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SPL is sponsoring a winter pen-pal project and is looking for community volunteers! This winter, take a break from screens and put pen to paper to make a new friend! SPL’s all ages pen pal project, #01545Writes, is running all winter! Join us for an informational meeting on Tuesday to find out how you can be matched up with a pen pal! You will receive a Letter Writing Kit filled with envelopes, stamps, and more to help you get started. Connect with someone new and keep in touch through the difficult winter months ahead—and maybe beyond!

You’ve heard the word, now come see how it all works! Deb Dexter who teaches our One-On-One Technology Classes on Saturdays is here for a step-by-step educational session in the theatre on how you too can zoom! Deb is currently a Corp. Trainer for G&F Precision Molding and served as an ITSM Analyst and IT Content, Training & Communications Coordinator at WPI for 23 years. She is a proven high-energy leader, successful at connecting with and guiding learners to adopt and master new skills. And has the patience of Job!

Dr. Harvey G.Clermont spent his career as a general and vascular surgeon at Worcester’s Fallon Clinic — now Reliant Medical Group — and as assistant professor of surgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He’s been in the Worcester area since his undergraduate days at the College of the Holy Cross. He attended Harvard Medical School, and before settling in Shrewsbury, spent a couple of years in the early 1970s practicing medicine at the former Adak Naval Air Station on the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.

PBS American Experience “Bonnie and Clyde: Til Death do us Part”

In the spring of 1934, throngs of onlookers flocked to two Dallas funeral homes hoping to catch a last glimpse of the famous outlaws Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. For over two years, the country had been transfixed by their illicit romance and a violent crime spree that left a trail of dead bodies in its wake. Though their exploits were romanticized, Bonnie and Clyde and their Barrow Gang were believed responsible for at least 13 murders and numerous robberies and kidnappings. And while they were just small-time criminals compared to more well-known gangsters who were the centerpieces of J. Edgar Hoover’s most wanted list, they held the attention of many Americans.

“Holiday Inn”

Our next Broadway HD presentation is “Holiday Inn” based on the beloved 1942 movie. Jim leaves the bright lights of show business behind to settle down on his farmhouse in Connecticut… but life just isn’t the same without a bit of song and dance. Jim’s luck takes a spectacular turn when he meets Linda, a spirited schoolteacher with talent to spare. Together they turn the farmhouse into a fabulous inn with dazzling performances to celebrate each holiday, from Thanksgiving to the Fourth of July. Featuring star turns, tap and ballet dancing, an audience quiz, and comic surprises, this show has become an international phenomenon.

Jewish Studies Group facilitator Rabbi Suri Krieger will conduct a community Hanukkah service with lighting of the Menorah to welcome the holy season. ALL are invited to attend—traditional refreshments will be served.

A Southgate favorite, Dan Gabel and The Abletones is an authentic 18-piece Big Band, specializing in the music of the 1930s and 40s. Bandleader Dan Gabel has played with the Glenn Miller Orchestra for over a year on a world-tour, played with the Tommy Dorsey and Hal McIntyre Orchestras, and is considered an expert on the big band era. He graduated with a Masters Degree in 2014 from New England Conservatory of Music, and is an active trombonist, arranger, bandleader, and teacher in the greater Boston music scene. Dan will be bringing 8-10 of his finest musicians to share holiday tunes with all of you this evening.

Public Programs Coordinator Rachel Quimby will join us for an overview of a nearby treasure! The Ecotarium is a science and nature museum located in Worcester, Massachusetts. Previously known as the New England Science Center, the museum features several permanent and traveling exhibits, the Alden Planetarium, a narrow-gauge train pulled by a scale model of an 1860s steam engine, and a variety of wildlife.

Stephen Collins received a BA in Literature from UMass Boston. After twenty plus years in a sales career, he is back doing what he truly loves – performing and teaching seminars on Whitman, Hardy, Shakespeare, Frost, and Contemporary Poetry at various locations. His Whitman performances have taken him all over the country. He now has eight one-man shows and seven courses where his teaching style has been described as a hybrid between lecture and performance. Sailing Towards My Father is a one-man play about Herman Melville the American author best known for his whaling epic Moby Dick; The play chronicles Melville’s life from youth to old age, concentrating on his evolution as a writer and his complex relations with God, his parents and siblings, his wife and children, and Nathanial Hawthorne.