 26.
